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Rainer Maria
Band Madison United States Active 1995–2006
Rainer Maria formed in 1995 in Madison, United States and was active until 2006. Rainer Maria has 2 chart appearances on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations on RockLists, spanning 2006–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Life of Leisure”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #72. The station that charted Rainer Maria most often is Y100 (Philadelphia, PA), with 1 appearance. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2006.
Rainer Maria were a Madison, Wisconsin, band that later made its home in Brooklyn, and they played emo the way it sounds best: raw, literate and ready to bleed a little. Caithlin De Marrais, Kaia Fischer and William Kuehn made records full of tangled guitars, restless rhythms and vocals that could swing from a confessional murmur to a full-throated cry in a single breath.
Catastrophe Keeps Us Together, from 2006, was the end of their first run, and it goes out swinging. "Life of Leisure" is its sharpest hook, a propulsive, bittersweet rocker with a smirk in its title, and the title track, "Catastrophe", is all nervy tension and release. They put their records out on Polyvinyl.
Their first run lasted from 1995 to 2006, they got back together in 2014, and the catalog now counts six full-length albums, a live DVD and a stack of EPs and live recordings.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Rainer Maria on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Life of Leisure | 1 | #72 | – | 2006 | |
| 2 | Catastrophe | 1 | #884 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 884 | Catastrophe | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now |
| 2006 | 72 | Life of Leisure | Y100 Top 88.5 Songs of 2006 |
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