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"Winter" is a song by English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones featured on their 1973 album Goats Head Soup.
It bears many similarities to "Moonlight Mile" from their 1971 album Sticky Fingers. Credited to singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards, "Winter" is likely the work of Jagger and the Stones' lead guitarist at the time, Mick Taylor. It was the first song recorded for the album and does not feature Richards at all. On the song, Bill Janovitz says in his review, "Here they were in sunny Jamaica, and the Stones were writing and recording an entirely convincing and evocative picture of a Northern Hemisphere winter. Perhaps they were so happy to be escaping the season they felt that starting the sessions with "Winter" could transition them out of the old and into the new climate. Though it bemoans many of the negatives of the season [in the] lyrics... "Winter" seems to simultaneously celebrate the season as something inherently beautiful, with other evocations of holiday scenes and wanting to wrap a coat and keep a lover warm."[1]
“      It sure been a hard, hard winter, My feet been draggin' 'cross the ground; And I hope it's gonna be a long, hot summer; And the light of love will be burnin' bright      ”
“      And I wish I been out in California, When the lights on all the Christmas trees went out; But I been burnin' my bell, book and candle, And the restoration plays have all gone 'round

I read somewhere that some person remembered that it was about some prostitute, but I don't remember where I read it. I also read somewhere that "She's a Rainbow" was inspired by that women's time of the month. But I don't remember.
I'm glad to have been of any assistance at all. [??] So, what the hell, here's a clip that sort of matches my feminine side.

Zack wrote on Feb 4^th, 2015 at 7:08am:

It's The Blues of Cold Short Winter Days IMO
a very good Stones song one that always good to hear!

I don't know why, but when I listen to it on warm days, it has no effect on me…but on cold days, it makes sense!

" While Moonlight Mile has always seemed to be about the ending of an evening or weekend/bender of hard partying (didn't Greil Marcus say it was best listened to with a glass of scotch at 6am watching the sun come up?), I always imagine "Winter" is about the kind of tired you get when you've been, well, hanging out with too many speed freak drag queens for too long, like, say months. It seems a very New York song to me (though the references are squarely in the UK vernacular (restoration plays, etc.)).

Months and months of dealing with or having to deal with crazy, drug-addled wispy drama queens, everybody strung out, everybody involved in some shady scene, none of which hold any interest or charm any longer. Like, that morning when you wake up and you've had another party at your place and those two passed out half naked on the couch and you're like, oh great, THEY hooked up? What a shitstorm THAT is going to start and then there's someone sitting upright in the living room listening to, like, Bahaus or something, or maybe it's two of them, chattering away about some new idea for a band or a movie or a road trip that's never going to happen, because those two people don't like each other sober anyways, and you look at all the flotsam and jetsam, the mirrors and the half-done lines and there's a goddamn used condom on the bathroom floor. And it's raining. And you're like, Jesus. This shit has gotten boring.

I always thought of it as Mick having a catharsis with the whole kind of Lou Reed-y seediness of early 70s New York. Like, once this glitter was enchanting, but now it's just boring and I'm lamenting the passing of it. "



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Happy Happy Twenty - First  Birthday She Rat   !!!!!!!

I am sooooo Patsy.

Rocks! My favorite Aerosmith record! Thanks, sweetcharmedlife!

And thanks to Paranoid Android for starting this thread and reigniting a love affair with Goats Head Soup!

Oh, and belated happy birthday SheRat! Hope it was jolly.

Thanks, Mr. Yeats!

The groundhog saw his shadow on Monday. And I hear in Glasgow the weather's very spring-like.

I love Winter and all of Goats Head Soup.  I've decided that when anyone asks me, I'm going to call it my favorite album, despite the beating it's taken in Morrissey's Autobiography and Marlon James' great novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings (recommended to all Bob Marley fans).

However, as far as what Winter is "about," let us consider Lester Bangs' declaration in his period review of the album: "Van Morrison started his career imitating Mick Jagger, and now Mick is ending his career by returning the favor."  It stings, but it explains a lot.

SheRat wrote on Feb 4^th, 2015 at 10:53am:


Wow. best post I've read in ages. Time for a late night Goats Head Soup spin.