Reboot

Hmm. Been a little while, hasn't it?

I'm about halfway through the 30 Day Song Challenge on facebook and thought I could use a little more space for the background stories. This'll take several posts to catch up.

So here it goes:
Day 01 - Your Favorite Song



This song has an extremely basic message, but it's one that I can identify with. That and the ridiculously pleasant arrangement have made it so enduring with me throughout the years.
The thing that really makes this song special to me, though, is the place it held in my childhood.
I was about ten years old when we moved from Toledo to a small, culturally remote town placed an hour away from the (notoriously sub-par) Dayton radio stations. There was also only one cable provider and they didn't offer MTV. My brother and I clung like mad to any bit of pop culture that reminded us of city life for at least the first few years. While music was accessible to a degree, it was impossible to filter out the desired stuff from the crap in those pre-internet days. I struggled to get a signal for the top 40 station with my little tape recorder clock radio, hoping to hear something off of Dookie between endless plays of The Train.
My brother, though, started amassing a CD collection as he started high school, feeding me little nuggets and inviting me into his room to listen to music with him on his prized stereo/boombox. One of the CDs I often demanded was MTV Buzzbin, volume I. While it had one or two other songs I would later grow into as my tastes developed (It's quite a jump from Weird Al to Radiohead for a ten-year-old), the one that stuck out to me was No Rain. To put it very simply, it made me happy.

Lyrics from No Rain as translated filtered through Translation Party
http://translationparty.com/#9200079
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