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Milton Playlist (Open Thread)

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My sister (located just north of Tampa in a sturdy house in a non-evacuation zone) and I (further north on the Nature Coast) are collaborating on a Hurricane Milton playlist. Here’s what we have so far:

Songs on a playlist

Suggestions welcome!

For us, the worst effect so far is hearing Ron DeSantis’s droning, adenoidal voice during his frequent appearances on the local news.

Gods, I despise that ambulatory pile of armadillo dung! I hate him so much I am compelled to flip him off every time I pass a TV with his mug on it.

One of the many things I hate about DeSantis is how he snaps out weather and response updates in a pained, exasperated tone, as if resentful of the obligation.

Just now, answering a reporter question, DeSantis declined to push back on the widespread Trump-operative lies about FEMA activities in North Carolina, saying he “wasn’t there” but assuring Floridians wouldn’t be victims of graft under his watch. As fucking if!

DeSantis is a small man in search of a balcony and one of the most prolific Republican crooks to ever fleece the citizenry in a state so corrupt it makes Louisiana blush. Fuck that guy!

Anyhoo, I expect we’ll endure worse than Puddin’ Boots as conditions deteriorate later today but am confident we’ll be okay. My thoughts are with those nearer to the projected center.

I am doing laundry and baking cookies because having clean clothes is good and why the hell not? I am making these sticky toffee pudding cookies because my sister-in-law loves that dessert above all others. She’s a hard-working healthcare provider who deserves something sweet.

Y’all stay safe, and please update us here when you can. Open thread!

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250Comments

  1. 1.

    BR

    It’s so strange to me that Morning Joe can be a voice of sanity these days — I mean I know they’ve been never Trumpers for a long time, but maybe because he’s from Florida he is pissed about Trump and Vance and their lies about the hurricanes:

    youtube.com/watch?v=HndkY_SZ5YE

  5. 5.

    arrieve

    I’ve already heard this today: Neil Young, Like a Hurricane. (Not about an actual hurricane but does at least have the word.)

    I also sadly find the theme song to the old Milton the Monster cartoon stuck in my brain.

    ETA: @Omnes Omnibus got there first

  7. 7.

    Mel

    “Stormy Weather” -Lena Horne

    ”Ridin’ the Storm Out”- REO Speedwagon

    ”Song of the Wind” – Santana

  8. 8.

    Victor Matheson

    @Yarrow: Seriously, how could anyone forget The Scorpions when creating a hurricane list!

    How about The Alarm’s “Rescue Me”?

  9. 9.

    Salty Sam

    DeSantis is a small man in search of a balcony and one of the most prolific Republican crooks to ever fleece the citizenry in a state so corrupt it makes Louisiana blush. Fuck that guy!

    Greg Abbott sez “Hold mah beer!”

    ETA-  what do you have against armadillo dung?

  13. 13.

    BellaPea

    It’s so funny you should say that about DeSantis, Betty. I had the TV on MSNBC but was not really watching it, just reading the newspaper, when this awful droning voice came on and just kept going on and on, and I thought who the heck is that guy? When I turned to the TV, of course it was DeSatan. I hope someday you guys will be rid of that loser, just as I hope one of these days my fellow Tennesseans will come to their senses and kick these MAGA morons we have as congress critters out of office. It won’t happen soon, unfortunately.

  18. 18.

    OId Man Shadow

    FEMA really should send Exxon/Mobil and BP the bill for rebuilding Florida from the ground up.

  26. 26.

    ETtheLibrarian

    Don’t know if this would be good but Aaron Neville’s Louisiana 1927 (also done by Randy Newman). I also like L’ouragon (The Hurricane) by BeauSoleil.

  28. 28.

    JoyceH

    It occurred to me today that for the first year and a half of the time period when Trump was having these unsupervised and secret phone calls with Putin, he was sitting in a resort full of boxes stuffed with national security secrets he wasn’t supposed to have. Are those isolated facts or two parts of the same story? Did he take the documents in order to read them to Putin, or to photograph them and send the images to Putin?

  30. 30.

    zhena gogolia

    @arrieve: I’m not the only one thinking about Milton the Monster! But he was kind and gentle.

    We’ll be thinking about you, Betty, and everyone else. The cookies look delicious, although my teeth say no, no, no.

  37. 37.

    Kathleen

    Glad you’re safe Betty. My grandsons decided to leave Tampa and drive to Miami where they will stay with their cousin.

    Purple Rain.

    Singin’ In The Rain

    Rainy Night In Georgia

    Kentucky Rain

  41. 41.

    Bart

    No one has mentioned Kate Bush’s Cloudbusting (referencing the insane conspiracy nonsense from the Repugnicans)?

  47. 47.

    tam1MI

    Winds of Change by the Scorpions

    Ride the Wild Wind by Queen

    Bridge over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel

    Thunderstruck by ACDC

  51. 51.

    SFAW

    I am compelled to flip him off every time I pass a TV with his mug on it.

    One of the many reasons I love you. [For me, it’s TCFFG. And McConnell. And Vance. And, frankly, the rest of the Republican Husnock.]

  53. 53.

    JML

    Maybe a little “In the Air Tonight” from Phil Collins?

    “Still Rainin'” – Jonny Lang

    “I Can’t Stand the Rain” – The Commitments (my favorite version)

    Dang, stay safe FL. I wish my friend’s parents who retired down there would evacuate, especially when they have somewhere to go within a day’s drive…

  58. 58.

    Peregrino

    Levon Helm: It’s gonna rain down tears, rain down tears; you’ll need a shelter somewhere, somewhere.

    Robert Johnson: You better c’mon in my kitchen; it’s goin’ to be rainin’ outdoors

  63. 63.

    narya

    Springsteen’s “Downbound Train,” only because it has the line “Now I work down at the car wash, where all it ever does is rain.”

  64. 64.

    Betty Cracker

    Great suggestions, everyone! Thank you!

    @BigG: Good question because it really doesn’t seem to fit. I personally associate it with a bad storm for some reason. 🤷‍♀️

  71. 71.

    Lacuna Synecdoche

    Daddy Just Wants It To Rain – Continental Drifters

    The Continental Drifters were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1991 and dissolved in New Orleans, Louisiana, about a decade later. Though the line-up changed several times, at one point the band comprised a kind of college rock/indie-rock/power pop supergroup, including as it did Peter Holsapple of The dB’s, Mark Walton of The Dream Syndicate, Bangle Vicki Peterson and Susan Cowsill of The Cowsills.

  73. 73.

    Betty Cracker

    @oldgold: One of my favorite movies ever! Edward G. Robinson (a dear friend of Bogart and Bacall in real life) was absolutely brilliant as the antsy tough guy.

  80. 80.

    Raoul Paste

    When we were in London, every restaurant menu offered Sticky Toffee Pudding

    BTW, I loved the description “a small man in search of a balcony“

  82. 82.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    I see several of my favorites from my Rainy Day playlist are already here. So here are a few that I think haven’t been mentioned.

    “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today” (a kind of melancholy Randy Newman song. I love the cover by Audra McDonald)

    “It Never Rains in Southern California” (Albert Hammond)

    “Rainy Day People” (Gordon Lightfoot)

    “You and Me and Rain on the Roof” (The Lovin’ Spoonful)

  86. 86.

    Kristine Pennington

    @kalakal: I sent it to my brother who plays guitar and we are both Zep fans from back when they started – he absolutely thinks it is the bomb

  87. 87.

    Central Planning

    @Eural Joiner: That makes me think of Peter Gabriel’s I Go Swimming

    Ooh, I go swimming, swimming in the water
    Swimming in the river, swimming in the sea
    I go swimming

    I go swimming, swimming in the water
    Swimming in the pool, swimming is cool
    I go swimming

  89. 89.

    JiveTurkin

    I’ve been reading about the Muslim vote in Michigan.  I saw some quotes from a Muslim woman urging Muslims to vote for Jill Stein.  Taking aside the fact that Stein is a rather obvious grifter, this woman’s logic does not make any sense.  She acted like Harris and trump are equally bad when it comes to Gaza and Israel.  That is demonstrably not true.  In addition, only one of the candidates called for a ban on Muslims regarding immigration.  She was almost gleeful about the prospect of Harris losing Michigan because of the Muslim vote.  She may get what she wants.  If trump wins they’ll go back to the Abraham Accords which ignores the Palestinians, and that will be the end of any US action in the Middle East.  Israel will finish taking the best land in the West Bank, will do zippo in Gaza other than an occasional bombing, and have the full support of the US no matter what they do.

    I remember once seeing something on PBS where they interviewed an older black woman who was from Alabama.  She recalled how when she was first able to vote she voted numerous times for people who were overtly bigoted because they were the lesser of two evils.  What bothers me the most about this woman in Michigan is she apparently could care less about the effects on people other than Muslims a trump victory would have.  Trans people will lose all protections, the EEOC will cease to exist, OSHA might go away, etc.  Shortsighted and uncaring, a pretty awful combination.

  90. 90.

    Orchid Moon

    Love your description of DeSantis as a “small man in search of a balcony.”  Being a short woman, I have some experience with that kind of man.  Yuk!  Betty, be safe.

  100. 100.

    cain

    @JiveTurkin: she doesn’t think it effects her. Must have a lot of white friends or something.

    And if it does she will blame the Dems for not winning. They are that moronic.

    ETA #100!!

  101. 101.

    Cowgirl in the Sandi

    That was the first one I thought of too!  Miss you Jimmy

    @Quinerly:

    No Buffett yet?

    “Trying to Reason With Hurricane Season”

  102. 102.

    Eural Joiner

    @Central Planning: Now that is a deep cut! First album I bought “Peter Gabriel Plays Live” with lawn mowing money…got it on cassette based on I thought the cover looked cool :)

  103. 103.

    Jackie

    Eddie Rabbit’s Driving My Life Away and… I Love the Rainy Nights

    B.J. Thomas: Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head

  106. 106.

    Matt McIrvin

    @JiveTurkin: If it’s the same person I saw quoted, she’s a rep for Jill Stein’s campaign, and she’s openly gloating about the possibility of swinging Michigan from Harris to Trump. That’s not acting like they’re equally bad, that’s acting like Trump is better, for… reasons, I guess. Counting coup? Making the point that you can discipline and punish? That’s another trick that never works.

    Jill Stein gotta Jill Stein. She’s been at this forever, and I suspect her main competition is not voting at all, so her influence is overrated. Who knows.

  111. 111.

    Trollhattan

    @Matt McIrvin:

    Finally got our CA ballots yesterday and top of the list is Jill Fuckin’ Stein and that’s how it’s written. Fight me.

    Also on the same ballot: RFK Jr. Guess we’re one of the states who said “Sod off, wanker” when he sued to have his thick self removed.

    Pity.

  112. 112.

    Citizen Dave

    You might want Neil’s pump organ and harmonica version of Like a Hurricane.  youtu.be/Xpp7BryHgro?si=-P-tsX9exkCvjSpJ

    I happened to watch about 3 minutes of DeSantis this morning, start his briefing.  My god, he is just so bad at speaking.  Hemming and hawing, using qualifiers in nearly every sentence.  Unlistenable.  Can’t believe he has been doing that job so long and apparently has not improved to adequate.

  116. 116.

    Salty Sam

    @Quinerly: Oh yeah. ❤️❤️❤️  As she is known around here, “Long Tall Marcia Ball”.   I’ve been a fan since “Frieda and the Firedogs” days…

  121. 121.

    Sister Golden Bear

    A bit of a deep cut but The Rock from The Who’s underappreciated Quadrophenia album.

    The album was conceived as the soundtrack for an imaginary film that ends with the protagonist stranded on a rock off Brighton in the middle of a storm, facing an uncertain fate—which seems apropos.

  124. 124.

    TBone

    Once the dentist is finished with me (we have only just begun 🎶 is on my playlist), I am SO making a double batch of Sticky Toffee Cookies AND I’m going to add crushed Heath Bars directly into the batter with the figs.  Because my teeth will be taking all of this way better than my wallet is!  Thanks for sharing, BC!

    Hurricane Playlist suggestion: SRV (wrong state, correct state of mind).

    youtu.be/OQuY7dHfWrM

    Keep your heads down when necessary!

    youtu.be/F73EcycGCO8

    Safety and peace to all.

    I’m so glad I got to see SRV play these.

  125. 125.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Trollhattan: I don’t even remember who all was on my ballot in MA. They were probably all there because it was a long list including some tickets I never heard of. I only cared about one.

  126. 126.

    Salty Sam

    @Karen S.: Missy Elliott also did a version of this song (“Can’t Stand The Rain”), as did Tina Turner, I believe, but this is the version I really like.

    Also, Lowell George of “Little Feat” did my absolute favorite version.

    ETA, on his solo album “Thanks, I’ll Eat It Here”

  127. 127.

    Trollhattan

    Has Skeletor made any appearances in Florida to guide and reassure residents, and let them know how he’s “On this” WRT climate change?

    Lordy, cracking myself up this early in the day.

  129. 129.

    Quinerly

    @Salty Sam:

    I probably have seen her over 20 times. NOLA. And she regularly came to St. Louis. Played a lot of shows with Dr. John in St. Louis back in the 1990’s. I think she was just in St. Louis a few weeks back. I hit her club around 1999/2000 when I was in Austin for depositions. Looks l like she doesn’t have it anymore. I think it was La Zona Roja….”The Red Zone.” Hazy on my memory. Google was no help.

  133. 133.

    Trollhattan

    Somebody found it necessary to poll a pool of about seventy-three people.

    October 9, 2024 at 12:01 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard

    A new Blueprint survey finds Donald Trump would win just 45% of Republicans who backed Nikki Haley in the Republican presidential primary while 36% said they would back Kamala Harris.

    Glad that’s settled.

  134. 134.

    suzanne

    I am sitting here at JFK airport, with a couple of hours to kill before I can check my bags. Mr. Suzanne and I are excited!!!

    Long flight, want to be tired.

  136. 136.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Trollhattan: I know one of those people–a first-time voter who registered just to vote for Nikki Haley against Trump. Don’t know how or if they’re voting in the general.

  137. 137.

    TBone

    On the night Dad died, we were unceremoniously kicked out of the hospice facility in center city Philly and no one was at the parking garage to let us in to get to our vehicles at 4am.  It started to rain.  I mean RAIN.  The heavens opened up because I was in too much shock to cry.  When we finally got to our cars, the way home was flooded out for me (my other family got home ok).  So I had a scary detour in the middle of the darkest night.  But I persevered, back tracked, and got home eventually.

    youtu.be/TzFnYcIqj6I

  141. 141.

    RachelBakes

    As always Betty, I adore your turn of phrase. Especially the loathing and disdain for your lousy governor. Be safe all!

  143. 143.

    Kay

    Thank you, Betty. I’m boycotting Twitter again so I’ve been trying to follow it on Tik Tok. Not a good place to try to follow weather.

    Tik Tok is bizarre, btw. “Clean tok” is people frantically cleaning their houses. I want to tell them all they’re putting too much water on their floors.

    BUT, I spent several hours with “fragrance tok” which is people reviewing perfumes – it’s not like I’m immune to this bizzareness, so to each her own, I guess!

  144. 144.

    EarthWindFire

    Red Rain – Peter Gabriel

    Rain in the Summertime – The Alarm

    And for something a little camp: It’s Raining Men – The Weathergirls

  147. 147.

    David 🐝KHive🐝 Koch

    There’s a Muslim family that lives in my neighborhood. for the past year they’ve had a beautiful “free Palestine” wreath on their porch. Today they put a giant (and I mean giant) “Harris/Walz” sign on their lawn. 😊​​

  150. 150.

    Kent

    I spent 10 years teaching Aquatic Science in HS and I had my students put together a class playlist of songs related to aquatic science (oceans, rain, water, etc)

    Here are a few

    Set fire to the rain (Adele)

    Catch a Wave (Beach Boys)

    Cry me a River (Diana Krall)

    Early Morning Rain (Eva Cassidy)

    Swim Good (Frank Ocean)

    Landfall (Jimmy Buffett)

    Tides (Jimmy Buffett)

    La Mer (Charles Trenet)

    A Drop in the Ocean (Ron Pope)

    Have you ever seen the Rain?  (Creedence)

    A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall (Dylan)

    Seasons of Rain (Josh Garrels)

    Summer Breeze (Seals & Crofts)

    Over Oceans (Josh Garrels)

    Yesterday’s Rain (Gary Allan)

    Rain so Hard (Otis Taylor)

    Take me to the River (Talking Heads)

    I love a Rainy Night (Eddie Rabbit)

    When the Levee Breaks (Led Zeppelin)

    Across the Sea (Weezer)

    Ocean Breathes Salty (Modest Mouse)

    When it Rains (Eli Young Band)

    Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (Willie Nelson)

    Beyond the Sea (Bobby Darin)

    Under the Boardwalk (The Drifters)

    Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head (BJ Thomas and Burt Bacharach)

    Watching the River Flow (Dylan)

    Who’ll Stop the Rain (Creedence)

    The Water is Wide (Eva Cassidy)

    Underwater Love (Faith no More)

    Cry me a River (Justin Timberlake)

    Down by the River (Neil Young)

    Tides (Sting)

    Walk on the Ocean (Toad the Wet Sprocket)

    New Orleans is Sinking (Tragically Hip)

    Feels like Rain (John Hiatt)

    Tell it to the Rain (The Four Seasons)

    Float On (Modest Mouse)

    Blue Bayou (Linda Ronstadt)

    Rainy night in Georgia (Brook Benton)

    Sea of Love (The Honeydrippers)

    Open Water (Thrice)

    Walking in the Rain (Ramones)

    Wade in the Water (Eva Cassidy)

    Rain (Beatles)

    Singing in the Rain (Gene Kelly)

    Down by the Seaside (Led Zeppelin)

    It will Rain (Bruno Mars)

    Let it Rain (David Nail)

    I Can’t Stand the Rain (Ann Peebles)

    Restless sea (Panzer Queen)

    The Tide is High (Blondie)

    Surfing in a Hurricane (Jimmy Buffett)

    Fire and Rain (James Taylor)

    Flood Waters (Josh Garrels)

    Rain on the Roof (Chad Warrix)

    Fool in the Rain (Led Zeppelin)

    Rain is a Good Thing (Luke Bryan)

    Storm Warning (Hunter Hayes)

    The Rain Song (Zeppelin)

    Still Raining, Still Dreaming (Hendrix)

    Rainy Day People (Gordon Lightfoot)

    Every Breaking Wave (U2)

    Sitting on the Dock of the Bay (Otis Redding)

    Let it Rain (on me) (The Mavericks)

    Something in the Water (Carrie Underwood)

    …..

    You’re welcome!

  151. 151.

    Matt McIrvin

    Talking Heads, “Air”

    (It mentions “when the weather gets rough”, but… I was recently reading some people on the autism spectrum describing sensory issues they have that sound almost exactly like what David Byrne is actually describing in this song. Which makes me wonder things.)

  153. 153.

    Gvg

    One of the things non hurricane country people don’t appreciate is how part of the process is ….boring. Waiting for it to pass and be done. Especially if you lose power or might, so you have to plan to be entertained for hours or days stuck in a house. I live alone now, but when I lived with my sister and young nephew and we had foster kids, that was a big deal. Luckily I like to read so I only need to plan for battery lights.

    Hurricane Francis was the weakest of the 2004 storms but it moved at 6 miles an hour almost lengthwise up the state, it was huge and rainy and took a week. Because it was so big its edges were over the oceans and so it got heat and water and didn’t weaken enough over land. We lost power, and we’re not in danger and the danger thing wouldn’t go away. There was a lot of flooding all over, including inland.

    I am in an annoyed state of boredom. I haven’t made it worse by listening to DeSantos though. Yesterday after work I ran and got my Covid booster. I figured if it made me tired it wouldn’t matter since I can’t do anything for the next couple of days anyway. This far north it’s just a dark rainy day. Yesterday was oddly sunny and beautiful but I had to work.

  154. 154.

    Lavocat

    Here’s an 80-song playlist of Music To Weather Hurricanes By:

    A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall – Bob Dylan

    A Pillow Of Winds – Pink Floyd

    Black-Throated Wind – Grateful Dead

    Blowin’ In The Wind – Bob Dylan

    Box Of Rain – Grateful Dead

    Buckets Of Rain – Bob Dylan

    Candle In The Wind – Elton John

    Caught In The Rain – Fleetwood Mac

    Cold Rain – CSN

    Cold Rain And Snow – Grateful Dead

    Cold Wind In August – Van Morrison

    Cold Wind To Valhalla – Jethro Tull

    Coloured Rain – Traffic

    Come In From The Rain – Wishbone Ash

    Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood) – Bob Dylan

    Divine Wind – Blue Oyster Cult

    Down In The Flood – Bob Dylan

    Dust In The Wind – Kansas

    Early Mornin’ Rain – Bob Dylan

    Easy Wind – Grateful Dead

    Falling Of The Rain – Billy Joel

    Fire And Rain – James Taylor

    Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall – Simon & Garfunkel

    Fool In The Rain – Led Zeppelin

    Four Strong Winds – Neil Young

    Hasten Down The Wind – Warren Zevon

    Have You Ever Seen The Rain – CCR

    Heels Of The Wind – Elton John

    Here Comes The Flood – Peter Gabriel

    Hurricane – Bob Dylan

    I Wish It Would Rain – Rod Stewart

    I’m Always Chasing Rainbows – Alice Cooper

    Idiot Wind – Bob Dylan

    It Never Rains – Dire Straits

    It’s Raining Again – Supertramp

    Just Like Strange Rain – Elton John

    Laredo Tornado – ELO

    Like A Hurricane – Neil Young

    Listening Wind – Talking Heads

    Lonely Wind – Kansas

    Lost In The Flood – Bruce Springsteen

    Louisiana Rain – Tom Petty

    Mandolin Wind – Rod Stewart

    Mistral Wind – Heart

    Morning Rain – Fleetwood Mac

    Northern Wind – Cat Stevens

    One Rainy Wish – Jimi Hendrix

    Over The Rainbow – Phil Collins

    People Of The South Wind – Kansas

    Rain – The Beatles (of course)

    Rain Is Falling – ELO

    Rainbow Blues – Jethro Tull

    Rainclouds – Paul McCartney

    Rainmaker – Traffic

    Rainstorm – Wishbone Ash

    Rainy Day Crossroad Blues – The Doobie Brothers

    Rainy Day, Dream Away – Jimi Hendrix

    Rainy Day In June – The Kinks

    Rainy Day Man – James Taylor

    Rainy Day Women #12 And 35 – Bob Dylan (of course)

    Right As Rain – The Band

    See The Sky About To Rain – Neil Young

    Shadows In The Rain – The Police

    She’s A Rainbow – The Rolling Stones

    Singing Winds, Crying Beasts – Santana

    Song Of The Wind – Santana

    Standin’ In The Rain – ELO

    Still Raining, Still Dreaming – Jimi Hendrix

    Sure Got Cold After The Rain Fell – ZZ Top

    The Rain Song – Led Zeppelin (of course)

    The Wind – Cat Stevens

    The Wind Cries Mary – Jimi Hendrix

    Trade Winds – Rod Stewart

    Walking In The Rain – Flash and The Pan

    Walking In The Wind – Traffic

    When The Levee Breaks – Led Zeppelin

    Who Has Seen The Wind – John Lennon (& Yoko Ono)

    Who’ll Stop The Rain – CCR

    Wild Is The Wind – David Bowie

    Wind Up – Wishbone Ash

    Wind-Up – Jethro Tull

    I pray everyone gets through this alive!

  159. 159.

    Nukular Biskits

    Must be nice to hunker down waiting for a Cat 4/5 hurricane and eat cookies.

    Someone around here has to work for a living.

    j/k. 🤣

    Stay safe & keep us updated.

  162. 162.

    cckids

    It’s more Louisiana than FL, but Mary Chapin Carpenter’s Down at the Twist and Shout, for the hurricane party references. And Dylan’s Idiot Wind, fits Trump and Desantis, I love the version from the Broadway show Girl From the North Country.

  163. 163.

    Mel

     

    Hurricane Drunk – Florence & The Machine

    I Can’t Stand the Rain – Tina Turner

    I Think It’s Going To Rain – Norah Jones

    Storms – Fleetwood Mac

    Mandolin Rain – Bruce Hornsby & the Range

    Caught in the Storm – Goo Goo Dolls

  166. 166.

    Matt McIrvin

    Oh, yeah, and… on one of They Might Be Giants’ tours some years ago, they decided to compose a brief song celebrating every venue they performed at, which they collected into an album called “Venue Songs”. When they were in Asheville, NC, they performed at a place called The Orange Peel. Their song was a rather pretty sort of country waltz from the POV of a literal orange peel, and the last verse was:

    “When the flood waters reach where I lay
    French Broad River will float me away
    And I hate you for that
    I hate you for that
    I’m The Orange Peel…”

  171. 171.

    No One of Consequence

    “If you go
    Down in the flood
    It’s goin’ to be
    You’re own fault.

    Oh momma
    Ain’t you goin’ to miss your best friend now?”

    – Bobby D
    Down in the Flood

    Peace, and be safe ya’ll, Mother Nature appears to be At Bat and she looks Pissed Off.
    -NOoC

  172. 172.

    Downpuppy

    The original Seminole Wind by John Anderson wasn’t that great a song, but the timing!
    Released 8/10//92
    Andrew forms 8/16/92
    Andrew hits Dade County & destroys >63,500 homes, 8/24/92

  174. 174.

    Kay

    @Gvg:

    oh I bet. Nothing worse than waiting.
    I had to flee from the coverage I’ve been listening to because DeSantis is on, simultaneously bragging and whining.

  175. 175.

    PaulWartenberg

    The storm is here.

    It’s raining outside.

    There’s thunder in the distance.

    I’m eating all the fridge cheese as fast as I can.

    God help us, there’s too much cheese.

    Promise me, Ned.

    PROMISE ME.

  176. 176.

    The Audacity of Krope

    Why all the disaster related music? Shouldn’t the goal be to take your mind off the damn storm?

  178. 178.

    J.

    I can’t believe no one had “Should I Stay or Should I Go” by The Clash! (We are staying in Naples. Though the tornado warnings are freaking me out.)

    I’ve had “It’s the end of the world as we know it” by R.E.M. playing on my mental jukebox for the last 24 hours. Thanks for the additional suggestions!

  179. 179.

    DrDaveChemist

    Pretty sure nobody has mentioned this one yet:

    Hurricane by Evangeline

    I saw this all female band from New Orleans sometime in the early ‘90s as a warmup act for Jimmy Buffett, who also produced their first album.

  180. 180.

    Betty Cracker

    @WaterGirl: It’s an Apple playlist, so I don’t think I can without outing myself and my sister, i.e., publishing our names. Maybe someone knows a way around that?

    @J.: Good one! Stay safe!

    @PaulWartenberg: CHEESE! 🧀

  181. 181.

    Chacal Charles Calthrop

    @Kent: I think this means you win the thread.

    @HumboldtBlue: maybe nobody posted “I wish it would rain” because nobody actually wants what is about to happen to Florida?

  184. 184.

    PaulWartenberg

    Oh, I got my Florida Ballot Recommendations up for 2024. Voting FOR Harris and Mucarcel-Powell are important. Voting out the DeSantis Florida Court justices also important. Voting FOR Amendment 4 is SUPER IMPORTANT to protect women’s rights.

    Alas, I have NO information for Pasco County Mosquito Control Board, so you’re gonna have to go by ‘coolest name’ there.

    If I die from Milton, let this be my testimony.

    noticeatrend.blogspot.com/2024/10/florida-2024-general-election-ballot.html

  185. 185.

    Trollhattan

    @Gvg:

    I reckon the only thing that could equal the “thrill” of an earthquake is be an unexpected tornado or wildfire. Having a monster storm staring you down for days in advance must be a different kind of awful.

    Before the days of weather satellites, hurricanes were much stealthier, all you had were a dark sky and plunging barometer.

    Best of luck!

  187. 187.

    Taken4Granite

    I’ll add a couple more by Gordon Lightfoot: “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”.

    Also Bob Dylan, “Rainy Day Women #12 and 35”.

    And a deep track from Springsteen’s first album: “Lost in the Flood”.

  191. 191.

    MagdaInBlack

    @Gvg: Somewhat similar to the boredom living out on the farm in a northern Illinois blizzard, but without the threat of a hurricane wind and rain:  Make sure the lamps and kerosene heater is filled. If the power goes out tg for a gas stove. You can stick food in a snowbank if you must. Then stand in the window and watch it blow and say ” yup, can’t see across the orchard anymore.” And wait.

    Dig out after and marvel at the size of the snow drifts and cheer the snow plows when they make it through

  193. 193.

    Salty Sam

    @Kay:  …Nothing worse than waiting…

    Umm, waiting (weeks!) for the power to come back on when it’s 105° and 98% humidity so the windows are open and the mosquitoes are crashing against the window screen because they can smell you, so you dare not go outside to try and catch a non-existent breeze…. Yeah, waiting AFTER the storm is the worst.

  197. 197.

    PaulWartenberg

    @Salty Sam:

    this is one ofthe worst parts of hurricanes (aside from the death and illness): waiting for the power to get back.

    this is where I think building homes with self-generating solar panels connected to the central air and refrigerators would be such a huge boost to modern residential living.

  200. 200.

    Shalimar

    David Wilcox’s Eye of the Hurricane is a great song, but it’s about a friend who died in a motorcycle accident, not the weather.

  201. 201.

    Trollhattan

    @PaulWartenberg:

    Nicely done! Put on your floaties, so you can do another in ’26.

    Closest we have to Pasco County Mosquito Control Board is SMUD, our electricity utility. My ward is a contest between a “consultant” and a “Ballpark parking attendant.”

    Hmmm.

  204. 204.

    RaflW

    Here’s a very different Who Will Stop the Rain?
    A synthpop funtime by Heaven 17. The lyrics seem very Florida to me (excerpted):

    I heard a rumor that fires were started
    Flame in the streets and tension uncharted
    Bigger than life at the edge of the city
    Ashes and diamonds gleaming with pity

    Who’ll stop the rain
    Who’ll stop the action
    East side west side
    The world moves on

    Between midnight and dawn you slept through the deadlines
    Believe in me and we’ll hit the tall headlines
    Look up and laugh be happy today
    Here come the waves count three pray
    …

    A global affair in big house U.S.A.
    A moving violation, angels over Broadway
    The next voice you hear will be the main attraction
    The next time we love standby for action

    Meet me tonight and love me for ever
    Let’s be happy let’s be famous whatever the weather
    The rain must fall and night time is calling
    Golden boy and golden girl, it’s a great day in the morning

    Who’ll stop the rain
    Who’ll stop the action
    East side west side
    The world moves on

    eta: @Betty Cracker Yikes! ‘stand by for action’ is a bit to apropos, I guess

  207. 207.

    Kent

    @Quinerly: During work days when I played music over the classroom sound system they were only allowed to listen to class-themed music that related to aquatic science.  So they were motivated to find songs to add to the playlist over the years.

    There are probably 75 more songs on the playlist that are ocean related that I didn’t list like Rock Lobster, Octopuses Garden, Yellow Submarine, etc. because they are not so directly related to storms or rain.

  215. 215.

    Jinchi

    I’d just like to say to everyone in Florida that it’s really important to the rest of us that you all stay safe.

  216. 216.

    Jean

    Mary Chapin Carpenter, “Down at the Twist and Shout”–
    They got a alligator stew and a crawfish pieA Gulf storm blowin’ into town tonightLivin’ on the Delta’s quite a show
    They got hurricane parties every time it blowsBut here up north it’s a cold, cold rainAnd there ain’t no cure for my blues todayExcept when the paper says “Beausoleil is a-coming into town”Baby let’s go down. . .

  217. 217.

    CaseyL

    Ryan Hall is still live streaming.  Holy hell, there are tornados popping up all over Florida, with at least one closer to the east coast than the west.  Polk County and Yeehaw Junction are the sites they’ve mentioned.  As Ryan reports, more tornado warnings keep coming up.

  218. 218.

    Pappenheimer

    It’s def an extratropical storm in the song, but Tull’s ‘Dun Ringill’ is appropriate. Didn’t see it above. From

    “the waiting storm circles til the force comes through’

  223. 223.

    Central Planning

    How about Under the Sea from the Little Mermaid soundtrack?

    Darling it’s better, down where it’s wetter, take it from me!

  225. 225.

    4D*hiker

    For those dark, early morning hours when the nerves are taut and it seems like the storm will never end:

    Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwo’ole’s version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”

  226. 226.

    karen marie

    You kids have covered all the songs I know, so I’ll leave you all with this incredible apple cake recipe.  I’ve made it twice in the last month.  It’s incredibly light, you’d think it was made with cake flour.

    I chop the apples much smaller than the recipe says for – in my opinion – better distribution.  My cook time has been around 35 minutes, and I do have a separate oven thermometer, so it’s not my oven running hot.

    I get between 3-1/2 and 3-3/4 cups of apples using two large Granny Smiths.  I personally would not use a softer apple for this, because you do want a bit of apple texture, right?

    Stay safe, peeps.

  227. 227.

    ChasM

    “Here Comes The Flood”, Peter Gabriel. I prefer the origional version from Robert Fripp’s Exposure album. Haunting.

  228. 228.

    Betty Cracker

    @karen marie: That cake sounds fantastic, and I think I have all the stuff I need to make it. If we have power tomorrow, I’ll give it a try and let you know how it goes.

  232. 232.

    Rob

    There’s a jangle-pop group from San Francisco called The Umbrellas, name appropriate for the deluge of rain in Florida. Their most recent one is called “Fairweather Friend” theumbrellasca.bandcamp.com/album/fairweather-friend. I really enjoy it; it reminds me of groups I heard in the 90s when I was last listening to that kind of music. Hopefully the Florida jackals’ friends are foul-weather friends too.

  234. 234.

    Quinerly

    Entire album….”Heavy Weather” by Weather Report

    I wore out 2 vinyl albums in college and lawschool. Love that album.

  235. 235.

    Quinerly

    @ChasM:

    If you haven’t checked them out, catch “Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch” series on YouTube. I adore her.

  244. 244.

    A Ghost to Most

    Jackson Browne’s “Where Were You?”  from Time the Conqueror, about the aftermath of Katrina, and DBT’s “A Ghost to Most”, also about the aftermath of Katrina.

  247. 247.

    Ben Cisco

    Can You Stand The Rain – New Edition

    Rain – SWV

    In The Eye Of The Storm – Michael Franks

    Rainy Night In Georgia – Brook Benton

    Rainbow Seeker – Joe Sample

    Silver Rain – Marcus Miller

    Rain – Bob James

    Rain – The Rippingtons

    Love and Paris Rain – Brenda Russell

    Rainfall – Brian Tarquin

    Rainy Sunday – Special EFX

    Morning Rain – Earl Klugh

    In Rainbows – Peter White

    Obsidian Rain – Kayla Waters

    Invisible Rain – Keiko Matsui

    October Rain – Art Porter

    Tiger In The Rain – Michael Franks

    Kisses In The Rain – Rick Braun

    Rainforest – Paul Hardcastle

    Rain Falling – Kandance Sorings

    Rain Dance – Jeff Lorber Fusion

    Rain – Bobby Caldwell

    Rainbow Visions – The Crusaders

    In The Rain – Boney James

    In The Rain – The Dramatics

    Sweet Rain – Ramsey Lewis

    First Rain – Marc Antoine

    Raindrops – Candy Dulfer

    Rainy Night In Tokyo – Michael Franks

  248. 248.

    Quinerly

    @Ben Cisco:

    Fun list!

    I need to dig out my old Candy Dulfer. Going to check Wikipedia to check what she’s been up to since the early 1990’s.

  249. 249.

    Tehanu

    First, Betty, I’m glad you’re safe and hope you stay so.
    Second, “Wasn’t It a Mighty Day” by the Chad Mitchell Trio:

    I remember down in Galveston,
    When storm winds swept the town,
    The high tides from the ocean, Lord,
    Put water all around.
    Wasn’t that a mighty day, (a mighty day) a mighty day
    (a mighty day) a mighty day, great God that morning
    When the storm winds swept the town

  250. 250.

    VOR

    April Wine – Sign of the Gypsy Queen. About running from a storm.

    Jethro Tull’s Stormwatch album was a gloomy work. “Dark Ages” tone is evident from the title. “Something’s on the Move” is about a new ice age, not a hurricane. The instrumental “Elegy” is a nice balm.

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