The 20 Best Songs About Rain (according to NME)

ok, maybe another...

 

The Cult not being on this list renders it completely useless to me.

 

Some more:

Neil Sedaka: Laughter In The Rain
Bruce Hornsby and The Range: Mandolin Rain
Stephen Bishop: Save It For A Rainy Day
The Fortunes: Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again

 

Can't believe no one mentioned this yet, Barry Manilow,"I Made It Through the Rain"

 

Actually there is another Manilow song called "Rain", from his "One Voice" album

 

I Love this song, psychedelic classic from Traffic, "Coloured Rain", that organ playing on the chorus is just great

 

A lot of good choices here, but I really like Patricia Barber's Let It Rain which first appeared on her Modern Cool album (the song is also on her live Companion album).

 

Four pages without a mention of 'Crying in the Rain' by the Everly Brothers ...

 

“Rain” Ian Hunter

 

Rain of the red variety:

 

Fairport Convention - Eastern Rain

From Fairport Convention's second album "What We Did on Our Holidays", released in 1969 on Island Records.

Beautiful Joni Mitchell song.
However, never released by Joni herself.

"Rain comes from the east one night
We watch it come
To hang like beaded curtains
Till the morning sun
Water dripping from our clothes
You with raindrops on your nose
Ask me sadly "Please don't go away now"
Till the rain is done, I say
"I'll stay now""

 

and the Dramatics ...

 

The Searchers - What Have They Done to the Rain?

 

NME missed Kate Bush's Cloudbusting?



Every time it rains
You're here in my head
Like the sun's coming out...

 

One of the first songs I thought of.

Darryl

 

yup

 

Yup

 

One for the kids...

 

Most of my favourites have been mentioned. Except my favourite Elvis song

 

Big purple fan , but the Eurythmics song seems definitive