“Shadows in the Rain” - Sting. The Police version is crap, look for the jazzier later versions, like on* The Dream of the Blue Turtles*.
“Songs About Rain” - Gary Allan
Dry the Rain - The Beta Band
Wash in the Rain - A Band of Bees
The Rains Came - Big Sambo and The Housewreckers
Rainy Day - Philamore Lincoln
The North Wind Blew South - Headless Heroes (Philamore Lincoln cover)
The Winter Is Cold - Wendy & Bonnie
Streets Were Raining - Pyramid
Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall - Ella Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots
Cloudbusting - Kate Bush
Grey Weather - Gregory & The Hawk
Cold Song - Clare Burson
Winter - The Rolling Stones
The Storm - The Doves
This is a Low - Blur
I Wish it Would Rain - The Temptations
Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) - The Arcade Fire
William, It Was Really Nothing - The Smiths
A pair by Credence Clearwater Revival.
Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
Who’ll Stop The Rain?
This is just fabulous, by the Saw Doctors.
Will it ever stop raining?
“Everytime it Rains” by Randy Newman
Snow (Jesse Winchester) – great song by a Southerner who fled to Canada to beat the draft.
It’s Cold Outside (The Choir): “And now it’s cold outside/And the rain is pouring down…” Garage classic.
The Dark and the Rolling Sea (Al Stewart)
Early Morning Rain (Gordon Lightfoot)
There are, or course, a number of holiday-themed songs about snow, such as “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” and “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”.
Not a depressing song – but a rather disturbing one, if you’ve seen A Clockwork Orange.
Rhapsody In The Rain: Lou Christy
Mississippi Cotton Pickin’ Delta Town: Charlie Pride
Texas Flood: Stevie Ray Vaughn
Goodtime Charlie’s Got The Blues: Danny O’Keefe
“I Wish It Would Rain Down” Phil Collins
Baby, The Rain Must Fall: Glenn Yarbrough
For The Good Times: Ray Price (one of the all-time saddest songs)
Ghost Riders in the Sky.
Lute, that is one of the best songs every written…It has given me chills and made me moody since I was two years old.
Storm at Sunrise – Gino Vanelli
They Call The Wind Mariah: various artists (from the musical, Paint Your Wagon)
Long Black Veil: Johnny Cash (She visits my grave when the night winds wail)
Knock On Wood: Eddie Floyd (It’s like thunder, lightening; the way you love me is frightening)
Here comes that rainy day feeling again, by The Fortunes.
Wilder Than Her - Fred Eaglesmith
“…she’s a summer storm, I’m a hurricane,
one just blows through town,
the other, blows the town away…”
Here Comes The Rain Again: The Eurythmics