💬 My rainy day playlist has 41 songs and nothing else works in the rain

I made a rainy day playlist in 2019. It has 41 songs now and I add 1 or 2 a year. There's no rule for what goes in. If a song sounds like water on a window, it gets in. Most of it is slow. Old songs by Rafi, some guitar music, and 2 Coldplay songs my brother laughs at. It plays only when it's raining outside, even a little. I don't touch it on a dry day. Last July I tried to cheat. It was a grey afternoon with no rain, so I played it in the car. It sounded wrong. The songs I love were just songs. Slow, sad, a bit boring. I switched it off and then it started to rain 10 minutes later. I turned it back on, and it was perfect. My sister said that's because you're superstitious. I said, it's science. It isn't. There's 1 song that goes first every time. A slow guitar thing I found on a bus in 2017. I don't know the name of the singer. I looked it up and it was a cover of another song. The cover is better. I've never played the original, because I'm sure it's worse. My brother says that's the worst way to listen to music. He has about 12 playlists and none of them work. If you want to try one, here's what I'd do. Pick 10 songs you play in the rain already. Make a new playlist and don't name it anything clever. Mine is called Rain. That's all it says. Add to it only when the weather's properly bad. After a few months it starts to feel like a place. What's on yours? I'd like to steal a song or 2 for the next monsoon.

I don't get the rain thing. Mine only works after midnight, with the fan on and the lights off.

I'd argue with the rain bit. My best playlist works in any weather, as long as I'm walking. It's the 20 minutes to the bus stop, 3 songs, same ones for 4 years. A friend asked why I skip the 2nd track near the signal.

I live abroad and my version is a playlist for the flight home, 14 songs, always in the same order. I tried it once at my desk. It sounded like a bad advert for an airline. Now I only play it on the plane, when the wheels leave the ground and I'm already homesick. Your song that goes first every time sounds right. Mine starts with the same 3 notes.