90s Music: Blind Melon:”No Rain”

Self-tutoring about 90s music: the tutor revisits Blind Melon’s hit “No Rain.”

I recall Blind Melon’s “No Rain” from the early 90s. I thought it was catchy enough, but to me, it soon disappeared. My life changed quickly back then anyway.

Tonight, driving down the highway, I heard “No Rain” again. In the clarity of 48 years, as opposed to cloudy 23, it came to me afresh.

Immediately I noticed the clicking percussion that sounds like snapping fingers. It really energizes the song.

“No Rain” is first-person. Continually, the speaker suggests they’re “not sane.” They even tell the listener,

You think that I’m insane.

Questioning one’s own sanity likely precludes being insane, at least from “my point of view.” Therefore, “No Rain” is filled with a delicious irony which is comedic but also reassuring.

There is much more I could reflect about “No Rain”, and perhaps I will write more about it in a future post. For now, I’ll say that I under-appreciated it when it was a hit.

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