Is there another nation that has produced as many rain songs per head of population?
Garbage – Happy When It Rains;
Jesus and Mary Chain – Happy When It Rains, 9 Million Rainy Days;
Travis – Why Does It Always Rain On Me?;
The Eurythmics – Here Comes The Rain Again;
The Beta Band – Dry The Rain;
The KLF – Make It Rain;
Fairground Attraction – Moon On The Rain;
Jackie Leven – Another Man’s Rain;
John Martyn – Acid Rain, Hole In The Rain, Patterns In The Rain.
Big Country – Rain Dance.
And the opening lyric to Chance is “All the rain came down on the cold new town”
Dean Owens-Raining in Glasgow
The Blue Nile ~ Tinseltown In The Rain
Del Amitri – Spit in the Rain
Deacon Blue – Raintown
And Hatful of Rain by Del Amitri.
Bay City Rollers – Another Rainy Day In New York City
In fact, let’s ‘ave it…
Another Man’s Rain/Jackie Leven.
If only I had thought of that one.
OK, I’ll read harder next time….
The History of Rain/Jackie Leven.
This is the John Rebus tribute song; Ian Rankin then tried to pay tribute to it by titling a book after it.
He called the book Standing in another man’s grave.
Aztec Camera: High Land, Hard Rain
Not forgetting 40 Days of Rain by Roddy Frame
Twas ever thus. Here’s Rabbie.
The wintry west extends his blast,
And hail and rain does blaw;
Or, the stormy north sends driving forth
The blinding sleet and snaw:
While tumbling brown, the burn comes down,
And roars frae bank to brae;
And bird and beast in covert rest,
And pass the heartless day.
Archie Fisher – Mountain Rain
Bert Jansch – Brought With the Rain
Average White Band – Stop the Rain.
Going slightly off piste can we allow Marc Ellington ? He moved here from the USA in 67 and eventually became Laird of the villages of Gardenstown and Crovie in Aberdeenshire.
He wrote and recorded Rains/Reins of Changes.
If he was Laird of the villages of Gardenstown and Crovie in Aberdeenshire, then surely he was only a short step away from becoming a Duke? With a surname like Ellington, I feel he would have make an excellent Duke.
Did he call himself Duke after the iron Duke – as there’s just a ‘W’ between their surnames?
Not forgetting:-
Dawn of The Rain Girls – Doll by Doll
Highland Rain – Doll by Doll
Feels Like Rain But Isn’t – Sir Vincent Lone
~ Jackie Leven, a one man cloud seeder.
Silencers – Scottish Rain
Al Stewart – Clifton in the Rain
With all this wet weather, I think I need to get the old wellies oot!
Blue Rose Code – Glasgow Rain
Capercaillie – Stinging Rain
Although I do wonder if this is an exercise in confirmation bias – I mean, there are a LOT of songs about rain. There’s even one by a bunch of non-Scots called Rain….
There was even a band of non-Scots called Rain. I wonder what happened to them?
Changed their name to Gutter?
Isn’t there a song by Simple Minds that goes ‘Kah-jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang! (sound of 80s power chord) Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooof! (sounds of 80s snare drum) ‘Whoa-ohhhh! Whoa-ohhhh! Come out of the rain! Kah-jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang! Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooof!’ (etc etc)
That’d be Waterfront!
The Silencers, Scottish Rain.
Very strange, as it never rains in Scotland …
Well they say write what you know about!
Having moved from the west central belt to Lincolnshire, there’s definitely a difference in levels of precipitation!