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Monday, July 23, 2007

SUNNY SIDE UP 

It appears that the continually shite weather in Britain can be blamed on one source, and one source only.

Not global warming. No, the blame must lay fairly and squarely with this young lady:



Rihanna has been at number one in the hit parade for about three months now with the song Umbrella, in which she invites some bloke or other to "come under (her) umbrella" for shelter.

This isn't just a saucy sexual metaphor. Oooh, no. Neither is the bit where she sings "it's raining (raining)/Ooo baby it's raining/baby come into me/Come into me."

What we're dealing with is a hex on the British climate.

I can vouch for this because when I was on holiday, we'd set off in the car for a few hours lazing on the beach, or for a hearty coastal stroll, with radio accompaniment on the journey. Inevitably, the *nation's number one* would be played within an hour or so ...

"NOW THAT IT'S RAINING MORE THAN EVER!" Rihanna would declare ...

Which would immediately result in flash floods, hurricanes, thunder bolt and lightening (very very frightening, me). Which meant our lovely relaxing summer's day was curtailed - again.

Drastic measures have to be taken. If there's any hope at all of getting something that resembles a late blossoming summer in August, the market must be (ho ho) *flooded* with songs and bands that make references to sun or summer, regardless of whether they are crap or not. It's the only way to remove the curse.

The likes of ...

Good Day Sunshine - The Beatles
Chase The Sun - Planet Funk
Sunny - Bobby Hebb
Beach Baby - First Class
Hello Summertime - Bobby Goldsboro
Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks

Summer In The City - The Lovin' Spoonful
Anything by Sunn O))) (...just the band you'd want to turn up at a beach party, plugging their guitars into the sand, after all)

Any more suggestions in the comments box, please. If we act now, the British public can go back to grumbling about the usual summer stuff: wasps; hay fever; mugginess; hosepipe bans; people who don't use deodorant and stand next to them on trains; the fumes from barbecues.

Oh, and really "well built" women who have "glandular problems" can once more say "oh, I hate this hot weather, I can't stand it, I'll be glad when there's a storm so it cools down a bit. Pass us another pork pie will ya?"

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Comments:
Sunshine of your Love - Cream.
 
Always the Sun - Stranglers

Golden Brown - Stranglers

Summer Night City - Abba

Sunshine Help Me - Spooky Tooth

The Heat is on - Glen Frey

Burn Baby Burn - Ash

Shine on you Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun - Pink Floyd

Angie Baby - Helen Reddy

Blinded by The Light - Manfred Mann

Come on Barbie - Aqua

It might as well rain until September - Carole King

Why does it always rain on me - Travisty

Doh!
 
the ho must have just released the thing here because it's been raining for a week straight. someone deport her to subsaharan africa, please?

*you are the sunshine of my life* stevie wonder!
 
A bloke I work with does a fantastic impression of that honking noise Rhianna starts making in that song.

(Ducky).
 
Oh yeah, sorry - 'Sunshine Of Your Love" by Cream.

Choooooon.
 
Here Comes The Summer - The Undertones.

Holidays In The Sun - Sex Pistols.

Anything by The Blazin' Squad.
 
Sunshine On A Rainy Day - Some one hit wonder woman, possibly name Zoe

The Light Pours Out Of Me - Magazine

Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones


I was going to say Here Comes the Summer too - I can't decide if I really love or really hate that Irn Bru advert with the goths in that uses the song. I'll be sure to let you all know when I decide though, I can tell you're on the edge of your seats.
 
Walkin' on Sunshine - Rocker's Revenge!


I gotta tell ya that yer doin' fine!
Thas raght - git there! - evabuddy to the sun.....
 
Yes, I'd heard that this young lady had been top of the popular music hit parade for an inordinately long time. THEY started comparing her to those truly crazy cats The Beatles and Elvis, claiming she had beaten their records (as in, Guinness Book of). The trouble is, you get to Number 1 these days by selling eight discs (or is it Seedies, or DeevyDees these days?)
Anyway, how about:
1. I Can't Get No Precipitation - Rolling Stones.
2. I'm Mandy, Dry Me - 10cc.
3. I Predict a Dryout - Kaiser Chiefs.
4. Walk On The Mild Side - Lou Reed.
5. Standpipe By Your Man - Tammy Wynette.
 
Garfer - from the 1960's when the sun was *always* shining because you would always be off your face.

Murph - blimey! The definitive list! I didn't get Helen Reddy at first but I assume it's something to do with her spending too long out in the sun.

FN - perhaps it's part of her five year plan to cover the globe in water - release that single every month in a different country. She is EVIL, I tell you, EVIL.

Russ L - what, the "eh? eh? eh?" thing she does? She's cooked her goose (ducky).

Geoff - are the Blazin' Squad still droppin' joints? Is the man Kenzie still at the helm, or has he now got a job as a mobile phone salesman?

Violet - yeah, it was Zoe. The Light Pours Out Of Me ... it's difficult to imagine Howard Devoto lying on a sunbed in Magaluf, isn't it? I await your decision on the Irn Bru ad. with bated breath.

Doppelganger - good choice. Arthur Baker runs a couple of soul food restaurants in London these days.

Reg - the youngsters "drop" "downloads" onto "cylinder" nowadays, but don't ask me what that means.

I'm Mandy, Fry Me - 10cc
 
I Predict A Warm Occlusion Followed By Cirrus Cumulus And A Dry South Easterly - The Kaiser Chiefs (first attempt).
 
The Pop Singer's Fear of the Pollen Count - The Divine Comedy
 
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How do you stop THAT from echoing around in yer bleedin'ead?
 
'We've Got to Put that Sun Back in the Sky' - The Boswell Sisters (1932)
'The Sun Has Got his Hat On/Hip Hip Hip Hooray..'
I could go on but don't worry, I won't.
wv - ehogs
 
Reg - "I predict a band of meaty showers sweeping across the Welsh Marches, petering out by early afternoon, followed by scattered showers spreading towards the North East" - The Kaiser Chiefs featuring Daniel Corbett

Doris - indeed! Can't imagine Neil Hannon as a beach baby, but I can imagine him sitting in a drawing room inhaling Beconase.

HE - you'll be laughing on the other side of your face now Rihanna's song has reached your part of the world - yes, you, with the pictures on your site of cloudless skies and people basking in sunshine, sitting on boats ... have you seen that ominously dark band of cloud that's drifting overhead?

Arabella -
Sun Valley Jump - The Glen Miller Band
It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow - Jack Payne
We'll Make Hay While The Sun Shines - Whoever It Was
The Umbrella Man - Flanagan And Alan (er, hang on a minute ...)
 
Billy has some Sunn O))). Strange stuff. Shutting a claustrophobic guy in a car boot with a microphone to get the right level of panicky screaming is an interest concept in recording music.

I'm not so sure about sun, but anything by Hard Rain (Tony Clarkin project after Magnum) and Emerald Rain (Hard Rain spin-off) might do right now.

As might The Enid song "Raindown" from their album "Something Wicked This Way Comes"

Us "trainspotters of music" don't have many sunny tracks to choose from!
 
Mr Blue Sky
Please tells us why
You had to hide away for so long
so long...
Where did we go wrong?

Either the ELO original or the wonderful Delgados cover version (credibility restored...)
 
Could you please all raise your voices in song with extra zeal to be heard in Vancouver?

Just ended a 7-day stretch of rain here (with only a few sunny days since November)and haven't had a proper summer yet.

*cues Summertime Blues*
 
I Predict A Buyout - Sir Philip Green (this is getting silly).
 
Llewtrah - too true, there isn't much of a place for sun or the summer in metal lyrics. "Fun fun fun 'til her daddy takes the T-Bird away" - that's not really a line you'll hear in a metal song.

Del - I'll stick with The Electric Light Bulb, what with being a thick Brummie. I dunno how Jeff Lynne could tell whether there was a blue sky or not, what with him wearing those Foster Grant shades all the time.

MJ - too true. We've been quite lucky and have had a couple of sunny afternoons within the last week, but are always told to "make the most of it" because more bloody rain is on the way ... bah.

Reg - "I Pwedict An Encounter With A Stwanger Who Will Be Dwessed In White And Will Be The Beawer Of Good News About Your Financial Situation" - Mystic Meg.
 
" with the song Umbrella, "

Song?

I never realised
 
"Raining Blood" by Slayer.

"Rainy Day Sun" by Spinal Tap.

"Heatwave", "Me and the Wind", "Frost Circus", "I Remember the Sun", "Wash Away", "That Wave" "Miniature Sun", "Snowman", "Summer's Cauldron", "Ballet for a Rainy Day", "Season Cycle", "You and the Clouds Will Still Be Beautiful", all by XTC.

I could go on with more XTC weather realted songs, but I don't want to take too much comment space up.
 
Ziggi - yeah, that modern music is all thump thump thump, and they can't bloody sing either. Give me The Mike Samms Singers any day.

Istvanski - is Andy Partridge working as a meteorologist these days then? As for Raining Blood by Slayer - pass the Feminax and the Lilets, maan.
 
I can think of Sacha Distilled 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head'. Perhaps they are Rhianna's and that's why they are so 'wet' hence her 'umbrella'? Disgusting if you ask me - if she were still alive Betty Prentiss over at Fears Forever would have had a word to say about that chart harlot Rhianna.
 
RoMo - I wouldn't be surprised if Sacha hadn't got a good soaking with Rihanna. Well, you know what those Frenchmen are like, even the married ones ... mind you, he has been dead for some time, so perhaps not. I can imagine what the late Mrs Prentiss would think of her. When she was Rihanna's age she was already married with three kids, had a six day a week job at the sweetshop but STILL found time to prepare tea for her husband.
 
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