Day 464 - The Seventy Sevens - The Rain Kept Falling In Love

464. The Seventy Sevens - The Rain Kept Falling In Love

From the album "Pray Naked"
(Brainstorm, 1992)

"What’s a band to do?

Despite the rampant rumors that even a cool label like Brainstorm, run by Ojo Taylor (Undercover) had to change the album cover, name of the album and black out the name of a song on one of your best albums, an album that was to re-introduce the band the CCM market after several years of not releasing any new music to the general public, ... it has been confirmed to me that the decision to do so was the band's, and not the record companies.

The funniest part is that every consumer, retailer and rock radio guy knew the album, officially their second self-titled release, was really called Pray Naked. The record company sales people told their retailers, the consumers knew the band and what was coming and rock radio guys are about as hooked into the industry as anyone gets.
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The point here is, that no matter what they call, it’s a ... great album. It is easily the best 'instrumentally focused' album of the band’s career and remains a personal and critical favorite some two decades later. Leader Michael Roe shows here why he is the most underrated rock guitarist in Christian music and one of the most diverse and creative songwriters in the genre.
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The next two songs employ the image of rain to express the feeling of loss and need. Deep End finds Roe feeling the pain of loss in the lonely setting while The Rain Kept Falling in Love finds hope in the refreshing nature of the same rain. The first is a straight mid-tempo rocker that fills the album while the latter has a touch of reggae back-beat and remains one of the more commercial sounding songs on the album.
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Despite controversy, the album found an audience (though never as large as this amazing band deserved) and remains a fan favorite now 20 years later." (source: CCM's 500 Best Albums)

here is the original album version of the song: