"It's Raining Men": C or D?

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I'm speaking specifically about the original version, of course.. So many cover versions, and yet none can even begin to compare to the original.

― Curtis Stephens, Saturday, 14 December 2002 02:02 (twenty-three years ago)

With Martha Walsh (or is it Wash?) on vocals in the guise of the Weather Girls? Even I have to say "classic."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 December 2002 02:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I can always tell when someone's been watching VH1 Classic. :-)

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 14 December 2002 02:57 (twenty-three years ago)

No. No non on o. Absolute shite. Plagued by this crappy tune practically every Friday night. Fucking pitiful. It's when all the students go "wooooooooooooh", the breezer birds start "'avin it" and any self respecting bloke worth his salt buggers off to the bar unless he is: A - genuinely gay; B - trying SO hard to be straight that he has to dance ironically to this song; or C - doesn't know any better and thinks that this song makes gorgeous women randy as fuck and he's bound to get a shag if he dances to this bollocks.

There you have it. I hate this as much as "Brown-Eye Girl", "I've had the Time of My Life", "Living on a Prayer" and "Mustang Sally". Oh no! OH NO!!!!

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 14 December 2002 03:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Video = Classic
Song = Dud
Refs to Chorus in Comic Strip Punchlines = Classic
Refs to Chorus on film/TV in any context = You Should Be Raped By Giant fuckin' Steel Gorillas

― Tom Millar (Millar), Saturday, 14 December 2002 03:49 (twenty-three years ago)

There you have it. I hate this as much as "Brown-Eye Girl", "I've had the Time of My Life", "Living on a Prayer" and "Mustang Sally".

Do you hate fun?!?

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 14 December 2002 05:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally, dearest, are you implying that "Brown Eyed Girl" = fun?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 December 2002 05:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Brown eyed girls are hella fun, esp. if you're 'Catholic' too

― Tom Millar (Millar), Saturday, 14 December 2002 05:36 (twenty-three years ago)

All versions are excellent.

This song is one of the few songs that I can actually sing and sound okay.

― toraneko (toraneko), Saturday, 14 December 2002 11:27 (twenty-three years ago)

it's 'Martha Wash' i believe, but it's often written in credits as 'Walsh'

― michael (michael), Saturday, 14 December 2002 11:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I mean come on - "Brown-Eye Girl" is hardly a compliment is it? PLus how many girls are there in the world with brown eyes? KABILLLIONS probably. Actually, you'd be hard pushed to find a girl who doesn't have one.

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 14 December 2002 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

THAT'S WHY IT'S FUN, IT'S SO STUPID! When you are really drunk and badly singing the words, it's fantastic. It's worth at any other time is questionable. Regardless, Time of My Life and Living on a Prayer are more than enough fun to make up for Van Morrison.

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 14 December 2002 19:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Most people focus on the novelty value of the song too much to realize just how clever it really is.

― Curtis Stephens, Saturday, 14 December 2002 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

All you need to know about that song is that it was written by Paul Schaeffer. So much for "clever"...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 14 December 2002 19:32 (twenty-three years ago)

video is fuckin' hot if you love gyrating studs in bikini briefs and obese women wearing too much make-up. Directed by John Waters?

It would be sweet justice if Paul Schaffer was crushed by a man who jumped out of a window.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 14 December 2002 19:33 (twenty-three years ago)

It's Homer Simpson's favorite song!

― original bgm, Saturday, 14 December 2002 19:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought "We Built This City (On Rock n Rol)" was his favorite?

Anyhow, people who don't like "It's Raining Men" are damned fools.

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 14 December 2002 19:44 (twenty-three years ago)

This thread has prompted me to d/l every song mentioned (excepting B.E.G.) from ye olde p2p file-sharing networke. Thus, classic.

― flightsatdusk (flightsatdusk), Saturday, 14 December 2002 20:33 (twenty-three years ago)

wadda song, really
-- a foot-in-mouth, heart-in-the-fridge, brain-in-the-sewer screechathon (inna word, "phenomenal")

Shakira's torchers pee on such stuff-and-nonsense just, y'know, effortlessly

― t\'\'t (t''t), Sunday, 15 December 2002 00:39 (twenty-three years ago)

My wife sings that song while walking down the halls at work. Should I be worried?

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Sunday, 15 December 2002 02:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Missta Producto,
yu bette be vovvid, yu bee VEVY, VEVY VOVVID! like HELL

― t\'\'t (t''t), Sunday, 15 December 2002 02:57 (twenty-three years ago)

It's worth at any other time is questionable.

Well, as a concept "It's Raining Men" is no more stupid than Slayer's "Raining Blood." As a song, oh, it's still far superior. It's got big, brassy dance divas! And the word "hallelujah"! And it's funny, because it starts off with a fake "weather report" (cuz they're, like, weather girls, in this wonderful alternate universe where sistas of size are hired as TV meteorologists).

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 15 December 2002 03:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Should I still worry if while my wife sings "It's Raining Men" at work, I hum "Raining Blood"? Actually, nevermind. I never hum "Raining Blood", I usually hum "Angel of Death" or some Supersuckers song.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Sunday, 15 December 2002 04:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Weather Girls - It's Raining Men

Hi Hi! We're your Weather Girls Ah huh
And have we got news for you You better listen!
Get ready, all you lonely girls
and leave those umbrellas at home. Alright!

Humidity is rising Barometer's getting low
According to all sources, the street's the place to go
Cause tonight for the first time
Just about half past ten
For the first time in history
It's gonna start raining men.

It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! It's Raining Men! Amen!
I'm gonna go out to run and let myself get
Absolutely soaking wet!
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah!
It's Raining Men! Every Specimen!
Tall, blonde, dark and lean
Rough and tough and strong and mean

God bless Mother Nature, she's a single woman too
She took off to heaven and she did what she had to do
She taught every angel to rearrange the sky
So that each and every woman could find her perfect guy
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! It's Raining Men! Amen!
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah!
It's Raining Men! Ameeeeeeeeeennnn!

I feel stormy weather Moving in about to begin
Hear the thunder Don't you lose your head
Rip off the roof and stay in bed
Rip off the roof and stay in bed

It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! It's Raining Men! Amen!
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! It's Raining Men! Amen!
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! It's Raining Men! Amen!
...
It's Raining Men! Hallelujah! It's Raining Men! Amen!

Slayer - Raining Blood

Trapped in purgatory
A lifeless object, alive
Awaiting reprisal
Death will be their acquisition

The sky is turning red
Return to power draws near
Fall into me, the sky's crimson tears
Abolish the rules made of stone

Pierced from below, souls of my treacherous past
Betrayed by many, now ornaments dripping above

Awaiting the hour of reprisal
Your time slips away

Raining blood
From a lacerated sky
Bleeding its horror
Creating my structure
Now I shall reign in blood!

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 15 December 2002 12:08 (twenty-three years ago)

i heart siegbran

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 15 December 2002 12:18 (twenty-three years ago)

and it's raining matchstick men with matchstick cats and dogs, (hallelujah), and it's raining kids on the corner of the street w/ their sparking clogs (hallelujah) - makes you worry about brian may's hair going up in a fireball does that. now he takes his brush and he waits outside those pearly gates

― bob snoom, Sunday, 15 December 2002 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

"Brown Eyed Girl" = fantastic.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 15 December 2002 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

"creating my structure" = super-creepy phrase out of a thomas harris book: ("sex is a splendid structure they add to every day" = ew ew EW EW make the nasty writerman stop EW EW EW!!)

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 15 December 2002 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

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