The rainmakers

Rain. I love it when it drizzles, but not enough to use an umbrella; I love it when it pours, enough to render an umbrella useless; I love it when it makes me lonesome; I love it when it makes me wanna dance; I love it when it makes me wanna do nothing; I love it when it makes me walk down muddy streets; I love it when it makes me take an unplanned holiday; I love it when it makes the world look like a painting on my wall; I love it when it makes me wanna hold your hand… but mostly it makes me wanna sing. 
Here are some of my favorite rain songs: 


Mera kuch Saaman  - This heart-wrenching song from the 1987 Bollywood masterpiece Ijaazat is the first tune I think of when it rains. The brilliance of Gulzar's poetry with RD Burman's haunting melody is a perfect rendition of the tales of a lost love.  

Ek Akeli Chhataree Main Jab Aadhe Aadhe Bheeg Rahe The 

Aadhe Sookhe Aadhe Geele, Sukha To Main Le Aaye Thee

Geela Man Shayad Bistar Ke Paas Pada Ho

Vo Bhijwa Do, Mera Vo Saamaan Lauta Do

 

Raindrops keep falling on my head  - This Oscar winning song from the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid is pure bliss. The simplicity of the tune is as honest as an April rain. 

Raindrops keep fallin' on my head

But that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turnin' red

Cryin's not for me

'Cause I'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin'

Because I'm free

Nothin's worryin' me

 

I love the rain most when it stops - This song by Joe Purdy from the album Julie Blue is perhaps my favorite Rain song.  This was one of my post 2 am Youtube discovery and these are the times when  I feel glad to be an insomniac.

No more grey today, we gonna celebrate

You know Miss Sunshine, she starts to paint a perfect picture of this river parade

And I know that I love the rain the most when it stops

Yeah, when it stops

          

Rain on my parade - The heard this song a couple of days back in the TV series Glee. I have never been fond of high-drama songs from musicals but this one struck an instant chord and it just got better with every hear.  The Barbara Streisand version from the movie version of Funny Girl is by far the best.

Don't tell me not to live,

Just sit and putter,

Life's candy and the sun'

A ball of butter.

Don't bring around a cloud

To rain on my parade.

      


November rain - It's the anthem of "Rain" songs!

So if you want to love me

then darlin' don't refrain

Or I'll just end up walkin'

In the cold November rain

      
            

The rain song - This 7 minute Led Zeppelin love ballad has some wonderful guitar work.  I personally wait for the last few lines. It is divine.

This is the mystery of the quotient 

Upon us all a little rain must fall

It's just a little rain

            

All I needed was the rain - Truly Elvis. That deep bass voice gets even better on a rainy evening.

Hello misfortune, hows my old friend mr. misery? 

Ive been away so long I bet you think you saw the last of me

Got no bed, to rest my head

No doors or walls or window pane

Now all I needed was the rain

       

A hard rain’s gonna fall -  When the poet himself declares a a hard rain's gonna fall , it sure does! Dylan is the king.

I met a young child beside a dead pony

I met a white man who walked a black dog

I met a young woman whose body was buning

I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow

I met one man who was wounded in love

I met another man who was wounded in hatred

And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard

And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.