By Scott Buckner
Like the public at-large, I’m sure a few of my Beachwood Reporter colleagues are probably thinking of glaringly obvious rain songs that would qualify for Song of the Moment. You know, everything from The Doors’ “Riders On The Storm” to Led Zeppelin’s “The Rain Song” to B.J. Thomas’ “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head” or Gordon Lightfoot’s “Rainy Day People.”
Not that there’s anything wrong with those songs at The Moment. When your next two days are going to be spent lugging every waterlogged possession – not to mention about 500 square yards of cheap-ass carpeting – from your basement to the curb, you don’t have a lot of time ponder what might be music’s perfect rain song.
Fortunately, I spent this weekend high and dry, so I had more than 15 minutes to ponder this musical question. Initially, I thought of The Temptations’ “I Wish It Would Rain,” Stevie Ray Vaughn’s “Texas Flood,” and Brook Benton’s “Rainy Night in Georgia.” Only problem was, a song wishing it would rain even more seems outrageous unless there’s a drought, I couldn’t give a shit less about what happens in Texas, and nobody in Georgia with a guitar has hitched a ride on a boxcar since The Great Depression.
It was rainy. It’s Monday. So it’s not that much of a stretch that my Song Of The Moment is “Rainy Days and Mondays” by The Carpenters.
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Posted on September 15, 2008
