Talk:When It Rains It Snows

One of my favourite Giants songs

I first heard this in around 1989, so it's pushing 30 years of me listening to it. One of the oddest things I find about listening to it (as I just have on a random playlist) is just how fresh it always sounds. Such was the strength of the Giants writing at the time that this could be casually thrown onto an EP and then a rarities collection. A wonderful American songbook melody and brilliant lyrics, about a man reflecting on his murder, with admirable calmness. When it rains it's snow is not a common idiom so I'm guessing that it was used because it scans better than the more familiar when it rains it pours. Flans at it best. (Mr Tuck)

This may now be my favourite Giants song. Listened to it so much lately. It still seems so fresh. I know it's only a minor song, buried on Misc T, but gosh it's great. (Mr Tuck) 16:03, October 28, 2016

Agreed. This is one of the songs that, inexplicably perhaps, made me a huge fan of this band for life. It's still fresh because it's so unlike anything else in popular music...true in the 1980s and still true in the 2020s. --MisterMe (talk) 22:50, 25 March 2020 (EDT)

When It Rains, It Pours

Morton Salt logo and slogan

No one but the Johns would know whether the Morton Salt slogan or the old adage it never rains, but it pours is being tweaked. It's also possible that they were thinking of the song It Never Rains in Southern California because it includes the adage, but the form of the TMBG song title is closer the Morton slogan. --Nehushtan (talk) 20:25, 19 September 2020 (EDT)