Have to admit I didn't see this one coming, esp. after Afro Celts! Welcome surprise though... 

This album (Japanese version) has several extended mixes... The miles fly past when driving.

OTOH...They really captured moments of memory and regret of relationships very well... 

 lexica wrote: 
I've been there, seen that, and love it deeply.  And yet, I have zero sense that the other 95% of the year—or the 49 years out of fifty—involves any sense of longing.  The former ("joy," if we want to call it that, in the rain) has zero implication that the dryness is a deprivation.  

And I'm not particularly bent outta shape.  Wordy and opinionated, you betcha.
 

Still a stupid frikking lyric, TJS.  No, really.
 

I thought her voice was familiar, used to listen to them heavily in late eighties, early nineties....then.

 kingart wrote: 
Damn.  Here I thought it was because all of the "poodles" on the road after the rain.

 jagdriver wrote: 

Yes!!! Me too!

I used to put this song on endless repeat...never once got sick of it and still love to hear it when it shows up randomly. Thanks RP!

Y'know, I'm pedantic enough that I have a mental list of songs whose lyrics are WRONG WRONG WRONG. (Looking at you, Luscious Jackson — yes, dammit, flowers can grow in the snow.) And yet…

Surely anybody who cares about deserts enough to get bent out of shape by the phrase "like the deserts miss the rain" has spent enough time in deserts to have been there during and immediately after a rainstorm. Having been desert camping since childhood and having seen the way everything in the desert bursts into an amazingly lush and yet incredibly brief explosion of life following the rain, I have zero problem with the metaphor.

Love Tracy's voice...

i love this so much.

 TJS wrote: 
*checks to see*  Yes, I did indeed say "potentially."  Look, I think it's an idiotic metaphor.  I also think "Raining cats and dogs" (see below) is an idiotic metaphor.  I'd have bitched about it had I heard it in a song, too.  I probably put more stock in the power of language than do most people, but beyond that, man, I love the dark.  Especially in the desert, sand and cactus and air under the stars and utterly delighted to be without rain.  End.

I just ordered Tracy's latest solo album. Heard it's good.

 sirdroseph wrote: 
Me too!!!  Mango..............too funny!

Yes, but "raining cats and dogs" actually has a literal root. It's not a nonsensical maxim. Like "throwing the baby out with the bath water" and other allusions, it began with one meaning and evolved into another. Raining cats and dogs refers to the household animals that would nest in the thatched roofs of old Europe (particularly medieval or certainly pre-industrial) homes—in part because that is where the food rats might also take refuge. When it would rain hard, down might fall or descend the animals in the rafters. Got it now?  http://www.goodwords.com/sayings/
Pop quiz next week.  

 Xeric wrote: 

So let me get this straight, if possible.  Your argument is that a metaphor about the desert missing the rain is...harmful?  How?  and you segued from that to global warming?  Dude, are you kidding me?  Do you wear aluminum foil on your head to keep the aliens from probing your mind?  I think Doc needs to up your medication if you're paranoid enough to think a song lyric is ..."harmful, should the wrong softheaded twits take it to heart."

Cuckoo!
Cuckoo!

Get some help, man.  You don't have to be afraid of the dark anymore.

 rdo wrote: 

I was thinking the same thing!

WOW. Lots of mental gymnastics with Fred and Xeric. Makes me tired. Not to say I'm not guilty of the same, but (Christian deity name omitted), relax, will ya? Worst part is I actually read all of it. I guess my Masters in English didn't take me to quite the same place. Next thing we'll be arguing grammar and syntax. You know, prescriptive versus descriptive linguistics....

Anyway, the music is...well...Sade redux. 

 toomanyollys wrote: 

 Xeric wrote: 
You called the band "morons" for using this metaphor, so can't complain when the term's bounced back at you. For someone with a Masters in English, you seem peculiarly literal when it comes to metaphors. Examine most metaphors literally and they're at best misleading, at worst plain bonkers. To take a couple of clichés, "it's raining cats and dogs" or "it stinks to high heaven" are misleading, to put it mildly.

Too much cowbell. There, I said it.

 fredriley wrote: 
Poetic licenses are rendered void when the content they allow becomes dangerously misleading.  To so misconstrue the desert environment as "missing" rain is not only wrong, it is potentially harmful, should the wrong softheaded twits take it to heart.  Consider, for another example, "global warming."  Too late more accurately termed "climate change," the phenomenon instead goes by a colloquial term that makes it easy for morons (you know, like me) to deny it: "It ain't global warmin'!  Lookit all that snow!"  The fact that you (not you, Fred—think literary device) are a vapid 90's songwriter whose interests end at signing the back of a large royalty check for a cheesy love song does not excuse idiocy.  Or being most idiotic, if you'd like the superlative (as opposed, say, to the "comparative").  

Oh, and yeah, somewhere along the way to a master's in English, I think I heard somebody mention simile and metaphor.  Fine tools . . . but poor excuses.  

one of my favourite songs from long ago
 

One of those bands that radio-fame make some people oversee them or think they are not great. Great album, with amazing beats and a great voice.

Sometimes i miss by the music of 90. What a good sound.

I submitted "My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains" by EBTG and it was immediately rejected (maybe because it was a cover of a Frank Zappa song?)

She did a great song for the Batman Forever soundtrack along with massive attack

cowbell

Yeah...it's good isn't it?

Great album!  It's too bad more from it isn't played, as it'd go over far better than even this song is!