10,000 Maniacs - Like The Weather

I was working nights at a group home while attending Colorado State University when I first heard 10,000 Maniacs on college radio — back when college radio still felt like a secret society run by sleep‑deprived anthropology majors who believed deeply in the spiritual power of jangly guitars. Like the Weather wasn’t just a staple; it was the unofficial national anthem for those up and down Colorado weather days.

And every time I hear the line “Shiver in my bones just thinking about the weather,” my brain immediately drags me back to that one day I rode my mountain bike from class in a full biblical rainstorm. I wasn’t just soaked — I achieved maximum saturation, the kind of wet where your socks become philosophical and your backpack starts questioning its life choices. By the time I got to work, I looked like someone who had tried to commute through a car wash on purpose.

So with the weather we’ve been having lately, this song feels cosmically appropriate — like the universe is a DJ who only plays college‑radio deep cuts and decided, “Hey, remember when you were a soggy undergrad with a mountain bike and questionable judgment? Let’s spin that track again.”