Here's three of my favorite rainy day tracks.
Life In Rain (mp3) by Remy Zero.
This is the best track from Villa Elaine. I think I first heard the album in a record shop called the Long Ear in Coeur d' Alene, ID. There'd be 20 CD's on a wall display connected to a stereo with headphones. This was especially exciting because, at the time, there was no such thing as downloading or streaming music. This is how I was introduced to Villa Elaine. The reverb-y guitar in the beginning of this song draws you in, but it's the sweet-sounding dual guitar picking in the chorus that seal the deal. Please listen, it's outstanding.
It's Good Indian Tobacco, My Friend (mp3) by Cornershop.
I spent a year living with my parents after graduating high school, going to college, and working to pay for it all. What my parents didn't know (or so I thought), was that I'd started smoking. Once I turned 18 and became of legal age to buy cigarettes, I figured I should. You know, to be cool. What shit. Anyway, I would leave the house, say I had to run some errands or something, and drive around town smoking and listening to this song. It's a beautiful track, sort of tribal and droning, with great percussion. It was early spring so it was raining a lot, and this song always fit the mood.
Trouble (mp3) by Coldplay.
If you listened to radio in the early 00's, you heard this song a lot. I bought Parachutes based on "Trouble" alone. We love to rip on Coldplay, but this song is great.
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Oh rain is inspiring! I'll go with Garbage-Only Happy When It Rains :)
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Aww c'mon, someone at least tell me they listened to "Life In Rain"...
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"I See the Rain Again" by Marmalade is an achingly beautiful, melancholy, double-bass track harmony slothfest. Hendrix said it was the best song cut in England in, I think, 1966 (a pretty decent year), then he stole the hook for "Hey Joe."
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For me, it's "Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" by Stars and "Pounding" by Doves (but only when it's really pouring).
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I really liked the Remy Zero album. I bought it back when they were hyped b/c one of the band members was dating/married to Alysa Milano. 10 minutes is 10 minutes. Good tune.
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For me, it's "The Rain" by Oran "Juice" Jones, but only because I like to remind people that his name wasn't Orange Juice Jones. Plus there's that bit about bein' like a squirrel to a nut, and we all now how that goes when the woman done wronged you....