Rainy Day Music...

[jough]

I don't know who Ricky Lee Jones is or what he or she does.

Is this a good thing?

My tastes are what they are.  I like some obscure stuff, but not because it's obscure or "indie."  Basically I like music that doesn't suck.

And of course I do tend to listen to a disproportionate amount of 80s New Wave too.

We're gonna prove we're adults now. We're not a punk rock band, we're a NEW WAVE band.

[AugustWest]

My goodness, you don't know Ricky Lee Jones?  She's a wonderful singer.  Go out and get her first album right now.  Go on.  Now.

Ever hear the song "Chuck E's in Love"?  That's her.  Or "Danny's All-Star Joint"?  

"Last Chance Texaco" is one of the coolest songs evar!

[andalucia]

Sonic Youth, Murray Street

Maybe I'm just hallucinating that that's a good rainy-day album because it contains a song with rain in the title.  Hm....well... it's part of their "new york trilogy", so it has a "city" feel to it, to momentarily sound like extra-dorky, and it always makes me think of rain.

And of tripping out.  That's another story (another thread?) altogether though.

[jough]

I have never heard of any of those Ricky Lee Jones songs.  Is she any relation to Tommy Lee Jones, David Lee Roth, Jamie Leigh Curtis, F. Lee Bailey, or John Lee Hooker?

And I don't know if any Sonic Youth album makes for a good rainy day album, but the compilation "World of Morrissey" does - just that first track alone just cries for rain.

I actually made an MD mix for "rainy day" songs a while back.  I can't remember what was on it for sure except for Chris Isaak's "Blue Spanish Sky," Counting Crows "Rain King," Peter Gabriel's "Red Rain," and of course the Doors "Riders on the Storm".

I also made a sunny day songs album - Katrina and the Waves "Walking on Sunshine," Wham's "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," Beatles "Good Day Sunshine" and "Good Morning," Beach Boys "I Get Around" and "Good Vibrations," Pixies "Alex Eiffel" (don't ask why I associate that song with gorgeous sunny days), and Talking Heads "Nothing but Flowers."

[FeeReep]

It is raining here tonight and I am listening to Beck's Mutations and it is working out rather nicely.

[side_show]

And of course I do tend to listen to a disproportionate amount of 80s New Wave too.

We're gonna prove we're adults now. We're not a punk rock band, we're a NEW WAVE band.

I'll turn 25 on Sat. so I ain't all that old yet, but here we go with sounding old: those punk rock bands the young'uns are listening to these days are certainly not punk - not punk like the Sex Pistols anyway - just pop with some punk looking wrapping paper.

And as for 80's New Wave, come on!! Who doesn't love" 88 lines about 44" women or "the Kid's in America." One of my favorite memories is my boss blasting new wave music at the bookstore while we all danced around and annoyed the comicbook geeks.

Also, Sonic Youth is totally great for the rain - for some reason feedback and rain go together.

And I'd say Radiohead in general is perfect for the rain,  but I don't own any of their stuff either

[Limmo]

God, I love this thread.

Dittos all around for "saturn return," "alex eiffel" and cure for pain.  

Rickie Lee Jones?  I listened quite a bit to The Magazine when it came out, though it might have a bit of Eighties damage to it in retrospect.  If she's related to Tommy Lee Jones, the cover of that album sure doesn't show it.
Maybe she had a better dermatologist.

I was listening to "88 lines about 44 women" yesterday, oddly enough.  I have it on a mix CD, sandwiched between M's "pop muzik" and Gary Numan's "cars."  Tanya Turkish liked to fuck while wearing leather biker boots!

[slink]

 those punk rock bands the young'uns are listening to these days are certainly not punk - not punk like the Sex Pistols anyway - just pop with some punk looking wrapping paper.

And not even punk like the great coastal punk of the 70's and 80's. Mainly the 80's in terms of Hüsker Du or Fugazi et al.
Those in my opinion were better than most of the UK punk, although I do like the Buzzcockz, The Damned (in places, Captain Sensible was a twat)... Oh, and not forgetting of course the Dead Kennedys (not UK I know, but I forgot them in the US listette.

Another good rainy day one is Chopin - one in particular though I cn't remember it's name... But it's essentially him doing a rain storm. I'll find out the title and amend this!

[sjlimmer]

Since I live in Seattle, most of the music I listen to should (in theory) be rainy day music.  But when I'm going for that particular rainy day mood, I tend to gravitate towards:

1) the 4AD part of my collection (Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil, Hope Blister...)

2) Mazzy Star "So Tonight That I Might See" or "She Hangs Brightly", My Bloody Valentine "Loveless", Lush "Split"...

3) some of the more ambient-leaning electronic music I own, like The KLF "Chill Out", The Orb "Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld", Loop Guru "Amrita", Moby "Ambient", Voodoo Child "End of Everything", Perfume Tree "Feeler"...

Or, pretty much anything else.

We're gonna prove we're adults now. We're not a punk rock band, we're a NEW WAVE band.

I'm not sure that I'd count Dead Kennedys as rainy day music, per se.  Actually, "Pull My Strings" isn't exactly a favorite of mine (I have a weak spot for the kind of New Wave power-pop they were making fun of, even if "My Sharona" was, is, and always will be horribly overplayed)

I spent way too much time on this post, and have re-affirmed to myself that I need to get a life.

[side_show]

I was listening to "88 lines about 44 women" yesterday, oddly enough.  I have it on a mix CD, sandwiched between M's "pop muzik" and Gary Numan's "cars."  Tanya Turkish liked to fuck while wearing leather biker boots!

This is either a strange conicidence or your refering to the Time Life New Wave series which is where I would hear these three tunes together.

[jough]

I have an equal affection for both the Dead Kennedys and Culture Club.

Although I suppose that's not really true, since I own all of the DK albums but the only CC songs that I have are on a few compilations.

But still, I love the one-hit wonders of the late 70s and early-to-mid 80s.

I think they remind me of my squandered youth.

[Limmo]

Strange coincidence?  Maybe.  

Not, however, a Time-Life CD.  I was running errands around Santa Monica listening to a CD I burned of a MusicMatch playlist that I threw together one morning.  It was so weird that I felt like it deserved a CD.

Playlist: "southern can with the lid off"
Blind Willie McTell: Southern Can Is Mine
Elmore James: Done Somebody Wrong
White Stripes ( w/Redd Kross guy): Hotel Yorba
Lucas: Lucas with the Lid Off
Busta Rhymes: Make It Clap
Fluke: Atom Bomb
De La Soul: Me Myself and I
Mandrill: Fencewalk
Belfegore: All That I Wanted
Stewart Copeland & Stan Ridgway: Don't Box Me In
Cheap Trick: He's A Whore
Joan Jett & Paul Westerberg: Backlash
INXS: Beautiful Girl
Danny Wilson: Mary's Prayer
M: Pop Muzik
Nails: 88 Lines About 44 Women
Gary Numan: Cars
Dirty Vegas: Days Gone By
Nikka Costa: Like a Feather

Jesus Christ, now I'm posting playlists on the net.

Alright, coffee break's over, back on my head.

[andalucia]

I have an equal affection for both the Dead Kennedys and Culture Club.

Mad props for the discerning taste here.... excuse me while I make a playlist that encompasses both Time (Clock of the Heart) and Kill the Poor.  Plus Wasted Life by the Stiff Little Fingers thanks to your "squandered youth" line.


Ahhhhh.

[pmcd9]

I can't recommend Mule Variations enough.  It's Epic.

~Paul