Artist	Song
the halo benders	snowfall
true love always	the winter months
the softies	tracks and tunnels
braid	a dozen roses
the wedding present	montreal
the hang ups	greyhound bus
vermont	bee leave me
the lemonheads	my drug buddy
del amitri	here and now
liz phair	shatter
pedro the lion	bad diary days
juliana hatfield	make it home
the cure	pictures of you
ken stringfellow	here's to the future
teenage fanclub	i don't want control of you
the chamber strings	every day is christmas
marshall crenshaw	everyone's in love with you
wilco	i must be high

Comment:

i wish i had the actual liner notes in front of me so i could quote verbatim, but the story goes a little something like this: i was having a particularly melancholy and lovesick fall/winter 1999, and in the midst of it all i thought it would be a great idea to put all of my favorite melancholy/wintery songs on one tape/cd for the listening pleasure of me and my friends. i started to work on it a little, but then i realized that i didn't want to contribute to anyone's seasonal affective disorder, so i waited for the following spring before i made it and distributed it to my friends. my mixes don't ever have a "title track" but this one does, simply because the song of the same name has the first line "the winter months/are always the hardest". when i heard that, i had a very schroeder-flipping-backwards-over-the-piano "THAT'S IT!!!" kind of moment. it's the best title i could think of, besides something painfully obvious like "kristen's melancholy companion to the colder weather."

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