I’ve had this post as a draft for months, but seem to have mostly encountered rain when I was out of town and not blogging. It’s supposed to rain today (well, it was supposed to rain yesterday too) – but I’d really like it to rain today. So this is a Cure-esque prayer for rain as much as anything.
I’m a big fan of the theme playlist. I have dozens of them. When I drove the 22 hours from my old home to my current one I mentally compiled theme playlists during one entire day of driving. I had notions of auditioning at my local college radio station only to get to my new town and find out that the most popular/iconic DJ’s signature is theme playlist shows – there goes my chance at radio greatness. So I just amuse myself with them.
My Rainy-Day Playlist (ultra-literal)
- The Beauty of the Rain – Dar Williams
- Singing in the Rain – Gene Kelly
- Don’t Rain on My Parade – Barbra Streisand
- It’s Alright – Indigo Girls
- Rainin’ in My Heart – Willie Nelson
- Purple Rain – Prince
- Raindrops + Sunshowers – The Smashing Pumpkins
- Have You Ever Seen the Rain – Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Prayers for Rain – The Cure
- Rain King – Counting Crows
- The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) – Missy Elliott
- No Rain – Blind Melon
- As the Rain – Jeb Loy Nichols
- Raining in Baltimore – Counting Crows
- Monday’s Rain – The Clientele
- Lover, You Should Have Come Over – Jeff Buckley
- Rain Check – Ani Difranco
- Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
- I Wish it Would Rain – The Temptations
- Here Comes the Rain Again – Eurythmics
- Rainbow Connection – Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
- Over the Rainbow – Willie Nelson
- Raining in Darling – Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
- Rain City – Turin Brakes
- When it Rains – Eli Young Band
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain – Willie Nelson
- Raining in Philly – J.B. Beverly and the Wayward Drifters
- Over the Rainbow – Connie Haines
- I Can See Clearly Now – Johnny Nash
- Didn’t it Rain – Songs: Ohia
- Who’ll Stop the Rain – Creedence Clearwater Revival
- William, It Was Really Nothing – The Smiths
- Plainsong – The Cure
- Rainy Days and Mondays – The Carpenters
- Bus Stop – The Hollies
- Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head – B.J. Thomas
- Mercy of the Fallen – Dar Williams
I know there are other rain songs, but these are the ones I own and ergo the ones on my playlist. It’s a long list – Seattle long even though I live in the sunny south and as I look out my window the gray clouds are dissipating to reveal a bright blue sky. I’m normally a sun girl, but not today. To you it might sound strange; I wish it would rain. (Oh how I wish that it would rain.) If you haven’t heard that Temptations song, you really should. It’s one of my favorites and on the cusp of perfect song-dom.
My assault on the world begins now.
<3 Ice (wo)Man, Power LL
