Rain

This one is all about my love of the rain - songs from Ann Peebles and Morphine and XTC and Tom Waits and Al Green. I'll read classic poems and tell my own stories and I'm gonna close it out with the opening of my favorite book of all time

Original air date: April 8, 2025

Playlist

• Singin’ In the Rain - Mint Royale

• Ballet for a Rainy Day - XTC

• I Like London In the Rain - Blossom Dearie

• I Can’t Stand the Rain - Ann Peebles

• The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) - Missy Elliott

• Rain - The Cult

• Rain - Concrete Blonde

• I Hear the Rain - Violent Femmes

• So. Central Rain - REM

• Here Comes the Rain Again - Eurythmics

• She Brings the Rain - Ruth

• Red Rain - Peter Gabriel

• Purple Rain - Prince

• Standing In the Rain - Al Green

• Stormy Weather - Etta James

• Rain Dogs - Tom Waits

• More Than Rain - Tom Waits

• Cloudbusting - Kate Bush

• A Rainy Night In Soho - Nick Cave and Shane McGowan

• Ain’t Gonna Rain Anymore - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

• You Look Like Rain - Morphine

• Shadows In the Rain - The Police

• Tears In Rain - Vangelis

References

• XTC : Song Stories - The Exclusive Authorized Story Behind the Music (Neville Farmer, 1998)

• Singin’ In the Rain (1952)

• A Clockwork Orange (1971)

• Frasier

My Stories

Real Rainfall

• National Climatic Data Center

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

• The EPA

• The Center for Climate Change and Energy Solutions

Petrichor

• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce, 1916)

• The American Chemical Society

• Petrichor, The Smell of Rain (ACS)

• Petrichor & Pluviophiles (The Perfume Society)

• Nature of Argillaceous Odour (Isabel Joy Bear and Richard Thomas, Nature, 1964)

Poems

• April Rain Song - Langston Hughes

• Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me - Mary Oliver

• This Is Rain - Raymond Carver

Readings

• Independent People - Halldór Laxness

• Kafka On the Shore - Haruki Murakami

• The Years - Virginia Woolf

• The Midnight Zone - Lauren Groff

• Geek Love - Katherine Dunn