50 Best Rock Songs About the Weather
Best Rock Weather Songs That Set the Mood
There’s a certain mood tied to the skies that music keeps chasing. Rain makes a guitar riff feel heavier, thunder in the distance can turn a verse into something urgent, and sunshine sneaks into a chorus until it sounds brighter than it really is. A lot of tracks never spell it out, but the atmosphere sits in the bones of the song. You hear it in the way a band slows things down like the calm before a storm or cranks it up until the whole thing feels like lightning in a garage. That tension is why these tracks land so hard when the weather shifts outside your own window.
Not every one of these tracks is literally pinned to clouds or storms. Some only brush against the imagery, using wind, rain, or heat as a shortcut to describe something else entirely. It’s the same trick you hear across pop, rock, country, and R&B songs where the forecast sneaks in as code for mood swings or complicated feelings. You might hear a love song dressed up in raindrops, or a fight disguised as thunder rolling in. That kind of writing sticks because everyone knows what it feels like when the sky itself starts acting strange.
These tracks lean into that space where the air feels unsettled and guitars sound like they’re trying to chase the sky. Sometimes it’s moody and slow, other times it’s loud enough to feel like a storm in your headphones. Here are the best rock songs about the weather.
Top 10 Weather Rock Songs
1. 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain?' by Creedence Clearwater Revival
2. 'Riders on the Storm' by The Doors
3. 'November Rain' by Guns N' Roses
4. 'Rock You Like a Hurricane' by Scorpions
5. 'Here Comes the Sun' by The Beatles
6. 'The Rain Song' by Led Zeppelin
7. 'Thunderstruck' by AC/DC
8. 'I Wish It Would Rain Down' by Phil Collins
9. 'Lightning Crashes' by Live
10. 'No Rain' by Blind Melon
Weather-Themed Rock Music #11 to 20
11. 'Fool in the Rain' by Led Zeppelin
12. 'Rain' by The Beatles
13. 'Gimme Shelter' by The Rolling Stones
14. 'Who'll Stop the Rain' by Creedence Clearwater Revival
15. 'Fire and Rain' by James Taylor
16. 'Dust in the Wind' by Kansas
17. 'Summer in the City' by The Lovin' Spoonful
18. 'Only Happy When It Rains' by Garbage
19. 'Hurricane' by Bob Dylan
20. 'Here Comes the Rain Again' by Eurythmics
Rock Songs About Meteorological Events #21 to 30
21. 'She's a Rainbow' by The Rolling Stones
22. 'Walking on Sunshine' by Katrina & The Waves
23. 'Black Hole Sun' by Soundgarden
24. 'Colder Weather' by Zac Brown Band
25. 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' by Bob Dylan
26. 'I Can See Clearly Now' by Johnny Nash
27. 'Purple Rain' by Prince
28. 'Snow (Hey Oh)' by Red Hot Chili Peppers
29. 'Mr. Blue Sky' by Electric Light Orchestra
30. 'Ridin' the Storm Out' by REO Speedwagon
Iconic Rock Songs About Nature's Forces #31 to 40
31. 'The Wind Cries Mary' by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
32. 'Stormy Weather' by The Pixies
33. 'Rain King' by Counting Crows
34. 'Louisiana Rain' by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
35. 'Buckets of Rain' by Bob Dylan
36. 'Texas Flood' by Stevie Ray Vaughan
37. 'Hurricane' by The Band of Heathens
38. 'Shelter from the Storm' by Bob Dylan
39. 'When It Rains' by Paramore
40. 'Weather With You' by Crowded House
Greatest Rock Songs With Weather In Title #41 to 50
41. 'Red Rain' by Peter Gabriel
42. 'Storms' by Fleetwood Mac
43. 'Rain When I Die' by Alice in Chains
44. 'Cold as Ice' by Foreigner
45. 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' by Gordon Lightfoot
46. 'Blue Skies' by The Smashing Pumpkins
47. 'Come Rain or Come Shine' by Don Henley
48. 'Snowblind' by Black Sabbath
49. 'It Never Rains in Southern California' by Albert Hammond
50. 'I Can't Stand the Rain' by Tina Turner
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