Here Comes the Rain Again Was It Something I Said

1984 single past Eurythmics

"Here Comes the Pelting Once again"
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Single by Eurythmics
from the album Touch
B-side "Paint a Rumour"
Released 12 January 1984
Recorded 1983
Genre
  • New wave
  • synth-pop
Length 4:54 (anthology version)
5:05 (single version)
four:43 (video version)
iii:50 (7" promo version)
Label RCA
Songwriter(due south)
  • Annie Lennox
  • David A. Stewart
Producer(south) David A. Stewart
Eurythmics singles chronology
"Correct by Your Side"
(1983)
"Hither Comes the Pelting Again"
(1984)
"Sexcrime (Xix Lxxx-Four)"
(1984)
Music video
"Here Comes the Rain Over again" on YouTube

"Here Comes the Rain Again" is a 1983 song by British duo Eurythmics and the opening track from their third studio anthology Touch. It was written past group members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart and produced by Stewart. The vocal was released on 12 Jan 1984[one] as the album'south third single in the UK and in the United States every bit the first single. It became Eurythmics' second Top 10 U.S. hitting, peaking at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Here Comes the Rain Again" hit number viii in the U.k. Singles Chart, becoming their 5th consecutive Superlative 10 single in their home state.

Song information [edit]

Stewart explained to Songfacts that creating a melancholy mood in his songs is something at which he excels. He said: "'Here Comes the Rain Once again' is kind of a perfect one where it has a mixture of things, because I'one thousand playing a b-minor, only and so I modify it to put a b-natural (sic – the song is in A minor) in, and so information technology kind of feels like that modest is suspended, or major. So it'southward kind of a weird grade. And of class that starts the whole song, and the whole song was nearly that undecided thing, similar here comes low, or here comes that downwards spiral. Merely then it goes, 'so talk to me like lovers practise.' Information technology'south the wandering in and out of melancholy, a dark beauty that sort of is like the rose that's when it's darkest unfolding and bloodred merely before the garden, dies. And capturing that in kind of oblique statements and sentiments."[two]

Stewart also said he and Lennox wrote the song while staying at the Mayflower Hotel in New York Urban center. It was an overcast day, and Stewart was playing "melancholy A small-ish chords with the B notation in information technology" on his Casio keyboard. Lennox came over, looked out the window at the grey skies and the New York skyline, and spontaneously sang, "Here comes the pelting again". The duo worked out the rest of the song based on that mood.[ii] [three]

The string arrangements by Michael Kamen were performed past members of the British Philharmonic Orchestra. Withal, due to the express space in the studio, the Church building, the players had to improvise past recording their parts in other parts of the studio. The vocal was then mixed by blending the orchestral tracks on superlative of the original synthesized backing rail.[2]

The running fourth dimension for "Here Comes the Rain Once again" is in authenticity virtually v minutes long and was edited on the Bear on album (fading out at approximately four-and-a-half minutes). Although it was edited even farther for its unmarried and video release, many U.S. radio stations played the full-length version of it.[ citation needed ] The entire v-minute version did not appear on any Eurythmics album until the U.Due south. edition of Greatest Hits in 1991.

In the UK, the unmarried became Eurythmics' fifth Top ten hit, peaking at #8. It was the duo's second top 10 hitting in the Usa, peaking at #four in March 1984.

Music video [edit]

The music video, featuring both Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, was directed by Stewart, Jonathan Gershfield and Jon Roseman,[iv] and released in Dec 1983, a month before the single came out. The video opens with a passing aerial shot of the Old Homo of Hoy on the Island of Hoy in the Orkney Islands earlier transitioning to Lennox walking along the rocky shore and cliff height. She later explores a derelict cottage while wearing a nightgown and property a lantern. Stewart stalks her with a video camera. In many scenes the 2 are filmed separately, then superimposed into the same frame.[5]

Runway listings [edit]

7"
  • A: "Here Comes The Rain Once again" (seven" Edit) – iii:53
  • B: "Paint A Rumour" (Long Version) – 8:00
12"
  • A: "Hither Comes The Rain Again" (Full Version)* – 5:05
  • B1: "This Urban center Never Sleeps" (Alive Version, San Francisco '83) – 5:thirty
  • B2: "Paint A Rumour" (Long Version)* – 8:00

* both (Versions) are longer than the ones plant on the Touch album

Other versions
  • "Hither Comes The Rain Once more" (Freemasons Song Mix) – seven:17 / (2009)
  • "Hither Comes The Rain Once more" (Freemasons Radio Edit) – 4:41 / (2009)
  • "Hither Comes The Rain Once again (Disconet Extended Version) -6:57 / (1984)

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Personnel [edit]

Eurythmics

  • Annie Lennox - vocals, keyboard
  • Dave Stewart - guitar, keyboard

Additional personnel

  • Michael Kamen - usher
  • British Philharmonic - strings

Sampling [edit]

  • The vocal's opening was used in the Kingdom of belgium Dance deed Oxy's 1992 single "The Feeling."[32]
  • George Nozuka sings the same annotation when he says "Talk to me" with a slight stutter on his hitting single, "Talk to Me". Another hit past Nozuka, "Last Nighttime", features a riff that is inspired by "Sweet Dreams".[32]
  • The line "Talk to me" is interpolated in Alice Deejay's song "Amend Off Alone".[32]
  • The lyrics of the chorus were interpolated in the 1995 song "Tragedy" past RZA from the Wu-Tang Association.[32]
  • The lyrics "Walk with me, like lovers do/Talk to me, like lovers practise" were used in Platinum Weird's song "Taking Chances" which incidentally, was co-written by Stewart. "Taking Chances" was later covered past Celine Dion and released as the championship rail of her 2007 album.[33]
  • The lyrics of the chorus were sampled in Jamaican singer's Nadirah Ten vocal "Here It Comes" in 2010 on her debut album Ink.[32]
  • Madonna sampled the song on her Pasty & Sweetness Tour in 2008–2009 with her own song Rain as a video interlude.[32]

References [edit]

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  2. ^ a b c "Hither Comes The Pelting Again". Songfacts.com . Retrieved 28 Nov 2009.
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  13. ^ "Eurythmics – Hither Comes the Pelting Over again" (in Dutch). Dutch Elevation 40. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
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  16. ^ "Notowanie nr 93" (in Polish). 28 January 1984. Retrieved xviii Jan 2021.
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  18. ^ "Eurythmics – Hither Comes the Pelting Again". Swiss Singles Chart.
  19. ^ "Eurythmics: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  20. ^ "Eurythmics Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  21. ^ "Eurythmics Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.
  22. ^ "Eurythmics Chart History (Dance Social club Songs)". Billboard.
  23. ^ "Eurythmics Chart History (Mainstream Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  24. ^ "Cash Box Height 100 Singles – Week ending April xiv, 1984". Greenbacks Box . Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  25. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Eurythmics – Here Comes the Rain Once again". GfK Entertainment charts.
  26. ^ "Top 100 Singles of 1984". RPM. Vol. 41, no. 17. 5 January 1985. p. 7. ISSN 0315-5994. Retrieved 2 June 2020 – via Library and Archives Canada.
  27. ^ "Hot 100 Songs – Yr-End 1984". Billboard. 2 January 2013. Archived from the original on 25 February 2020. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  28. ^ "Dance Club Songs – Twelvemonth-End 1984". Billboard . Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  29. ^ "The Cash Box Year-Terminate Charts: 1984 – Elevation 100 Popular Singles". Cash Box. 29 December 1984. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  30. ^ "Canadian single certifications – Eurythmics – Hither Comes the Pelting Again". Music Canada. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  31. ^ "British single certifications – Eurythmics – Hither Comes the Pelting Again". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  32. ^ a b c d e f "Here Comes the Rain Again by Eurythmics on WhoSampled". WhoSampled . Retrieved 5 March 2022.
  33. ^ Wiser, Carl (20 November 2008). "Dave Stewart of Eurythmics : Songwriter Interviews". Songfacts . Retrieved v March 2022.

External links [edit]

  • Music video on YouTube

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_the_Rain_Again

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