If you're anything like me looking outside from my desk to see a gloomy rainy day is a real downer, so I like to play some upbeat music to level out. What's your favourite pick me up rainy day music?
i used to love listening to the soundtrack from blues brothers....briefcase full of blues, there are some seriously cool songs on there another good one is talking heads, stop making sense
try these: _setting sons_ - The Jam _crooked rain, crooked rain_ - Pavement _in color_ - Cheap Trick _hit to death in the future head_ - Flaming Lips _guerrilla_ - Super Furry Animals _The Stooges_ - The Stooges
i'm entirely the opposite. love me some quiet, introspective music on a gloomy day. makes me feel like staying inside all day and eating soup. mmmmmmm.... soup. death cab for cutie, transatlanticism josh rouse, under cold blue stars springsteen, nebraska wilco, a ghost is born neil halstead, seasons and of course, the smiths & morrissey...
Jefferson Airplane or the Greatful Dead would be more appropriate for SS SS. Reggae is always good on a crappy day. Just listen to 3 Little Birds a 1000 times you'll be set.
only bad thing about days like today is it make you think about things you don't want to think about. like past loves
Ah I just thought of another song. There is some danger in it depending on your mood but.... Lift Your Head Up High and Blow Your Brains Out.
if mellow is yer gig...check out a band called morhpine. indie band from boston that was just about to break it big when their lead singer had a big chest grabber on stage. they have a sound that is entirely their own.
I agree totally and I was thinking of these 4 artist while the thread was loading! I would also add "Plans" by Death Cab and "Dressed up Like Nebraska" by Rouse as well as Dylan, Iron+Wine and Whiskeytown/Ryan Adams.
on the flight home last night, i picked up the latest copy of Blender, which had a list of the 500 best songs since you were born (they started @ 1980 so they are clearly not included me in the target demographic). some of the stuff was (as usual) pretty funny, but imo there was way too much reliance on pop/hip-hop stuff...there's been a LOT of ground covered since that time and they ignored huge swaths of it.
I find it really hard to believe a tune snob such as your self would like any of the songs. *I do tend to like most songs you chose for girlie.
any of the 500? dude, they picked "Love Will Tear Us Apart" at like #7 or so. there are plenty of decent to good (even a few great) tunes on the list, but a lot of questionable ones too. i've only gotten to about #200 or so.
Wow, those are all on my standard playlist. Good picks. I met the Iron and Wine dude last year. He was playing in a little bookstore for like 30 of us. Good stuff.