Saturday, April 21, 2012

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

12 Song Mix - Rainy Days

The next 12 Song Mix I'd like to present to you is inspired by the inauspicious storms that rolled across the country today.  I hope that everyone has settled in safely despite the dicey nature of today's acts of Mother Nature.

Forgive me for the overly sensitive commentary, but some songs just sound better against a background of raindrops on a window pane.  Many albums have suddenly clicked between the slides and scrapes of wiper blades.  The atmosphere described here is not limited strictly to depressing ballads or mournful piano pieces.  The mood of a raging monsoon or a violent wind ripping across the plain is just as frequently captured in popular music.  Really, the songs that hit home on rainy days could fill a thousand of these lists.

 

Therefore, we'll start with a few of the more obvious choices.  It wouldn't be the Bark without including some relatively obscure tracks as well.  All subtlety aside, spin some of these the next time a timelier and more innocuous storm comes through (hopefully on a day off from work); it can be therapeutic.

1. Neil Young - See The Sky About To Rain



2. Sun Kil Moon - Grey Ice Water (Modest Mouse cover)



3. Grateful Dead - Box Of Rain



4. Fleetwood Mac - Storms



5. Nada Surf - Are You Lightning



6. The Beatles - Rain



7. Whiskeytown - Sit And Listen To The Rain



8. Bob Dylan - Shelter From The Storm



9. Jonsi - Tornado



10. Simon & Garfunkel - Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall



11. Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat



12. Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song