# Storm songs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 19, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050 "2008-04-19T22:43:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![The\_Them](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@The\_Them](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Them)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050/41 "2008-04-20T03:06:22Z")
This is not possible. Nobody’s mentioned **Love, Reign O’er Me** by The Who? and **All Along the Watchtower,** Jimi Hendrix’s cover being far superior to Bob Dylan’s. Big seconds for **Windy** (The Association) and **Storms in Africa,** by Enya, with emphasis on **Part II** which has lots more thunder/rainfall noises. ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050/42 "2008-04-20T03:08:35Z")
Guns & Roses’ **Civil War** ends with thunder and rain, if memory serves. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050/43 "2008-04-20T03:31:15Z")
[Like the Weather](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JVmpg7oD7o) - 10,000 Maniacs _What a cold and a rainy day Where on earth is the sun hid away?_ **fisha** , I’m with you on “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” though I think maybe I like the Ray Charles version best. There was a [pretty good bit featuring this song in the movie _Elf_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9re6CQZGFw). ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050/44 "2008-04-20T03:35:36Z")
Are there copyright/usage issues with using these songs on a website? I nominate [**The Four Seasons**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_(Vivaldi)) by Vivaldi. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050/45 "2008-04-20T04:43:47Z")
_Storm Windows_ - John Prine _Southern Rain_ - Cowboy Junkies _Wind and Rain_ - any number of artists… I’m partial to Gillian Welch or Jerry Garcia/David Grisman. _Hickory Wind_ - Gram Parsons _Wicked Rain_ - Los Lobos _Fistful of rain_ - Warren Zevon _Cold Rain and Snow_ - Grateful Dead ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050/46 "2008-04-20T04:47:10Z")
“When The Rain Came Down” [mp3 download](http://wretchawry.com/happy/samples/HappyRhodes_Ecto15_WhenTheRainCameDown_CDbonustrack.mp3) (authorized download) [YouTube live version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zzcMmfGBjY) ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050/47 "2008-04-20T04:57:18Z")
Led Zeppelin’s \*\*[When the Levee Breaks](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=464146) \*\* ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050/48 "2008-04-20T12:30:54Z")
_[Tupelo](http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858566365)_, by **Nick Cave** and The Bad Seeds (about a storm & Elvis’ birth & the End of The World, loosely based on Hooker’s _Tupelo Blues_) off [url=[The Firstborn Is Dead - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Firstborn_Is_Dead)]_The Firstborn is Dead_[/ul] starts with storm noises,then a driving heart/train beat, with it’s lovely refrain of “Black Rain Come Down!” and imagery like “You can say these streets are rivers, you can call these rivers streets”. ---
**Author:** ![fervour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@fervour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fervour)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050/49 "2008-04-20T12:59:59Z")
If you need something really head-banging there’s always _Stormbringer_ by Deep Purple ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050/50 "2008-04-20T13:44:11Z")
I remember a whole album called something like _One Stormy Night_. Can’t remember who did it; combination of instrumental music and rainy sound effects. Very nice as background for an extended romantic interlude. ETA: Google is our friend. Apparently it was put out by the Mystic Moods Orchestra. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050/51 "2008-04-20T13:49:17Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] I remember a whole album called something like _One Stormy Night_. Can’t remember who did it; combination of instrumental music and rainy sound effects. Very nice as background for an extended romantic interlude. ETA: Google is our friend. Apparently it was put out by the Mystic Moods Orchestra. [/QUOTE] Nice find! I had wanted to suggest that one myself. We had a tape of that to go to sleep by. We led into the storm sounds with The Doors’ _Riders on the Storm_ so there was approaching half an hour of soothing rain and thunder to drift off to. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050/52 "2008-04-20T18:17:10Z")
_Trying to Reason With Hurricane Season_, Jimmy Buffet [Cannibals](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/mark+knopfler/cannibals_20089321.html) , Mark Knopler ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050/53 "2008-04-20T21:46:46Z")
PLEASE tell me you aren’t going to have this music play automatically on the site? There are only a few things that a website can do that will make me instantly close the window and put it on my “never ever ever ever revisit” list, and one of them is having music start up all by itself. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050/54 "2008-04-20T22:11:02Z")
[Mr. Blue Sky](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98P-gu_vMRc) - Electric Light Orchestra ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050/55 "2008-04-20T22:11:08Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] PLEASE tell me you aren’t going to have this music play automatically on the site? There are only a few things that a website can do that will make me instantly close the window and put it on my “never ever ever ever revisit” list, and one of them is having music start up all by itself. [/QUOTE] No, I am not going to. I agree that instamusic is highly annoying, especially when it comes blaring out. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050/56 "2008-04-20T22:20:41Z")
Ok whew. Carry on! ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050/57 "2008-04-20T22:34:26Z")
The Cloudburst movement from Ferde Grofe’s [Grand Canyon Suite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon_Suite) has fantastic musical storm sound effects. As kids, we used to like to act out what it would be like to be caught in such a storm. Definitely worth your consideration! ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050/58 "2008-04-20T23:00:42Z")
[Here Comes the Flood](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww9JS8dJ9fY) - Peter Gabriel ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050/59 "2008-04-20T23:09:12Z")
[QUOTE=ShermanAter] One of my favorites: Stevie Ray Vaughan Texas Flood Written by - L.C. Davis & J.W. Scott From - Texas Flood … [/QUOTE] Sample [here](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00136RU4Y/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk3?ie=UTF8&qid=1208732067&sr=1-10) [Couldn’t Stand the Weather](http://www.amazon.com/Couldnt-Weather-Stevie-Vaughan-Trouble/dp/B00000ICN6/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1208732067&sr=1-12) [The Sky is Crying](http://www.amazon.com/Crying-Stevie-Vaughan-Double-Trouble/dp/B0000027KO/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1208732188&sr=1-14) [sniff] Damn, I miss SRV ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050/60 "2008-04-21T01:33:23Z")
Johnny Cash’s [“Five Feet Hight and Rising”](http://www.last.fm/music/Johnny+Cash/_/Five+Feet+High+and+Rising) (click arrow to play). More Dylan–[“Idiot Wind.”](http://youtube.com/watch?v=UDZvP7T3B30) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storm-songs/446050.md?page=4)