liz_marcs | Music Doth Soothe

Know what I need?

A cheer-up.

Know what that means?

Music time!

Yes, I will be under the headphones all day working my heart away. I absolutely refuse to look at the news today. My blood pressure can't take it. Neither can my brain. Reading the news today will cause my head to explode.

But you know what they say: Music doth soothe the savage beast.

To that end, I will be adding links to tunes all day, tunes that make me smile and cheer me the hell up. I'm trying a new service called Save File (Thanks to

smashsc for pointing me to it!) which allows me to save all of the links to the songs on one freakin' page! How awesome is that?

In the meantime, keep your eyes on this particular entry right here. I will be editing it all day to add new songs to it.

Go here for all tunes: Music for a Rainy Day

ETA:FYI Note: All songs listed below the cut have been uploaded as individual song files that all happen to "live" on the same page. You don't have to download the whole list just to get one song. Click on the link above and you'll be able to pick and choose which songs you want to download. Awesome, no?

Good Rats — Dropkick Murphys

Bridge Over Trouble Water — Simon & Garfunkle

I Don't Love You Any More — The Magnetic Fields

Aicha — Khaled (Note to People Who Downloaded the my Africander Soundtrack: This version is a little different from the one you have)

Crashing Down — Heather Dale

Angel — Slick Shoes

Never Met a Girl Like You Before — Flogging Molly

Something Beautiful — Robbie Williams

Goodnight Moon (Live) — Shivaree

Auld Triangle — Dropkick Murphys

Kill the Messenger — Shawn Colvin

Each Dollar a Bullet — Stiff Little Fingers

Balance Beam (Live) — Blue October

I Palindrome I — They Might Be Giants

Crawling Eye — The Misfits

I Know — Kim Richey

Only You — Yaz

Television Light — Marshall Crenshaw

Mr. Brightside — The Killers

Rules of Travel — Rosanne Cash

Salty Dog — Flogging Molly

If I Fall You're Going Down With Me — The Dixie Chicks

Snow on the Sahara — Anggun

Touch Me — Weeping Willows

Mercedes Benz — Janis Joplin

Einstein on the Beach — Counting Crows

I Won't Back Down — Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

What About Everything — Carbon Leaf

Natural One — Folk Implosion

The Good Life — Weezer

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) (Live) — Green Day

Our Mystery — Bebo Norman

Them — The Misfits

Time Is Running Out — Muse

Stairway to Heaven — Dolly Parton

Pata Pata — Miriam Makeba

This Is the Life — Weird Al Yankovic

That Boy Could Dance — Weird Al Yankovic

Let Me Entertain You — Robbie Williams

Ooops! I Did It Again (Live) — Richard Thompson

Could You Believe — Vox One

What Would Brian Boitano Do — Southpark (Original Movie Soundtrack)

Brimful of Asha (Remix) — Cornershop

Whenever You're On My Mind — Marshall Crenshaw

How — Lisa Loeb

Shanghai Breezes — John Denver

Centerfield — John Fogerty

It's Alright — Huey Lewis and the News

Hot Patootie Bless My Soul — Meat Loaf (from the Rocky Picture Horror Show)

Part of Your World — from The Little Mermaid

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hmm intresting list, must go around and pick it up....i am coming to like the Dropkicks a fair bit.....

Well, I plan to update the list all day. Essentially, I'm letting iTunes pick the playlist.

The Dropkick Murphys are awesome and from my hometown. They're one of those bands that have been around forever. They make enough to make a living, but they'll never be an international sensation. Their new CD The Warrior's Code is very good. :-)

The Dropkicks are love, man...

Very cool. The Dropkicks remind me of a local band from here, called The Clumsy Lovers. Same high energy, slightly Celtic feel.
Thanks for sharing your music, Liz. keep that blood pressure down!

I'm actually loving the concept of creating a "project page" where all the files can be downloaded from a central page.

*taps chin*

Very useful if you want to keep adding files or if you want to remove files from a "soundtrack."

Also interesting, you can sign up for "email updates" every time I upload a new file. Very nice system.

I'll probably update until I go to bed. See how far I can take this.

I am in awe of your vast music vaults. I've found so many new and interesting artists from listening to your recs; makes me feel all in the loopy music wise!

Oh yeah, know that one.

Friends who have traveled in the van with me, now think i have great taste in music, all because of the stuff i have gotten from Liz

Awww, guys! *blush*

Thank you. I just have a million MP3s and CDs thanks to my days as a music/bookseller for Borders. I tend to like most forms of music anyway.

Soon as I'm done updating iTunes, there'll be more ready to go.

What i would do to get my hands on it......Sounds so tempting :)

Ah well. guess i shall just have to survive on the crumbs you feed us.

I have mostly been a classical music listener, thanks to CBC radio. I have no clue what's big on the music scene these days, but I have been loving the little playlists I've been grabbing from folks like you.
I like having my horizens (musical and otherwise) broadened!

They were playing in dublin over Christmas, I didn't go though. they were opening up for the Pogues, with emmm whats his name oh yeah Shane MacGowan.

Big concert, I really didn't want to go just for the warm up band :)

Mores the pity, if they had being playing a small venue, with just them i would probably have gone.

The funny thing is, the Dropkicks play around Boston in smaller venues. Probably the only way they got to Dublin was because they were an opening act.

Their song 'Tessie' was on the Fever Pitch soundtrack. But then again, the Farrelly Brothers are from Providence, RI, and 'Tessie' is the "official Boston Red Sox" team song, so it makes sense that it was there.

cool. i know this perfect venue for them, right across from where i work. real good venue, but of course i doubt they could fill the venue as people just haven't heard of them.

i think the Pogues concert may be a good break for them in Ireland, as they would have gotten to a Large group of people who are big into Punk irish songs!

of course some people just couldn't care less. fools!

Fever Pitch.....the remake of the Football film. intresting. Makes a certain amount of sense to do it with them.

Second time one of Nick Hornbys books has being given the American treatment (High Fidelity being the other)

I think you're thinking of the wrong film. Fever Pitch is actually about the Boston Red Sox winning the baseball world series. Sort of. It's actually about a girl who falls for a Red Sox fan.

It was a sheer coincidence that the Red Sox won the world series when the Farrelly brother were filming so they had to change the script. (The original script had them losing...as usual...)

how odd as that is the basic plot of the Fever Pitch football film.

Arsenal (English football club) haven't won championship for years and years.

The story is set in the season they finally won it, it came to the very last match of the season.

You so rock! And it's rainy and windy here in Auckland (damn autumn's just kicked it), so absolutely perfect :)

I'll be adding new tunes to the download page all day, so keep checking back!

Glad I could cheer up. In Boston, it's damp, cold, and about to snow.

Mmmm music. :-)

I have grabbed some. Thank you.

More coming soon!

Please enjoy.

I'm grabbing some as I type. I'm on dial up and for some reason my Shareza and Limewire don't want to let me download any more, so it's through people like you I'm getting music now. Weeee!
Kim Richey is the same one who did "A Place Called Home," Fred's song on Angel, right? What a voice...

Yup. That's her. I worked her set at the Newport (R.I.) Folk Festival a few years ago and helped with her autograph table. Suuuper nice woman. She even autographed her CDs for me when I bought them. :-)

You worked a set for KR? ((swoons))

She was awesome live!

Mostly, I manned her CD table right under her nose and helped with the people waiting for autographs. She was completely unmobbed and wandered around between the different acts all day.

OMG I FRIGGING HEART YOU. HEART. HEART. -- I had to just turn off the news because I couldn't take it anymore, and a

liz_marcs music post is just what I need! Music!

Heh. And I'm stil adding files.

Glad I could send some uplifting and/or fun tunes your way.

I'll keep adding until 11 p.m. or so.

((bounces the "

liz_marcs-is-doing-the-music-crack bounce))

And 50 tunes! It is all done!

*looks at list*

My. That is a very broad range. And that's just the happy-ish songs.

Actually make that 51 tunes

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