The Beatles bass and drums section is insane and so is everything else.

when this song came out in the spring of 1966, nothing like it had ever been heard on commercial radio (or anywhere else)... it blew my 11 year old mind!

Excellent song by The Beatles!! 👍👍😎

The bass and drums on this is sublime.

Ringo has said that he felt this was his best drumming on a song. This is one of my favorite songs by The Beatles. A turning point in their career.

We’ve just learned from the new Rebolver release that this song was actually recorded at a faster pace and played back slower resulting in a richer instrumental quality. It makes Ringo and Pauls’ playing even more impressive!

A titanic sounding record. Me and my early-teens friends were absolutely staggered when we heard this. This is the whole package. Ringo and Paul are both exploding on this track. The singing is so good it defies superlatives. And the guitar playing is sheer sonic wonder. Really great all way round.

When the 45 landed, which included Rain on Side B and Paperback Writer on Side A it was scooped and played to its natural death. My neighbor, Mike L., had a copy, and when his folks were at work, he and I would use fireplace shovel as guitar, and butter knives as drums, and would jam along with both sides, getting it out of our systems early. It was '66 and things were getting groovy. My class picture that year of my sixth grade found me donning a Beatles hairstyle and turtleneck/blazer combo coolness in emergence. It was Fern Hill in Carolina, and I felt prince of the apple towns. Good mems. Tx broseph!

He's not speaking literally, he's speaking metaphorically. The 'raining' and 'shining' are just a state of mind. The scene he's describing is not a physical but a psychological one, something he was to develop later with songs like Strawberry Fields Forever and I Am The Walrus.

Rain, along with She Said, She Said, are the quintessential Beatle songs. They are very "acidy".

'Rain' is actually quite an overlooked song in their catalog. You learn to appreciate it more after a while though. I prefer 'Rain' over the flip-side 'Paperback Writer', but both songs are great.

This is the song that made me want to play bass. I love everything about this track, but Paul's bass playing absolutely blew my mind. 🤘

The bass is incredible along with Ringo's drumming.

When I was at music uni in London in 2012, we had what was called Live Performance Workshop (LPW) every Thursday during term time. And among the songs for these workshops was Rain. 🙂🙂 It's one of my favourite Beatle tunes.

Ringo crushing it !!!

Everything about this song is just incredible. What the f is he doing on those vocals at the end? Omg❤

Spot on mate! Lennon said he wrote this because he was sick of everyone moaning about the weather. You’ve picked up on the elements that people love about the song, namely the drum and bass. This was the FIRST use of a backwards track and it sounds like a blueprint for the Oasis sound 👍

I really love the song.

Totally agree with you, especially about the outstanding bass and drum. I move around like you to this song.😊

This song is perfect, all magic!