![]() ![]() Stakes was high, to quote De La Soul, in 1992-1993, as much as they are now. Before this day and hour “all I can do is just pour some tea for two/And speak my point of view but it’s not sane” reads as rank post-post-hippie bullshit. Boon of the Minutemen recoil but is far more traditional. Over strummed acoustic chords that fans of America’s “A Horse with No Name” would have adored, singer Shannon Hoon embraces a pantheism that would not have made D. But the video put the song over: the one with the girl in the bee costume and the band dressed disgracefully like the hippies of John Mitchell’s wettest dreams while playing in a field of long grass. Its embrace of imbecility would not have alarmed the character in Edie Brickell and New Bohemians’ “What I Am” half a decade earlier, and in the case of “No Rain” the gap between character and singer seems, ah, narrower than in the 1989 hit. Maybe that’s what made “No Rain” such a massive MTV hit in late ’93 and early ’94. Focusing on ephemeral shit is a way of tuning out. But I started this post minutes before Anthony Kennedy delivered in person his statement announcing his retirement from the Supreme Court, after which I listened to “No Rain” in my office, alone, again and understood its adherence to a stoner’s concentration on the snail slime on the wall. Every note is objectionable, every lyric an incitement. PEAK CHART POSITION: #1 on Modern Rock Chart, September 1993 #20 in October 1993.Īs much – as strenuously in spots – as I try to expound on the flaws of these songs I despise, I occasionally bump into a “No Rain,” for which no explanation is reasonable. Songs beloved by colleagues and songs to which I’m supposed to genuflect will get my full hurricane-force winds, but it doesn’t mean that I won’t take shots at a jukebox hero overplayed when I was at a college bar drinking a cranberry vodka in a plastic thimble-sized cup. I promise my readers that my list will when possible eschew obvious selections. I don’t want to hate songs to do so would shake ever-sensitive follicles, and styling gel is expensive. ![]() Like a good single, a terrible one reveals itself after airplay and forbearance.
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