Favourite Rainy-Day Music

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My favourite rainy-day music is "No Never Alone" by Justin Rutledge. However, in my mind, I have named the album "Delightfully Melancholy".

What is your favourite rainy-day music?

Ah, there are so many. . . and it depends a great deal upon the kind of rainy day.
And for the record, I love rainy days. . .

Favorites include but are not limited to-

The song "Raining in Baltimore"

Selected hip-hop, rap, and thus influenced rock, if I'm angry and/or out roaming the streets, or perhaps climbing something (Rage against the machine, KRS one, Akon, Linkin Park, etc.)

The Kyrie from Mozart's Requiem. . .

The rest of Mozart's Requiem. . .

Canticum Canticorum, for indoors with the right company. .

Assorted Death Cab, Flogging Molly, Smashing Pumpkins, and a dash of Everclear, and the odd Taiwanese pop song for a rainy day on a road trip. . .

That one of Michel Buble's that sounds like it ought to be called "I want to go home," for long rainy days stuck at school when sick or in pain. . .

The oboe solo from Swan Lake for midnight walks under a rainy full moon. . . think shining pavement and trees. . .


Dear my. . . I could go on forever.

You get the idea.

"Spitshine Sonata" by The Bled
"The Lodge" by Agalloch

I'll think of some more later.

Are we talking about songs to cheer yourself up or songs to wallow in the greyness with?

Nargaroth - Das Schwarze Gemälde (Herbstleyd 1999 Re-release)
Simply perfect. You will hear what I mean.

The specification was "rainy day music," which (apparently) looks to me like an open invitation to all subcategories.

Yours?

Usually 80s music, including A-ha.
I tend to listen to the same music, come rain or shine.

anything of the Fleetwood Mac album "Rumours"

Rainy-day music encompases both.

It depends how I'm feeling and what I've been listening to recently (I will play a selection of CDs repeatedly for a week or so but then can't listen to them again for a month or so after, so I tend to 'cycle' through my favourite CDs).

Random selection:

Of Arrowe Hill - Gadfly Adolesence
Swervedriver - A Change is Gonna Come
Beck - This Girl that I Know
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Wail / I Wanna Make It Alright / Not Yet
The Pacific - Come On Come Down / Color Sound / Mexico to Tokyo
Alta May - Stand In Line
The Nields - Gotta Get Over Greta
Silver Sun - That's Just What She Wants
Compulsion - Yancy Dangerfield's Delusions / Find Time / Yabba Yabba Yes Yes Yes
Catherine Wheel - Receive / Heal
Soundgarden - 4th of July / Love Like Suicide
Stone Temple Pilots - Where the River Goes
Straw - Kill Your Boyfriend
The Beta Band - Simple
Fu Manchu - Trapeze Freak
Spirit Caravan - No Hope Goat Farm
Toadies - Plane Crash / Little Sin
Secret Machines - Lightening Blue Eyes
Black Lab - Sleeps With Angels
Ride - Making Judy Smile
Presidents of the USA - Shreds of Boa


At the moment the song I can't get out of my head is "Groovy Train" by The Farm.

Ordinary World - Duran Duran

Lazy Old Sun by The Kinks

anything by Garbage (who coincidentally have a song "I'm only happy when it rains")

Eve 6 always makes me feel nostalgic (in a good way) and ubpeat.

The Unforgiven - Metallica

I considered that one of my theme songs when I eleven.

There's a great remix for Dance Dance Revolution! It's one of my favorites to dance to!

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To wallow:

Boa - Duvet

Elliott Smith - Son of Sam

To cheer me up:

Modest Mouse - Dashboard

Modest Mouse - Float On

A couple of each. I've got plenty more than that.