| Rain | |
| Cover: | Rain_cult.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | The Cult |
| Album: | Love |
| Released: | 27 September 1985 |
| Recorded: | July 1985 |
| Genre: | |
| Length: | 3:55 |
| Label: | Beggars Banquet |
| Producer: | Steve Brown |
| Prev Title: | She Sells Sanctuary |
| Prev Year: | 1985 |
| Next Title: | Revolution |
| Next Year: | 1985 |
"Rain" is a rock song by English band The Cult, which on release in 1985 reached number 17 in the United Kingdom's Singles Chart. It was the second single from the band's second long-player, Love (1985).
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.
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..." although as he laughed when saying this, he may not have been serious.[1]
An extended remix was recorded by the band entitled "(Here Comes The) Rain".
There were several variations of the cover artwork used throughout the world. Some versions used silver lettering, others used white, while others had a silhouette effect on the cover. In Japan, an alternative picture cover was used, with trio of photographs of the band: two onstage colour photos, and on the back one promotional black-and-white photo. This version was issued as both a white label promotional record, also with picture labels.
Vinyl 7"A Side : "Rain"
B Side : "Little Face"
Vinyl 12"A Side: "Rain", "Little Face"
B Side: "(Here Comes The) Rain"