Happy Yule! Please enjoy the longest night of the year and this solstice playlist I created just for you.
Klaus Nomi, "The Cold Song" (Klaus Nomi performing it live)
If you like watching yule logs (I do) enjoy this retro one and to go along with that here is a holiday Muppets movie from 1987 that is super weird and I love this version because it has all of the 80s kids commercials.
The Shortest Day, by Susan Cooper
And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive.
And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, reveling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us—listen!
All the long echoes, sing the same delight,
This Shortest Day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
Welcome, Yule!
Playlist
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Winter Chimes by Joanna Brouk on The Space Between (℗ 2019 Numero Group) -
The Cold Song by Klaus Nomi on Klaus Nomi (℗ 1981 Spindizzy Music under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment France SAS) -
Quick Winter Sun by Shana Cleveland on Manzanita (℗ 2023 Hardly Art) New -
Choirs of Winter by Tamaryn on The Waves (℗ 2010 Tamaryn) -
Winter Astral by Beverly Glenn-Copeland on Keyboard Fantasies (℗ 1986 Transgressive Records Ltd) -
Smiling in Winter by Spoons on Arias & Symphonies (℗ 1982 A&M Records) -
Dark Night by El Perro del Mar on Pale Fire (℗ 2012 El Perro Del Mar) -
Winter Is Blue by Vashti Bunyan on Just Another Diamond Day (℗ 2004 Dicristina) -
Sketch for Winter by The Durutti Column on The Return of the Durutti Column (℗ 1979 London Records Ltd) -
How to Bring a Blush to the Snow by Cocteau Twins on Victorialand (℗ 1986 4AD Ltd) -
Yule Song by Tor Lundvall on Yule (℗ 2006 Dais Records) -
Bells Pt. 2 by Florist on Florist (℗ 2022 Double Double Whammy) -
Still by You'll Never Get to Heaven on Images (℗ 2017 Mystic Roses) -
Night Looping - Movement I by Colleen on Le Jour Et La Nuit Du Réel (℗ 2023 Thrill Jockey) New -
Dark Mood Woods / The Red Room by Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch on Twin Peaks: Season Two Music and More (℗ 2007 Twin Peaks Productions, Inc./Bobkind, Inc. under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company. All Rights Reserved.)