No Rain
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"No Rain" is a song by American alternative rock group Blind Melon. It was released in September 1992 as the second single from the band's debut album Blind Melon. The song is well known for its accompanying music video, which features the "Bee Girl" character. The music video, directed by Samuel Bayer, received heavy airplay on MTV at the time of its release. It subsequently helped propel Blind Melon to a multi-platinum level.
The song is the band's highest-charting song, reaching number 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and number-one on both the Album Rock Tracks and Modern Rock Tracks charts. The single proved successful in several other countries, hitting number-one in Canada and number 8 in Australia.
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
The following tracks appeared 1993 UK Vinyl release:
- "No Rain" 3:34
- "No Bidness" (Triple Vision Version) 2:23
- recorded live at Bogarts, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 11, 1993.
- "I Wonder" 5:29
A live version of the song appears on radio station KMTT's Live From The Mountain Music Lounge Volume 14, released in 2008.
Music video
The music 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 intercut 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 whomever 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 83rd on its "100 Greatest Videos of All Time" list; One-Hit Wonders" list and No. 15 of its "40 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the 1990s."
In popular culture
The song was played in several episodes of The O.C., was been featured TV commercials of Sahne Nuss.
Chart positions
| Chart (1993) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australia (ARIA)[2] | 8 |
| Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[3] | 29 |
| Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[4] | 31 |
| Canada Top Singles (RPM) | 1 |
| songid field is MANDATORY FOR GERMAN CHARTS | 76 |
| Ireland (IRMA) | 24 |
| Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[5] | 26 |
| New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[6] | 15 |
| UK Singles (The Official Charts Company) | 17 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 20 |
| U.S. Billboard Album Rock Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Top 40 Mainstream | 4 |
See also
- List of RPM number-one singles of 1993
- List of number-one mainstream rock hits (United States)
- Number one modern rock hits of 1993
References
- ^ "To Bee Or Not To Bee". Entertainment Weekly. September 24, 1993.
- ^ "Blind Melon – No Rain". ARIA Top 50 Singles.
- ^ "Blind Melon – No Rain" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
- ^ "Blind Melon – No Rain" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
- ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Blind Melon" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
- ^ "Blind Melon – No Rain". Top 40 Singles.