RAINY DAY WOMEN
“Rainy Day Women #12 & 35” is a song by Bob Dylan. It is the opening track of his 1966 album, Blonde on Blonde. It was initially released as a single in April 1966, reaching No. 7 in the UK and No. 2 in the US chart. “Rainy Day Women”, recorded in the Nashville studio of Columbia Records, features a raucous brass band backing track. The song’s title does not appear anywhere in the lyrics, and there has been much debate over the meaning of the recurrent chorus, “Everybody must get stoned”. This has made the song controversial, being labelled by some commentators as “a drug song”. (More from Wikipedia)
If I had to pick out my favorite song on Wild Love, it would be “Pin Point Eyes”; the couplet “She looked into my pin point eyes / and she cried” is hard to top in the Stooges oeuvre. It sure would have been nice to hear this one on Open Up and Bleed!, but maybe it was just too unfinished. Greg Shaw speaks of this song in the liner notes: “Never before released in the U.S., ‘Pin Point Eyes’ might well have evolved out of a jam on ‘St. James Infirmary’, until Iggy grafted his own graphic addiction story over it. Some great crazed piano on this one from Bob Sheff. Gotta love the lazy mood in which Iggy starts off urging them all to join in, then to take their solo parts. It’s almost the kind of party that Dylan threw on ‘Rainy Day Women’, set in perhaps-ironic contrast to the really harrowing story he’s telling. (Did he really say he traded his girl for a bag of snow?).”
(December 2017)
