(Alternative Rock) Blind Melon - No Rain (Single) - 1993, FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

No Rain" is a song by Blind Melon, released on the band's 1992 self-titled debut album. "No Rain" is well-known for its accompanying music video, which features the "Bee Girl" character. The music video, directed by Samuel Bayer, received heavy airplay on MTV at the time of its release.

"No Rain" was originally released in 1992, but was later re-released the following year. It subsequently helped propel Blind Melon to a multi-platinum level.

The song is the band's highest-charting song, reaching #20 on the pop charts, and #1 on both the Album Rock Tracks and Modern Rock Tracks charts.

A raw, bare-bones remake of "No Rain" appeared on Blind Melon's final studio album featuring Shannon Hoon as frontman. This posthumously-released version is known as "No Rain (Ripped Away Version)"

A live version of the song appears on radio station KMTT's Live From The Mountain Music Lounge Volume 14, released in 2008.

The music video, directed by Samuel Bayer, stars Heather DeLoach as the "Bee Girl" — a young tap dancer wearing a homemade bee costume and large glasses, modeled after the Blind Melon album's cover: a family picture of Georgia Graham, younger sister of drummer Glen Graham.[1] The Bee Girl's story is interspersed with footage of Blind Melon performing in a field against a clear blue sky.

It opens on the girl's tap routine; the audience responds with laughter, and the girl runs off stage in tears. As the song plays, she wanders through a city, stopping to perform her dance for whoever will watch. Ultimately — at the point in the song where the word "escape" is repeated — she peeks through a gate, astonished, then runs through it to join a group of "bee people" of all shapes and sizes dancing joyfully in a green field.

As a result of the video, DeLoach appeared on the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards, and reprised her Bee Girl dance (in full costume) in the video for "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "Bedrock Anthem."

VH1 ranked the "No Rain" video 83rd on its "100 Greatest Videos of All Time" list; the song was also No. 99 on the channel's "100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders" list.

It was revealed on VH1's Behind The Music that Shannon Hoon was high on LSD during the video shoot.

* "No Rain" was used near the end of the 1997 Howard Stern movie, Private Parts.
* The song was featured in a 2003 American ad for Pepsi, in which a girl working as a hot dog mascot is ridiculed by passers-by but catches the eye of a boy across the street who is dressed as a Pepsi can.
* The song was also used in a commercial for the television series Monk where the main character, Adrian Monk, dreams about his perfect world, only to have it ruined when he steps in gum.
* It was also a part of the soundtrack for the movie, Without a Paddle.
* Pearl Jam's song, "Bee Girl," is about the young girl from the "No Rain" video.
* The song is prominently featured during the opening of the fourteenth episode of the second season of The O.C. entitled "The Rainy Day Women."
* The song is featured on the theatrical trailer for the 2004 movie, Sideways.
* The song is a playable track in the rhythm game Guitar Hero On Tour: Decades, and is available as a downloadable song for Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band 2.
* Beavis and Butt-head commented on the dwarf featured in Men Without Hats' "Safety Dance" video, and Beavis comments, "I think that's that bee from that Blind Melon video".

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Blind Melon / No Rain (Single)

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