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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsPost a favorite song about rain...
There are probably a few dozen contenders, but I'll content myself with this one, just four kids in their twenties singing about rain...
(I use this video despite the interruption because it is so... Beatles.)
Please feel free to post your own choices...
-- Mal
Tom_Foolery
(4,688 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)I miss my old home at times.
malthaussen
(17,065 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)but it's the one I like mostest
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Tom_Foolery
(4,688 posts)malthaussen
(17,065 posts)I said *a* favorite song about rain. And if you're going to post CCR, you have to wonder who's going to stop that rain, too.
-- Mal
Tom_Foolery
(4,688 posts)I had to have a downpour.
Coventina
(26,844 posts)Coventina
(26,844 posts)demmiblue
(36,743 posts)malthaussen
(17,065 posts)I like it.
-- Mal
nadine_mn
(3,702 posts)Coventina
(26,844 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)God how I loved REM in that era. *sigh*
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)malthaussen
(17,065 posts)The video doesn't say who the sax man is.
Live music is always best, especially when the performers are obviously having fun.
-- Mal
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)The sax man is pretty fine. Aaron McDonald.
http://soapboxasylum.forumactif.org/t455-interview-d-aaron-macdonald-logical-web
Ptah
(32,983 posts)And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in the pick-up truck
She got runned over by a damned old train
malthaussen
(17,065 posts)... but I guess all country-influenced songs start to sound like that after a few...
If you read Jim Bouton's Ball Four, he has the lyrics to "The perfect country song" already set. I'm surprised no one ever recorded it.
-- Mal
Coventina
(26,844 posts)A very cute homemade video.
My Good Babushka
(2,710 posts)Coventina
(26,844 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)demmiblue
(36,743 posts)Coventina
(26,844 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)working at 6 Flags had a few perks.
Also saw Air Supply, Joan Jett, Rupert Holmes (Escape: The Piña Colada Song), Rossington Collins band (basically Lynyrd Skynyrd but they played their own songs), Wall of Voodoo and probably others but I Was pretty high a lot back then. lol
NB: I don't consider ALL of those as "perks". lol
Coventina
(26,844 posts)Coventina
(26,844 posts)Coventina
(26,844 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)I kid! This was the song I danced with my dad to at my first wedding It was funny and appropriate
He knew he would never stop me by complaining I love my dad, but we have always had a contentious relationship. We and are two sides of a coin.
The songs are all for you, Raine. All of them.
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,212 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)but I like the Randy Newman version of I Think Its Going To Rain Today covered by many artists .
Now back to the Shaggs....
Brother Buzz
(36,212 posts)and I understand their greatest fan, Frank Zappa, bought most of them.
My Pal Foot Foot was light years ahead of everything else
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)two:
And...storm/rain...close enough I guess...
malthaussen
(17,065 posts)Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)malthaussen
(17,065 posts)... the members can point me to such cool stuff.
-- Mal
Number9Dream
(1,558 posts)"Cause the raindrops will hide my teardrops..."
No autotune for this real music.
Paper Roses
(7,468 posts)Johnny Ray: Just walking in the rain.
Been one of my favorites for about 60 years. Johnny Ray was fantastic!
Remember: CRY ? Fantastic song.
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malthaussen
(17,065 posts)... appreciation knows no age.
-- Mal
opiate69
(10,129 posts)malthaussen
(17,065 posts)(I push Rory whenever I can)
-- Mal
opiate69
(10,129 posts)I'm not too sure when that video was recorded, but I'm thinking his tapping technique in it pre-dates Eddie VH by a fair bit. (Though he was using his pick, and not his finger like EVH, Vai et al do/did). Great stuff.
malthaussen
(17,065 posts)... but I'm pretty sure Rory was tapping earlier than that. It's a tecnique that dates back to at least the 50s.
I love Rory's combination of virtuosity, enthusiasm, and pure showmanship. There's never much question that he's loving his work.
-- Mal
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)sarge43
(28,939 posts)opiate69
(10,129 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Like a memory it falls
Soft and warm continuing
Tapping on my roof and walls
And from the shelter of my mind
Through the window of my eyes
I gaze beyond the rain drenched streets
To England where my heart lies
...
And as I watch the drops of rain
Weave their weary paths and die
I know that I am like the rain
There but for the grace of you, go I
50 years on, the British girl who inspired Paul Simon: Woman immortalised in Kathy's Song now lives in quiet Welsh village
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2620266/50-years-British-girl-inspired-Paul-Simon-Woman-immortalised-Kathys-Song-lives-quiet-Welsh-village.html
malthaussen
(17,065 posts)The last line is killer.
On the other hand, the lines in "America," "Kathy I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping/I'm empty and aching and I don't know why" invariably has me suggesting politely to the speakers that if he'd talk to her when she was awake he might have better luck.
-- Mal
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)opiate69
(10,129 posts)Lyrics:
Yuku ate mo naku kizutsuita karada nurashi
Karamitsuku koori no zawameki
Koroshi tsuzukete samayou itsu made mo
Until I can forget your love
Nemuri wa mayaku tohou ni kureta
Kokoro o shizuka ni tokasu
Mai agaru ai o odorasete
Furueru karada o kioku no bara ni tsutsumu
I keep my love for you to myself
* Endless rain, fall on my heart kokoro no kizu ni
Let me forget all of the hate, all of the sadness
Days of joy, days of sadness slowly pass me by
As I try to hold you, you are vanishing before me
You're just an illusion...
When I'm awaken, my tears have dried in the sand of sleep
I'm a rose blooming in the desert
It's A dream, I'm in love with you
Madoromi dakishimete
[* repeat]
I awake from my dream
I can't find my way without you
[guitar solo]
The dream is over
Koe ni naranai kotoba o kurikaeshite mo
Takasugiru hai iro no kabe wasugi satta hi no
Omoi o yume ni utsusu
Until I can forget your love
[* repeat]
Endless rain, let me stay ever more in your heart
Let my heart take in your tears, take in your memories
* Endless rain, fall on my heart kokoro no kizu ni
Let me forget all of the hate, all of the sadness
malthaussen
(17,065 posts)Raindrops to hide tears is a multicultural conceit.
-- Mal
IcyPeas
(21,737 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)malthaussen
(17,065 posts)Too many singers claiming to love it.
Damn, look at the size of that mike.
-- Mal
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)The second video has amusing commentary and the wiki link below has good background on the song (which was offered first to The Association, who turned it down).
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Interesting background on the song at wiki:
MacArthur Park (song)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Park_(song)
malthaussen
(17,065 posts)I've always had a hard time deciding which is my favorite part of it, Harris's overwrought reading, or his lisp. The combination of the two is hilarious.
-- Mal
demmiblue
(36,743 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)BarbaRosa
(2,684 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Thank you
greendog
(3,127 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)I'm not a huge Dead fan or anything but I like some of their songs, including this one.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)IcyPeas
(21,737 posts)I loved them in the early 80s. I have a few of their singles (yes 45s).
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Quite the throwback.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)This Can't Be Today
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Throd
(7,208 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)shenmue
(38,501 posts)madamesilverspurs
(15,782 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)IcyPeas
(21,737 posts)This will be everybody's new favorite:
tblue
(16,350 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)malthaussen
(17,065 posts)So I'll throw it in myself:
-- Mal
opiate69
(10,129 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,278 posts)This version, esp.:
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)and I went... to pick her up... in the rain
but before... she could get
to my pick up truck
She got run'd over by a damned ol' train.
Apologies to David Allen Coe
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)The Little White Cloud That Cried and Just Walkin' In The Rain. No one could belt out a tune like Johnny Ray. And he was nearly deaf.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)PassingFair
(22,434 posts)Also....
My favorite "rain" song:
Into Each Life, Some Rain Must Fall -- The Ink Spots
frogmarch
(12,144 posts)I've always loved this song.
ailsagirl
(22,837 posts)OxQQme
(2,550 posts)Another Song About The Rain
Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)Response to malthaussen (Original post)
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ailsagirl
(22,837 posts)Chad and Jeremy - A Summer Song
ashling
(25,771 posts)seveneyes
(4,631 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Electric Light Orchestra's masterpiece on side #3 of their 1977 album 'Out of the Blue' - the 4 songs together are considered the 'Concerto for a Rainy Day' because they all had weather themed motives
Standing in the rain:
Big Wheels
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Summer and Lightening:
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And my personal favorite - Mr Blue Sky
Courtesy Flush
(4,558 posts)tishaLA
(14,176 posts)who knows the words? Who cares when Ella is scatting?
Judy Garland -- Come Rain or Come Shine
Ella with Count Basie -- Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall