Who's Next ? Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees; Stephen Stills - Debut; Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley; Led Zep 4; Jethro Tull - Aqualung; Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic; Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs; are some I can think of.
Always click the like button when Martin's on. Hardly ever agree with anything he says, but what he does say is always worth hearing. Frigid pink - Defrosted immediately came to mind & Genesis - Wind and wuthering, Rolling Stones - Between the buttons, Rick Saucedo - Heaven was blue, Golden earring - To the hilt, Pat Metheny - What's it all about & As walls Wichita, so falls wichita falls, Andreas Thomopoulos - Songs of the street.
Whitesnake - Come An’ Get It Kiss - Lick It Up Hall & Oates - X-Static The Tubes - Outside Inside The Tubes - The Completion Backward Principle The Tubes - Remote Control Bryan Adams - Into the Fire Brian Eno - Apollo Alice Cooper - From the Inside Camel - Stationary Traveller Deep Purple - Infinite Honeymoon Suite - The Big Prize Mike & the Mechanics - The Living Years Strangeways - Native Sons Rainbow - Difficult to Cure
I was blessed to grow up in the eighties so I remember the time where the cover was your first impression of the record... and have bought many for the cover. Fun times.
Cold Album Covers : Frozen Soul - Crypt of Ice ( Freeezing cold cover!) Darkthrone - Artic Thunder ( A dark and cold forest) Savatage - Dead Winter Dead ( Snowy Cityscape) Immortal - Blizzard Beasts ( The Immortal Boys battling a blizzard) Metallica - Ride the Lighting ( Electric Chairs usually reside in cold ,sterile rooms) Messiah - Extreme Cold Weather (Can't get any colder than a polar bear on the cover!!!) Rolling Stones - Between the Buttons (The Stones all dressed up for the winter)
Really like topics like this. This one was fun to think about. •Blue Öyster Cult - Black & White period albums. (Martin was spot on with his reasoning for these) •Ghost - Opus Eponymous •Peter Gabriel - Car •Asia - Asia (this one works either way for me, cold or warm)
OK.... Fleetwood Mac's Bare Trees and Penguin; ELP's Brain Salad Surgery and the inside gatefold picture in Trilogy; Frigid Pink's Defrosted; Billy Joel's Cold Spring Harbor; Don Airey's K2; James Taylor's Never Die Young; The Beatles' Beatles for Sale, Help!, Rubber Soul, Let It Be and the recently released Get Back: The Roof Top Performance; The Band's eponymous sophomore release; Bob Dylan's eponymous debut, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde and Desire; Robin Trower's Twice Removed from Yesterday; Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush's Tales of the Unexpected; XTC's Black Sea; Mountain's Climbing and the back photos on Flowers of Evil, Santana's Borboletta and Moonflower; The Who's The Who Sell Out, Tommy, Who's Next Quadrophenia and Odds and Sods; The Rolling Stones' Out of Our Heads (UK version... same as US release, December's Children (and Everybody's)), Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (both US and UK versions seem pretty chilly), Between the Buttons, More Hot Rocks (Big Hits and Fazed Cookies) and Black and Blue. Well, that's a few off the top of my head. Cheers!
Beatles for Sale is pure fall/cold. Also some Echo and The Bunnymen covers (Heaven Up Here, Ocean Rain and their Self Titled - Porcupine is pure winter). REM's Murmur and The Replacements' All Shook Down come to mind. And of course, any Bauhaus cover is cold. And just in case, there's also all those Norwegian black metal album covers that always look like a bunch of old twisted branches lost in the coldest woods.
A few ideas that came to mind, though a fair chunk of these Martin and Pete already mentioned: Camel's Moonmadness, Genesis's Wind and Wuthering, Rush's Grace Under Pressure, Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Metallica's ...And Justice for All, Moody Blues' Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Soundgarden's Superunknown, Yes's Relayer, Magnum's Mirador (compilation album, technically, but I always liked that cover), Opeth's Blackwater Park, Porcupine Tree's In Absentia, Mastodon's Hushed and Grim, Evanescence's The Open Door, Pearl Jam's Gigaton (though I'm admittedly not crazy about the album itself), Nightwish's Oceanborn, Kate Bush's Hounds of Love, Jethro Tull's Stormwatch and Radiohead's Kid A. I was almost considering King Crimson's Lizard but went against it due to only a small portion of the cover fitting the theme, and a few King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard albums were on the cusp of seeming cold or icy but didn't quite work.
Supertramp: " Even In The Quietest Moments ", Steely Dan: " Pretzel Logic ", and Jethro Tull: " Stormwatch " were the first three I thought of, and lo and behold, Pete nails them! I'd add Jethro Tull: " Aqualung " too
Jan Garbarek - Places Terje Rypdal - Whenever I seem to be far away Genesis - Trespass Mike Oldfield - Incantations Peter Gabriel - I Renaissance - Prologue
1. Emperor- In the nightside eclipse 2. Supertramp- Even in the quietest moments 3. Devin Townsend- Ocean machine 4. Every Opeth album cover prior to Heritage (especially Damnation) 5. Peter Gabriel- Car 6. Yes- Relayer 7. Wings- London town 8. Spectral lore- III 9. Dream theater- A change of seasons 10. Agalloch- The mantle
Rush - Fly By Night Ministry - Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and The Way to Suck Eggs Gary Numan - Pleasure Principle Cinderella - Long Cold Winter Dio - Holy Diver Kraftwerk - Computer World Killing Joke - Killing Joke Metallica - Death Magnetic KISS - Revenge Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of A Seventh Son
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music (both cover and music) Echo & the Bunnymen - Porcupine (cover but mostly the music) Chris Bell - I am the cosmos (snow, mountains... solitude) Kraftwerk - Radio-Aktivität (others from them and other krautrock albums could also be mentioned)
Hey Pete and Martin. I go back just a little further than you guys so I'm going old school for just a few albums. 1- BARE TREES by Fleetwood Mac, 2- HELP! by the Beatles, 3- The BEATLES FOR SALE. On that album The Beatles are really bundled up and look as if they got off a train to some Siberian Gulag. 4- BETWEEN THE BUTTONS by The Rolling Stones, who appear to have gotten off of the same train.
My very first thought is Rush- Fly By Night because that has always been my first go to when the cold weather hits. Others: Black Sabbath- debut Pink Floyd- Meddle Alice Cooper- Billion Dollar Babies Bob Dylan- Freewheelin Fleetwood Mac- Bare Trees
The inner sleeve of Johnny The Fox by Thin Lizzy, the image with the wolf-looking fox, has got a cold vibe to it, even though the cover is mostly painted in red and yellow. The animal gives off a cold grin at the fourth wall Blue For You by Status Quo. The four guys on the cover, all dressed in blue jeans of all kinds, against a very dark backdrop. It even sets the tone for the whole album Wind And Wuthering by Genesis. This is grey and brown cold with a wind-plagued tree . It's like a goodbye to summer
Great show thank you so much! Genesis Wind and wuthering and camel the snow goose two of my favorite cold album covers, and camel moonmadness as well - winter themed music in songs on Wind like Afterglow, tangential merry little Xmas reference has been made to melody similarities but I always thought was different enough to be original but it still worked on me most strongly in December!
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988) Iced Earth - Iced Earth (1990) Agalloch - The Mantle (2002) Rush - Test For Echo (1996) Black Sabbath - Never Say Die (1978) Mastodon - Leviathan (2004)
The Cures 2nd, 3rd and 4th albums Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography all have cold covers which reflect the music and lyrics and the next three albums have more warm covers which reflect the lyrics and music of those albums
Mine are 1. 7th Son Of A 7th Son-Iron Maiden 2. Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath 3. Bridge Of Sighs-Robin Trower 4. Imaginos-Blue Oyster Cult 5. In The Shadows-Mercyful Fate
Mondo Cozmo - New Medicine, cover is Josh walking down middle of city street (possibly NYC or Philly) on a snowy day smoking a cigarette. Rest of gatefold isn't cold but is great and tells you about Josh. Center is festival shot of him jumping off drum riser that shows you the energy he plays with. Back is shot of a burning car on California highway where he currently lives.
A few I thought of: -Borknagar - Winter Thrice -Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son -Dissection - Storm of the Lights Babe -Cinderella - Long Cold Winter -Immortal - Blizzard Beasts -Winter - Into Darkness
Script For a Jester’s Tear. That bedsit is so cold and dank. And there’s a coldness to some of the subject matter like Forgotten Sons and the “drug song” He Knows You Know
Here is my list including some obscure examples. Search for these in Discogs and you will see what I mean. I like all of this music as well Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees Peter Grabriel - 2 (Scratch) (Especially the back cover) Terje Rypdal - If Mountain Could Sing King Crimson - Starless And Bible Black John Surman / Karin Krog / Terje Rypdal / Vigleik Storaas - Nordic Quartet (very cold looking cover) Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls Porcupine Tree - The Incident Brand X - Livestock Strawbs - From The Witchwood Bass Communion - Cenotaph Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories) Dirk Serries - Microphonics I-V Kosmogon - Mässan (If you like 70s Tangerine Dream then you might like this)
I have always associated COLD with keyboards, synths....IM- Seventh Son, Rainbow-Stone Cold, Foreigner- Cold as Ice, JP- Out in the Cold..etc...WARMTH or sunlight is acoustic guitar (Here comes the sun Beatles...Holiday by Scorpions).
Cool albums cover = cool music: U2 - October Sting - The Dream of the Blue Turtles Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair Depeche Mode - Black Celebration The Cure - Disintegration Nirvana - Nevermind Robert Plant - The Principle of Moments
Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow. Whole album is snow and winter themed. Also her live album Before the Dawn (4 albums of amazing) has a fascinating cold looking shot. You won't review it for the long awaited ranking the albums, but the first set contains some surprisingly heavy tracks, featuring Jon Carin (Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, Pete Townshend), Omar Hakim, John Giblin and David Rhodes (all connected to Peter Gabriel). Its easy to overlook in all the musicality, but Rhodes guitar, Hakim's drums and some angry, aggressive vocals from Kate take the songs to a whole new place.
Nailed it again Martin with Fates Warning . They had a bit of a run of cold album covers. The first eight actually...and especially Long Day Good Night.
Anvil - Metal on Metal (actually looks both hot and cold) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads (snow covered forest) Albert Collins - Frostbite (playing guitar in a snowstorm must be torture) Ruphus - New Born Day (landscape covered in snow) Høst - På sterke vinger (Høst=Autumn. The cover is a band shot taken in that season)
Some of my favourite albums with cold covers: Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit Beardfish - Mammoth Blind Guardian - Somewhere far beyond Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum Borknagar - True North Cynyc - Ascension Codes Deep Purple - Whoosh Ensloved - Below The lights Fuath - II The Gathering - Nighttime Birds Genesis - Wind & Wuthering Insomnium - Winter's Gate IQ - Dark Matter Les Discrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées Marillion - Brave Obituary - Frozen in Time Obscura - Cosmogenesis Opeth - Blackwater Park Peter Gabriel - I Porcupine Tree - In Absentia Sanctuary - Into the Mirror Black Saor - Guardians Sentenced - Frozen Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings Steven Wilson - The Raven that refused to sing Windir - Arntor Yes - Relayer
If you listen to jazz or instrumental music dozens of examples can be found from various artists on the ECM and Windham Hill labels. I would also add two Roger Dean album covers, both live albums. Yesshows and One Live Badger.
To name a few: The devil and the almighty blues - Debut Guru Guru - Känguru Black Mountain - Debut + Wilderness Heart White Hills - H-p1 Slift - Ummon Nine Inch Nails - With teeth Naam - Vow
Nightwish 'Once', Vangelis 'Albedo 0.39', Tangerine Dream 'Phaedra' and 'Rubycon', Bruce Springsteen 'Nebraska', Manfred Mann's Earth Band 'Nightingales and Bombers.'
The Beatles : Help ! ( the boys in their winter gear and ski boots ) Deep Purple : Machine Head Camel : I Can See Your House From Here ELP : Brain Salad Surgery James Gang : Rides Again ( more so the back cover ) Thanks !
That's a great selection of bands. Swallow The Sun are so so good. I'd like to see Pete do a ranking the albums for this band. And, Fields Of The Nephilim........... bloody hell, what a great band, brilliant Has Pete ever heard their records??! I'd love to hear what he thinks of The Neph. I could play their early albums all day every day.
Ok, this show brought back a memory… not connected to music, but a book. I’m going to defy Pete, which I often do, and not talk directly about music. So the show brought me back to the 80s, to some Fantasy novel I tried reading. At the time I was trying to be a Fantasy writer. I was venturing into new territory, studying fiction outside my normal interests. In this particular novel the hero goes on a quest out in the woods during the winter. The book drew on Russian or Eastern Europe myths. That’s all I remember of the book. I was not understanding it, largely because I was reading too fast. I was impatient. I wanted to read everything fast and get to something else. I had so much I had to read, to understand, so I read everything faster than my brain could digest. I kept telling myself to slow down, read at a pace I could understand, but I kept going too fast. I had no idea what was going on in the novel (other then the hero is in the cold woods). Finally I gave up on it and threw it away. It all sums up me as a Fantasy writer. I was out in the cold, lost in the forest, getting nowhere. It would make a good song, maybe a good story.
I talked about this the other day, Rush from 80's up until Test for Echo give off some mad winter vibes. The latter has the visuals on the cover, but it also has to do with the soundscape. Something about the synths with Alex's 80's tone/phrasing and Neil's soft sounding snare and cymbal work. Even on Natural Science my brain is flooded with images of a lakeside tundra. Somewhere along the Rocky Mountains. Or Michigan. But I've never been to either place so hey...
Sentenced- the cold white light Sentenced -frozen Paradise Lost-icon Deep Purple-perfect strangers Flotsam and Jetsam-the cold Killing Joke - pandemonium Theatre of tragedy- velvet darkness they fear Blind Guardian- follow the blind Cinderella- still climbing Blitzkrieg- sins and greed Testament- the new order Gojira- the way of all flesh Death Angel- the ultra violence Edguy- mandrake
Jethro Tull's Christmas album. The Moody Blues, December. The Freewheeling Bob Dylan. The Coldest Winner by King Kuma. Creatures of the Night, Kiss. Fallen, Evanescence. Black Ice, AC/DC. Encased in Ice, Frozen Soul. Porcupine, Echo and the Bunnymen. Foreigner, self titled album.
Some solid tracks on there, I actually prefer it to the later stuff. The sound they have on there is much better to my ears. The last few albums sound muddy. I also really enjoy Presto and Counterparts. Never felt guilty about liking these albums, they aren't great but they're enjoyable.
That’s the great thing about Rush, favorite albums by their diehard fans are all over the place. Mine are Hold Your Fire and Presto. I don’t think there’s a band in existence that changed their sound as much as they did. That’s why the fan’s faves are all over the place. They jumped on the Rush train at different parts of their long career. What a band.
Genesis - Wind & Wuthering. The cover has a wintry look and even Tony’s synths on the album have a bit of an icy tone. It’s a great album to listen to on a cold, snowy day.
I believe the album cover for the band Badger had a Roger Dean cover that was a winter scene. I think Badger was Tony Kaye's post-Yes project, (forgive me if I messed up my facts).
The Beatles - Beatles For Sale, Blue Öyster Cult - Cultösaurus Erectus, Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees, Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son & Brave New World, Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon, Smashing Punpkins - Oceania
AEnima - tool Grace under pressure - Rush Hollow bones - Rival Sons Host - Paradise Lost In Absentia - Porcupine Tree Kid A - Radiohead Long Cold Winter - Cinderella Mechanical Animals - Marilyn Manson OK Computer - Radiohead Test for echo - Rush
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Billy Joel - Cold Spring Harbor U2 - October Trivium - In Waves
Opeth- Blackwater Park Rush- Grace Under Pressure Dream Theater- Train of Thought Pelican- The Fire in Our Throats will Beckon the Thaw. dredg-El Cielo Astronoid- Air Chemical Brothers- Further
Enslaved "Frost" was the first I thought of, too. Any album by None works. Rush "Fly By Night". Fleetwood Mac "Bare Trees". The Cure "Faith". Carcass "Surgical Steel".
Martin associates AC/DC's The Razor's Edge song Mistress for Christmas with coldness... forgetting that in Australia (and the rest of the Southern Hemisphere), Christmas arrives at the beginning of summer.
Agalloch- Marrow of the Spirit.. But there coldest album is Pale Folklore Immortal- Battles in The North (more cold than Heart of Winter) IMO Bathory- Twilight of the Gods. Opeth- Morningrise and My Arms Your Hearse are more cold than Blackwater Park. IMO
When I was a kid I thought the cover of Deep Purple-Machine Head was the band seen through a block of ice (and I still kind of see it that way). I've always found that album cold production-wise too, especially if you compare the Live versions of the songs on Made in Japan. And of course, there's Pictures of Home and its "Emptiness, eagles and snow/ Unfriendliness chilling my body" lyrics... Love the album though, but it's an icy one to me despite the fire in the sky... Deep Purple has other covers that are pretty chilly: Perfect Strangers, House of Blue Light, Abandon, Now What?!, inFinite. Cheers.
I must admit , a lot of these album covers never occurred to me as chilly. 'THE BEATLES' aka' the white album' is not the warmest cover I ever saw. and the UK version of 'HELP' is cold looking. anyhow, I hope 'FIREBALL' doesn't melt 'MACHINE HEAD'.
Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons A shot of the band. They're wearing jackets and coats. The picture is slightly blurred and the trees in the back aren't lush with foliage.
Wintersun's debut came to mind first. And I don't know if the album Pete thought of with the Polar Bear was Heavy Load's 'Death Or Glory' - but either way that one is great, a warrior battling a Polar Bear in the snow!
Agalloch are always cold in their album artwork. Savatage dead winter dead may be a bit too much on the nose, but to me The wall, The Final Cut and even animals all have the icy chill of death on the artwork.
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards Dust - Dust Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees Jethro Tull - This Was Metallica - Ride the Lightning Mad Max - Stormchild UFO - Lights Out ( it has the coldness of a Nuclear bomb building factory experiment gone awry, and only 2 human beings are left behind) Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian Judas Priest - Sin After Sin Budgie - Squawk - Bandolier ( Beneath the Planet of the Parakeets atmosphere) Pink Floyd - Animals Michael Schenker Group - MSG ( the back band photo) Witchfynde - Cloak and Dagger ( back cover band photo looks like a coven meeting outside a castle attop a misty mountain) Legion - Unseen to Creation Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant - Godless Savage Garden Wolf 🐺 - Edge of the World Holocaust - the Nightcomers Accept - Breaker Aerosmith - Featuring One Way Street - Get Your Wings - Night in the Ruts Cradle of Filth - Dusk and Her Embrace Amboy Dukes - Migration - Tooth , Fang and Claw Kreator - Endless Pain Bathory - the Return High Power - Stronger Than Evil the Who - Who Are You Nightwing - Nightwing Manilla Road - the Deluge
Rush Grace Under Pressure - cold cover, music and song themes. Yes, they have several cold covers.
First thing I thought of was Test for Echo
I'd argue the music too, on several albums- even without the covers
My Rush pick is was Fly By Night.
Yeah Rush are a great fall and winter band. Essential really.
Who's Next ? Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees; Stephen Stills - Debut; Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley; Led Zep 4; Jethro Tull - Aqualung; Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic; Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs; are some I can think of.
Fleetwood Mac's Bare Trees immediately sprung to my mind. Glad you mentioned it.
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Radiohead - Kid A
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Bjork - Vespertine
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Darkthrone - Panzerfaust
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds or Faith
Always click the like button when Martin's on. Hardly ever agree with anything he says, but what he does say is always worth hearing. Frigid pink - Defrosted immediately came to mind & Genesis - Wind and wuthering, Rolling Stones - Between the buttons, Rick Saucedo - Heaven was blue, Golden earring - To the hilt, Pat Metheny - What's it all about & As walls Wichita, so falls wichita falls, Andreas Thomopoulos - Songs of the street.
Whitesnake - Come An’ Get It
Kiss - Lick It Up
Hall & Oates - X-Static
The Tubes - Outside Inside
The Tubes - The Completion Backward Principle
The Tubes - Remote Control
Bryan Adams - Into the Fire
Brian Eno - Apollo
Alice Cooper - From the Inside
Camel - Stationary Traveller
Deep Purple - Infinite
Honeymoon Suite - The Big Prize
Mike & the Mechanics - The Living Years
Strangeways - Native Sons
Rainbow - Difficult to Cure
I was blessed to grow up in the eighties so I remember the time where the cover was your first impression of the record... and have bought many for the cover. Fun times.
Sigur Rós - ( )
Radiohead - OK Computer
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Just a small few.
more than 2 =couple
more than 2 =few
i love an honest man
1) Cult of Luna - A Dawn to Fear
2) Riverside - Wasteland
3) Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Grey
The Cure albums "Faith" and "Seventeen Seconds"
Martin, spot on with Grace Under Pressure!
Cold Album Covers :
Frozen Soul - Crypt of Ice ( Freeezing cold cover!)
Darkthrone - Artic Thunder ( A dark and cold forest)
Savatage - Dead Winter Dead ( Snowy Cityscape)
Immortal - Blizzard Beasts ( The Immortal Boys battling a blizzard)
Metallica - Ride the Lighting ( Electric Chairs usually reside in cold ,sterile rooms)
Messiah - Extreme Cold Weather (Can't get any colder than a polar bear on the cover!!!)
Rolling Stones - Between the Buttons (The Stones all dressed up for the winter)
I'm a sucker for album cover videos! Keep 'em coming guys!!
This made me go back & revisit my album cover coffee table books, fun!
Rammstein- Rosenrot
Jethro Tull- Stormwatch
Renaissance - Prologue
David Coverdale- North Winds
Nazareth- Hair of the Dog
Might be kind of obvious but the 1st thing that popped into my mind was Even in the Quietest Moments by Supertramp
Really like topics like this. This one was fun to think about.
•Blue Öyster Cult - Black & White period albums. (Martin was spot on with his reasoning for these)
•Ghost - Opus Eponymous
•Peter Gabriel - Car
•Asia - Asia (this one works either way for me, cold or warm)
OK.... Fleetwood Mac's Bare Trees and Penguin; ELP's Brain Salad Surgery and the inside gatefold picture in Trilogy; Frigid Pink's Defrosted; Billy Joel's Cold Spring Harbor; Don Airey's K2; James Taylor's Never Die Young; The Beatles' Beatles for Sale, Help!, Rubber Soul, Let It Be and the recently released Get Back: The Roof Top Performance; The Band's eponymous sophomore release; Bob Dylan's eponymous debut, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde and Desire; Robin Trower's Twice Removed from Yesterday; Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush's Tales of the Unexpected; XTC's Black Sea; Mountain's Climbing and the back photos on Flowers of Evil, Santana's Borboletta and Moonflower; The Who's The Who Sell Out, Tommy, Who's Next Quadrophenia and Odds and Sods; The Rolling Stones' Out of Our Heads (UK version... same as US release, December's Children (and Everybody's)), Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) (both US and UK versions seem pretty chilly), Between the Buttons, More Hot Rocks (Big Hits and Fazed Cookies) and Black and Blue.
Well, that's a few off the top of my head.
Cheers!
Beatles for Sale is pure fall/cold. Also some Echo and The Bunnymen covers (Heaven Up Here, Ocean Rain and their Self Titled - Porcupine is pure winter). REM's Murmur and The Replacements' All Shook Down come to mind. And of course, any Bauhaus cover is cold. And just in case, there's also all those Norwegian black metal album covers that always look like a bunch of old twisted branches lost in the coldest woods.
Yes - I was going to say Echo and the Bunnymen.
A few ideas that came to mind, though a fair chunk of these Martin and Pete already mentioned: Camel's Moonmadness, Genesis's Wind and Wuthering, Rush's Grace Under Pressure, Iron Maiden's Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Metallica's ...And Justice for All, Moody Blues' Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Soundgarden's Superunknown, Yes's Relayer, Magnum's Mirador (compilation album, technically, but I always liked that cover), Opeth's Blackwater Park, Porcupine Tree's In Absentia, Mastodon's Hushed and Grim, Evanescence's The Open Door, Pearl Jam's Gigaton (though I'm admittedly not crazy about the album itself), Nightwish's Oceanborn, Kate Bush's Hounds of Love, Jethro Tull's Stormwatch and Radiohead's Kid A. I was almost considering King Crimson's Lizard but went against it due to only a small portion of the cover fitting the theme, and a few King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard albums were on the cusp of seeming cold or icy but didn't quite work.
Supertramp: " Even In The Quietest Moments ", Steely Dan: " Pretzel Logic ", and Jethro Tull: " Stormwatch " were the first three I thought of, and lo and behold, Pete nails them! I'd add Jethro Tull: " Aqualung " too
Forgot about Stormwatch
Jan Garbarek - Places
Terje Rypdal - Whenever I seem to be far away
Genesis - Trespass
Mike Oldfield - Incantations
Peter Gabriel - I
Renaissance - Prologue
1. Emperor- In the nightside eclipse
2. Supertramp- Even in the quietest moments
3. Devin Townsend- Ocean machine
4. Every Opeth album cover prior to Heritage (especially Damnation)
5. Peter Gabriel- Car
6. Yes- Relayer
7. Wings- London town
8. Spectral lore- III
9. Dream theater- A change of seasons
10. Agalloch- The mantle
Rush - Fly By Night
Ministry - Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and The Way to Suck Eggs
Gary Numan - Pleasure Principle
Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
Dio - Holy Diver
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Metallica - Death Magnetic
KISS - Revenge
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of A Seventh Son
1)Cinderella Long Cold Winter
2)Taylor Swift Folklore
3)Amy Grant House of Love
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music (both cover and music)
Echo & the Bunnymen - Porcupine (cover but mostly the music)
Chris Bell - I am the cosmos (snow, mountains... solitude)
Kraftwerk - Radio-Aktivität (others from them and other krautrock albums could also be mentioned)
Fly By Night-Rush
Bare Trees-Fleetwood Mac
Seventh Son of A Seventh Son--Iron Maiden
Badger-One Live Badger
Styx-Crash of the Crown
The Cure Cold Trilogy:
Seventeen Seconds
Faith
Pornography
Grace Under Pressure was the first thing I thought of.
Savatage- Dead Winter Dead
Rush- Grace Under Pressure and Fly By Night
Hey Pete and Martin. I go back just a little further than you guys so I'm going old school for just a few albums. 1- BARE TREES by Fleetwood Mac, 2- HELP! by the Beatles, 3- The BEATLES FOR SALE. On that album The Beatles are really bundled up and look as if they got off a train to some Siberian Gulag. 4- BETWEEN THE BUTTONS by The Rolling Stones, who appear to have gotten off of the same train.
My very first thought is Rush- Fly By Night because that has always been my first go to when the cold weather hits. Others:
Black Sabbath- debut
Pink Floyd- Meddle
Alice Cooper- Billion Dollar Babies
Bob Dylan- Freewheelin
Fleetwood Mac- Bare Trees
Snow & ice : HAMMERFALL : " Chapter V"
SAGA : " pleasure and pain"
Cold feeling : UFO : " lights out" , " No heavy petting", " No place to run.", " making contact"
The inner sleeve of Johnny The Fox by Thin Lizzy, the image with the wolf-looking fox, has got a cold vibe to it, even though the cover is mostly painted in red and yellow. The animal gives off a cold grin at the fourth wall
Blue For You by Status Quo. The four guys on the cover, all dressed in blue jeans of all kinds, against a very dark backdrop. It even sets the tone for the whole album
Wind And Wuthering by Genesis. This is grey and brown cold with a wind-plagued tree . It's like a goodbye to summer
I'm going with Bjork's "Vespertine." The cover and the songs have a very "cold" feeling to them. One of her best.
Great show thank you so much! Genesis Wind and wuthering and camel the snow goose two of my favorite cold album covers, and camel moonmadness as well - winter themed music in songs on Wind like Afterglow, tangential merry little Xmas reference has been made to melody similarities but I always thought was different enough to be original but it still worked on me most strongly in December!
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988)
Iced Earth - Iced Earth (1990)
Agalloch - The Mantle (2002)
Rush - Test For Echo (1996)
Black Sabbath - Never Say Die (1978)
Mastodon - Leviathan (2004)
Adding to Pete's first pick : Dissection ''Storm of the Light's Bane'' definitely does it for me!
The Cures 2nd, 3rd and 4th albums Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography all have cold covers which reflect the music and lyrics and the next three albums have more warm covers which reflect the lyrics and music of those albums
Mine are
1. 7th Son Of A 7th Son-Iron Maiden
2. Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath
3. Bridge Of Sighs-Robin Trower
4. Imaginos-Blue Oyster Cult
5. In The Shadows-Mercyful Fate
Magnum - Mirador
Mike Oldfield - Return to Ommadawn
This Winter Machine - The man that never was
Lifesigns -- Altitude
Mondo Cozmo - New Medicine, cover is Josh walking down middle of city street (possibly NYC or Philly) on a snowy day smoking a cigarette. Rest of gatefold isn't cold but is great and tells you about Josh. Center is festival shot of him jumping off drum riser that shows you the energy he plays with. Back is shot of a burning car on California highway where he currently lives.
A few I thought of:
-Borknagar - Winter Thrice
-Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
-Dissection - Storm of the Lights Babe
-Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
-Immortal - Blizzard Beasts
-Winter - Into Darkness
Script For a Jester’s Tear. That bedsit is so cold and dank. And there’s a coldness to some of the subject matter like Forgotten Sons and the “drug song” He Knows You Know
Rush - A Farewell to Kings, Talking Heads - Fear of Music, Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet and In Absentia, and Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees.
US neo-prog band North Star-Feel The Cold.
Trillion-s/t
Tangerine Dream-Phaedra
1970s albums by Jethro Tull. Aqualung, A Passion Play, Minstrel in the Gallery, Songs from the Wood and Stormwatch.
Yeah, even Heavy Horses & Broadsword... Jethro Tull has great winter vibes
Alan Parsons Project:I Robot ist to me a cold Cover🔥
Shout out to Martin for mentioning one of my top 3 bands ever, The Smiths. Great show fellas.
One that also comes to mind is the 70's Nirvana-Local Anaesthetic. And of course, Cinderella-Long Cold Winter...
Here is my list including some obscure examples. Search for these in Discogs and you will see what I mean. I like all of this music as well
Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees
Peter Grabriel - 2 (Scratch) (Especially the back cover)
Terje Rypdal - If Mountain Could Sing
King Crimson - Starless And Bible Black
John Surman / Karin Krog / Terje Rypdal / Vigleik Storaas - Nordic Quartet (very cold looking cover)
Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Brand X - Livestock
Strawbs - From The Witchwood
Bass Communion - Cenotaph
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)
Dirk Serries - Microphonics I-V
Kosmogon - Mässan (If you like 70s Tangerine Dream then you might like this)
I have always associated COLD with keyboards, synths....IM- Seventh Son, Rainbow-Stone Cold, Foreigner- Cold as Ice, JP- Out in the Cold..etc...WARMTH or sunlight is acoustic guitar (Here comes the sun Beatles...Holiday by Scorpions).
Cool albums cover = cool music:
U2 - October
Sting - The Dream of the Blue Turtles
Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
The Cure - Disintegration
Nirvana - Nevermind
Robert Plant - The Principle of Moments
So many great choices.
One album cover that always gave me the chills is The Beach Boys - Surfs up
Kate Bush - 50 Words for Snow. Whole album is snow and winter themed. Also her live album Before the Dawn (4 albums of amazing) has a fascinating cold looking shot. You won't review it for the long awaited ranking the albums, but the first set contains some surprisingly heavy tracks, featuring Jon Carin (Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, Pete Townshend), Omar Hakim, John Giblin and David Rhodes (all connected to Peter Gabriel). Its easy to overlook in all the musicality, but Rhodes guitar, Hakim's drums and some angry, aggressive vocals from Kate take the songs to a whole new place.
Nailed it again Martin with Fates Warning
. They had a bit of a run of cold album covers. The first eight actually...and especially Long Day Good Night.
Anvil - Metal on Metal (actually looks both hot and cold)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads (snow covered forest)
Albert Collins - Frostbite (playing guitar in a snowstorm must be torture)
Ruphus - New Born Day (landscape covered in snow)
Høst - På sterke vinger (Høst=Autumn. The cover is a band shot taken in that season)
Steely Dan’s best album “The Royal Scam”...man on a bench with the truly chilling predatory high rise monsters looming over him. Truly cold...
Agree. Great LP by the way
And he's got a hole in his shoe.
One of mine too
Some of my favourite albums with cold covers:
Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
Beardfish - Mammoth
Blind Guardian - Somewhere far beyond
Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum
Borknagar - True North
Cynyc - Ascension Codes
Deep Purple - Whoosh
Ensloved - Below The lights
Fuath - II
The Gathering - Nighttime Birds
Genesis - Wind & Wuthering
Insomnium - Winter's Gate
IQ - Dark Matter
Les Discrets - Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées
Marillion - Brave
Obituary - Frozen in Time
Obscura - Cosmogenesis
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Peter Gabriel - I
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Sanctuary - Into the Mirror Black
Saor - Guardians
Sentenced - Frozen
Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings
Steven Wilson - The Raven that refused to sing
Windir - Arntor
Yes - Relayer
just found out that Roger Daltrey came down w/ pneumonia after sitting in a tub of wet, cold, beans, for TheWHO 'sell out'
Back in black, the black album, Eels Shootenanny, Live at Leeds, Sigur Ros (pretty much all of theirs)
If you listen to jazz or instrumental music dozens of examples can be found from various artists on the ECM and Windham Hill labels. I would also add two Roger Dean album covers, both live albums. Yesshows and One Live Badger.
To name a few:
The devil and the almighty blues - Debut
Guru Guru - Känguru
Black Mountain - Debut + Wilderness Heart
White Hills - H-p1
Slift - Ummon
Nine Inch Nails - With teeth
Naam - Vow
Nightwish 'Once', Vangelis 'Albedo 0.39', Tangerine Dream 'Phaedra' and 'Rubycon', Bruce Springsteen 'Nebraska', Manfred Mann's Earth Band 'Nightingales and Bombers.'
The Beatles : Help ! ( the boys in their winter gear and ski boots )
Deep Purple : Machine Head
Camel : I Can See Your House From Here
ELP : Brain Salad Surgery
James Gang : Rides Again ( more so the back cover )
Thanks !
Every single JOY DIVISION album and EP ever released fall into this category.
Obituary - frozen in time , Razor - evil invaders , Rush - fly by night , Arch/Matheos - winter ethereal , Led Zeppelin - 4 , Warlock - triumph and agony , Kreator - endless pain.
A few more: Swallow The Sun - "The Morning Never Came", Fields of the Nephilim - "Mourning Sun', In Solitude - "Sister".
That's a great selection of bands.
Swallow The Sun are so so good. I'd like to see Pete do a ranking the albums for this band.
And, Fields Of The Nephilim........... bloody hell, what a great band, brilliant Has Pete ever heard their records??! I'd love to hear what he thinks of The Neph. I could play their early albums all day every day.
Ok, this show brought back a memory… not connected to music, but a book. I’m going to defy Pete, which I often do, and not talk directly about music. So the show brought me back to the 80s, to some Fantasy novel I tried reading. At the time I was trying to be a Fantasy writer. I was venturing into new territory, studying fiction outside my normal interests. In this particular novel the hero goes on a quest out in the woods during the winter. The book drew on Russian or Eastern Europe myths. That’s all I remember of the book. I was not understanding it, largely because I was reading too fast. I was impatient. I wanted to read everything fast and get to something else. I had so much I had to read, to understand, so I read everything faster than my brain could digest. I kept telling myself to slow down, read at a pace I could understand, but I kept going too fast. I had no idea what was going on in the novel (other then the hero is in the cold woods). Finally I gave up on it and threw it away. It all sums up me as a Fantasy writer. I was out in the cold, lost in the forest, getting nowhere. It would make a good song, maybe a good story.
I talked about this the other day, Rush from 80's up until Test for Echo give off some mad winter vibes. The latter has the visuals on the cover, but it also has to do with the soundscape. Something about the synths with Alex's 80's tone/phrasing and Neil's soft sounding snare and cymbal work. Even on Natural Science my brain is flooded with images of a lakeside tundra. Somewhere along the Rocky Mountains. Or Michigan. But I've never been to either place so hey...
I can't wait for you guys to finally meet in person!
Neither can we!
Sentenced- the cold white light
Sentenced -frozen
Paradise Lost-icon
Deep Purple-perfect strangers
Flotsam and Jetsam-the cold
Killing Joke - pandemonium
Theatre of tragedy- velvet darkness they fear
Blind Guardian- follow the blind
Cinderella- still climbing
Blitzkrieg- sins and greed
Testament- the new order
Gojira- the way of all flesh
Death Angel- the ultra violence
Edguy- mandrake
Jethro Tull's Christmas album.
The Moody Blues, December.
The Freewheeling Bob Dylan.
The Coldest Winner by King Kuma.
Creatures of the Night, Kiss.
Fallen, Evanescence.
Black Ice, AC/DC.
Encased in Ice, Frozen Soul.
Porcupine, Echo and the Bunnymen.
Foreigner, self titled album.
My favorite Rush album art - TEST FOR ECHO. And the music ain't half bad, I don't hate this album the way some Rush fans do.
Some solid tracks on there, I actually prefer it to the later stuff. The sound they have on there is much better to my ears. The last few albums sound muddy. I also really enjoy Presto and Counterparts. Never felt guilty about liking these albums, they aren't great but they're enjoyable.
That’s the great thing about Rush, favorite albums by their diehard fans are all over the place. Mine are Hold Your Fire and Presto. I don’t think there’s a band in existence that changed their sound as much as they did. That’s why the fan’s faves are all over the place. They jumped on the Rush train at different parts of their long career. What a band.
Genesis - Wind & Wuthering. The cover has a wintry look and even Tony’s synths on the album have a bit of an icy tone. It’s a great album to listen to on a cold, snowy day.
I believe the album cover for the band Badger had a Roger Dean cover that was a winter scene. I think Badger was Tony Kaye's post-Yes project, (forgive me if I messed up my facts).
Yep, good one!
Too Low For Zero - Elton John
50 Words for Snow - Kate Bush
OK Computer - Radiohead
Paul Simon - Paul Simon
The Beatles - Beatles For Sale, Blue Öyster Cult - Cultösaurus Erectus, Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees, Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son & Brave New World, Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon, Smashing Punpkins - Oceania
This Winter Machine-Tower Of Clocks and The Man Who Never Was are exellent winter and cold covers
Alice in Chains - Black Gives way to Blue. Definitely creates a cold feeling.
Rush-Grace Under Pressue. Jethro Tull-Stormwatch. John Denver had two Christmas albums 1 with the Muppets
AEnima - tool
Grace under pressure - Rush
Hollow bones - Rival Sons
Host - Paradise Lost
In Absentia - Porcupine Tree
Kid A - Radiohead
Long Cold Winter - Cinderella
Mechanical Animals - Marilyn Manson
OK Computer - Radiohead
Test for echo - Rush
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Billy Joel - Cold Spring Harbor
U2 - October
Trivium - In Waves
Prog band Ice Age - "The Great Divide"
Tull - Stormwatch
IQ- Frequency
I wish I liked anything as much as Martin likes album covers
Opeth- Blackwater Park
Rush- Grace Under Pressure
Dream Theater- Train of Thought
Pelican- The Fire in Our Throats will Beckon the Thaw.
dredg-El Cielo
Astronoid- Air
Chemical Brothers- Further
Stoked to see a shout-out for Tales from the Thousand Lakes. One of my favorite melodic, doomy death metal albums.
Speaking about Roger Dean, Drama & Yesshows are pretty cold too. Cheers.
Panopticon - Roads to the North
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Immortal - Battles In The North
Cold covers
Edge of Sanity - Nothing but Death Remains
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Maneige - Self Service
Gentle Giant - Three Friends (The UK cover)
Enslaved "Frost" was the first I thought of, too. Any album by None works. Rush "Fly By Night". Fleetwood Mac "Bare Trees". The Cure "Faith". Carcass "Surgical Steel".
Peter Green’s “White Sky” comes to mind.
Probably a bit too literal but True North by Borknagar is very wintery. The Mantle by Agalloch always makes me think of winter in Scotland 🦌 ❄️
Martin associates AC/DC's The Razor's Edge song Mistress for Christmas with coldness... forgetting that in Australia (and the rest of the Southern Hemisphere), Christmas arrives at the beginning of summer.
Oh yeah. Here in Brazil Santa Claus is going sleeveless. Red tank top and gym shorts
Wintersun - Time I , Albert Collins - Frostbite , Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde , David Gilmour - self titled
Agalloch- Marrow of the Spirit.. But there coldest album is Pale Folklore
Immortal- Battles in The North (more cold than Heart of Winter) IMO
Bathory- Twilight of the Gods.
Opeth- Morningrise and My Arms Your Hearse are more cold than Blackwater Park. IMO
A Farewell to Kings- Rush
Whos Next- The Who
The Freewheelin Bob Dylan- Bob Dylan
Malice in Wonderland- Nazareth
Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath
When I was a kid I thought the cover of Deep Purple-Machine Head was the band seen through a block of ice (and I still kind of see it that way). I've always found that album cold production-wise too, especially if you compare the Live versions of the songs on Made in Japan. And of course, there's Pictures of Home and its "Emptiness, eagles and snow/ Unfriendliness chilling my body" lyrics... Love the album though, but it's an icy one to me despite the fire in the sky...
Deep Purple has other covers that are pretty chilly: Perfect Strangers, House of Blue Light, Abandon, Now What?!, inFinite.
Cheers.
I must admit , a lot of these album covers never occurred to me as chilly. 'THE BEATLES' aka' the white album' is not the warmest cover I ever saw. and the UK version of 'HELP' is cold looking. anyhow, I hope 'FIREBALL' doesn't melt 'MACHINE HEAD'.
Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons
A shot of the band. They're wearing jackets and coats. The picture is slightly blurred and the trees in the back aren't lush with foliage.
Wintersun's debut came to mind first. And I don't know if the album Pete thought of with the Polar Bear was Heavy Load's 'Death Or Glory' - but either way that one is great, a warrior battling a Polar Bear in the snow!
Ghosts of Pripyat (picture of the Chernobyl ghost town covered in snow) Steve Rothery
Agalloch are always cold in their album artwork. Savatage dead winter dead may be a bit too much on the nose, but to me The wall, The Final Cut and even animals all have the icy chill of death on the artwork.
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards
Dust - Dust
Fleetwood Mac - Bare Trees
Jethro Tull - This Was
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Mad Max - Stormchild
UFO - Lights Out ( it has the coldness of a Nuclear bomb building factory experiment gone awry, and only 2 human beings are left behind)
Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
Budgie - Squawk
- Bandolier ( Beneath the Planet of the Parakeets atmosphere)
Pink Floyd - Animals
Michael Schenker Group - MSG ( the back band photo)
Witchfynde - Cloak and Dagger ( back cover band photo looks like a coven meeting outside a castle attop a misty mountain)
Legion - Unseen to Creation
Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
- Godless Savage Garden
Wolf 🐺 - Edge of the World
Holocaust - the Nightcomers
Accept - Breaker
Aerosmith - Featuring One Way Street
- Get Your Wings
- Night in the Ruts
Cradle of Filth - Dusk and Her Embrace
Amboy Dukes - Migration
- Tooth , Fang and Claw
Kreator - Endless Pain
Bathory - the Return
High Power - Stronger Than Evil
the Who - Who Are You
Nightwing - Nightwing
Manilla Road - the Deluge