Slumberland

We’ve had 26 consecutive days of rain in Seattle. No, this is not normal, despite our reputation. It’s awful.

Last year I made a Rainy Day mix cd, and I don’t think I ever posted it here. So in lieu of the Random Ten this week, here it is. For this mix I was thinking of music that is sort of melancholy. Notice that a bunch of the songs are in waltz time? Notice that the R.E.M. song is sort of a Beach Boys homage? (I should have placed it right after “God Only Knows” in the song order.)

• “Sherman” — Paul Melançon (find a copy to download here)
• “Union Station” — Gavin Guss (I’d point you to his site, but it appears to be down).
• “Nothing Is Good Enough” — Aimee Mann
• “Miss Misery” — Elliott Smith
• “The Ballad of El Goodo” — Big Star
• “Narcolepsy” — Ben Folds Five
• “God Only Knows” — Beach Boys
• “Boy With a Problem” — Elvis Costello (piano version from the extended CD)
• “Hide and Seek” — Howard Jones
• “At My Most Beautiful” — R.E.M.
• “A New England” — Billy Bragg
• “See How We Are” — X
• “Nothing Wrong With You” — The Finn Brothers
• “Ordinary World” — Duran Duran
• “The Man I Used to Be” — Jellyfish
• “Look What You’ve Done” — Jet
• “Battered Old Bird” — Elvis Costello
• “Steppin’ Out” — Joe Jackson Band (the version from Afterlife)
• “p.s. you rock my world” — eels: the song in which the sun comes out again.