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Dogwood
12-08-2016, 03:00
What are you favorite songs that keep you in a positive state of mind when it's raining.

Enya - Storms in Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XADqpiLCsM

Eric Clapton - Let it Rain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y86kDFaJ2h4

The Alarm - Rain the Summertime https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D6pPgwafq0

Singing In the Rain - Gene Kelly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w40ushYAaYA

Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljIQo1OHkTI

B.J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hziG9Nr6KHU As slow as it is I still get a good vibe from the optimism in the lyrics and tempo it builds

Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7k0a5hYnSI

CCR - Who'll Stop the Rain - http://westpalmbeat.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2011/06/14/20-greatest-rain-songs-of-all-time/

Dogwood
12-08-2016, 03:50
Somewhere Over the Rainbow Israel Kamakawaiwo'ole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_DKWlrA24k

Bring On the Rain Jo Dee Messina & Tim McGraw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWYRfsjBNQk

Rain - Madonna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IKMXfI5hzE Pop but still like it. Like the way it was directed too.

I can See Clearly now - Johnny Nash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FscIgtDJFXg

jjozgrunt
12-08-2016, 04:52
CCR - Have you ever seen the Rain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4flAZEgtjs
Pink and her Father - I have seen the Rain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJrftgq6KKw
Josh Turner - Lay Low - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV9EgMG8GK0
Keith Urban - Raining on Sunday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71KzB73Bv34
John Williamson - Raining on the Rock - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZNOLCeGZH0
Buddy Holly - Raining in my Heart - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLeZof1wGps
The Rolling Stones - Rain Fall Down - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvvJbxl4Vmk
Eurythmics - Here comes the Rain Again - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzFnYcIqj6I
Guns N' Roses - November Rain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SbUC-UaAxE&list=RD8SbUC-UaAxE#t=108
James Taylor - Fire and Rain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3uaXCJcRrE&list=RDC3uaXCJcRrE#t=45
The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5aZJBLAu1E&list=RDl5aZJBLAu1E#t=69
Carpenters - Rainy Days and Mondays - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjFoQxjgbrs&list=RDPjFoQxjgbrs#t=3
Phil Collins - I wish it Would Rain Down - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN6Sw3Rh6ug&list=RDUN6Sw3Rh6ug#t=40
Janis Joplin - I can't stand the Rain - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnFz6W-gkis&list=RDFnFz6W-gkis#t=0

Venchka
12-08-2016, 10:01
The Doors - Riders On The Storm
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lS-af9Q-zvQ
Wayne


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Venchka
12-08-2016, 10:07
The Who [emoji1280] Love, Reign o'er Me
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wJLf6UCGVj4
Wayne


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Venchka
12-08-2016, 10:10
★ Tina Turner ★ I Can't Stand The Rain ★ [1984] ★ "Private Dancer" ★
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg8VmWVNjUQ



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Just Bill
12-08-2016, 10:32
"The Rain Song" Led Zeppelin

Not original, not clever... but dude that's an amazing song. Houses of the Holy makes a solid end to end play too from back when people made an album not a single. :D

When it's crappy (or more accurately I'm feeling crappy) my 'Long Songs' playlist or a good album I like start to finish.

"People used to make records
As in a record of an event
The event of people Playing music in a room
Now everything is cross-marketing
It's about sunglasses and shoes "

'Fuel' Ani Difranco

Puddlefish
12-08-2016, 10:38
Little Black Rain Cloud. Winnie the Pooh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NitBpJaom5k

Tut tut, it looks like rain.

Old Grouse
12-08-2016, 13:26
"I wish It Would Rain" - Nanci Griffith

H I T C H
12-08-2016, 13:57
Ridge Road - Dance in the Rain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP911IyhDrk

Hitch

jfarrell04
12-08-2016, 14:32
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall - Robert Zimmerman

Sarcasm the elf
12-08-2016, 14:35
https://youtu.be/qTlkVTwMLFs

https://youtu.be/qTlkVTwMLFs

johnnybgood
12-08-2016, 14:36
Cracker -- Another song about the Rain

http://crackersoul.com/track/505317/another-song-about-the-rain

tak2w
12-08-2016, 16:31
Ronnie Milsap - Smokie Mountain Rain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a30R_drH2GA

swisscross
12-08-2016, 16:51
"Cold, Rain and Snow" - The Grateful Dead
"Rain drops keep fallin' on my Head" - many versions

JaketheFake
12-09-2016, 13:32
"Cold, Rain and Snow" - The Grateful Dead
"Rain drops keep fallin' on my Head" - many versions

and Looks Like Rain... I suggest 6/16/85. Definately listened to this many times on my hike. Also...Soulshine by Allmans and Claptons Let it Rain.

evyck da fleet
12-09-2016, 14:25
+1 for The Rain Song.

I'm only happy when it rains - Garbage.

and because I drift on tangents...

Black hole sun - Soundgarden and
Snow (hey oh) - RHCP

rocketsocks
12-09-2016, 15:04
"Rainy night in Georgia"

Dogwood
12-09-2016, 19:25
and Looks Like Rain... I suggest 6/16/85. Definately listened to this many times on my hike. Also...Soulshine by Allmans and Claptons Let it Rain.

Soul shine by Allmans Another song I missed. THX

map man
12-09-2016, 20:21
If rain makes me feel a bit somber, rather than fighting it with a cheery song, I find it can be useful sometimes to embrace the somber. So the song that comes to mind is Randy Newman's "I think it's going to rain today." Here is a version I really like by Dusty Springfield:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHk5zs4ll44

Studlintsean
12-09-2016, 21:11
"Box of Rain"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4SqDx1vi4c

johnnybgood
12-10-2016, 00:34
Cracker - Another Song About the Rain ---unplugged
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcEwNHWXrdg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcEwNHWXrdg)

Alligator
12-10-2016, 04:14
I love a rainy night-Eddie Rabbitt https://youtube.com/watch?v=CXXn8sANoj4

rafe
12-10-2016, 09:58
I wish I were a headlight on a northbound train
I'd shine my light through the cool Colorado rain...

(I Know You Rider)

MkBibble
12-11-2016, 11:58
https://youtu.be/ksdhyAtgayc

made this about a year ago. some off my pictures. a lot of pictures from wb.

rafe
12-11-2016, 12:32
Patti Smith. A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall. If this doesn't move you, you're dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVXQaOhpfJU

Venchka
12-11-2016, 20:39
Early Morning Rain
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KP_MDIYhPH0
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0OCnHNk2Hac
Enjoy.
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gollwoods
12-12-2016, 10:40
https://youtu.be/i7_Tc469nWQ

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Bearleg
12-12-2016, 11:00
Bill Withers, " Ain't No Sunshine"

kjbrown
12-12-2016, 13:50
I usuay go a different route, when it is raining I like to listen to Sunshine songs to keep moving, one f my favorites is Walking on Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves :)

Dennis.OnthegO
12-13-2016, 09:22
My go to wet hiking theme song is "Keep On Smiling" by Wet Willie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg0BNTebcbY

Don H
12-14-2016, 07:53
"Fire on the Mountain", Marshall Tucker Band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4a40FjB_sM

saltysack
12-15-2016, 11:33
https://youtu.be/I8OVC7oUiGM


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Deer Hunter
12-15-2016, 12:13
"Rainy night in Georgia"

I like this version the best.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr5djzzeA3M

Dogwood
12-18-2016, 14:14
Xavier Rudd - Follow the Sun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E1bNmyPWww

It's always sunny if it's in your heart.

Greenlight
12-18-2016, 14:38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFvWU7KfNxw

"...hey, stormy weather, which way you travelin' today?
hey, let me know, I'll go the other way."

Thom Pace, "Wear the Sun in your Heart/Maybe medley"

applejack
12-18-2016, 16:33
um, did someone mention 'i'm only happy when it rains'? garbage

AfterParty
12-18-2016, 16:39
I know not one song listed apparently my music tastes differ

Dogwood
12-18-2016, 19:06
Nice one Greenlight. Going to add it to the list. You must have sensed I'm a sap for the message/lyrics in a song. :)

rocketsocks
12-18-2016, 22:24
I like this version the best.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr5djzzeA3M...and now so do I, thanks! :) Man he can hit that low note.

wishbone
12-18-2016, 22:41
You Are My Sunshine

Highway Man
12-20-2016, 14:09
This is the song I often sang to myself at the early stage of my NB thru hike,
Del Shannon - "Runaway"
.....
I'm a-walkin' in the rain
Tears are fallin' and I feel the pain
Wishin' you were here by me
To end this misery
.....

Recalc
12-20-2016, 15:57
It's Gonna Rain - Lucinda Williams

johnspenn
12-21-2016, 13:12
Blind Melon- No Rain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Miec205fvnE

Dave Matthews- Grave Digger "Grave Digger, when you dig my grave, won't you make it shallow, so that I can feel the rain?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skEwfH_loX8

Theosus
12-21-2016, 21:37
When I'm hiking I dont really listen to much music, I hum a lot and sing under my breath. Oddly one of the songs that sticks in my head in the old Soviet Union anthem. I guess I watched "Hunt for Red October" too many times. The other is Beethoven's 9th symphont, the choral part (Ode to Joy). However, after rolling my ankle twice in 100 yards once hike, I started swearing a blue streak. I don't shun "curse words". I enjoy swearing, and have refined it into an art form, inventing new ones when old words wear out. This particular hike, I was humming the 9th (just the music, I don't speak German), when I rolled my ankle the second time. So I started singing the "F" word to the tune of Ode to Joy. It's incredibly absurd, one of the most beautiful pieces of music set down by the hand of man, with the lyrics replaced by one of the most offensive words in English.
So now when I'm feeling bad or tired or the weather is nasty, I stroll along and sing "Beethoven's 9th Symphookny in F Major". It's guaranteed to make me feel better.

rocketsocks
12-22-2016, 19:04
Like the rain~Clint Black

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9gcds0xLgXA

Dogwood
12-22-2016, 19:19
Thank you. Many new ones. Like that RS.

rocketsocks
12-22-2016, 22:00
Thank you. Many new ones. Like that RS.My Dad went to school with his Dad...they called him G.A. Black, Gwen Augustus if I recall correctly.

rocketsocks
12-22-2016, 22:17
Aw man, just read his father took his own life a few years back after his wife died.
http://tasteofcountry.com/clint-black-dad-suicide/

Slack-jawed Trog
01-03-2017, 21:42
Yay, rain songs! I've pretty much learned to embrace the suck. Except cold, raw, icing, never-ending suck...

Led Zep, Rain Song (sufficiently depressing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDVnjCwCYCs
CCR, Have You Ever Seen the Rain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS9_ipu9GKw
Clapton, Let It Rain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmlVcF3BAD0
Doors, Riders on the Storm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS-af9Q-zvQ

After a couple of days of cold rain:
CCR, Who'll Stop the Rain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIPan-rEQJA
GnR, November Rain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0McfH-hweQ

YMMV, and invariably will...

Cookerhiker
01-04-2017, 21:39
Did no one mention Dee Clark's 1961 hit Raindrops? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUnwOwz6OvQ.

Even further back, how about "The Rain in Spain" from the musical My Fair Lady., the facts of which can be confirmed or denied by experienced Camino Santiago hikers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmADMB2utAo (http://whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php/122182-Rain-songs/page3)

And then's there "Summer" from Vivaldi's Four Seasons for my fellow Baroque music fans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY1p-FmjT1M

What about rain and fog? Quite common on the AT. More often than not, Gordon Bok's Bay of Fundy goes thorugh my mind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6tBSZVaaZI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6tBSZVaaZI) I like the line "I don't mind the wet and cold, I just don't like the growing old."

trailmercury
01-05-2017, 01:32
+3 for The Dead songs "L.L. Rain", "Box of Rain" (Yay Phil!!!) and "Cold Rain and Snow"

How about a whole album...

Pavement: "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" 1994
90's Indie/Slacker/College Radio at it's absolute finest!
they had many good LP's, but this is the one that got me hooked!
Their song "Spit on a Stranger" from "Terror Twilight" almost fits the category!

Furlough
01-05-2017, 21:43
Oh Black Water - Doobie Brothers
Running Down a Dream - Tom Petty
The Weight of the World - Elton John
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain - Willie Nelson
When It Rains It Pours - Merle Haggard
Riders On the Storm - The Doors

cmoulder
01-05-2017, 23:04
Perhaps I missed it but did anyone mention Gene Kelly Singin' in the Rain (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZYhVpdXbQ)?


I guess my vintage is showing, lol.

trailmercury
01-05-2017, 23:06
Another whole Album...This one with a title track!
Purple Rain
R.I.P. great Prince!
What a great talent he was!
The Bangles "Manic Monday" was a Prince song...Reference to water in that song is the "crystal blue Italian stream"

Sarcasm the elf
01-05-2017, 23:17
Rain, rain, rain down on me.
Again, and again.
Rain down on me.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kr14wac-AQ

Skyline
01-07-2017, 21:29
"Rhapsody In The Rain," Lou Christie, 1966ish. This is the version the late Dick Clark banned from American Bandstand because "it violated America's morals." LOL. Sounds like a nursery rhyme today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnFU-bMDICE



"Kentucky Rain," by Elvis Presley. Maybe not for the AT, but trails in Land Between The Lakes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU2U3QAUGak

https://www.explorekentuckylake.com/lbl/hiking.htm

Cookerhiker
01-07-2017, 22:48
....
"Kentucky Rain," by Elvis Presley. Maybe not for the AT, but trails in Land Between The Lakes?
...

Or the Sheltowee Trace (http://www.sheltoweetrace.org/).