music for rainy evenings

[hermionesviolin]

thedeadparrot and I both got caught in some serious downpour during our commute from work to the climbing gym this evening, and the thunderstorm/rain continued throughout the evening. So when Rihanna's "Umbrella" came on (sidebar: in case you missed it, Tom Holland’s “Singing in the Rain” & “Umbrella” vs. Zendaya’s “24k Magic” | Lip Sync Battle -- you can skip to 1:44 if you want) we hoped that would signal the beginning of a rain-themed playlist for the rest of the night. (Spoilers: it didn't.)

We were thinking of rain-themed pop songs that could be included in such a playlist, and so I posted to the Internet (so other people could think for me and I could focus on climbing):

Rihanna's "Umbrella" came on at the gym, and now I want the rest of the night to be on-theme music. What would you put on such a playlist, Internet? #thunderstorms

We had mostly been thinking about rain, but of course I got a lot of responses invoking thunderstorms/thunder/lightning as well. Here's the list thus far, but feel free to add your own in comments:

• "Kiss the Rain" - Billie Myers [mine]
  
• "Like the Deserts Miss the Rain" "Missing" - Everything But the Girl ("and I miss you, like the deserts miss the rain") [thedeadparrot]
  
• "It's Raining Men" - The Weather Girls
  
• "Africa" - Toto ("I bless the rains down in Africa")
  
• "Singin' in the Rain" - from the eponymous musical movie
  
• 'Thunder" - Imagine Dragons
  
• "Here Comes The Rain Again" - Eurythmics
  
• "Down Under" - Men at Work ("Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?")
  
• the Thundercats theme song
  
• "10,000 Days" - Tool (has some great thunder sound effects, I'm told)
  
• "This Is What You Came For" - Calvin Harris ft. Rihanna ("Lightning strikes every time she moves")
  
• "Only Happy When It Rains" - Garbage
  
• "The Immigrant Song" - Led Zeppelin (see: almost every Thor: Ragnarok fanvid)
  
• "Thunderstruck" - AC/DC
  
• "Lightning Crashes" - Live
  
• "November Rain" - Guns N' Roses
  
• "Purple Rain" - Prince
  
• "Over the Rainbow" - from The Wizard of Oz
  
• "Almost Makes Me Wish for Rain" -Lucius
  
• "I Love A Rainy Night" - Eddie Rabbitt

Edit: Additions from comments here and elsewhere (plus a couple more I thought of):

• "Flood" - Jars of Clay
  
• "Stormy Weather" - Lena Horne
  
• "Fool in the Rain" - Led Zeppelin
  
• "Rain" - Patti Griffin
  
• "Raining in Baltimore" - Counting Crows
  
• "Prayers for Rain" - the Cure
  
• "Fire and Rain" - James Taylor
  
• "Set Fire to the Rain" - Adele
  
• "Red Rain" - Peter Gabriel
  
• "Sao Paolo Rain" - Tom McRae
  
• "So. Central Rain" - REM
  
• "Fixing a Hole" - The Beatles ("I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in")
  
• "Rain" - The Beatles
  
• "I Wish It Would Rain Down" - Phil Collins
  
• "Love, Reign O'er Me" - The Who ("Only love / Can make it rain / The way the beach is kissed by the sea" etc.)
  
• "Bel Air Rain" - Lindsey Buckingham
  
• "This Town In The Rain" - Anthony Stewart Head & George Sarah [mine]
  
• "Dixie Storms" - Lone Justice
  
• "Storms" - Fleetwood Mac
  
• "Stormy Weather"
  
• "The Beauty of the Rain" - Dar Williams [mine]