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(I like the idea of Pick Only Ten threads that are mood- or setting-centric rather than artist-centric.)

It's a rainy day outside. Pick ten rainy day songs.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Right now I'm gonna just stop at 3, and come back later to drop the other 7:

1. Radiohead "Subterranean Homesick Alien"
2. Morphine "Come Along"
3. Blur "Out of Time"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmm

1. grateful dead - jack straw
2. mississippi john hurt - stack o'lee blues
3. bonnie prince billy - the way
4. john fahey - tell her to come back home
5. low - lion/lamb
6. califone - electric fence
7. neil young - ambulance blues
8. songs: ohia - didn't it rain
9. husker du - chartered trips
10. the byrds - you don't miss your water

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Taking the literalist approach (not in order):

1. Faust - "It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl"
2. Eurythmics - "Here Comes the Rain Again"
3. Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?"
4. Bob Dylan - "Rainy Day Women #12 and 35"
5. Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Who'll Stop the Rain?"
6. Burt Bacharach - "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head"
7. Johnny Cash - "Five Feet High and Rising"
8. Led Zeppelin - "Rain Song"
9. Dog Faced Hermans - "The Rain It Raineth"
10. Frederic Chopin - "Raindrops" Prelude

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

... and blue nile's tinseltown in the rain

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

also EVERY SINGLE SONG by the clientele.

:-)

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

The Rain,The Park & Other Things-Cowsills
Rain-Jose Feliciano
I Can't Stand the Rain-Eruption
Rain-The Beatles
Rainmaker-Wellington Womble
Sunshine after the Rain-Elkie Brooks
Singin' in the Rain-Sheila B. Devotion
I See the Rain-Marmalade
Sunshine on a Rainy Day-Zoe
Raining in my Heart-Buddy Holly

― Paul R (paul R), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Beth Orton. Especially "Galaxy of Emptiness."

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 18:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick Drake - any song will do.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

raekwon - rainy dayz

― brains (cerybut), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Magnetic Fields, "All The Umbrellas in London"
(repeat X 10)

― Sean Thomas (sgthomas), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Violent Femmes - "I Hear the Rain"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Slayer - Reign in Blood (10 songs)

― willem (willem), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

John Cale - Fragments of a Rainy Season

and not just because of the title.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

jandek-they told me i was a fool
cure-prayers for rain/cure
sinead oconnor-just like you said it would be
catpower-ice water
debussy-prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
covenant-replicant
chameleons-silence sea & sky

― kephm, Wednesday, 11 June 2003 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Carpenters, "Rainy Days and Mondays"
Deep Purple, "One More Rainy Day"
Chicago, "One More Rainy Day in New York City"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 11 June 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

a rainy day

make the bad things go away

― ron (ron), Thursday, 12 June 2003 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Cat Power - Still In Love With You
2. Tom Waits - Gun Street Girl
3. Modern Lovers - Hospital
4. Julie Doiron - Sorry
5. Martin Tielli - I'll Never Tear You Apart
6. Brian Jonestown Mascara - Hyperventilation
7. Picastro - Dakar Relay
8. King Black Acid - Royal Subjects
9. Do Make Say Think - Highway 420
10. Bob Mould - Black Sheets of Rain

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 12 June 2003 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The entirety of Disintegration by the Cure and Reading, Writing, Arrithmetic by the Sundays

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Happy When It Rains - The Jesus and Mary Chain.

― kate (kate), Thursday, 12 June 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

It's not only rainin, it's thunderin & lightnin here today. What's workin?

1. For My Friend :: Bill Withers
2. Eastern Market :: Yusuf Lateef
3. Waves :: Jeremy Steig
4. Stagger Lee :: Terry Melcher
5. Cross Country :: Archie Whitewater
6. Christ, How Easy Could It Be :: Curt Newbury
7. Mouse :: Lambert & Nuttycombe
8. As Long As I've Got You :: The Charmels
9. Ole Man Trouble :: Otis Redding
10. I Forgot To Be Your Lover :: William Bell

― Billy Pilgrim, Friday, 11 January 2008 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

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