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I've just made it through an existential crisis induced by listening to Howard Devoto's "Rainy Season" (about twenty times) for the first time in about twenty years . . . hooo boy does this bring it back. . .

Can anyone tell me if the album "Jerky Versions of the Dream" is as good as this single, and if it's worth searching for?

--Hex

Unfortunately that single is unique as far as the rest of that album. Don't get me wrong, the albums is very good - but "rainy season" doesn't sound like anything else on that album.

'rainy season' is actually my favorite song of all time

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"Rainy Season" is one of my very favorites of all. What is also mixed in with my adulation of this song is that, back in the day, I was convinced NO-BODY had heard of it except me, based on how hard the single was to find. And none of my New Wave f

Thanks jfiber, that's exactly the information I was looking for.

I remember kinda liking "Rainy Season" when I'd hear it from time to time on KYYX--and of course the title has a special significance in the Pacific NW [:)]--but I didn't remember any mor