Mrs Peel, we're needed... To the Shivmobile, Boy Wonder... Blow your whistle and call the constabulary, Tinker... etc.
This from today's Time Out:
"The Museum Of London's forthcoming "Weather Permitting" exhibition is missing one thing: a soundtrack. So they want TO readers to come up with their Top Ten weather-themed songs to be played on a loop in the foyer. The winner will not only contribute to the display [? - Ed.] ...; they will also receive their own collection of 300,000-year old molluscs found in Stoke Newington... Send suggestions to bigsmoke@timeout.com by February 8."
Beyond a shadow of doubt 3 of these songs will be "Sunny Afternoon", "I Can't Stand The Rain" and "Weather With You" - It's The Law. But the remainder could be in our grimy hands, fellow RRers. Make Dorian proud. You know you want to.
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"This message will self destruct in 5 seconds". I'll have a go. But only for the molluscs...
Well, like so many of these topics, there's a huge choice. I'd start with:
Cold rain & snow - Grateful Dead
It's raining again - Supertramp
Come wind, come rain - Vashti Bunyan
Rainin' in my heart - The Pretty Things (rather than Buddy Holly)
I see the rain - Marmelade
Listen to the rain - Frances Black
A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall - Dylan
Buckets of rain - Dylan
Sunshine day - Osibisa
Rainy day sunshine - Gene Vincent
Walking on sunshine - Katrina & the waves
Bless the weather - John Martyn
Little fluffy clouds - The Orb
Cloudburst flight - Tangerine Dream
Obscured by clouds - Pink Floyd
Fat grey cloud - Bloomfield/Stills/Kooper
and, as I've mentioned it only yesterday - It's raining men - Weather Girls
As you can see from these picks, my musical taste has suffered a certain amount of arrested development. That's why RR & RROS is so great - I feel like a thief who got into Fort Knox.
I presume the second prize is TWO collections of moluscs? I hear they're pretty good in 10,000 year old garlic butter, McFP
I'd just have Weather Report's "Heavy Weather" on repeat..
Makes sense. But the list freak in me says, doh - how could I leave out Rainy night in Georgia(Brook Benton). On the other hand, I would spare mollusc fanciers Steal softly through snow by Beefheart!
There's a photo in the magazine of a handful of molluscs (I don't have a scanner at home - sorry). They're rather small. I suppose you could glue + use them as an art project surround for a (300,000-year old) bathroom mirror. Actually, I may have this wrong - it could be 300,000 year-old molluscs. (Now they know how many squid it takes to fill the Burgess Shale).
mcfmcp, if you win, share 'em around.
Singin' in the Rain - Gene Kelly
Rainy Day, Dream Away - Hendrix
Crying in the Rain - Everly Brothers
Dry the Rain - Beta Band
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More - Walker Brothers
Always a sucker for a list.
Songs that stand a chance:
'Good-day Sunshine' - The Beatles.
'I Can't Stand the Rain' - Ann Peebles.
'Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" - Burt Bacharach
'Let the Sun Shine' - from Hair.
Songs that don't stand a chance:
I think it's gonna rain today' - Dusty via Dorian's RR Southern Social CD.
'One misty, moisty morning' - Steeleye Span.
'Cold, Haily Rainy Night' - from the Imagined Village album which is currently giving great pleasure.
'Misty' - anyone. Loved Play Misty for Me. Scared the bejesus out of me when I first saw it.
'Cruel Storm' - Espers.
'Arousing Thunder' - Grant Lee Buffalo.
'Brother Wind' - Jan Garbarek
'Fog on the Tyne' - Lindisfarne.
'Channels and Winds' - Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass.
'Hear the Wind Howl' - Leo Kottke.
'Hailstones' - The Tiger Lillies, from the Plague Songs album.
'Rainbow Chaser' - Nirvana.
'Paper Sun' - Traffic.
'Sunshine help Me' - Spooky Tooth.
'Red Rain' - Peter Gabriel, the live version.
Songs unwanted:
'Hot, Hot, Hot' - The Oracle Band (?)
'Hail to the Chief'
Finally, anything by The Tornadoes (to quote their wesite "The Tornadoes play all types of music from Surf to Oldies" - quite a range, eh?)or Norman 'Hurricane' Smith - remember him?
I'll get me raincoat.
'I See The Rain' by The Marmalade is a great record; good call, glasshalfempty.
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