- Grateful Dead, "Box of Rain"
- Fleetwood Mac, "Dreams"
- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, "Tupelo"
- Willie Nelson, "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"
- Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?"
- The Beatles, "Rain"
- The Temptations, "I Wish it Would Rain"
- Tom Waits, "Rains on Me"
- Guns N' Roses, "November Rain"
- Morphine, "You Look Like Rain"
- Neil Young, "See the Sky About to Rain"
- Sonic Youth, "Rain on Tin"
- Queensrÿche, "Another Rainy Night (Without You)"
- Slayer, "Raining Blood"
- The Pogues, "Rainy Night in Soho"
- Prince & The Revolution, "Purple Rain"
I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to pick between Led Zeppelin's "The Rain Song," "When the Levee Breaks" and "Fool in the Rain," and ended up ditching all of them when I realized I already had three other eight-minute songs. Maybe they'll get on the next one, but with the recipient in mind I gave priority to Neil Young, The Temptations and Fleetwood Mac. Still, I couldn't resist up filling the metal quota with prime Slayer and Queensrÿche. There's really no use in putting anything next to "Raining Blood," to the point where I'm worried that even the awesome "Another Rainy Night" and the tender "Rainy Night in Soho" have been reduced to palate-cleansers.
Finally, Tom Waits has apparently written a song about everything, having now appeared on my theme mixes for rain, cars, New York, L.A., moving, trains, phones, cats, dogs and clothes. "Rains on Me" is from the original Free the West Memphis 3 album.
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I've made myself at least a couple of different rain mixes over the years (when i moved to, and away from, the pacific northwest at bare minimum). I'm surprised so many of my favorites didn't even get a mention! My love of Roy Orbison's "raindrops" won't surprise you. Those rare occasions it rains here in Los Angeles, I somehow always get "April Showers" from Bambi stuck in my head, even though I haven't seen that movie since I was a little kid. I'm partial to Neko Case's cover of "Buckets of Rain" (speaking of Dylan) and Sunshowers, by MIA, and there was a period of a couple years when I put Nick Drake's song "Rain" on every mix I made. You could two completely separate mixes based on a positive vs. negative perspective on rain.
Wow, I'd like to see those! You and I should do an exchange.
Other good choices:
Alice in Chains, "Rain When I Die"
Blind Melon, "No Rain"
Bobby "Blue" Bland, "Stormy Monday"
Charley Patton, "Devil Sent the Rain Blues"
CCR, "Who'll Stop the Rain"
Frank Sinatra, "Stormy Weather" and "Here's That Rainy Day"
Hüsker Dü, "Standing in the Rain"
In Flames, "Artifacts of the Black Rain
Jimi Hendrix, "Rainy Day, Dream Away" and "One Rainy Wish"
Joni Mitchell, "Rainy Night House"
King's X, "Sunshine Rain" and "April Showers"
Misery Signals, "The Stinging Rain"
Nick Cave, "Ain't Gonna Rain Anymore"
Peter Gabriel, "Red Rain"
Pixies, "Stormy Weather"
R.E.M., "So. Central Rain"
Radiohead, "The Gloaming"
Ray Charles, "Come Rain or Come Shine"
The Red Chord, "Send the Death Storm"
Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Naked in the Rain"
Rolling Stones, "Rain Fall Down"
SikTh, "Summer Rain"
Sonic Youth, "Rain King"
Taj Mahal, "Light Rain Blues"
Thom Yorke, "And it Rained All Night"
Tom Petty, "Louisiana Rain"
Tom Waits, "A Little Rain," "Rain Dogs," "Make it Rain," "Rainbirds"
A Tribe Called Quest, "Go Ahead in the Rain"
The Velvet Underground, "Hey Mr. Rain"
Violent Femmes, "I Hear the Rain" and "It's Gonna Rain"
Waylon Jennings, "Rainy Day Woman"
Whiskeytown, "Sit and Listen to the Rain"
The White Stripes, "Red Rain"
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