Its raining, its pouring, the old man is snoring…John Cusack is the king of “my life sucks” to “winning the girl of my dreams” movies. He always faces these decisions in life making bad choices and goes into this depressing state of regret over a girl. Maybe I could see how many men can relate to him. But um not me, oh NO WAY! One of my favorite movie of his is High Fidelity based from a book by Nick Hornby and directed by Stephen Frears (Dirty Pretty Things). It also costarred Jack Black when he was funny and wasn’t trying so hard. I loved that movie because it came off so badass and fresh. They would always do a “Top 5″ list while they were working in the record store. Here’s our office Top 5 songs that have the word “RAIN” in it.
5. Milli Vanilli – Blame It On The Rain
4. Carpenters – Rainy Days and Mondays
3. Gun’s N Roses – November Rain
2. Gene Kelly – Singing In the Rain
1. Prince And the Revolution – Purple Rain
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=56738651What’s your list?
Great list, Anson. Here’s a few more catchy rain songs:
The Velvet Underground – Hey Mr. Rain
Martin Stephenson – Rain
The Beatles – Rain (too obvious, but still a great song)
The Go-Betweens – Spring Rain
CCR – Have You Ever Seen The Rain
CCR – Who’ll Stop The Rain
Led Zeppelin – The Rain Song
The Jesus & Mary Chain – Happy When It Rains
The Triffids – Raining Pleasure
Frank Sinatra – Here’s That Rainy Day
The Pogues – Rainy Night In Soho
A couple of my favourites are “It’s Raining Again” by Supertramp and “Rain” by Madonna
Milli Vanilli?!! You have lost some points there, my friend.
Garbage–Only Happy When It Rains
Bob Dylan–Buckets of Rain
Temptations–I Wish It Would Rain
Eric Clapton–Let It Rain
John Coltrane–After The Rain
Kelli Ali–Sunlight In The Rain
Police–Shadows In The Rain
Weather Girls–It’s Raining Men
James Taylor–Fire And Rain
I knew Purple Rain was going to be on that list. Prince rocks!
the video for “november rain” is perhaps one of the greatest music videos of all time.