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A spring is the starting point of a river - or, depending on the size, a stream However with this song written and voiced by Stevie Nicks, I think we are again in the realms of mystic metaphor

Waterfalls are essentially vertical rivers - or stretches of river on a slope Mind you this "Waterfall" song is actually a metaphor or simile so perhaps don't count... Nor the famous TLC song

Leading lights of the cowpunk scene, Blood On The Saddle with a "high-octane" take on a 19th Century murder ballad. This has been covered by loads of people over the years, mostly country singers, but also Olivia Newton-John, bizarrely Blood On the Saddle actually had one really ripping tune...

Paucity of Springsteen fans on Dissensus, no surprises there - warrants inclusion as it is the title of a song AND a title of an album

“There's something about water that does it to me. I have to live near water. I couldn't live in the centre of the continent. I go to see the Hudson River nearly every day" - Arthur Russell But "Let's Go Swimming" appears to be about swimming in the sea judging by its "Coastal Dub" and "Gulf...

A shame this doesn't count as a made-of-rivers song Similarly John Martyn's "Small Hours" was recorded outside at night beside a body of water - you can hear distant waterfowl. But the body in question was a lake I believe.

I stand metereologically corrected! I've been to Seattle a few times - overcast and damp; rainy; the most recent time it was bright and sunny - but the one time I went to Portland it was bucketing down.

"Songs" made out of the sound of rivers, pt 4 Another Bow Gamelan project in the Thames Estuary "Anne Bean, Paul Burwell and Richard Wilson worked with the WW2 concrete barges near Greenhithe over ten hours as the tide ebbed and flowed. They investigated the significant changes of sound at...

"Songs" made out of the sound of rivers, part 3 Bow Gamelan - Offshore Rigs (1987) A sound art / performance art / land art epic at Lots Ait, an island in the Thames. They lived and worked on the site for months, transforming it into a giant environmental sculpture garden full of...

"Songs" made out of the sounds of rivers, pt 2 Going one better than Jarvis Cocker singing about the Wicker river in Sheffield, here's a sound artist called Ben Tassie who created works using the sounds of the city's five rivers. In this case - 'A Ladder is Not the Only Kind of Time' -...

"Songs" made out of the sound of rivers, part 1 When she's not rubbing glass to make noises or setting fire to pianos and calling it a concert, Annea Lockwood's always making "sound maps" of bodies of water

I feel these river-themed songs are in a thematic and historical relation The first is Led Zeppelin's dramatic expansion of an old blues song about the very real existential threat (to the people listening to and making that kind of music) of the Mississippi flooding. In Zep's hands, the...

A favorite of mine, from an album (Mr. Gone) that Downbeat gave one star to out of five. Weather Report's idea of going disco.

And a thousand editors went for the "Only In It For the Manet" headline Le Déjeuner Sur l'Herbe - but it was originally titled Le Bain (The Bath)

Not actually riparian in theme - the river here is a metaphor for thirst - but awesome cranked-up riff-engine from Wales’s heaviest.

What must surely be the greatest song whose storyline takes place on a river Ol' Neil's finest moment? "Cortez The Killer" runs it close but I think "Powderfinger" edges it.

Remember this lot as a shameless rip-off of Bow Wow Wow.... but listening for the first time in 40 years it was more entertaining than I expected -Tenpole Tudor-ish pop nonsense

Astonishingly absent so far

A paean to the River Charles in Boston - the singer tells of strolling its banks, “along with lovers, buggers, and thieves”

Okay, this is a really nice one The song title "Rheinita" fuses Klaus Dinger's "two great loves – the river Rhein, which flows through Düsseldorf, and Anita Heedman, his girlfriend who had moved to Norway in 1971." Released as a single. this was big hit in West Germany, despite being an...