Rainy Day Mix-Tapin'

Its been raining pretty hugely the last couple of weeks in Sydney so I thought it only right that a similarly wet and soppy cassette be made to accompany it. Plenty of Scottish, English and New Zealand pop tunes on there which makes sense since everyone living in those lands pretty much invented rain. Its also quite possibly the whitest tape anyone has ever made.

Side 1:

The Jesus & Mary Chain - Nine Million Rainy Days
The Go-Betweens - Right Here
Look Blue Go Purple - Winged Rumour
Teenage Fanclub - Everything Flows
The Kinks - Victoria
The Puddle - A440
Suicide - Cheree
The Smiths - William, It Was Really Nothing
The Pastels - Surprise Me
Beat Happening - Foggy Eyes
Nico - Elegy To Lenny Bruce
The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Believe In The Sun

Side 2:

The Carpenters - Rainy Days & Mondays
The Concretes - Say Something New
Cat Power - Satisfaction
Bat For Lashes - Trophy
Codiene - Pickup Song
Slowdive - Catch The Breeze
Boo Radleys - How I Feel
Belle & Sebastian - If She Wants Me
Vaselines - The Day I Was A Horse
Faust - Its A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl
Public Image Ltd. - Careering
The Bats - Other Side Of You


Heaps of the songs (Go-Betweens and JAMC in particular) remind me of the time in a previous house when it rained and rained and rained all night and the drain in our concrete backyard got clogged so that the whole thing got flooded. There was nearly a foot of water in some spots and it kept raining and raining and raining. This was the day the house had decided to have a picnic in some park or wherever. But obviously we couldn't go anywhere outside so we stayed in and drank gin and ate tasty food on the floor of our living room.