The 80s Winter Collection
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2026 2:51 amI have several projects in development for this year.
The weather was cold a few weeks ago with snow and frost, so I thought it would be fitting to start with a compilation full of winter songs.
Over the years I have occasionally compiled a winter compilation of songs that are dear to me and that do not always have their origins in the 80s.
For this collection I understandably went back to the 80s with the following result.
Eight cd's filled with songs about Winter and a ninth cd filled with tracks already featured on the "Unknown Beauty Of the 80s" and "The Continuous Beauty Of the Unknown 80s"series.
A total of 158 tracks which were chosen in the styles of Synthpop, New Wave, Post-Punk and Progressive Rock, besides tracks of bands already in my collection.
Please note, this in NO way is intended to take away sales from any of the artists included here but rather a way to discover or rediscover these timeless and sometimes unknown masterpieces.
Please support these bands if they should have material available! They deserve all the credit!
Up for a week.
The tracks:
CD01
01 A Special Night - Winter Song (5:35)
02 Death In June- Blood Of Winter (1:31)
03 Grey Parade - Winter (3:17)
04 Stockholm Monsters - Winter (3:10)
05 Fad - The Winter Sea (5:05)
06 L'Enfance Eternelle - Violet Winter (6:02)
07 Toy Division - Melbourne Winter (5:12)
08 West And Byrd - Winter (3:09)
09 Hideki Saijo - Winter Blue (3:34)
10 Kouichi Kawamura - Winter Love (wish upon all the stars) (5:31)
11 Skids - Woman In Winter (4:02)
12 Max Werner - In The Winter (4:43)
13 Exit - The Bite Of Winter (3:23)
14 Sixth Comm - Winter Sadness (4:47)
15 Circus Custers - Wilde ganzen (winter '63) (3:15)
16 Out Of The Blue - Winter Song (5:15)
17 The Bonaparte's - For Winter (3:46)
18 Emerald Choir - Winter (4:42)
19 Serious Drinking - Winter's Over (3:31)
CD02
01 Cleaners From Venus - Prince Of The Winter (3:17)
02 Family Fodder - Winter Song (3:09)
03 Two - Waiting For Winter (2:18)
04 The Loft - Winter (3:04)
05 Home And Garden - Big Winter (2:24)
06 Panache - Winter Ward (3:37)
07 Frank Boeijen Groep - Winter in Hamburg (5:19)
08 Big Country - Winter Sky (3:16)
09 The Affordable Floors - The Long Winter (4:40)
10 Etienne Daho Avec Laurie Mayer - Winter Blue (3:43)
11 Thomas P. Kardas - The Second Winter (5:41)
12 La Valse - Winter (3:53)
13 Richard Strange + The Engine Room - Endless Winter (5:31)
14 Hironobu Kageyama - Hot Winter (3:05)
15 Johnny G - One More Winter With You (2:25)
16 Terraced Garden - Winter (4:04)
17 Men Of Courage - Cold Winter (5:05)
18 Sinistres Kidnappeurs - Nuclear Winter (1:35)
19 A Certain Ratio - Winter Hill (13:04)
CD03
01 De Munck - Het is winter nu (3:45)
02 Freeez - Caribbean Winter (5:15)
03 Sky - A Girl In Winter (3:37)
04 The New Eyes - Like The Sun In Winter (5:13)
05 Art Bears - The Winter Wheel (3:03)
06 Post No Bills - Winter (2:51)
07 Spoons - Smiling In Winter (4:05)
08 Killing Joke - Wintergardens (5:24)
09 The Colourfield - Monkey In Winter (5:11)
10 Yazoo - Winter Kills (4:05
11 The Enid - Winter 'The Key' (8:31)
12 Die Zimmermänner - Mein Winter in Ottobrunn (3:43)
13 Asylum Party - First Days Of Winter (3:27)
14 Richard Lerner - The Winter After (4:27)
15 Skids - Woman In Winter (5:55)
16 Cry Of The Innocent - Winter (5:15)
17 Model Workers - My Winter Of Discontent (1:56)
18 The Cleaners From Venus - The Winter Palace (3:58)
CD04
01 Masahiko Satoh & Toots Thielemans ft. Nancy Wilson - Winter Green And Summer Blue (3:50)
02 Alessandro Raffaelli - Winter Song (4:55)
03 Suzanne Menzel -What A Winter's Day (2:45)
04 The Sound - Winter (4:19)
05 Noise Promotion Company - Winter (3:59)
06 RAH Band - Winter Love (5:23)
07 Tales - Miss Winter (5:39)
08 Milva - Spring, Summer, Winter And Fall (3:48)
09 The Tempest - Love In The Wintertime (3:17)
10 Zvuki Mu - Zima (winter) (3:24)
11 Coma - Heavy Winter (5:02)
12 Greg Horn- One More Winter (4:48)
13 Private Flight - Winter In Springtime (4:19)
14 UV PØP - Feels Like Winter (4:56)
15 The Durutti Column - Sketch For Winter (2:25)
16 Warlord - Winter Tears (4:46:)
17 Boizée - Winter Is (3:04)
18 The Icicle Works - When Winter Lasted Forever (4:46)
19 Nexus Erratic - Winter (4:07)
CD05
01 Miwako Saito - Winter Wink (6:10)
02 Bodast ft. Steve Howe - Beyond Winter (2:51)
03 The Common Ground - Storms Of Winter (4:18)
04 P.I.C. - In The Winter (5:27)
05 Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter (2:46)
06 The Dolphin Brothers - My Winter (4:43)
07 Audrey Landers - Thru The Eyes Of Winter (4:58)
08 Neuschwanstein - A Winter´s Tale (4:16)
09 Clock DVA - Impressions of African Winter (5:30)
10 3 Seconds - Winter Day (3:06)
11 Olivia Newton-John - Winter Angel (3:39)
12 Translator - Winter Crying (4:10)
13 Brigitte Stefan & Meridian - Fensterglas Im Winter (4:11)
14 James Newton Howard - Winter Scene (4:19)
15 The Fall - Winter (hostel-maxi) (4:31)
16 Apartment - Winter (4:52)
17 Rosegarden - Winter Wind (6:38)
18 The Housemartins - I Smell Winter (3:23)
CD06
01 Peep University - Winter (at the factory site) (4:17)
02 Joe Hisaishi - The Winter Requiem (4:47)
03 David Foster - Winter Games (4:02)
04 Perspex Spangles - Great Winter (4:18)
05 Bondarz Super Starz - Winter Rose (5:02)
06 Duran Duran - Winter Marches On (3:24)
07 The Fall - Winter 2 (4;33)
08 Stranger To Stranger - Lonely Winter (2:33)
09 éVoid - Winter (4:29)
10 Carmen & Thompson - Winter Lover (5:29)
11 Sheena Easton - In The Winter (3:06)
12 Volksmund - Winter Ade (0:41)
13 Down Avenue - Winters Past (4:20)
14 Striptease - My Winter (2:51)
15 No More - Im Winter, It's A Heartache (4:45)
16 Killing Joke - Wintergardens (unreleased mix) (4:48)
17 The Kevin Peek Experience - Winter Sun (2:22)
18 Boris Grebenshikov - Winter (4;26)
19 G.I. Orange - Winter Wonderland (4:12)
20 Pointless - One More Winter (4:48)
CD07
01 Steve Baker - Winter Sun (4:20)
02 Zenana - The Final Winter (3:22)
03 Vladislav Sendecky - Winter (7:17)
04 The New Eyes - Like The Sun In Winter(5:13)
05 Lyon In Winter - As Winter Falls (4:11)
06 Tex Pistol - Winter (4:30)
07 Blue Murder - Winter Blues (3:16)
08 Marine - Léningrad In Winter (3:05)
09 Brian McLane - The 3rd Night Of Winter (3:35)
10 King - Winter (6:55)
11 FSB - Зимна къща (winter house) (6:23)
12 Sanctuaire - Winter (4:37)
13 Geisterfahrer - Drei Wilde Winter (3:44)
14 Rousseau - Winter's Tale (7:15)
15 Music For Pleasure - Winterscene (3:29)
16 Tomomi Nishimura - Winter Wonder Land (4:07)
17 Ziggurat - Winter Snow (3:20)
CD08
01 One Thousand Violins - Days Of Clam Weather In Winter (3:45)
02 Stranger To Stranger - Summer Winter (3:49)
03 Blair Petrie - The Heart In Winter (5:45)
04 New York To Paris - Winter Fades (4:52)
05 Intimspray - Der Winter ist schön (2:04)
06 Samedi - Winter's Coming To Town (4:34)
07 Asylum Party - Winter (4:59)
08 Jim Rensson And The Crew - Winter (live) (4:41)
09 Stephen Harrison - Winter Sun (2:47)
10 Yeah Jazz - Probably This Winter (2:56)
11 Breeding Ground - Wintergarden (4:28)
12 Index Sign - Wintermorgen (3:33)
13 Richard Burmer - Winter On The Wind (5:03)
14 Ohama - Winter Night (1:50)
15 The Colourfield ft. Sinéad O'Connor - Monkey In Winter (5:00)
16 Winter - Winter (4:29)
17 Ewig & 3 Tage - Winterschlußverkauf (3:12)
18 Jocke Söderqvist - Winter Nights (6:05)
19 Amebix - Winter (5:32)
CD09 (bonus)
01 Fiat Lux - Feels Like Winter Again (5:06)
02 The Mockers - A Winter's Tale (5:27)
03 Jih - Come Summer Come Winter (3:55)
04 English Evenings - Winter Feelings (4:55)
05 True North - The Wintergarden (2:56)
06 Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winter (3:27)
07 Jimmy Jimmy - Winter Song (2:03)
08 Shanghai Au Go Go - I Cried All Winter (5:30)
The link: ...
Enjoy!
The weather was cold a few weeks ago with snow and frost, so I thought it would be fitting to start with a compilation full of winter songs.
Over the years I have occasionally compiled a winter compilation of songs that are dear to me and that do not always have their origins in the 80s.
For this collection I understandably went back to the 80s with the following result.
Eight cd's filled with songs about Winter and a ninth cd filled with tracks already featured on the "Unknown Beauty Of the 80s" and "The Continuous Beauty Of the Unknown 80s"series.
A total of 158 tracks which were chosen in the styles of Synthpop, New Wave, Post-Punk and Progressive Rock, besides tracks of bands already in my collection.
Please note, this in NO way is intended to take away sales from any of the artists included here but rather a way to discover or rediscover these timeless and sometimes unknown masterpieces.
Please support these bands if they should have material available! They deserve all the credit!
Up for a week.
The tracks:
CD01
01 A Special Night - Winter Song (5:35)
02 Death In June- Blood Of Winter (1:31)
03 Grey Parade - Winter (3:17)
04 Stockholm Monsters - Winter (3:10)
05 Fad - The Winter Sea (5:05)
06 L'Enfance Eternelle - Violet Winter (6:02)
07 Toy Division - Melbourne Winter (5:12)
08 West And Byrd - Winter (3:09)
09 Hideki Saijo - Winter Blue (3:34)
10 Kouichi Kawamura - Winter Love (wish upon all the stars) (5:31)
11 Skids - Woman In Winter (4:02)
12 Max Werner - In The Winter (4:43)
13 Exit - The Bite Of Winter (3:23)
14 Sixth Comm - Winter Sadness (4:47)
15 Circus Custers - Wilde ganzen (winter '63) (3:15)
16 Out Of The Blue - Winter Song (5:15)
17 The Bonaparte's - For Winter (3:46)
18 Emerald Choir - Winter (4:42)
19 Serious Drinking - Winter's Over (3:31)
CD02
01 Cleaners From Venus - Prince Of The Winter (3:17)
02 Family Fodder - Winter Song (3:09)
03 Two - Waiting For Winter (2:18)
04 The Loft - Winter (3:04)
05 Home And Garden - Big Winter (2:24)
06 Panache - Winter Ward (3:37)
07 Frank Boeijen Groep - Winter in Hamburg (5:19)
08 Big Country - Winter Sky (3:16)
09 The Affordable Floors - The Long Winter (4:40)
10 Etienne Daho Avec Laurie Mayer - Winter Blue (3:43)
11 Thomas P. Kardas - The Second Winter (5:41)
12 La Valse - Winter (3:53)
13 Richard Strange + The Engine Room - Endless Winter (5:31)
14 Hironobu Kageyama - Hot Winter (3:05)
15 Johnny G - One More Winter With You (2:25)
16 Terraced Garden - Winter (4:04)
17 Men Of Courage - Cold Winter (5:05)
18 Sinistres Kidnappeurs - Nuclear Winter (1:35)
19 A Certain Ratio - Winter Hill (13:04)
CD03
01 De Munck - Het is winter nu (3:45)
02 Freeez - Caribbean Winter (5:15)
03 Sky - A Girl In Winter (3:37)
04 The New Eyes - Like The Sun In Winter (5:13)
05 Art Bears - The Winter Wheel (3:03)
06 Post No Bills - Winter (2:51)
07 Spoons - Smiling In Winter (4:05)
08 Killing Joke - Wintergardens (5:24)
09 The Colourfield - Monkey In Winter (5:11)
10 Yazoo - Winter Kills (4:05
11 The Enid - Winter 'The Key' (8:31)
12 Die Zimmermänner - Mein Winter in Ottobrunn (3:43)
13 Asylum Party - First Days Of Winter (3:27)
14 Richard Lerner - The Winter After (4:27)
15 Skids - Woman In Winter (5:55)
16 Cry Of The Innocent - Winter (5:15)
17 Model Workers - My Winter Of Discontent (1:56)
18 The Cleaners From Venus - The Winter Palace (3:58)
CD04
01 Masahiko Satoh & Toots Thielemans ft. Nancy Wilson - Winter Green And Summer Blue (3:50)
02 Alessandro Raffaelli - Winter Song (4:55)
03 Suzanne Menzel -What A Winter's Day (2:45)
04 The Sound - Winter (4:19)
05 Noise Promotion Company - Winter (3:59)
06 RAH Band - Winter Love (5:23)
07 Tales - Miss Winter (5:39)
08 Milva - Spring, Summer, Winter And Fall (3:48)
09 The Tempest - Love In The Wintertime (3:17)
10 Zvuki Mu - Zima (winter) (3:24)
11 Coma - Heavy Winter (5:02)
12 Greg Horn- One More Winter (4:48)
13 Private Flight - Winter In Springtime (4:19)
14 UV PØP - Feels Like Winter (4:56)
15 The Durutti Column - Sketch For Winter (2:25)
16 Warlord - Winter Tears (4:46:)
17 Boizée - Winter Is (3:04)
18 The Icicle Works - When Winter Lasted Forever (4:46)
19 Nexus Erratic - Winter (4:07)
CD05
01 Miwako Saito - Winter Wink (6:10)
02 Bodast ft. Steve Howe - Beyond Winter (2:51)
03 The Common Ground - Storms Of Winter (4:18)
04 P.I.C. - In The Winter (5:27)
05 Bangles - Hazy Shade Of Winter (2:46)
06 The Dolphin Brothers - My Winter (4:43)
07 Audrey Landers - Thru The Eyes Of Winter (4:58)
08 Neuschwanstein - A Winter´s Tale (4:16)
09 Clock DVA - Impressions of African Winter (5:30)
10 3 Seconds - Winter Day (3:06)
11 Olivia Newton-John - Winter Angel (3:39)
12 Translator - Winter Crying (4:10)
13 Brigitte Stefan & Meridian - Fensterglas Im Winter (4:11)
14 James Newton Howard - Winter Scene (4:19)
15 The Fall - Winter (hostel-maxi) (4:31)
16 Apartment - Winter (4:52)
17 Rosegarden - Winter Wind (6:38)
18 The Housemartins - I Smell Winter (3:23)
CD06
01 Peep University - Winter (at the factory site) (4:17)
02 Joe Hisaishi - The Winter Requiem (4:47)
03 David Foster - Winter Games (4:02)
04 Perspex Spangles - Great Winter (4:18)
05 Bondarz Super Starz - Winter Rose (5:02)
06 Duran Duran - Winter Marches On (3:24)
07 The Fall - Winter 2 (4;33)
08 Stranger To Stranger - Lonely Winter (2:33)
09 éVoid - Winter (4:29)
10 Carmen & Thompson - Winter Lover (5:29)
11 Sheena Easton - In The Winter (3:06)
12 Volksmund - Winter Ade (0:41)
13 Down Avenue - Winters Past (4:20)
14 Striptease - My Winter (2:51)
15 No More - Im Winter, It's A Heartache (4:45)
16 Killing Joke - Wintergardens (unreleased mix) (4:48)
17 The Kevin Peek Experience - Winter Sun (2:22)
18 Boris Grebenshikov - Winter (4;26)
19 G.I. Orange - Winter Wonderland (4:12)
20 Pointless - One More Winter (4:48)
CD07
01 Steve Baker - Winter Sun (4:20)
02 Zenana - The Final Winter (3:22)
03 Vladislav Sendecky - Winter (7:17)
04 The New Eyes - Like The Sun In Winter(5:13)
05 Lyon In Winter - As Winter Falls (4:11)
06 Tex Pistol - Winter (4:30)
07 Blue Murder - Winter Blues (3:16)
08 Marine - Léningrad In Winter (3:05)
09 Brian McLane - The 3rd Night Of Winter (3:35)
10 King - Winter (6:55)
11 FSB - Зимна къща (winter house) (6:23)
12 Sanctuaire - Winter (4:37)
13 Geisterfahrer - Drei Wilde Winter (3:44)
14 Rousseau - Winter's Tale (7:15)
15 Music For Pleasure - Winterscene (3:29)
16 Tomomi Nishimura - Winter Wonder Land (4:07)
17 Ziggurat - Winter Snow (3:20)
CD08
01 One Thousand Violins - Days Of Clam Weather In Winter (3:45)
02 Stranger To Stranger - Summer Winter (3:49)
03 Blair Petrie - The Heart In Winter (5:45)
04 New York To Paris - Winter Fades (4:52)
05 Intimspray - Der Winter ist schön (2:04)
06 Samedi - Winter's Coming To Town (4:34)
07 Asylum Party - Winter (4:59)
08 Jim Rensson And The Crew - Winter (live) (4:41)
09 Stephen Harrison - Winter Sun (2:47)
10 Yeah Jazz - Probably This Winter (2:56)
11 Breeding Ground - Wintergarden (4:28)
12 Index Sign - Wintermorgen (3:33)
13 Richard Burmer - Winter On The Wind (5:03)
14 Ohama - Winter Night (1:50)
15 The Colourfield ft. Sinéad O'Connor - Monkey In Winter (5:00)
16 Winter - Winter (4:29)
17 Ewig & 3 Tage - Winterschlußverkauf (3:12)
18 Jocke Söderqvist - Winter Nights (6:05)
19 Amebix - Winter (5:32)
CD09 (bonus)
01 Fiat Lux - Feels Like Winter Again (5:06)
02 The Mockers - A Winter's Tale (5:27)
03 Jih - Come Summer Come Winter (3:55)
04 English Evenings - Winter Feelings (4:55)
05 True North - The Wintergarden (2:56)
06 Aztec Camera - Walk Out To Winter (3:27)
07 Jimmy Jimmy - Winter Song (2:03)
08 Shanghai Au Go Go - I Cried All Winter (5:30)
The link: ...
Enjoy!
