Billie Myers - Kiss The Rain

[VoR]

Lovely melodramatic one hit wonder from 1998. I remember everyone thinking she was a man.

 

[Jonfessions]

I thought she was a man too - so did my friend - we heard her on the radio before we saw her.

 

[Sheena]

LIMB CHEWINGLY APPALLING

 

[loomer]

Another one I'd forgotten, you do like your one hit wonders don't you, VoR.

 

[Pipo]

I predictably love this. I also likd the first single of her FLOP second album, it was something about a letter

 

[RobotBoy]

Great song but her vocal ruins it for me.

 

[skizzo]

Love it, brings back great memories.

 

[The Politics Of Dancing]

Another song that makes me long for 1998-1999 to come back - an all around 9.

 

[Shoat]

BRILLIANT.

When I frst properly started following the charts, this was my fave at the time.

And yes, I remember spending hours debating with my siblings whether it was a man or a woman.

 

[straightorbroken]

The ridiculously pompous follow-up Tell Me was so menstrual - I loved it, but it's so hideous at the same time.

Kiss The Rain is beautiful, the intro gets me immediately and the final gentle howls (cut from the single edit) are so powerful. The album was alright, but I was in full blown teenage angst mode so the lyrics hit the nerve in that ridiculous hard done by way I've long since out grown (as IF).

It's a pity she just vanished, and that she never worked with Eric Bazilian on more songs. I'm sure she now records ropey dance songs.

 

[Eileen]

LIMB CHEWINGLY APPALLING

You're NOT WRONG.

 

[VoR]

Rediscovering this after it featured on a couple of recent BBC4 TOTP re-runs.

It's the kind of ludicrously overblown emotional melodrama I used to take SO seriously when I was a hormonal teenager/twenty-something/possibly into my early 30s.

Still love it though.

KEEP IN MIND!
WE'RE UNDER THE SAME SKY!

 

[VoR]

I also enjoy the inevitable flop follow-up where Billie wanders around a gay bar looking concerned, before being seduced into some quite striking proto-Gaga drag lewks.

 

[Joseph]

5

 

[straightorbroken]

The Tell Me video is like the wildest Ally McBeal episode that never aired.

 

[Martelo Estrada]

Tell me is better then Kiss the rain imho

 

[Suedehead]

Billie Myers - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Her wikipedia page is giving.

 

[lolly]

Poor Des'ree's greatest moment written out of history

 

[straightorbroken]

Not a fan of Leo's then.

 

[Suedehead]

The JUST SEX standalone 2005 single seems to have a separate entry but why

 

[Suedehead]

Billie Myers
“JUST SEX”

 

[Suedehead]

 

[Suedehead]

 

[straightorbroken]

From the rain to golden showers.

 

[Dark Carnival]

I found it dreary back then and I see neither time nor nostalgia have done it any favours.

5

 

[Suedehead]

Honest to God every time I heard 'Hello....' I would want to scream.

 

[lolly]

The song itself is quite good

Unfortunately listening to it is like being moaned at for four minutes.

 

[funky]

Sorry but this song is amazing.