No Rain
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| Single by Blind Melon from the album Blind Melon |
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| Released | September 22, 1992 | ||||
| Format | CD, cassette, vinyl | ||||
| Recorded | 1992 | ||||
| Genre | Alternative rock | ||||
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"No Rain" is a song by Blind Melon, released on the band's 1992 self-titled debut album. It is best known for its accompanying music video, which featured the "Bee Girl" character and was heavily played on MTV.
"No Rain" was originally released in 1992, but was later re-released the following year. It subsequently helped propel Blind Melon to a multi-platinum level.
The song is easily the band's most successful song, reaching #20 on the pop charts, and #1 on both the Modern Rock Tracks and Mainstream Rock Tracks charts.
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[edit] Track listing
The following tracks appeared on the original 1992 release:
- "No Rain" 3:37
- "No Rain (Live)" 4:07
- "Drive (Live)" 4:40
- "Soak The Sin (Live)" 5:30
The following tracks appeared on the later 1993 CD/Vinyl re-release:
- "No Rain" 3:37
- "Soak The Sin (Board Mix)" 4:00
- "Paper Scratcher (Board Mix)" 3:13
- "Deserted (Board Mix)" 4:20
[edit] Music video
The video, directed by Samuel Bayer, stars Heather DeLoach as the "Bee Girl" — a young tap dancer wearing a homemade bee costume and large glasses, modeled after the Blind Melon album's cover: a family picture of Georgia Graham, younger sister of drummer Glen Graham. [1] The Bee Girl's story is interspersed with footage of Blind Melon performing in a field against a clear blue sky.
It opens on the girl's tap routine; the audience responds with laughter, and the girl runs off stage in tears. As the song plays, she wanders through a city, stopping to perform her dance for whoever will watch. Ultimately — at the point in the song where the word "escape" is repeated — she peeks through a gate, astonished, then runs through it to join a group of "bee people" of all shapes and sizes dancing joyfully in a green field.
As a result of the video, DeLoach appeared on the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards, and reprised her Bee Girl dance (in full costume) in the video for "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "Bedrock Anthem."
VH1 ranked the "No Rain" video 22nd on its "100 Greatest Videos of All Time" list; the song was also No. 99 on the channel's "100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders" list.
[edit] In popular culture
- "No Rain" was used near the end of the 1997 Howard Stern movie, Private Parts.
- The song was featured in a 2003 American ad for Pepsi, in which a girl working as a hot dog mascot is ridiculed by passers-by but catches the eye of a boy across the street who is dressed as a Pepsi can.
- The song was also used in a commercial for the television series Monk where the main character, Adrian Monk, dreams about his perfect world, only to have it ruined when he steps in gum.
- It was also a part of the soundtrack for the movie, Without a Paddle.
- Pearl Jam's song, "Bee Girl," is about the young girl from the "No Rain" video.[1]
- The song is featured in the fourteenth episode of the second season of The O.C. entitled "The Rainy Day Women."
- The song is featured on the theatrical trailer for the 2004 movie, Sideways.
[edit] References
- ^ "Pearl Jam Concert Chronology: 1994". TwoFeetThick.com.
[edit] External links
| Preceded by "My Sister" by The Juliana Hatfield 3 |
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single September 18, 1993 |
Succeeded by "Soul to Squeeze" by Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Preceded by "Soul to Squeeze" by Red Hot Chili Peppers |
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number-one single October 2, 1993 - October 9, 1993 |
Succeeded by "Heart-Shaped Box" by Nirvana |
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