I think it is important to distinguish between cool and cold, in these matters. Cool is one thing, but for sheer musical cold, I'm thinking that
Eskimo by the Residents hits those sub-arctic temps everyone else is trying to achieve, but with little success.
It began with the Mysterious N. Senada, who developed his Theory of Obscurity based upon a certain idea of phonetic musical organization, that within the Polar Regions native music contained a musical 'missing link'. Leaving civilization behind in order to test his ideas, the musicologist was last seen driving a team of dogs northward across packed snow, adjacent to the shores of Foulk Fjord, near an abandoned weather station at Reindeer Point. Some say he eventually took a wife and now lives life as an Inuit shaman among the wandering tribes. Others are not so sure, but simply think he only wanted to lay low, and kick out the jams.
However it was, before he left civilization proper he managed to send a box of tapes he had recorded during one of a tribal festival, which were later rearranged into what we now know as his Arctic Symphony, concluding with these inspired words:
At last, the first rays of sunlight began to appear over the horizon, signaling the end of six months of winter darkness.
Gratefully, the Dead have released their hold once more.
And let's face it, when the Polar Bear throws back a Coke, what could be cooler than that?