’80s MP3: The Jean Paul Sartre Experience – “I Like Rain”
It’s pouring here in Philadelphia at the moment and this simple, beautiful song from ’80s New Zealand band The Jean Paul Sartre Experience romanticizes what most people see as an annoyance. “I Like Rain” was featured on their 1988 Flying Nun-released album Love Songs and has recently been covered, very well I might add, by Lali Puna and members of The Notwist on Morr Music’s compilation Not Given Lightly…
{MP3} The Jean Paul Sartre Experience – “I Like Rain”
One of the most classic Flying Nun records EVER! I have not heard this in years. Thanks for posting
Loved this song forever. Before it was released I could only hear it live… in one of those “what you thought you heard” song moments I thought it was .. Lime green falling on my…. Well if you’d heard the band (in all their psychedelic splendour) and had a head full of funghi it would make perfect sense! it was over a year before I discovered the truth:-)
This too is one of my favourite songs ever. You can embed the video (higher res than on YouTube) from here: http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/i-like-rain-1987
There’s also a collection of Flying Nun music vids just released : http://www.nzonscreen.com/collection/the-flying-nun-collection