Weather Report
Posted by David Wright on 16 May 2008 - 7:30am.
A cloudy Friday morning here on the North East coast-the basking sunshine of last week now seems a distant memory. Will it ever snow again in England, who knows. As global warming takes it grip, it's made me think of my favourite weather/ global warming related songs. To close this report, here's a few of the best I can think of. Your suggestions welcome please.
"Rain Dogs"-Tom Waits
"On Larsen B"- British Sea Power
"Seasons End"-Marillion
"Four Seasons In One Day"-Crowded House
"Here Comes The Sun"-The Beatles
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'Bless The Weather'...
by John Martyn.
Have you ever seen the rain?
Creedence Clearwater Revival (possibly also Bad Moon Rising?)
2.Only Happy When it Rains/Garbage
3.Why Does it Always Rain on Me?/Travis
4.Ain't no Sunshine/Will Bithers etc etc etc
5.Stormy Weather/Too many to mention
and, by way of contrast
6.Heatwave/Martha & Vandellas (or my favourite version, Linda Ronstadt.)
Reminds me of a favourite joke of mine...
How do you make a duck sing "Ain't No Sunshine"?
Put it in a microwave until its bill withers.
Aythangyew
Rainy Days...
...and Mondays by The Carpenters has to be the best. Or Thunder and Lightning by Thin Lizzy. No wait, it's Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head by... errrm... *consults wikipedia*...ah yes, BJ Thomas. Or Still Raining by Johnny Lang, from the last decent album he made before he went all Christian and boring.
Oh, come on; BJ Thomas, Schmeemay Thomas...
The version we all know and love is by the Gallic Wildman of Rock Excess, Sacha Distel!
Some Fog
Fog- possibly the least-celebrated weather. Here's a few examples though:
Fog on the Tyne - Lindisfarne
Foggy Dew - Dubliners
Mystère Dans le Brouillard - Liaisons Dangereuses
(Even less celebrated - have hailstones ever been sung about?)
Does Misty Mountain Hop count?
As for your supplementary question, how about "Hail to the Chief"?
Floods
Would have been more appropriate last Summer, but - hey! - there's still time!
After The Flood - Van der Graaf Generator (sample lyric: "And when the water falls again, all is dead and nobody lives". Peter Hammill IS Uncle Chuckles).
Here Comes The Flood - Peter Gabriel
Here Comes The Flood - The Divine COmedy (a completely different song)
Nice
All excellent songs Paul, I suppose you could have Genesis's In Too Deep too!
Hailstones!!!
By the TigerLilies, off a record called Plague Songs. Never heard it, but I did cop an MP3 about Locusts (Imogen Heap)off the same platter, hence my knowledge, some months back. (OK, prompted today, shall we say, by Wiki)
10K Magazine
Let us not forget 10,000 Maniacs and Like The Weather and Magazine's About The Weather. Madness had The Sun And The Rain and Loudon Wainwright sang Here Comes The Thunder.
Pixies
Monkey Gone To Heaven - about global warming warning is it not?
Gray in L A
is another that Loudon Wainwright III does about the weather. It's on the Strange Wierdos cd.
"Will it ever snow again in England?"
Well seeing as it was snowing in England in early April, i.e. about six weeks ago, I don't really see why not.
rain and a bit of snow (in San Anselmo)
"I Think It's Gonna Rain Today" Randy Newman or Nina Simone
"It's Raining Today"Scott Walker
"Tinsletown In The Rain" Blue Nile (actually its always seems to be raining in the Nile's songs)
"I Can't Stand The Rain" Anne Peebles
"Rain" The Beatles
"Snow In San Anselmo" Grumpy Old Van
"Ballet For A Rainy Day "XTC
Oh and anything by the great Laura Veirs
"actually always seems to be raining in the Nile's songs"
Of course it's always raining.........
They're scottish!!!!!!
Sometimes It Snows In April
by Prince
...he wasn't wrong, was he?
Tupelo- Nick Cave
Of course its really about the birth of Elvis but has more apocalyptic weather references than I could begin to recount.
Which reminds me of the Led Zeppelin song "When the Levee Breaks." Off hand I can only remember the first line "If it keeps on raining..."