“Here Comes The Rain Again” by Eurythmics

"Here Comes the Rain Again" opens Touch, Eurythmics' third album from 1983, and it arrives like a storm front: sweeping strings from the British Philharmonic Orchestra, a nervous synthesizer pulse and Annie Lennox's voice cutting through the gloom. She and Dave Stewart wrote it, and Stewart produced, playing guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, xylophone and even Appalachian dulcimer, with Dean Garcia on bass and Dick Cuthell adding horns.

Stewart has said melancholy is his specialty, and this is his proof. The song hangs on a chord that can't decide whether it's minor or major, and that indecision is the whole point: the feeling of depression rolling in, the start of a downward slide. Released as a single on 13 January 1984, it reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and number eight in the UK, their fifth top-ten hit in a row at home.

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