Crucial Track for December 15, 2025

"Plainsong (2010 Remaster)" by The Cure

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What's your favorite song to listen to in the rain?

This prompt is fortuitous—monsoon season appears to have arrived in Manchester. Slate grey sky, leaky gutters, and dodging cars that drench you as they plough through puddles that could easily be mistaken for small lakes. Anyway, the wind chimes and gothic slabs of synthesiser combined with Robert Smith's world-weary vocals on Plainsong suit the despondent, resigned mood this weather puts me in.