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The Coffee Break: Stormy Wednesday

Posted at 7:18 AM on August 20, 2009 by Steve Seel (6 Comments)
Filed under: 9:30 Coffee Break

(updated below with your requests)

You better believe we got ambushed by Mother Nature yesterday, when a tornado (or possible tornados, plural) touched down around the Twin Cities, surprising even the most stalwart meteorologists. You may have seen some damage in your own neighborhood, and even our beloved landmark The Electric Fetus got slammed. Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt as far as we know.

So, it's a no brainer: gotta play your storm songs today for the 9:30 Coffee Break!

Update: Your requests we played ...

1) Pixies: "Stormy Weather" (We certainly could have played the jazz standard, but when you figure the total times this song has been played in the history of the world compared to that one, the choice seems obvious)
2) Parliament/Funkadelic: "Tear The Roof Off The Sucker" (and, brain surgeon that I am, I played the short version that doesn't actually contain the title of the song anywhere in the lyric, making this to official obscure tune of the day. I can only imagine a number of people thinking, "What does 'we want the funk' have to do with storms?" My bad).
3) Cloud Cult: "Everybody Here Is A Cloud" (from Feel Good Ghosts Tea Partying Through Tornadoes, no less)
4) Neko Case: "This Tornado Loves You" (the popular favorite today)
5) The Kills: "Last Day Of Magic" (you know: "my little tornado... my little hurricane-o..."

Thanks everyone!

Comments (6)

Stormy Weather by Lena Horne

Posted by Jennifer Schultz | August 20, 2009 8:51 AM

"Funnel Of Love" - Wanda Jackson (or Southern Culture On The Skids, if you don't have Wanda)

Posted by IndyR | August 20, 2009 8:57 AM

Morphine-You Look Like Rain

Posted by Michelle Fjerstad | August 20, 2009 9:03 AM

All the ones that come immediately to mind are from my younger, more impressionable years. In the order I would like to hear them:

Eye of the tornado - megadeth
Thunderstruck - AC/DC
Blame it on the rain - milli vanilli
Don't rain on my parade - bobby darin
November rain - g'n'r
Hurricane - grace jones
The rain song - led zepplin

Posted by Mike | August 20, 2009 9:05 AM

Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain
Jimi Hendrix - Rainy Day, Dream Away

I also second the previous request for Stormy Monday.

Posted by Jason | August 20, 2009 9:32 AM

"Give up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off This Sucker)"
Oh...
Because people's roofs were torn off. I get it now. I am slow.

Posted by Justin | August 20, 2009 9:48 AM

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