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rfmcdonaldThe Eurythmics' 1983 song "Here Comes the Rain Again" is one of my favourite songs.
The original video, featuring Lennox wandering about a storm-swept Scottish isle, looking for someone, is here.
Wikipedia's quite right when it sways that "[t]he track is similar in musical style to past Eurythmics singles and its melancholy lyrics draw a comparison between the painful and tragic feelings of unrequited love with falling rain. Notably, the group adorned the recording with the composition and arrangement skills of Michael Kamen, resulting in more natural feel to the overall finished product (versus the heavily synthetic aesthetic of the Sweet Dreams album and its singles)." The music, all synthetic with tense strings, is great. The lyrics, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
talktooloose suggested to me five years ago, rank among the Eurythmics' most sophisticated.
Too often, it was raining with me. Tall Penguin wrote recently about how, when she felt isolated growing up, elements of popular culture like books and music helped keep her going, helped her feel grounded. I understand that kind of thing entirely. Growing up on Prince Edward Island, too often I felt isolated and detached, trapped in a place far away from the metropolitan centres that generated the kind of cultured I desperately wanted to belong to, to take part in. The Eurythmics are one of the groups that helped me feel grounded, and "Here Comes the Rain Again” was one of the several songs I recognized off of their Greatest Hits album. Lennox’s voice and the taut songwriting were the sorts of things that grabbed me, that still grab me, and “Here Comes the Rain Again” remains one of the songs that continues to do it, just as much as it did when I spent a half-hour dissecting the songs in front of my Grade 12 English class.
The original video, featuring Lennox wandering about a storm-swept Scottish isle, looking for someone, is here.
Wikipedia's quite right when it sways that "[t]he track is similar in musical style to past Eurythmics singles and its melancholy lyrics draw a comparison between the painful and tragic feelings of unrequited love with falling rain. Notably, the group adorned the recording with the composition and arrangement skills of Michael Kamen, resulting in more natural feel to the overall finished product (versus the heavily synthetic aesthetic of the Sweet Dreams album and its singles)." The music, all synthetic with tense strings, is great. The lyrics, as
talktooloose suggested to me five years ago, rank among the Eurythmics' most sophisticated.Here comes the rain again
Falling on my head like a memory
Falling on my head like a new emotion
I want to walk in the open wind
I want to talk like lovers do
I want to dive into your ocean
Is it raining with you
Too often, it was raining with me. Tall Penguin wrote recently about how, when she felt isolated growing up, elements of popular culture like books and music helped keep her going, helped her feel grounded. I understand that kind of thing entirely. Growing up on Prince Edward Island, too often I felt isolated and detached, trapped in a place far away from the metropolitan centres that generated the kind of cultured I desperately wanted to belong to, to take part in. The Eurythmics are one of the groups that helped me feel grounded, and "Here Comes the Rain Again” was one of the several songs I recognized off of their Greatest Hits album. Lennox’s voice and the taut songwriting were the sorts of things that grabbed me, that still grab me, and “Here Comes the Rain Again” remains one of the songs that continues to do it, just as much as it did when I spent a half-hour dissecting the songs in front of my Grade 12 English class.
