If this thing gets ugly, with severe damage, lots of wires down, and people freezing in the cold and the dark, we can expect to hear the refrain for change to grow louder.

FORBES: Northeastern Utilities: Ready for Another Onslaught?

Flick to the dark, church bell-filled Summer Son and you hear the Pet Shop Boys and Abba, or if you prefer a bit of 90s Motown, check out When We Are Together and Day After Day.

BBC: By the BBC's Chris Charles

It was dark with the wind and sea roaring so it was difficult to see and hear people speak but we worked together and did the best we could.

BBC: Heroism and tragedy in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex flood

Listening to Ofer Lahav talk about dark energy I'm struck that this is what it must have been like to hear Isaac Newton describe gravity in the 1680s.

BBC: Getting the measure of dark energy

Amber Ludwig, who had the compact, athletic body of a seal, with very small hands and dark, closely set eyes, said she feared Tom was going to return like you hear on the news and open fire.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Then We Came to the End'

Their latest album, Infinite Light (which you can hear in its entirety here, two weeks before its release), illuminates the dark corridors of the duo's earlier work with uplifting, if mysterious, songs of love and all we do to find and hold on to it.

NPR: Exclusive First Listen: Lightning Dust

Wearing a dark blue suit and black-and-blue tie, he often spoke so quietly he was hard to hear.

CNN: BP's Hayward: Oil spill wasn't because of cost-cutting