Twenty five songs for advent #5

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Date: 05 December 2009 13:43:34

Radiohead - Walking in a Winter Wonderland. There's a certain degree of cognitive dissonance at work here. The received wisdom of countless music critics is that Radiohead are miserable yet here they are doing (sort of) happy. For some reason that makes this track resonate with me far more than if it had been say Beyonce doing this cover.

There is of course a sad absence of snow around here. I could insert a rant about global warming but I'm not going to. I have yet to go to chillfactor but it looks like the best alternative.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ut5w7PV53U[/youtube]

PS I apologise for the scattered nature of my thoughts. Nano took a lot of concentration and although I seem to have retrieved my writing habit, my ability to focus on one thing for a period of time seems to be somewhat impaired.

PPS I will try and post the requests I've had