"When It's Raining, And It's Pouring"

This morning I woke up to one of my favorite sounds: rain. I *love* rainy grey mornings, especially when its a weekend morning so you can lay in bed for a while if you want to (read: me right now). The world almost seems to say, "go ahead, take it easy while we're making ourselves all nice and shiny, listen to our rumbles." And then if it so happens, you throw on some music that just make the moment the moments. You know what I mean? Like sometimes in life things come together and they magically make a moment that is simple and completely unto itself and you feel...entirely at ease with the the world.

Or maybe that's just me. Either way, here's some of my favorite songs for the rain, and feel free to shout out yours in the comments section!

Wake Up Wake Up [mp3] - Lullatone Note: this is also the song I use for my alarm in the morning. Lullatone also has a really fun raindrop melody maker that you should check out.
Rain [mp3] - Priscilla Ahn
Limbs [mp3] - Emma Pollock (iTunes)
Let In Rain [mp3] - Living Things (iTunes)
Sideways [mp3] - Let's Go Sailing (iTunes)
Rainy Night House [mp3] - Joni Mitchell (iTunes)
The Rain [mp3] - Larissa and the Wild Grey
The Beauty Of The Rain [mp3] - Dar Williams (iTunes)

Fire and Rain (James Taylor Cover) [mp3] - Dido

Let's Go Sailing

So I was watching SNL last night (side note: does anyone else think that Jason Sudeikis and Ed Helms are actually the same person, or perhaps even the world's first successful human clones?) and they did this rather innane Gossip Girl skit that caused me more pain than I could have ever anticipated. No, it wasn't the boring approach of the skit, no, it wasn't the lame repetitive small-penis joke, and no, it wasn't the fact that they clearly took the easy-out by having the actual actress from Gossip Girl show up to finally complete the small-penis joke by claiming she had one too. It was none of that, surprisingly. It was much, much worse.

This skit song-boggled me. Some bigwig at NBC decided to play a song in the background that I *knew* I knew - I could even remember listening to it religiously last fall on my walks about town- but I couldn't identify it due to the fact that the said bigwig in question totally muted down the vocals so it was just the piano track. Mind you, I'm normally a pro when it comes to those type of games, but last night I may or may not have been drinking wine and it may or may have impaired my natural genius ability, so I became song-boggled! It was TORTURE. I just sat there the entire 2 1/2 minutes trying to sing along in hopes of grasping some sort of word or phrase that would make everything click and put my mind at ease. No one around me could help me name the song, they weren't familiar at all, so I just blabbled out weak musical melodies like a small infant who hasn't quite obtained control of their mouth to produce meaningful sounds until I finally remembered the phrase "All I want from you is love."

BOOM. It was a song by Let's Go Sailing. A quick check of my iTunes confirmed this. I decided then and there to not let this terrible experience get the best of me but instead use it as a learning tool for all. Everyone should know this band. Everyone should know this song. Give them a listen. If I can save someone else from being song-boggled, it'll all be worth it.

All I Want From You Is Love [mp3]

Sideways [mp3]

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