Description
Cult Rain Revolution
Label: Beggars Banquet
Catalog#: BBP 8 CD
Format: CD, EP
Country: UK
Released: 1991
Genre: Alternative Rock, Hard Rock
Track list:
1 Rain 3:59
2 Little Face 4:56
3 Revolution (Single Remix Version) 4:17
4 All Souls Avenue 4:45
5 Judith 5:30
6 Sunrise 5:16
Composed By Duffy*, Astbury*
Producer Steve Brown
“Rain” is a rock song by English band The Cult, which on release in 1985 reached #17 in the United Kingdom’s Singles Chart. It was the second single from the band’s second long-player, Love (1985).
Development: The song was provisionally titled “Sad Rain” during its writing and recording stages, the lyrics being inspired the vocalist/frontman Ian Astbury’s interest at that time in Northern Native American culture, and a rain dance of the Arizonan Hopi people.
Performance history: Despite the song’s popularity with the band’s audience, and it being one of its more commercially successful single releases, after performing it on 24 November 1989 at Wembley Arena Astbury asked the crowd: “So you like that one?”, and after it cheered in response, he responded with “Well, personally I don’t but there you are …”
Cover versions
German gothic rock/gothic metal band Love Like Blood recorded a cover of “Rain” on their 2001 album “Chronology Of A Love-Affair”
Italian gothic metal band Theatres des Vampires performed a cover version of Rain on their 2008 album, Anima Noir.
Italian heavy metal band Rain recorded a cover of Rain on their 2008 album, “Dad is Dead”.
Japanese experimental/drone/stoner band Boris, together with Ian Astbury, recorded a cover version of “Rain” on their 2010 collaborative EP, “BXI”
Canada-based groove metallists City of Fire recorded a cover of “Rain” on their self-titled 2010 album.
The album “Metal Addiction” contains a cover by Sun Eats Hours.
Canadian musician Philip André and Polish singer Palon released a cover of “Rain” in 2014.
American stoner/industrial/groove metal band City of Fire recorded a cover of “Rain” on their self-titled 2011 album.
German gothic metal band ASP recorded a cover of “Rain” in their 2009 single “Wer sonst? / Im Märchenland”.
Use in other media:
The original version was used in the soundtrack to the video game Grand Theft Auto V.
The remix and original versions of the song were used in the soundtrack of cinema film Demoni 2.
References:
Film of the concert, Wembley Arena, London, 24 November 1989, 53.50 mins. Published on Youtube. 2 April 2016.
Langshaw, Mark (August 24, 2013). “‘Grand Theft Auto 5’ soundtrack features Muse, Snoop Dogg”. Digital Spy. Retrieved March 20, 2015.
Like a desert sun that burns my skin
I’ve been waiting for her, for so long
Open the sky and let her come down
Here comes the rain
Here she comes again
Here comes the rain
Like a desert sun that burns my skin
I’ve been waiting for her for so long
Open the sky and let her come down
Here comes the rain
Here she comes again
Here comes the rain
I love the rain
Here she comes again
Here comes the rain
Rain
Rain
Oh, here comes the rain
Well, I love the rain
Here she comes again
I love the rain
Rain
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