[Rain Songs] A selection of Western music to listen to on rainy days – rainy songs

September In The RainDinah Washington

DINAH WASHINGTON – SEPTEMBER IN THE RAIN

One of the nice things about songs that include specific dates in their titles is how they evoke the season.

Among them, you can’t leave out the classic “September in the Rain,” released in 1961 by American singer Dinah Washington, who shone across genres like R&B, blues, and jazz.

This beautiful cover of the 1937 song focuses on September rain within the autumn season, and the lyrics really resonate.

With a warm atmosphere that feels as if you’re skipping along through a gentle downpour, this track is well worth a listen.

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Please Don’t Stop The RainJames Morrison

James Morrison – Please Don’t Stop The Rain

This song by James Morrison uses rainy weather as a metaphor for the ups and downs of love.

Songs that picture love through rain are often pessimistic and emphasize sadness.

In that context, while this track follows the common pattern of equating romantic highs and lows with the weather, it feels relatively matter-of-fact because it frames the rain with a forward-looking, predictive mindset—thinking ahead.

Love involves many events and isn’t always happy and sweet.

Just as rain inevitably falls, sad things happen when you’re in love.

In a sense, it’s a sage-like, enlightened metaphor, which makes the song feel refreshingly straightforward to listen to.

The Rain SongLed Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin – The Rain Song Live (HD)

This is the second track on side A of Led Zeppelin’s fifth album, “Houses of the Holy,” released in 1973.

Starting with guitar, it gradually layers in Mellotron, electric bass, piano, and drums.

It builds from a prelude-like opening to a climax and then ends again with guitar, creating a clear sense of rise and resolution, leaving a grand, expansive impression.

Listening to this one song alone gives you a strange feeling as if you’ve witnessed an entire live show from beginning to end—a sense of immense scale that’s hard to put into words.

Robert Plant’s vocals have their characteristic charismatic resonance, and when his powerful, dreamlike singing merges with that vast sense of scale, the result is a magnificent track that can make you feel as though you’ve slipped back in time to that era.

I’ll Take The RainR.E.M.

R.E.M. – I’ll Take The Rain (Official Music Video)

This song’s lyrics are beautifully crafted.

The slow tempo and clear, gentle vocals feel soothing.

It may be rain, but it seems to be a kind, gentle kind of rain.

The lyrics sing about how to relate to a loved one.

Rather than taking the obvious route, it feels like there’s a strong will that deliberately chooses the rain and accepts it with grace.

There isn’t only one way of thinking.

Clinging to a single idea isn’t good.

I feel it carries a message that there are many different ways of thinking.

The Sun and the RainMadness

Madness – The Sun and the Rain (Official 4K Video)

Included on the 1984 album Keep Moving.

A six-piece ska band from the UK formed in 1976.

The bright, cheerful melody lines and the march-like, pulsing rhythm, topped by a buoyant, bouncy vocal delivery, make for a listening experience that lifts your spirits.