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You are here: Home / Music / Do I have to tell the story?

Do I have to tell the story?

by DougJ|  April 22, 201211:43 am| 207 Comments

This post is in: Music, Readership Capture

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I just heard a weird jazz version of “Fool In the Rain” at the precious coffee shop near the undisclosed location where I am spending the semester. A few weeks ago, I sat through an excruciating dinner where someone insisted on playing “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” on YouTube on his iPhone, even though we were at a nice restaurant (it was my fault, I had mentioned that it made me sad to think that the sweet, dorky, Jamaican tourist Sting of that video had devolved into a pompous rock dinosaur suitable only for tantric monkey sex mockery). Also too, it is supposed to rain a lot today.

So…what are the best songs about rain? There’s a lot that I sort of like — “Bus Stop”, “Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall”, “Rainy Night In Georgia”, “You Left Me Standing In the Rain” — but only one I can think of that I love, “I Wish It Would Rain”.

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  1. 1.

    Wildcat12

    April 22, 2012 at 11:45 am

    Blame it on the rain

    Nah, I’ll save everyone from a link.

  2. 2.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    April 22, 2012 at 11:46 am

    Are there any Nickelback songs about rain?

  3. 3.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    April 22, 2012 at 11:47 am

    I always liked CCR’s “Have You Ever Seen the Rain.”

  4. 4.

    chopper

    April 22, 2012 at 11:47 am

    Rainy Night in Soho.

  5. 5.

    sphouch

    April 22, 2012 at 11:49 am

    Blame it on the rain, Rainy days and Sundays, Raindrops keep falling on my head, November rain, Kentucky rain, Who’ll stop the rain, Have you ever seem the rain..

    Okay, so some are higher quality than others, but it’s hard to knock Credence

  6. 6.

    Davis X. Machina

    April 22, 2012 at 11:50 am

    Best song with actual rain: (or Foley of rain) “Riders on the Storm”.

  7. 7.

    proverbialleadballoon

    April 22, 2012 at 11:50 am

    here comes the rain again

    purple rain

  8. 8.

    kwAwk

    April 22, 2012 at 11:52 am

    raining in baltimore — counting crows

  9. 9.

    piratedan

    April 22, 2012 at 11:52 am

    this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHMxqskojgo

    i listen to this every time the spouse travels

  10. 10.

    pepper

    April 22, 2012 at 11:53 am

    it’s raining men–the weather girls.

  11. 11.

    passerby

    April 22, 2012 at 11:54 am

    Though Riders on the Storm is one of my favorites, I’d like to offer Ann Peebles’ I Can’t Stand the Rain. I think it’s perfect for a rainy Sunday morning.

    Pour up a Bloody Mary and get your buzz going.

    Turn up the sound.

  12. 12.

    karen marie

    April 22, 2012 at 11:55 am

    The Ronettes’ Walking in the Rain, of course!

    Or Grace Jones even.

    Flash in the Pan?

  13. 13.

    caphilldcne

    April 22, 2012 at 11:55 am

    It’s Raining Men

  14. 14.

    MattF

    April 22, 2012 at 11:55 am

    Yeah, I’m a sucker for Gillian Welch:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5DeY3H1oaU

  15. 15.

    Matoko Borgia-Steeler

    April 22, 2012 at 11:55 am

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOoyr02vFSs&feature=related

  16. 16.

    patrick II

    April 22, 2012 at 11:55 am

    Willie Nelson, Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain.

    I thought I remembered Dougj saying that it was one of his favorites too awhile back. Maybe that was a different doug than this head-of-infidelity guy.

    Whenever I hear it I end up humming it around the house the rest of the day. My brown eyed wife hates it.

  17. 17.

    Arm The Homeless

    April 22, 2012 at 11:56 am

    Lie back, and think of English Summer Rain

  18. 18.

    Splitting Image

    April 22, 2012 at 11:57 am

    “Rain” by the Beatles.

    Seconding and thirding the two CCR songs. And “Here Comes the Rain Again”.

    Also, don’t forget “I Can See Clearly Now”.

  19. 19.

    DougJ, Head of Infidelity

    April 22, 2012 at 11:57 am

    @patrick II:

    I totally forgot, one of my all-time favorites. I’ll listen to it right now.

  20. 20.

    plaindave

    April 22, 2012 at 11:58 am

    Let it Rain

  21. 21.

    Arm The Homeless

    April 22, 2012 at 11:58 am

    @kwAwk: Glad you brought them up.

    Rain King

    August and Everything After might be one of my favorite albums of the 90’s, along with Nirvana Unplugged

  22. 22.

    PeorgieTirebiter

    April 22, 2012 at 12:00 pm

    Blue Umbrella is one of my favorite John Prine songs. I guess Small Change getting rained on by his own .38 doesn’t really count as a ” rain” song.

  23. 23.

    karen marie

    April 22, 2012 at 12:01 pm

    But this has always been my favorite rain song – Bonnie Raitt’s Runaway.

  24. 24.

    Stephen1947

    April 22, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    Randy Newman’s “I Think It’s Going to Rain Today” – preferably delivered by Judy Collins

  25. 25.

    scottinnj

    April 22, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    FIre & Rain – James Taylor
    LIke Tears in Rain – The Bamboos (a melbourne funk band – not from Blade Runner)
    Not about rain but in the title- Purple Rain
    Rainy Day & Women #12 and 35 -Dylan

  26. 26.

    Splitting Image

    April 22, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    “April Showers”, by Spike Jones.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1yqg4zbyDk

  27. 27.

    aretino

    April 22, 2012 at 12:05 pm

    Angie Stone’s No More Rain (in this Cloud)

  28. 28.

    karl

    April 22, 2012 at 12:06 pm

    Irving Berlin’s Isn’t This a Lovely Day?

  29. 29.

    mistermix

    April 22, 2012 at 12:06 pm

    Only Happy When It Rains – Garbage

    A real classic.

  30. 30.

    karen marie

    April 22, 2012 at 12:07 pm

    Dylan’s Buckets of Rain from the album Blood on the Tracks. Sadly, it’s not on Youtube except as a cover.

    It’s already close to 90 here and not a whisper of rain coming for months.

  31. 31.

    Bubblegum Tate

    April 22, 2012 at 12:08 pm

    Oran “Juice” Jone–“Walking in the Rain”

  32. 32.

    joeyess

    April 22, 2012 at 12:08 pm

    I wrote and recorded a song about rain.

    The kick drum sounds like shit, but it’s not my fault.

  33. 33.

    RSA

    April 22, 2012 at 12:09 pm

    I like Red Rain, by Peter Gabriel. I’ll also mention a song with some of the dumbest lyrics that mention rain: MacArthur Park.

    Edit:

    @Arm The Homeless:

    August and Everything After might be one of my favorite albums of the 90’s,

    Ditto.

  34. 34.

    piratedan

    April 22, 2012 at 12:09 pm

    also this from the Lovin Spoonful

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–9O1ElmXc8

  35. 35.

    Matoko Borgia-Steeler

    April 22, 2012 at 12:09 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85KhtrJyfYc

  36. 36.

    DougJ, Head of Infidelity

    April 22, 2012 at 12:09 pm

    @karen marie:

    The Nico Case version is great.

  37. 37.

    lamh35

    April 22, 2012 at 12:10 pm

    Needs more Hip Hop and R&B on this thread.

    “Can You Stand The Rain” by New Edition

    Missy Elliot – The Rain (SupaDupaFly)

  38. 38.

    Onihanzo

    April 22, 2012 at 12:11 pm

    Ella Fitzgerald’s cover of Nat King Cole’s Because of Rain, of course.

  39. 39.

    lamh35

    April 22, 2012 at 12:11 pm

    Just for fun:

    Milli Vanilli – Blame It On The Rain

    Adele – Set Fire To The Rain

    I’m bored and at work…could do this all day…LOL ;)

  40. 40.

    Kiwanda

    April 22, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    “Love Reign O’er me”, also in the “has rain sounds” category.

  41. 41.

    Jewish Steel

    April 22, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    So Central Rain. Electric 12 string out front, REM doing their best Byrds impression.

  42. 42.

    Dave-EO

    April 22, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    Jesus & Mary Chain – Happy When it Rains.

  43. 43.

    Arm The Homeless

    April 22, 2012 at 12:13 pm

    @mistermix: Oh, Shirley Manson, how you’ve aged…

    But the remixes will always stand out as some of the best, like this Stupid Girl mix.

    Also, Too. KMFDM is good for the soul

  44. 44.

    BrianM

    April 22, 2012 at 12:13 pm

    Linton Kwesi Johnson – Loraine. (Parts are cringe-worthy, but I love other parts.)

  45. 45.

    Lizzy L

    April 22, 2012 at 12:14 pm

    Early Morning Rain by Gordon Lightfoot.

  46. 46.

    send me home

    April 22, 2012 at 12:14 pm

    “The Rain Song”
    Not a Led Zep fan, but I love this song, especially the mellotrons.

  47. 47.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 22, 2012 at 12:16 pm

    hallelujah it’s raining McCain!

    I can’t wait for It’s Raining Mitt, or I Love The Mitt Life (I Love to Boogie).

  48. 48.

    Denny

    April 22, 2012 at 12:16 pm

    Lowell George’s version of I can’t Stand the Rain off of “Thanks, I’ll Eat it Here”.

  49. 49.

    THE

    April 22, 2012 at 12:16 pm

    I’m Singin’ in the Rain by Gene Kelly classical song and dance number.

  50. 50.

    lamh35

    April 22, 2012 at 12:17 pm

    @THE: oooh…txh for this one. love, love, love that movie and Gene Kelly of course.

  51. 51.

    Matoko Borgia-Steeler

    April 22, 2012 at 12:18 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Mittflops keep falling on my head
    And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed
    Nothin’ seems to fit….

  52. 52.

    Xboxershorts

    April 22, 2012 at 12:18 pm

    Grateful Dead had a real sad song about love lost called looks like rain.

    Some friends of mine did a fine cover at a show in February:

    http://youtu.be/TXEkhUD6kDY

  53. 53.

    Villago Delenda Est

    April 22, 2012 at 12:19 pm

    Tom Petty’s Louisiana Rain

  54. 54.

    Yutsano

    April 22, 2012 at 12:22 pm

    This has been done. And considering this guy’s autobiography, this song is pretty ironic.

    EDIT: And I WANT THAT BOAT!!

  55. 55.

    forked tongue

    April 22, 2012 at 12:24 pm

    Leonard Cohen, “Famous Blue Raincoat”
    Neil Young, “See the Sky About to Rain”
    Joni Mitchell, “Rainy Night House”
    Velvet Underground, “Hey Mr. Rain”
    E L V I S, “When It Rains, It Really Pours”
    Tom Waits, “A Little Rain” and “Make It Rain”

  56. 56.

    send me home

    April 22, 2012 at 12:24 pm

    “A Place in the Rain” Joe Jackson

    When the rivers run dry
    We can go to our place in the rain
    Pay off the piper and pay all the bills
    Pay for the getaway car
    Blow out the candles and head for the hills
    Pray that we make it that far
    Run from the poison and run from the flames
    Run from the maddening crowd
    Laugh at the whispers of who’ll take the blame
    And sing all the sinners out loud
    It’s amazing what crazy can do
    When every good citizen’s sane
    When heaven’s a desert
    We’ll go to our place in the rain
    It’s amazing what comes into view
    When you just connect your heart back to your brain
    When heaven’s a desert
    We’ll go to our place in the rain

  57. 57.

    kth

    April 22, 2012 at 12:25 pm

    “Rhythm of the Rain”, by the Cascades, is a little twee but works very nicely in the afore-referenced Quadrophenia soundtrack.

    @Xboxershorts: apparently it falls to this Dead-indifferent listener to remind the Deadheads in attendance of “Box of Rain”, one of their most well-known and beloved tunes.

    also “Crying In The Rain”, Everly Brothers, which is pretty good

    and “Raining In My Heart”, Buddy Holly, which is not so much

  58. 58.

    forked tongue

    April 22, 2012 at 12:26 pm

    Also “Here’s That Rainy Day” or “Come Rain or Come Shine,” pretty much no matter who sings ’em.

  59. 59.

    Joel

    April 22, 2012 at 12:27 pm

    I actually liked this song by DJ Muggs (formerly of Cypress Hill) and the lead singer of Buckcherry. About as far from Sting as you can get.

    On a Sting-related tangent, a song from his pompous rock dinosaur age (Shape of My Heart) did yield the melody for this great track.

  60. 60.

    Svensker

    April 22, 2012 at 12:28 pm

    @Stephen1947:

    I’d agree I Think It’s Going to Rain Today is a great song — I love Irma Thomas’s version

  61. 61.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 12:28 pm

    @lamh35:

    The Dramatics, “In the Rain.”

  62. 62.

    Arm The Homeless

    April 22, 2012 at 12:30 pm

    I assume that a Flood implies heavy rain, I submit one of my favorite’s from TOOL

    Mr. Wonder’s Higher Ground just because

  63. 63.

    gaz

    April 22, 2012 at 12:31 pm

    Weevie Stonder – Sredni Vashtar *

    okay so it’s not literally about rain, but the whole song is set on the backdrop of the sound of rain.

    Edit: ack wrong link – looking for it now

    Edit: can’t find it – meh – I’m a freak – must be an exceptionally rare track

    The reason I nominated it is the oddball factor. It’s a strange and creative piece. it’s from the album “Drawing on Other People’s Heads” IIRC – I’m not sure that’ll help though

  64. 64.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 12:32 pm

    @piratedan:

    Your linky broken. Maybe you want “Rain on the Roof”?

  65. 65.

    lamh35

    April 22, 2012 at 12:32 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Tony! Toni! Tone’! – It Nevers Rains in Southern California

    Peabo Bryson – Can You Stop The Rain

  66. 66.

    karen marie

    April 22, 2012 at 12:34 pm

    @DougJ, Head of Infidelity: Oooh, thanks!

  67. 67.

    Elizabelle

    April 22, 2012 at 12:35 pm

    Enjoying the rain in Virginia.

    Was just outside. The garden was saying “yesssss!”

    Nice, steady, soft rain.

  68. 68.

    Evap

    April 22, 2012 at 12:36 pm

    It might as well rain until September – Carol King

    Who’ll Stop the rain?

  69. 69.

    MikeJ

    April 22, 2012 at 12:36 pm

    In that video I think Sting was a dorky tourist in Montserrat, not Jamaica. They recorded that album at AIR studios.

    Also, Blake Babies and the Cult each had a song called Rain.
    Black Sheets of Rain by Bob Mould.
    Neon Rainbow by Alex.
    Ocean Rain by Echo & the Bunnymen.
    Rain Holds by Golden Palominos.
    and one of my faves
    You Look Like Rain by Morphine.

  70. 70.

    Not Sure

    April 22, 2012 at 12:37 pm

    What, no Rain Song?

    And I guess there’s always Beethoven’s 6th Symphony.

  71. 71.

    pragmatism

    April 22, 2012 at 12:39 pm

    Missy Elliot – the rain
    Thom Yorke – and it rained all night
    Grateful dead – box of rain

  72. 72.

    Dr. Squid

    April 22, 2012 at 12:39 pm

    Jackyl was pretty underrated if you couldn’t get past the chainsaw in A minor.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U0fRwAbrHI

  73. 73.

    Xboxershorts

    April 22, 2012 at 12:41 pm

    Raining here in North Central PA, gonna be seriously snowing soon….

    Cold Rain and Snow –

    http://youtu.be/LG4eFaWZnn0

    Obrey Ramsey

  74. 74.

    EriktheRed

    April 22, 2012 at 12:42 pm

    Cracker – Another Song About the Rain

    Urge Overkill – View of the Rain

  75. 75.

    patrick II

    April 22, 2012 at 12:43 pm

    Must be a young crowd. Nobody mentions Gene Kelly’s “Singing in the Rain” which may be the most famous of all “rain” songs.

  76. 76.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 12:43 pm

    For geezers of a certain age: the Cowsills, “The Rain, the Park and Other Things.” Pure pop cheese, but when it came out I was living someplace that got 85 inches of annual rainfall. I could relate.

  77. 77.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 12:44 pm

    I always liked this one: the Sir Douglas Quintet, “The Rains Came.” Rock that Farfisa chord organ!

  78. 78.

    Matoko Borgia-Steeler

    April 22, 2012 at 12:45 pm

    @patrick II:

    Check #47 in this thread, pops.

  79. 79.

    Watusie

    April 22, 2012 at 12:46 pm

    @pepper:

    Total awesomeness.

  80. 80.

    Jennifer

    April 22, 2012 at 12:47 pm

    Stormy Weather. I’m partial to the Billie Holliday version, but lots of folks have done it well.

  81. 81.

    Arm The Homeless

    April 22, 2012 at 12:47 pm

    @MikeJ:

    You Look Like Rain by Morphine

    Nom, Nom, Nom. That’s some tasty baby-makin’ music right there, yo

  82. 82.

    existential fish

    April 22, 2012 at 12:47 pm

    I’m partial to Dry the Rain by the Beta Band (as heard in the high point of High Fidelity, which is no easy task)

  83. 83.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 22, 2012 at 12:48 pm

    @gaz:

    Ooh I love the Saki short story “Sredni Vashtar” but never knew it had inspired a song! Thanks!

  84. 84.

    Montysano

    April 22, 2012 at 12:48 pm

    Jimi Hendrix: Rainy Day, Dream Away. “Lay back and groove on a rainy day”. Certainly one of the most singular albums ever made.

    ETA: Yes, Morphine, yes Tom Waits!

  85. 85.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 12:48 pm

    @Lizzy L:

    That’s a classic. Here’s a nice live version, complete with weird introduction.

  86. 86.

    Comrade Nimrod Humperdink

    April 22, 2012 at 12:48 pm

    Led Zeppelin version of ‘When the Levee Breaks.’ That is all

  87. 87.

    BruceJ

    April 22, 2012 at 12:50 pm

    Rain, Jerry Garcia Band, “Cats Under The Stars”…Donna Godchaux’ lovely voice…

  88. 88.

    Arm The Homeless

    April 22, 2012 at 12:52 pm

    @Comrade Nimrod Humperdink: Used that as an outro during an Emergency Management presentation on the systemic failures during the 1927 Mississippi River floods. No one under 30 had a clue. I was disappointed…

    EDIT: No one has brought up Slayer-Reign In Blood?

  89. 89.

    Watusie

    April 22, 2012 at 12:53 pm

    David Allen Coe’s famously defined the necessary elements of the perfect country & western song (must include mention of mama, trains, trucks, prison, and drinking).

    Which inspired Steve Goodman to write the following immortal supplementary verse to “You Don’t Have to Call Me Darlin’, Darlin’ (You Never Even Called Me By My Name)”:

    I was drunk
    The day my mama
    Got out of prison.
    And I went
    To pick her up
    In the rain
    But before I could get to the station
    In my pick-up truck,
    She got runned over by a danged old train.

    One of the greatest sing-along-songs in divey bars ever.

  90. 90.

    Nina

    April 22, 2012 at 12:53 pm

    Rainbow from the great South Park Chef Aid anthology.

  91. 91.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 12:55 pm

    Holy shnikeys! I got so caught up in the hoopla that I forgot my all-time favorite rain song of all time ever: Jorge Ben Jor’s “Chove Chuva (Constant Rain).”

    Here’s the Brasil ’66 version I heard first.

    And the original.

  92. 92.

    jwb

    April 22, 2012 at 12:57 pm

    @Jennifer: Can’t believe no one mentioned Stormy Weather until comment 77.

  93. 93.

    Nina

    April 22, 2012 at 12:59 pm

    Where there’s rain, there’s Rain Street, The Pogues.

  94. 94.

    patrick II

    April 22, 2012 at 12:59 pm

    @Matoko Borgia-Steeler:

    Yeah, I saw it after I posted. Missed it the first time thru.

  95. 95.

    Friday Jones

    April 22, 2012 at 1:01 pm

    @pepper: AND it’s Homer Simpson’s favorite song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hw3TiwyBDs

  96. 96.

    rea

    April 22, 2012 at 1:03 pm

    Can’t believe nobody has mentioned Clapton until comment 93

  97. 97.

    Friday Jones

    April 22, 2012 at 1:03 pm

    @existential fish: Nice. “I will now sell five copies of “The Three EPs” by The Beta Band.”

  98. 98.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 1:05 pm

    Someone upthread mentioned Elvis’s “Kentucky Rain”. A classic.

    Also, Johnny Rivers, “Summer Rain”.

  99. 99.

    JerryN

    April 22, 2012 at 1:07 pm

    We’ve missed one Dead song (more of a JGB song, ‘tho the boyz played it every now and then) Mission in the Rain

  100. 100.

    Svensker

    April 22, 2012 at 1:08 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Love that song (the Brasil 66 version is the one I knew). Didn’t know it was about rain, though. Which should have been obvious but it wasn’t.

  101. 101.

    David

    April 22, 2012 at 1:09 pm

    Rainy Day Women — I prefer this remake:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6hitAXH1OI

  102. 102.

    maurinsky

    April 22, 2012 at 1:10 pm

    In the Pouring Rain – Spottiswoode & His Enemies
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M519e6-NL_o

  103. 103.

    Friday Jones

    April 22, 2012 at 1:10 pm

    A few others have mentioned Ann Peebles’ “I Can’t Stand the Rain”…just placing my vote.

    Also too, Blind Melon “No Rain”. Still like the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qVPNONdF58&ob=av2e

  104. 104.

    Tom Q

    April 22, 2012 at 1:10 pm

    When I saw how many responses were already here, I assumed all my picks would have been covered. But, unless I missed it, no one’s mentioned Brook Benton’s Rainy Night in Georgia, one of my faves.

  105. 105.

    TG Chicago

    April 22, 2012 at 1:10 pm

    Just like in the ‘days of the week’ thread, I was going to mention Morphine… but thankfully that was already done.

    And I also second Slayer~!

    So all I’ve got left is Africa by Toto. I’m not sure that’s even really a song about rain, but it’s the best I’ve got.

  106. 106.

    Keith

    April 22, 2012 at 1:11 pm

    Rainy Day Dream Away – Jimi Hendrix

  107. 107.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 1:12 pm

    On the jazzy side, Henry Mancini’s “Soldier in the Rain” is evocative. I can’t find Ted Nash’s excellent version from his album The Mancini Project.

    @forked tongue:

    Doesn’t even have to have singing: Stan Getz, “Here’s That Rainy Day.”

  108. 108.

    Schlemizel

    April 22, 2012 at 1:13 pm

    can’t believe nobody has mentioned Lou Cristie’s “Rhapsody In The Rain”

    not that its my fav but everyone else got here first & this thing sticks in my brain some times – ratz

  109. 109.

    Nina

    April 22, 2012 at 1:15 pm

    Rains down in Africa, Toto.

  110. 110.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 1:15 pm

    @Tom Q:

    DougJ mentioned it at the top. Here you go.

  111. 111.

    Jim

    April 22, 2012 at 1:16 pm

    It’s a shame about Sting, considering he used to be kind of cool once.

  112. 112.

    wapsie

    April 22, 2012 at 1:19 pm

    It must have been mentioned somewhere upthread — I can’t believe it hasn’t been — but I didn’t see it: the Beatles’ “Rain” — Lennon at his best mid-60s psychedelic.

    Also Hendrix, “Rainy Day Dream Away”.

  113. 113.

    eemom

    April 22, 2012 at 1:19 pm

    how ’bout Singin In the Rain, Clockwork Orange version?

  114. 114.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 1:22 pm

    This is a good thread. It’s 50° and raining all day here in NoVa. A nice day to cocoon in the man-cave. Might have to break out Kind of Blue or some Erik Satie, my ultimate go-to rain music.

  115. 115.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 1:27 pm

    Tangentially rain-related weather song: Lou Rawls, “Dead End Street.” Another favorite of mine. Love the gradually building horns.

    . . . the hawk, the almighty hawk–Mr. Wind
    takes care plenty bidness ’round wintertime

  116. 116.

    suzanne

    April 22, 2012 at 1:27 pm

    R.E.M.’s “So. Central Rain” and “I’ll Take The Rain”.
    GnR’s “November Rain”. Yeah, shut up, I know.
    Prince’s “Purple Rain”.

  117. 117.

    Hornet

    April 22, 2012 at 1:28 pm

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMQn5quTIYc

  118. 118.

    smintheus

    April 22, 2012 at 1:29 pm

    Irma Thomas, It’s Raining

  119. 119.

    suzanne

    April 22, 2012 at 1:29 pm

    And can I please add FUCK BLIND MELON?!

  120. 120.

    Clime Acts

    April 22, 2012 at 1:30 pm

    MADONNA – RAIN

    One of her best, and most underrated up tempo ballads. Really beautiful. And the video is a stunner.

  121. 121.

    danielx

    April 22, 2012 at 1:32 pm

    The Rain Song, Continental Drifters…sentimental favorite.

  122. 122.

    runt

    April 22, 2012 at 1:35 pm

    Soil Festivities, Movement 1 by Vangelis.

  123. 123.

    handsmile

    April 22, 2012 at 1:39 pm

    A couple more for this soggy Sunday:

    “Tinseltown in the Rain”, The Blue Nile
    “Thunder Cries”, The Golden Palominos

    Polyrock, a Philip Glass-affiliated rock band from the 1980s, did a cover of The Beatles “Rain” that I included among my favorite cover songs on that topic thread a few months back.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av76V0rHVwI

    On these music threads, I love how great songs, evaporated from memory, now flood back.

  124. 124.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 1:41 pm

    Nicky Holland, “Lady Killer.”

    Just one fleeting mention of raindrops deep in this song, but damn if it isn’t a perfect late-night rainy weather song.

    Song starts at 1:50 after the prelude.

  125. 125.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 1:42 pm

    @handsmile:

    On these music threads, I love how great songs, evaporated from memory, now flood back.

    True dat. I’m awash.

  126. 126.

    Will

    April 22, 2012 at 1:45 pm

    “The Rain Song” by Led Zeppelin.

  127. 127.

    Jacel

    April 22, 2012 at 1:46 pm

    “Rainy Day In June” from the same album by The Kinks as “Sunny Afternoon”.

  128. 128.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    April 22, 2012 at 1:48 pm

    Don’t know why
    There’s no sun up in the sky
    Stormy weather….

    and Rain on the Scarecrow, which is pretty much the only Melloncamp song I really like.

  129. 129.

    MikeJ

    April 22, 2012 at 1:51 pm

    @maurinsky: Another fan of Spottiswoode. Saw him at the 9:30 once, bought his CD Ugly Love straight from him.

  130. 130.

    tjmn

    April 22, 2012 at 1:54 pm

    Rain, rain, come my way,
    Make the nasty pollen go away!

  131. 131.

    handsmile

    April 22, 2012 at 1:56 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Pour yourself a potable, put on the Satie and enjoy an afternoon’s cocoon.

    Shostakovich string quartets and a nap will be my own choices. Cheers!

  132. 132.

    gogol's wife

    April 22, 2012 at 1:56 pm

    Of course, everybody’s favorite, Shirley Temple’s “I Love To Walk in the Rain,” by Walter Bullock and Harold Spina.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya02B1zHdbA

  133. 133.

    Punchy

    April 22, 2012 at 2:01 pm

    Roger Daltrey and his Who-sists make me make a choice in “Love, Rain, or Me”

  134. 134.

    chrismealy

    April 22, 2012 at 2:02 pm

    Quasi, “It’s Raining” (which I think is a riff on the Irma Thomas version)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JA9Hfx4TVQ

  135. 135.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 2:02 pm

    @handsmile:

    Cheers to you!

    I have to go out to get a few things, so that will make the cocooning all the more pleasant when I get back. Thinking about a rib-eye and a spud for dinner tonight. Or maybe a pot of chili. Comfort food, anyway.

  136. 136.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 2:04 pm

    An obscure and atypical Buffalo Springfield song: “In the Hour of Not Quite Rain.” Strings just seem to go with rain.

  137. 137.

    alex milstein

    April 22, 2012 at 2:08 pm

    The Beatles “Rain”
    The Cascades “Rhythm of the Rain”
    Lovin’ Spoonful “Rain on the Roof”
    Doug Sahm/Sir Douglas Quintet “The Rains Came”
    Ronettes “Walking in the Rain”
    Cowsills “The Rain, The Park and Other Things”

  138. 138.

    alex milstein

    April 22, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    And though it had nothing to do with rain, how about Bob Dylan and “Rainy Day Women #12 and 35 (Everybody must get stoned)”

  139. 139.

    Splitting Image

    April 22, 2012 at 2:12 pm

    Can’t believe no one has mentioned Mariah Carey’s “Through the Rain”.

    .

    .

    .

    Kidding. I actually can believe it.

  140. 140.

    alex milstein

    April 22, 2012 at 2:13 pm

    Has anybody mentioned Brook Benton’s “Rainy Night in
    Georgia?” His voice was so cool. Then there is Lou Christie and “Rhapsody in the Rain.) Am I showing my age too much?

  141. 141.

    Yutsano

    April 22, 2012 at 2:17 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Thinking about a rib-eye and a spud for dinner tonight. Or maybe a pot of chili.

    If you do this right the shopping list is quite similar.

  142. 142.

    Paul at Predictable Funk

    April 22, 2012 at 2:18 pm

    Etta James, “Cry Like A Rainy Day.”

  143. 143.

    Texpunk

    April 22, 2012 at 2:20 pm

    <a href="“>

    The Waters of March . . . Al Jarreau did it with Oleta Adams

  144. 144.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    @Yutsano:

    Yeah, that’s what I thought. Options open.

  145. 145.

    quannlace

    April 22, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    And if you wanna go way far back-

    “For The Rain, It Raineth Everyday.”- W. Shakespeare

  146. 146.

    MikeJ

    April 22, 2012 at 2:25 pm

    Not strictly about rain, but I Will Wait for You is from Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, which should count for something.

    Catherine Deneuve and eye popping colour. Yum.

  147. 147.

    Mike the dealer

    April 22, 2012 at 2:25 pm

    Only Happy When It Rains may be my favorite song of all time.

  148. 148.

    Mike the dealer

    April 22, 2012 at 2:25 pm

    Only Happy When It Rains may be my favorite song of all time.

  149. 149.

    Yutsano

    April 22, 2012 at 2:26 pm

    @Steeplejack: I myself have no idea what to do for dinner, except I tend to reserve cooking for the week days. And I need to start thinking about the fact that I’ll be gone from here for six weeks soon. It’s still three weeks out but it is rapidly approaching.

  150. 150.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 2:26 pm

    People mentioned “Riders on the Storm” upthread. Yonderboi does a trippy acid-jazz cover.

  151. 151.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 2:27 pm

    @MikeJ:

    Le plus yum!

  152. 152.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 2:30 pm

    @Yutsano:

    Where are you going? For work, I presume.

  153. 153.

    Cmm

    April 22, 2012 at 2:32 pm

    The Springsteen song “Downbound Train” has one of the most perfect lyrics ever: “Now I work down at the carwash / where all it ever does is rain…”. First thing that came to mind.

  154. 154.

    BobS

    April 22, 2012 at 2:33 pm

    Feels Like Rain, by John Hiatt

  155. 155.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 2:33 pm

    A good Peanuts strip for this thread. I couldn’t find the one I really wanted, but this one works too.

  156. 156.

    Jon O

    April 22, 2012 at 2:37 pm

    @chrismealy: Just what I had in mind. Good on you.

  157. 157.

    Libby

    April 22, 2012 at 2:39 pm

    I’m fond of Rain on the Roof and, having a fondness for musicals, I like Singing in the Rain. But my all time forever favorite is by a local artist from when I lived in Northampton, MA. Very old song. Waiting on the Rain by the Herschler Brothers. First verse:

    Took a lover ’cause I wanted one.
    Took some time ’cause I needed some.
    Took advantage, but what’s done is done.
    I’m just waiting on the rain.

    Wish there was some way to post the music.

  158. 158.

    Yutsano

    April 22, 2012 at 2:40 pm

    @Steeplejack: I wish. Post-surgery recovery at my parents. I’ll come back here to check on things and because I’ll have follow-up appointments and such, but for the most part this place will be empty.

  159. 159.

    DougJ, Head of Infidelity

    April 22, 2012 at 2:42 pm

    @Punchy:

    Which would Sully choose?

  160. 160.

    policomic

    April 22, 2012 at 2:46 pm

    @karl: As soon as I saw the post, I searched the comments to see if this song had been mentioned. Thank you, Karl.

  161. 161.

    eemom

    April 22, 2012 at 2:47 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Rain on the Scarecrow

    That is an awesome song. Love the intense, furious guitar/drumbeat.

    youtube

  162. 162.

    handsmile

    April 22, 2012 at 2:47 pm

    And since la francaise has been introduced (#141) ici, permittez-moi to advise that Francois Hollande has just been declared the victor (with 29%) in the first round of the French presidential election today. Sarkozy polled second with 25%; the far-right Marie LePen won a stronger than expected 20%.

    The second-round contest between the two top vote-getters, Hollande and Sarkozy, will be held on May 6. It is widely expected that Hollande, the Socialist Party candidate, will become France’s next president.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/22/francois-hollande-france-election

    Pardon this interruption. Now another quarter for the juke-box, garcon!

  163. 163.

    matscol

    April 22, 2012 at 2:51 pm

    OMD’s “Crush” – ‘I can’t stand this fuckin rain’

  164. 164.

    gogol's wife

    April 22, 2012 at 2:51 pm

    OT, but I keep waiting for an open thread to bring this up. The Times’s Public Editor has a column today, “A Hard Look at the President,” urging the Times to give up its pro-Obama bias and start being more fair in its coverage of Romney. Can you believe it? It ends, “Readers deserve to know: Who is the real Barack Obama? And the Times needs to show that it can address the question in a hard-nosed, unbiased way.” I am furious!

  165. 165.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    April 22, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    Not in the title, but in the second verse of Prefab Sprout’s When Love Breaks Down:

    Oh my, oh my, have you seen the weather
    The sweet September rain
    Rain on me like no other
    Until I drown, until I drown

  166. 166.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    @handsmile:

    Not French but Frenchy: Rêve Bohème, “Rain Waltz.”

  167. 167.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 2:57 pm

    @Yutsano:

    Hope you have a good convalescence. And I presume you’ll stay connected here?

  168. 168.

    trollhattan

    April 22, 2012 at 3:01 pm

    @Montysano: Hard to believe it took 84 posts to come up with this one. Anybody growing up in Seattle knew Jimi was speaking to us, “Lay back and groove…”.

  169. 169.

    Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)

    April 22, 2012 at 3:06 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Tangentially, Eric Dolphy (w/Mal Waldron, Booker Little and rhythm section) Fire Waltz (pt.1)

  170. 170.

    Steve M.

    April 22, 2012 at 3:06 pm

    Chopin’s Raindrop Prelude?

  171. 171.

    Amir Khalid

    April 22, 2012 at 3:07 pm

    There’s this Jose Feliciano number, Listen to The Falling Rain, that I remember from my childhood.

  172. 172.

    Yutsano

    April 22, 2012 at 3:10 pm

    @Steeplejack: The plan is to liveblog as much as I can, since I will at least have my Crackberry. There will more than likely be more details when I’m actually home and on the loopy drugs. Those posts will be fun!

  173. 173.

    Bob Munck

    April 22, 2012 at 3:10 pm

    Don’t forget the rather strange one about sex in a Pacer, Bohemian Rhapsody in the Rain.

  174. 174.

    DougJ, Head of Infidelity

    April 22, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    @eemom:

    From a real heartland liberal!

  175. 175.

    trollhattan

    April 22, 2012 at 3:14 pm

    Also, too, Beatles’ “Fixing a Hole.”

  176. 176.

    Douglas

    April 22, 2012 at 3:20 pm

    I See The Rain by the Marmalade — classic.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCn61DuBrgo

  177. 177.

    eemom

    April 22, 2012 at 3:26 pm

    @gogol’s wife:

    How utterly, pathetically revolting.

    The thing is though, it is SO not worth getting one’s blood pressure up over that shit. The explanation is so simple. Those fucking leeches are gonna DIE without a horserace to suck on for the next seven months, and deep down in their stale candy hearts they know they’re not gonna get one. They’re gonna shrivel up and die on the sidewalk.

    It is desperation, nothing more.

  178. 178.

    joel hanes

    April 22, 2012 at 3:26 pm

    Not a song, but Ezra Pound :

    Ancient Music

    Winter is icumen in,
    Lhude sing Goddamm,
    Raineth drop and staineth slop,
    And how the wind doth ramm!
    Sing : Goddamm.
    Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,
    An ague has my ham.
    Freezeth river, turneth liver,
    Damn you, sing : Goddamm.
    Goddamm, Goddamm, ’tis why I am, Goddamm,
    So ‘gainst winter’s balm.
    Sing goddamm, damm, sing Goddamm,
    Sing Goddamm, sing goddamm, DAMM.

  179. 179.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 3:30 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Damn, I forgot that! One of my favorite George Harrison guitar solos. Real simple, but he keeps going down, down, down.

  180. 180.

    miserybob

    April 22, 2012 at 3:31 pm

    @karl: Isn’t This a Lovely Day?

    Yep. Karl wins thread. Specifically the Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong version on Verve. In fact, go now and purchase “The Complete Ella and Louis on Verve”, 3 CD set. On it is the answer to every “What’s the best song about…” question.

  181. 181.

    spaceman_spiff

    April 22, 2012 at 3:33 pm

    Surprised no one mentioned The Cult, “Rain”.

    Then again, not really.

  182. 182.

    Lynn Dee

    April 22, 2012 at 3:33 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Ha! I loved this song — The Rain, the Park and Other Things — way back when.

  183. 183.

    Lynn Dee

    April 22, 2012 at 3:35 pm

    @PeorgieTirebiter:

    Blue Umbrella is a favorite of mine too.

  184. 184.

    Amir Khalid

    April 22, 2012 at 3:37 pm

    Also, Kathy’s Song by Paul Simon, not least for this sublime final verse:

    And as I watch the drops of rain
    Weave their weary paths and die
    I know that I am like the rain:
    There but for the grace of you go I

  185. 185.

    Todd Dugdale

    April 22, 2012 at 3:37 pm

    James Gang “Ashes, the Rain, and I”

  186. 186.

    eemom

    April 22, 2012 at 3:53 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    Excellent choice — and that really is a rain song.

    I have literally loved Paul Simon ever since I was a kid and first heard El Condor Pasa on the radio. I googled recently to find out who Kathy was — she was a British girlfriend he was with in London in the years before his career really took off. She also appears in the song America (“Kathy, I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh…”)

    They broke up reportedly because she didn’t want to move to the U.S. and do the fame & fortune thing.

  187. 187.

    forked tongue

    April 22, 2012 at 3:59 pm

    There are a lot of songs about rain mentioned in this thread, but I can’t help feeling the category of “good,” much less “best” songs about rain is getting stretched a bit. That said, I wonder whether anyone else has heard the insanely hooky “Some Other Sucker’s Parade” by Del Amitri:

    Patience they say is a saintly virtue
    But hell, why should I wait
    ‘Til the clouds go rain on some other sucker’s parade?

  188. 188.

    forked tongue

    April 22, 2012 at 4:01 pm

    Ooh, maybe the bestest of them all, Magnetic Fields’ “All the Umbrellas in London”:

    All the umbrellas in London couldn’t stop this rain
    And all the dope in New York couldn’t kill this pain
    And all the money in Tokyo couldn’t make me stay
    All the umbrellas in London couldn’t stop this rain

  189. 189.

    Sonora

    April 22, 2012 at 4:08 pm

    Johnny Lang – Still Raining

  190. 190.

    handsmile

    April 22, 2012 at 4:08 pm

    @eemom: (#186)

    I have literally loved Paul Simon

    In what sense, enquiring minds want to know. “Literally”?

    I googled recently to find out who Kathy was

    Is “googling” a euphemism for on-line stalking in this case? Your personal biography continues to intrigue. :)

    ETA: Of course, “I googled recently…” should be in block quotes. I’ll never learn it seems, aka FYWP.

  191. 191.

    suzanne

    April 22, 2012 at 4:16 pm

    @Amir Khalid: That is a perfect song. Absolutely perfect in every way. Even though Paul Simon is more of my parents’ generation, I just have always adored his music. I still listen to Graceland in its entirety probably more than any other album.

    @Yutsano: Hugs, and you MUST entertain me while inebriated!

  192. 192.

    barkleyg

    April 22, 2012 at 4:22 pm

    @mistermix:

    AGREED!

  193. 193.

    piratedan

    April 22, 2012 at 4:23 pm

    @Steeplejack: aye, ty steeple, you know how those you tubes go

    maybe this one will be better

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwDh-xea40s

  194. 194.

    schrodinger's cat

    April 22, 2012 at 4:25 pm

    I love the rains, especially monsoon. Nobody does monsoon songs better than Hindi movies.

    1. Rim Zhim gire sawaan South Bombay in the rains, in the 70’s.

    2. Ghanan Ghanan Praying for the much elusive rain in Lagaan, music by Rehman, much better than the stuff he did for Slum Dog millionaire.

  195. 195.

    MikeJ

    April 22, 2012 at 4:29 pm

    @spaceman_spiff: I mentioned it.

    Howzabout the Violent Femmes, I Hear the Rain.

  196. 196.

    PeorgieTirebiter

    April 22, 2012 at 4:32 pm

    @Steeplejack: Likely atypical because the lyrics were the winning submission to a contest run by KHJ-Radio. Back when they ruled the am airwaves on the west coast and Humble Harve was yet to be convicted of murder. Good times.

  197. 197.

    Comrade Mary

    April 22, 2012 at 4:39 pm

    Yep, it’s raining in Rochester. Hotel room is nice, though.

  198. 198.

    Bruce S

    April 22, 2012 at 5:23 pm

    If you’re gonna listen to Just Walkin’ in the Rain, go back to the Prisonaires. They wrote it. In prison.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSvvYcqQg-A

  199. 199.

    Bruce S

    April 22, 2012 at 5:31 pm

    Stan Getz – Sweet Rain (the song and the whole album)

    Also, not sure if this one has been mentioned, but Fogerty/Creedence’ “Who’ll Stop the Rain” was a good ’60s “rain=ruination” song in the “Hard Rain” tradition.

  200. 200.

    Steeplejack

    April 22, 2012 at 7:17 pm

    @PeorgieTirebiter:

    Hmm, that’s very interesting. Thanks for the info.

  201. 201.

    mak

    April 22, 2012 at 8:14 pm

    Patty Griffin, “Rain” http://www.izlemex.tv/rain-patty-griffin/

  202. 202.

    Hawes

    April 22, 2012 at 8:50 pm

    @mak: Man, I read the whole thread waiting to see if anyone had the Patty Griffin song.

    So I guess I will go with the New, Sober Ryan Adams:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp_7-OW_YuU

  203. 203.

    Hawes

    April 22, 2012 at 9:02 pm

    Oh, from the same session:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJchhPoQfBc&feature=relmfu

  204. 204.

    mak

    April 22, 2012 at 10:27 pm

    @Hawes:
    Yeah, I got about ten posts in before I decided to do a text search.

  205. 205.

    blink

    April 22, 2012 at 10:57 pm

    Olu Dara has Rain Shower for you.

  206. 206.

    4jkb4ia

    April 22, 2012 at 11:39 pm

    “I Think It’s Going To Rain Today”, although that has probably been named 10 times by now.

  207. 207.

    4jkb4ia

    April 22, 2012 at 11:42 pm

    @Arm The Homeless:

    Great song, but more about Henderson the Rain King than rain itself.

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