10 Best Classic Rock Songs About Spring

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After probably the worst winter that I can ever remember, I think, putting together an article about the best rock songs about spring is something that is pretty much essential for my mental state of being. All I know is next year I’m buying a snowblower. Nonetheless, with winter hopefully behind us for good, and with baseball season opening up this week, Hope Springs Eternal, if you know what I mean. Here are 10 great rock songs about spring that should put us in the mood, setting up for glorious summertime.

# 10 – Green Grass & High Tides—The Outlaws

I can’t think of a better song to talk about not wanting to see the snow anymore than the Outlaws’ “Green Grass and High Tides. You can almost hear the transformation from the darkness of winter in the song’s opening minor-chord guitar riff. And then boom, the band jumps in and spring is in the air.

# 9 – Spring Rain – The Go-Betweens

“Spring Rain” was released in 1986 as the lead single from Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express, with Robert Forster and Grant McLennan sharing the songwriting and Richard Preston producing alongside the Go-Betweens. The single was issued in the UK by Beggars Banquet and in Australia by True Tone, and it reached number ninety-two in Australia. The recording features Robert Forster on vocals and guitar, Grant McLennan on vocals and guitar, Lindy Morrison on drums, and Robert Vickers on bass. The song also turned up in the films Something Wild and Kingpin, although it was not included on either soundtrack album.

# 8 – Fires of Spring – Mose Allison

This exciting, soulful, blues-inspired piece by Mose Alison was released on his epic album Your Mind Is On Vacation. The album was released in 1976. The track also featured the late David Sanborn on saxophone.

# 7 – Some Other Spring – Marianne Faithfull

The late, beautiful Marianne Faithfull will touch your soul deeply with her haunting version of this classic song by Herzog and Kitchings.

# 6 – April Come She Will – Simon And Garfunkel

“April Come She Will” is one of the briefest pieces in Simon & Garfunkel’s catalog. Recorded on December 21, 1965, and released on Sounds of Silence in 1966, the folk ballad runs just one minute and fifty-one seconds, was written by Paul Simon, and was produced by Simon, Bob Johnston, and Roy Halee. Simon originally wrote the song in 1964 while he was in England, building the lyric around the changing seasons as a metaphor for a young woman’s shifting moods, with the inspiration tied to a girl he met and a nursery rhyme she used to recite.

# 5 – First Of May – The Bee Gees

“First of May” was released in January 1969 in most territories, and in March 1969 in the United States, as a single from the Bee Gees’ double album Odessa, with “Lamplight” as its B side. Written by Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb and produced by Robert Stigwood and the Bee Gees, and features lead vocals by Barry Gibb. It performed strongly around the world, reaching number one in the Netherlands, number three in Germany, number four in Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Switzerland, number six in the United Kingdom, and number thirty-seven on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.

# 4 – Waitin’ on a Sunny Day – Bruce Springsteen

Springsteen’s “Waiting on a Sunny Day” was another one of many metaphors on his Rising album that deal with the aftermath of 9/11. The springtime is always about renewal, about new hope and faith that things are going to get better, and this was one of the most important songs on the record.

# 3 – The Rose – Bette Midler

With its tender lyrics “In the Spring becomes a Rose,” this song was just perfect for this list. “The Rose” was written by Amanda McBroom and recorded by Bette Midler for The Rose soundtrack. It was released as a single in March 1980. The song was a major hit, reaching number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Adult Contemporary chart, where it stayed for five weeks.

# 2 – Season Of The Fair – Maria McKee

If there’s one singer I never get tired of listening to, whose voice, lyrics, and melodies just cut right through you, filled with depth and emotion, it’s Maria McKee. This warm, beautiful song was released on the album Peddling Dreams.

# 1 – Blue Sky – The Allman Brothers Band

This is the song that will remind you of hisgh school in the 1970s, when those warm days were first starting to appear and going to class was the last thing on your mind. I can still hear this playing in my 8-track player as I drove out of the school parking lot heading towards the beach.

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