Rainy Day Music (studio album)
by The Jayhawks

Rainy Day Music by The Jayhawks
Year: 2003
Overall rank: 2,946th   
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 82 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2003 (59th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (495th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,946th)

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The Jayhawks bestography

Rainy Day Music is ranked 3rd best out of 16 albums by The Jayhawks on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Jayhawks is Tomorrow The Green Grass which is ranked number 1650 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,028.

The Jayhawks album bestography « Higher ranked (2,120th)
Hollywood Town Hall
This album (2,946th)
Rainy Day Music
Lower ranked (6,573rd) »
Sound Of Lies

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Rainy Day Music track list

   The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Rainy Day Music rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 2,946th | 2000s rank: 495th | 2003 rank: 59th

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Rainy Day Music ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 82 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 23% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.7/100, a mean average of 73.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.6.

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90/100
From 06/16/2015 03:53 | #143899
The 3rd best album from The Jayhawks after Hollywood Hall & Tomorrow the Green Grass. More mellow than those two but all the hooks, melodies and harmonies. MEZ
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70/100
From 05/03/2015 22:51 | #140784
This is a sweet album perfect for long drives or for a hungover Sunday morning. After "The Sound of Lies" this is their best collection of songs. It is certainly not a rocker, but it will fit your mood at the right time.
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85/100
From 03/15/2015 19:33 | #136960
For the third time, after their masterpiece psychedelic "Sound of Lies" and the uneven pop-rock "Smile", the Jayhawks without Olson return to their country rock roots and at the same time present a different album. Louris' compositions, aided by Perlman and O'Reagan (the latter presenting 3 great songs) show a more positive Jayhawks which you can't avoid listneing to. It's a pleasure to have them back playing.
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80/100
From 12/11/2011 01:56 | #32631
The jayhawks "rainy day music" is an extension of what they put out on "smile" with maybe a more adult-contemporary slant, watering down the country to the point of near-invisibility. Hits include "stumbling through the dark", the ultra-catchy "tailspin", "tampa to tulsa" and "save it for a rainy day", probably the best song on the album, a pick-me-up of a song that delivers a chorus so upbeat (with banjo!) it's impossible to be sad. "tampa to tulsa" is an easy-going, lazy-drifting song good for cloudy road trips, and there's a good live performance of it on the bonus EP.
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From 12/31/2010 23:07 | #17310
Just when The Jayhawks semed to have died after Mark Olson's departure years before, Rainy Day Music is an excellent comeback. "Stumbling Through The Dark", "The Eyes Of Sarahjane", and "Save It For A Rainy Day" make this a welcome addition to the Jayhawk catalog.
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