Dear friends from New Zeland you have no idea how popular this song was in Peru, 1983-1984. I remember at the parties we danced to this song many times, even on the streets my friends and I used to gather and listen to this song full loud. Thank you for such wonderful music.
@@seanwoods5943 ....or they fucked off to Cuba for some sun and never came back. *finger across the neck gesture* They don’t take too kindly to folks that don’t like this track in Havana.
Marc Hunter passed away on July 17 1998 from throat cancer that's 15 years after this song. Thanks Dragon for the great music I remember listening to this from a young age and makes me remember the good times hopefully after COVID-19 I will make new memories with the amazing people in my life. God bless everyone reading this may we all get through the hard times together. Rest in peace Marc Hunter
I caught my 7 year old son singing this in the back of the car the other day, the radio wasn't even on. I looked in the mirror at him and thought I am a really good dad.... So we got it up on Spotify and smashed it out together. It's the moments like this that make these song the sound tracks to our lives....😊
Went to the Dragon 50th Anniversary concert in Perth last night, the energy and passion from the crowd and the band was amazing!!!! Dragon finished the concert with this song, I will remember this for the rest of my life.
"Appreciate it"?!? This is the soundtrack of my youth....I was raised by the thumping backbeats, raoring vocals and harmonies of Dragon from nappies my friend!
This was the last song played at my 1983 school social. I had no one to dance with but i didnt care. I just got up on the dance floor, and lost my self for those few minutes. Still remember like it was last year.
The metaphor of rain is so powerful! It signifies darkness, grief, despair, shame, guilt... every dark emotion that we fear... But then rain can bring growth, hope, new life, new beginning, light and optimism.. This song is a beautiful paradox that allows the listener to draw their own conclusions about what the song truly means.But then evolves over time... you come to understand the deeper meaning of the song, and how it's reflected your life... What does rain truly mean to you?
The 80s was the peak time of the west, it was a decade of prolific hits peace and everyone was happy, the bands that came out was a true expression of everyone.....what a era!
I doubt it. People (especially kids my age) are badly brainwashed by music with no heart and actual talent. The mainstream have brainwashed this newer generation and it's a shame.
Mohuckmed Shishkeblob don’t know what that means but anyway, even if they were brainwashed, doesn’t mean they’d have a choice. You can’t choose not to be brainwashed but you can try to find out if you are.
Mohuckmed Shishkeblob or you don’t know its happening. Similar to political opinions for example, if someone lives under communism, their information is hidden and altered in the favour of the mentality of their country, and they could have ‘facts’ that every other country doesn’t. The people who live in that country will have been taught those facts and believe hem because that’s what they’ve been taught. Whether it’s right or wrong, they’ve been brainwashed by their educational system (and their government)
This song was a massive hit on college radio in Boston. Especially, the late great station WBCN gave it heavy airplay. Thanks for the happy memories :)
How could 370 people give thumbs down to this gem? I mean, it's not Chumba Wumba... it's Dragon, and it's a classic. Reached No. #2 on Aust charts, US top 100 billboard.. 2.5M plays on Spotify. Alas, everyone is entitled to their own uniquely useful opinion
My best friend and I loved this when it came out, we were in Jr High, California, USA. So many awesome bands from Australia and New Zealand came to the states in the early eighties, too many to count. I'd listen to them on alternative/punk/New wave station K-ROQ FM. 🙏❤
RIP Marc! Pure unadulterated talent on this band.....Todd too.....Dragon so ROCKED in those days.....takes me back.....now I cant stop playing this song!!!
I love the 80s production, the reverb on Marc's slightly raspy voice, the bv's, such a killer tune...it still sends chills. I guess it has to make my Top 5 Dragon songs.
NEW ZEALAND PRODUCED AWESOME BANDS LIKE SPLIT ENZ DRAGON MI SEX SHARON O NEILL ETC IM AUSSIE BUT FOR A SMALL POP THEY ARE AMAZING. RIP STEVE GILPIN AND THE LATE MARC HUNTER.
+Hayden Wittig Thanks for your post! As a Kiwi, I appreciate your positive comments. Both Australia and New Zealand produced great rock bands and solo artists. I have listening to "Dragon" for years and still love their music to this day. I am 49 years old now and really appreciate all these bands from the eighties...
Nothing stands up to the music we were beating on rocks with sticks before shit like instruments and stuff You stupid young people are too stupid to understand Thanks everyone puking out such original comments you are all so very fucking special and have something to say.
This song lights a fire inside me. I absolutely love it. On a side note, I was having Saturday Night drinks with a friend of mine and a live band was playing. They then started playing this song and I have to admit, they played it as good as the original piece. It was the first time I danced in years.....
What a song. Sad to know of the lead singers passing, but in a way happy that he was able to leave us such brilliant melodies capable of stirring up nostalgic emotions of my childhood. RIP Marc Hunter.
I bought Dragon's casette (Body and the beat) in Argentina in the late eighties. Only this song was known in Argentina, but I loved all their music. I was the only one of my friends listening to them, by the way. Great band.
Sorry but Sharon O'Neil wrote this song for Todd Hunter about his depression. Young years still bring a tear to my eyes especially with the line.. Sometimes I wished that I'd die young..RIP Marc u did x
@@lyriclovescookiesxoxox333 I always thought it was about depression, but everyone else would say 'no, it's about a break up'. It's interesting to know I had it right, but I guess, in the end, songs can mean different things to different people.
There's an excellent book - Chasing the Dragon by Jeff Apted, which is a biography of Marc Hunter and Dragon. Available as an E-book as well. They're an example of the times, where anything that could go wrong, did go wrong. Lots of awesome songs though.
Well, it's a happenin' thing and it's happenin' to you Full moon and thunder, ribbons of blue Ice on the window, ice in my heart Fooling with thunder wvery time we start It's been rainin' for so long It's been rainin' for so long Well, isn't it a wonder the streets are dark? Isn't it a wonder we fall apart? Day after day straight rain falls down All over town, rain come It's been rainin' for so long It's been rainin' for so long Don't you go out in the rain Don't go out in the pourin' rain If you go out in the rain You never have that time again Isn't it a wonder streets are dark? Isn't it a wonder we fall apart? All these feelings, they seem so wrong Remember we were so strong It's been rainin' for so long It's been rainin', I can't go on Don't you go out in the rain Don't go out in the pourin' rain If you go out in the rain You never have that time again [repeat]
@@asherouk7308 People still are expected to be, but it's not as required as it was, so long as people can work their fingers to the bone to make the rich more and more money, the minute they leave school, then they can be as immature as they like, whether intentional or not. Maturity is no longer a requirement for conformity
No black gangs or Asians or drugs or gun laws cheap petrol big block V 8s people that you could trust. No stupid mobile phones in every bodys hands good music and clean fun every body had a good job where people could bring up kids own a car and pay for a house on just the one pay packet of the man. The 50s 60s and 70s was the best time to be alive the rest from 1980 on is just shit. Get the movie American Graffiti and see what it was really like to live then. I wished that I could go back again. From old 66. Oh and while I remember B Manowar FU. and your modern bullshit.
I'm only 10 years old and i love this song because we had learn this song for choir. Sadly the choir teacher was also my teacher, but then she left.. :( And this song reminds me of her :( miss you Ms Nell! :'( Hope you come back some day :D! I loved having you as my teacher :)
I worked for the Classical/Educational Division of Alberts from 1976 -1979. My office was on the 5th floor and adjoined the recording studio where Dragon recorded 'April Sun in Cuba.' I was in my late teens. There was a Steinway grand in my office, brought from Boomerang, the Albert Family mansion. Whenever I had a moment free, I would play, even compose at it. One day, I was working on a piece and looked up to see a tall young man standing at my office door listening. He had coloured streaks in his hair and wore a long flowing scarf. I signalled for him to come in. He entered, and sat down on one of the blue leather chairs by the piano. I did not know who he was. He said the music I was working on reminded him of Ravel. We spoke about French classical music. He told me he was recording with his group in the studio, and promised to visit with me again. It was Marc Hunter. At the time, and mostly because my musical interests and work at Alberts centred around classical/educational publications, I had no idea who he was. Neither did he elaborate much on himself. We just spoke as if we were friends and true to his word, whenever he was at Alberts to record, he would always visit with me, and talk about music. I would play for him. If ever we passed in the corridor outside my office, he would bow to me with a flourish and swirl of his scarf. Marc was a gentleman through and through. At one time, I gave to him a small gold crucifix simply to thank him for the times he spent with me. He was a kind and caring soul. And so elegant in how he carried himself. A true stylist. After leaving Alberts in 1979, I never really saw him again. But my memory of him was such that when decades later he died, I cried. I will still shed a tear for him from time to time. He was a good good man! Someone I will never forget.
That is so nice of you Phillip, to share your story of your time with Marc, he must have been a amazing person, this song is absolutely beautiful, thank you again for sharing your experience and your kindness to others, that we wouldn’t of ever known 👍
So cool to read this account. Music has its own language and forms such strong connections for us. A part of your music was there in his head for ever after.
Such a powerful song I was at a B&S right after the drought ended and this song came on, so much celibration and tears when this song played and it was such a powerful moment I will never forget
Peaked at No. 2 on the Australian Singles Chart in ‘83 or ‘84, but only as high as No. 88 on the American Billboard Hot 100 Charts in ‘84 (though it did make it as high as No. 43 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Charts). Great tune.
A great song that reflected a great time in my life when I was 15. Was truly blessed in this era by songs that just stand up to old father time so well. RIP Marc Hunter! You live forever in your music,singing and great memories you gave so many people dude!
@@karenpeterlin7116 Close... September 1967! 1967 just had so many classic songs it's amazing. A time when the Rolling Stones, Beatles, etc were in full swing.
As a young Kiwi driving around Sth Auckland in his Mk 2 Cortina screaming his lungs out.... "dont go out in pour-in rain!!".... I left NZ shortly after, like many headed across the ditch, been in Europe the last 30 odd, my Danish son doesn't get it, feel sad, feel a bit old but damm.. feel glad & grateful for being brought up in such a wonderful land and the memories I have.
Inter Stella ....April Sun In Cuba another of their songs paid a part in America not showing any "interest" ...if my memory is correct ...they wouldnt play that song due to Cuban Missile Crisis of the time ...im not 100%totally sure if this is word for word reason due to being to find the info...but it's 1 of the reasons I always heard ..
@@ciaramundo562Ahh, dude, every old bastard thinks their teen years were the best time ever. Your time is yet to be viewed through rose coloured glasses, that's all.
This song brings up a memory of a turning point in my life - it was playing the last night that I ever had where I was truly free, without any ties or responsibilities to anyone else. I miss that night whenever I hear this song.
OMG that makes 2 of us. 1983 - Went to a nightclub in NZ and just loved this song......danced with my partner and had such a wonderful night. She passed away from a car accident about a month later and everytime i hear this.......brings me both joy and tears. I so miss the 80s and this type of music............takes me back to a time when life was so much simpler. No computers, internet or cellphones. People actually talked to each other and the future was simple. We often lived payday to payday, Friday was always reserved for the disco/nightclub & afterwards, we went for $10 pizzas. Wouldn't it be great just to turn back the clock, actually appreciate the moments that are now lost forever & tell those who we have lost just how much we loved them. Thank you for reminding me of such a wonderful time............... Jim NZ x
Wow memories! Great song. I remember waiting for the local college station to play it so I could record it. Things have changed alot since I was 14, but this song is still great.
Great 80,s song NZ band, i believe they might have started in Dunedin playing at vrs pubs like the Gardies student pub. Gardies Tavern is now part of the university, sorry guys no more beers or nights with music like this.
I can still remember as a teenager. Went Dragon came to my hometown for a concert. Dragon was one of my favourite band of all time. Love listening to all of they song. But my favourite song are Young Years, Shooting Star, Island Night. Thanks Dragon for a great era. Marc Hunter RIP.
Even the Scottish parliament were acknowledging AC/DC as something to do with their cultural contribution to the world (I'm not too clear on what the matter was, you can look it up)... Personally, I think NZ has a lot to be proud, considering the size and population of the country... If the dudes from Dragon moved to Australia at the age of 5 and built themselves up as people and a band in Australia, then fair enough, they're Aussie... but arriving as adults to progress doesn't make them aussie.
Have you ever heard Marc and Todd y’all about New Zealand they are quite harsh about their homeland saying they would never live in NZ ever again and they couldn’t wait to get out of there If I were New Zealand I would’ve been calling them aussies the way they spoke about NZ lol they were a great kiwi band though and R.I.P Marc
@@punrabum5164 They were a working band, they didn't just come over to Australia and go straight onto welfare... Like the rest of the parasite blow-ins of today.
@@colinl9018 You are DEAD WRONG mate, it's been since 2000 that Kiwi's are not ENTITLED to welfare you absolute Ignorant/Racist plonker. Kiwi's have higher working numbers then Australians within Australia as they can't claim nothing, you know nothing! Definitely an uneducated BOGAN. STRAYA!
Mid 1980s Dragon, Sharon O'Neill and QED (Jenny Morris) live at a local club, in the one billing. They called it the 'Kiwi Invasion'. The best night of live music I've ever had.
Kerry Jacobsen wow ! Totally awesome in the pocket rock solid great sounding drumming ! Rest of band and Marc Hunter equally as awesome - my fave solid, well written, and performed, Dragon song!!!
Marc Hunter was a guest at my cousin's wedding. lol =) How awesome is that eh? Well..... I enjoyed it....Awesome band and MH was an incredible singer...
The drummer for this band (former) i think o.d'd in my parents driveway before i was born. My mum told me it was because of an uncle of mine who was drug king pin at that time. He came to our place when my uncle was there and was gone within seconds. I wanna cry every time i hear this band play. This story has scared me for life. "Sins of my forefathers" and all :(
Abraham Hawkins ........I’m not making light of something as shocking as an overdose but it certainly wasn’t something you had any control over. Try to enjoy the music, not the negative aspects of the performers’ lives’.
Peruvian here. This song was huge in Peru back in the days. Not sure if the band ever made it to Peru, but I looked up the song because I remembered the guitar riff and now I’m here.
Marc hunter had the looks and the voice saw him in concert when I was 17 that was long time ago but that's when they really could sing and that era were the good times good music and parties
First saw this band playing in the main drag at Wollongong on a hot summer night around 80 or 81 .After they were packing I gave the keyboard guy a beer and told him what a great band I thought they were and asked when is there next gig, he told me probably in NZ . He did not hold much hope of cracking it in OZ. Glad they hung around.
¿Quién dice que el Rock no se baila? Yo he bailado esa canción tantas veces ¡Me encanta! Who says you can't dance rock? I've danced to that song so many times. Love it!
CanzetYote I probably heard it on the radio prior a bit to warm me up though since 1992 has been in my staple top 10 comfort songs be it an existential / identity crisis, breakup, misc disillusionment even cold /flu & skined knee. A pure classic of composition, tone and delivery as far as I'm concerned. [I'm a 32 y/o Aussie]. Song at least to me has in conext same punch as Bug Audio Dynamite's Rush, Dave Dobbyn's Slice Of Heaven, v Spy v Spy's Harry's Reasons, Tumbleweed's Sundial, Hunter & Gatherers' Do You See What I See... [{( the vast range of 90s rock etc )}] and fast forward to recent era Young Blood, Grapes Upon The Vine, Slow Down {Placeholder}. You can check out these that you don't know, more ther more my own ego trip.
It's a happening thing, and it's happening to you Full moon and thunder, ribbons of blue Ice on the window, ice in my heart Fooling with thunder, every time we start It's been raining for so long It's been raining for so long Oh is it any wonder, the streets are dark Is it any wonder, we fall apart Day after day straight rain falls down All over town, rain coming It's been raining for so long It's been raining for so long Don't you go out in the rain Don't go out in the pouring rain If you go out in the rain We'll never have that time again Is it any wonder, streets are dark Is it any wonder, we fall apart All these feelings that seem so wrong Remember when we were so strong Well it's been raining for so long It's been raining I can't go on Don't you go out in the rain Don't go out in the pouring rain If you go out in the rain We'll never have that time again Don't you go out in the rain Don't go out in the pouring rain If you go out in the rain We'll never have that time again
En Uruguay hay una version en español del grupo de rock "Trotsky Vengaran" titualdo "Llueve"... por ellos di con esta version de Dragon que es excelente
The king of the kick ass songs ever! That drum above all but also the rest of the instuments are so great... Complete and Powerful song. One of the 10 best songs from the 80's ...for sureeeeeeee
One minute you're a 10 year old playing backyard rugby and cricket, in tears cos your big sister tackled you too hard playing bullrush, drinking straight from the garden hose on a stinking hot day, hanging out with the neighbourhood kids playing tag and hide & go seek until the streetlights came on... *NEK MINIT* you're 48 and every joint in your body is either stiff, sore or just straight up arthritic! 🤣😭🤣 *MISS THIS ERA*
Dear friends from New Zeland you have no idea how popular this song was in Peru, 1983-1984. I remember at the parties we danced to this song many times, even on the streets my friends and I used to gather and listen to this song full loud. Thank you for such wonderful music.
I am peruvian , i do not know much
English
I know the song for my dad
this is an australian song
@@dutchvanderlinde2488 This is a New Zealand band
@@IanK1962 they are nothing without aus
Seriously the people who dont like this song do not appreciate great music!!!!!
They went out in the rain.
Or they've heard too many similar songs.
@@seanwoods5943 ....or they fucked off to Cuba for some sun and never came back. *finger across the neck gesture*
They don’t take too kindly to folks that don’t like this track in Havana.
Just dickheads
@@briansummersbriansummers2052 Pretty much this... they're just morons, plain and simple... LOL!
Marc Hunter passed away on July 17 1998 from throat cancer that's 15 years after this song.
Thanks Dragon for the great music I remember listening to this from a young age and makes me remember the good times hopefully after COVID-19 I will make new memories with the amazing people in my life.
God bless everyone reading this may we all get through the hard times together. Rest in peace Marc Hunter
I thought he died Earlier than that. Sad day nonetheless.
@Trumplovin Wigga it was some rare condition from memory. but yes, he battled with heroine addiction. I knew him.
@@nagadorset do you play the trumpet 🎺
@@chrisallie9960 ha ha....trombone man trombone!!
@@nagadorset tromboner
I caught my 7 year old son singing this in the back of the car the other day, the radio wasn't even on. I looked in the mirror at him and thought I am a really good dad....
So we got it up on Spotify and smashed it out together. It's the moments like this that make these song the sound tracks to our lives....😊
Went to the Dragon 50th Anniversary concert in Perth last night, the energy and passion from the crowd and the band was amazing!!!! Dragon finished the concert with this song, I will remember this for the rest of my life.
Awesome song, playing full blast.
I'm going to the concert soon is there any alive members singing in that concert?
@@itsjustme9354
Lol 😂
What a song and band, and Marc Hunter one of the most charismatic lead singers ever, magic times back in the 80’s so blessed to have grown up then !
My dad's favourite band, power to NZ, from Australia
Power to Au from NZ.Dragon were based in Au since 1975 .This song was released in 1983 and without that move the band would have crumbled
It’s 2023 and this is my favourite song ever
Well I would open your ears a lot more Coin.
Good to know people still appreciate this timeless classic...
Always
"Appreciate it"?!? This is the soundtrack of my youth....I was raised by the thumping backbeats, raoring vocals and harmonies of Dragon from nappies my friend!
This was the last song played at my 1983 school social. I had no one to dance with but i didnt care. I just got up on the dance floor, and lost my self for those few minutes.
Still remember like it was last year.
Good on ya.👍
Napoleon Dynamite style?
Better than sitting Around and let the good music go for waist Bravo mate
That’s the one my bro.. don’t hold back the opportunities, just get up and dance the night away 🤙🏽
Sounds like something I would do lol
A classic! One of the greatest pop song recordings of all time. It will probably outlast the human race.
The metaphor of rain is so powerful! It signifies darkness, grief, despair, shame, guilt... every dark emotion that we fear...
But then rain can bring growth, hope, new life, new beginning, light and optimism..
This song is a beautiful paradox that allows the listener to draw their own conclusions about what the song truly means.But then evolves over time... you come to understand the deeper meaning of the song, and how it's reflected your life...
What does rain truly mean to you?
This is a great analysis of this timeless classic. Rain can symbolise all of the above. For me, it symbols anxiety and grief for sure.
Well put!!!
Okay English teacher
Yeah, nah. I think he is just saying not to go out in the rain.
Very well put!!
I don't care what anybody says....the best music came out in the 80's!
So right💪
Couldn't agree more 🎶🎤
Without a doubt!
The 80s was the peak time of the west, it was a decade of prolific hits peace and everyone was happy, the bands that came out was a true expression of everyone.....what a era!
Another 100 years and Dragon will still be just as popular, timeless music.
I think it's the sounds of being 5 in NZ
I doubt it. People (especially kids my age) are badly brainwashed by music with no heart and actual talent. The mainstream have brainwashed this newer generation and it's a shame.
Mohuckmed Shishkeblob don’t know what that means but anyway, even if they were brainwashed, doesn’t mean they’d have a choice. You can’t choose not to be brainwashed but you can try to find out if you are.
Mohuckmed Shishkeblob or you don’t know its happening. Similar to political opinions for example, if someone lives under communism, their information is hidden and altered in the favour of the mentality of their country, and they could have ‘facts’ that every other country doesn’t. The people who live in that country will have been taught those facts and believe hem because that’s what they’ve been taught. Whether it’s right or wrong, they’ve been brainwashed by their educational system (and their government)
Mohuckmed Shishkeblob I just think you’re high now. No sense from your end.
Man this takes me back to carefree teenage years, why did it go so quick. Thanks NZ for some great tunes, from across the ditch 🇦🇺👍
I have to go across the ditch and see what it is like especially Auckland
@@MichaelTaylor-fj3et NZ is great, especially now Ardhern is gone....
@@Robochop-vz3qm Nothing has improved lol, idk wtf you're talking about
@@charlieblank3393hard aye g place is ultra cracked out
@@Robochop-vz3qmArdern did an incredible job under dire circumstances.
Agree NZ is a great place to live.
This song was a massive hit on college radio in Boston. Especially, the late great station WBCN gave it heavy airplay. Thanks for the happy memories :)
Yeah sweet !! :)
Big mattress...
YESSS!!! Boston College Class of '83. WBCN ruled the world!
Wow we had no idea how far around the world Dragon got
@@armandocardona4478 And 'FNX!!! How I miss them both :(
How could 370 people give thumbs down to this gem? I mean, it's not Chumba Wumba... it's Dragon, and it's a classic. Reached No. #2 on Aust charts, US top 100 billboard.. 2.5M plays on Spotify. Alas, everyone is entitled to their own uniquely useful opinion
My best friend and I loved this when it came out, we were in Jr High, California, USA. So many awesome bands from Australia and New Zealand came to the states in the early eighties, too many to count. I'd listen to them on alternative/punk/New wave station K-ROQ FM. 🙏❤
It was a legendary time. CA music kroq and 91X ruled.
Always envious of people talking about seeing these bands at their local pubs for like $2/ticket
@@TomasUjhelyi I remember my friend's older brother telling us about seeing Led Zeppelin for $12 and The Clash for $8...I was sooo jealous 😅
One of the greatest songs of all time. Period.
Miss those halcyon days of great Aussie/NZ artists in the 1980's. It's all gone to shit since.
i want to
The 90's were alright as well, Just turned to shit in mid 2000's
+mikey p agreed after the living end australia stopped making good music
Damon Scharvi Yea exactly, Where you from mate- And what other artists or bands you like from the 80's
+mikey p Auckland, NZ i like most of the bands from 70s to late 90s but if your meaning likr kiwi bands, i love crowdedhouse
RIP Marc! Pure unadulterated talent on this band.....Todd too.....Dragon so ROCKED in those days.....takes me back.....now I cant stop playing this song!!!
Should have been a hit all over the world, just amazing even today.
I agree with u.This the first time i listen this song.I'm glad found an underrated musical gem like this
I love the 80s production, the reverb on Marc's slightly raspy voice, the bv's, such a killer tune...it still sends chills. I guess it has to make my Top 5 Dragon songs.
It's pretty special, hey.
NEW ZEALAND PRODUCED AWESOME BANDS LIKE SPLIT ENZ DRAGON MI SEX SHARON O NEILL ETC IM AUSSIE BUT FOR A SMALL POP THEY ARE AMAZING. RIP STEVE GILPIN AND THE LATE MARC HUNTER.
+Hayden Wittig Thanks for your post! As a Kiwi, I appreciate your positive comments. Both Australia and New Zealand produced great rock bands and solo artists. I have listening to "Dragon" for years and still love their music to this day. I am 49 years old now and really appreciate all these bands from the eighties...
We aussies could not produce music without our kiwi brothers.
+Hayden Wittig Kevin Borich
+Hayden Wittig YES I AGREE STOP BUT YOU SHOULD WORK FOR A TELEGRAM COMPANY STOP
+Hayden Wittig We feel the same way about our Aussie cuzzies
The music of today just doesn't stand up to the classic talent given to us from the 80's. Love it, gimme more!!!!
That's really true, although I do like some of todays music. I'm 17 and enjoy 80's classics so much more! :)
I think the biggest problem with todays music, Im not saying that i dont like some of it, but its all the same.. Generic
The late 60's and the 70's were the best but every now and then a group like Dragon popped up a super group in my book.
nothing beat the 80s music.nothing.
Nothing stands up to the music we were beating on rocks with sticks before shit like instruments and stuff You stupid young people are too stupid to understand
Thanks everyone puking out such original comments you are all so very fucking special and have something to say.
This song lights a fire inside me. I absolutely love it. On a side note, I was having Saturday Night drinks with a friend of mine and a live band was playing. They then started playing this song and I have to admit, they played it as good as the original piece. It was the first time I danced in years.....
What a song. Sad to know of the lead singers passing, but in a way happy that he was able to leave us such brilliant melodies capable of stirring up nostalgic emotions of my childhood. RIP Marc Hunter.
I bought Dragon's casette (Body and the beat) in Argentina in the late eighties. Only this song was known in Argentina, but I loved all their music. I was the only one of my friends listening to them, by the way. Great band.
This song 🎶🎵🎸 was a hit in the years 1983/1984...love the Dragons❤❤ Greetings from Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬🇵🇬🇵🇬
This song is not about rain. It is about breaking up and the storm that is in your heart. The great Marc Hunter. RIP Marc.
Sorry but Sharon O'Neil wrote this song for Todd Hunter about his depression.
Young years still bring a tear to my eyes especially with the line.. Sometimes I wished that I'd die young..RIP Marc u did x
Lol loser
@@lyriclovescookiesxoxox333 I always thought it was about depression, but everyone else would say 'no, it's about a break up'. It's interesting to know I had it right, but I guess, in the end, songs can mean different things to different people.
It about there Heroin addiction
The song is about Tod Hunter’s depression not a break up at all
My dad use too always play this on road trips, camping round New Zealand 🇳🇿 when I was a kid in early 90s...👌❤️💙🌞
never heard of this band before last month.... this song is just a wall of sound blasting at you... I love it
+Bobainthome April sun in cuba also by Dragon . Keep looking
+Drew Baby Drew This Time is there best ..................
It may have just reached OS, when other great ones of theirs didnt , but there was ever better than this by dragon
Music thats pretty fucked up. Never knew any of that.
There's an excellent book - Chasing the Dragon by Jeff Apted, which is a biography of Marc Hunter and Dragon. Available as an E-book as well. They're an example of the times, where anything that could go wrong, did go wrong. Lots of awesome songs though.
This song was ahead of its time, i thought it was a song from the late 2000s early 2010s
Well, it's a happenin' thing and it's happenin' to you
Full moon and thunder, ribbons of blue
Ice on the window, ice in my heart
Fooling with thunder wvery time we start
It's been rainin' for so long
It's been rainin' for so long
Well, isn't it a wonder the streets are dark?
Isn't it a wonder we fall apart?
Day after day straight rain falls down
All over town, rain come
It's been rainin' for so long
It's been rainin' for so long
Don't you go out in the rain
Don't go out in the pourin' rain
If you go out in the rain
You never have that time again
Isn't it a wonder streets are dark?
Isn't it a wonder we fall apart?
All these feelings, they seem so wrong
Remember we were so strong
It's been rainin' for so long
It's been rainin', I can't go on
Don't you go out in the rain
Don't go out in the pourin' rain
If you go out in the rain
You never have that time again [repeat]
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This has become my go-to for rainy, gloomy days. It's actually a bit uplifting in a way.
I'm born in the 80s and still the best 👍 from North Queensland Australia too deadly
When there was no farken traffic on Sundays coz all the shops were closed. When there was just 1 phone , in the house .
B. Manowar no internet. Computers were big and took up entire rooms / floors of buildings. No "global warming / climate change. Etc etc
When kids were allowed to be kids and grown ups were expected to be grown up.
Manowar is one of my favourite bands.I didnt think many kiwis knew about them.
@@asherouk7308 People still are expected to be, but it's not as required as it was, so long as people can work their fingers to the bone to make the rich more and more money, the minute they leave school, then they can be as immature as they like, whether intentional or not. Maturity is no longer a requirement for conformity
No black gangs or Asians or drugs or gun laws cheap petrol big block V 8s people that you could trust. No stupid mobile phones in every bodys hands good music and clean fun every body had a good job where people could bring up kids own a car and pay for a house on just the one pay packet of the man. The 50s 60s and 70s was the best time to be alive the rest from 1980 on is just shit. Get the movie American Graffiti and see what it was really like to live then. I wished that I could go back again. From old 66. Oh and while I remember B Manowar FU. and your modern bullshit.
That riff at the start always gives me chills. Sooo good!
Such an underrated Dragon track, love it so much.
I'm only 10 years old and i love this song because we had learn this song for choir. Sadly the choir teacher was also my teacher, but then she left.. :( And this song reminds me of her :( miss you Ms Nell! :'( Hope you come back some day :D! I loved having you as my teacher :)
What a cool choir teacher teaching you this song. Ours was boring🙄
You must have great teacher.
Aww, sweetheart. I understand completely. Can't you keep in touch with her?
You had an awesome teacher...
Never let her lessons leave your heart.
I worked for the Classical/Educational Division of Alberts from 1976 -1979. My office was on the 5th floor and adjoined the recording studio where Dragon recorded 'April Sun in Cuba.' I was in my late teens. There was a Steinway grand in my office, brought from Boomerang, the Albert Family mansion. Whenever I had a moment free, I would play, even compose at it.
One day, I was working on a piece and looked up to see a tall young man standing at my office door listening. He had coloured streaks in his hair and wore a long flowing scarf. I signalled for him to come in. He entered, and sat down on one of the blue leather chairs by the piano. I did not know who he was. He said the music I was working on reminded him of Ravel. We spoke about French classical music. He told me he was recording with his group in the studio, and promised to visit with me again.
It was Marc Hunter.
At the time, and mostly because my musical interests and work at Alberts centred around classical/educational publications, I had no idea who he was. Neither did he elaborate much on himself. We just spoke as if we were friends and true to his word, whenever he was at Alberts to record, he would always visit with me, and talk about music. I would play for him. If ever we passed in the corridor outside my office, he would bow to me with a flourish and swirl of his scarf.
Marc was a gentleman through and through.
At one time, I gave to him a small gold crucifix simply to thank him for the times he spent with me.
He was a kind and caring soul. And so elegant in how he carried himself. A true stylist.
After leaving Alberts in 1979, I never really saw him again. But my memory of him was such that when decades later he died, I cried. I will still shed a tear for him from time to time. He was a good good man! Someone I will never forget.
That is so nice of you Phillip, to share your story of your time with Marc, he must have been a amazing person, this song is absolutely beautiful, thank you again for sharing your experience and your kindness to others, that we wouldn’t of ever known 👍
@@thankyoumario6243 My complete pleasure. Amazing, yes! His was an energy that still resonates today. Blessings and thanks for the reply!
So cool to read this account.
Music has its own language and forms such strong connections for us.
A part of your music was there in his head for ever after.
@@kiwibob223 I love that thought! Thank you! Blessings!
Such a timeless performance, brings a tear to the eye.
High quality music. R.I.P. to the deceased. Tears shed...
Such a powerful song
I was at a B&S right after the drought ended and this song came on, so much celibration and tears when this song played and it was such a powerful moment I will never forget
Peaked at No. 2 on the Australian Singles Chart in ‘83 or ‘84, but only as high as No. 88 on the American Billboard Hot 100 Charts in ‘84 (though it did make it as high as No. 43 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Charts). Great tune.
Esta canción me recuerda cuando mi infancia, mi papá ponía ese casette para limpiar la casa y mientras bailábamos juntos, me da mucha nostalgia 🥺
A great song that reflected a great time in my life when I was 15. Was truly blessed in this era by songs that just stand up to old father time so well. RIP Marc Hunter! You live forever in your music,singing and great memories you gave so many people dude!
Blue light discos slumber parties boys 💋
Are you a 68 baby? I'm 69 and Soo cool to see someone else loving it
@@karenpeterlin7116 Close... September 1967! 1967 just had so many classic songs it's amazing. A time when the Rolling Stones, Beatles, etc were in full swing.
As a young Kiwi driving around Sth Auckland in his Mk 2 Cortina screaming his lungs out.... "dont go out in pour-in rain!!".... I left NZ shortly after, like many headed across the ditch, been in Europe the last 30 odd, my Danish son doesn't get it, feel sad, feel a bit old but damm.. feel glad & grateful for being brought up in such a wonderful land and the memories I have.
To me they are the most underrated band , they deserved worldwide fame. How america never picked up their radio friendly tunes is a mystery.
Inter Stella ....April Sun In Cuba another of their songs paid a part in America not showing any "interest" ...if my memory is correct ...they wouldnt play that song due to Cuban Missile Crisis of the time ...im not 100%totally sure if this is word for word reason due to being to find the info...but it's 1 of the reasons I always heard ..
Unable to find i meant ...
Colin McCluskey The Cuban missile crisis happened about 15 years before that song.
I used to fly this band around. Great men. Always polite and kind. Great band and music as well. God bless you wherever you are.
roguesandraiders that's cool!
roguesandraiders r/yeahthathappened
Marc hunter passed in 1998. RIP. The rest I'm not sure what they are doing.
@@Dickusification Todd Hunter wrote the song Age of Reason for Farnham.
Marc was a gentleman married to a gentle woman. RIP Marc.
Classic NZ and Aussie pub song still played.
I remember going to school camp in 1983 and we thought there would never be another song Like This love it
Man 80’s seem like the best time to live honestly I wish I was growing up during the 80’s instead of this era :(
@@ciaramundo562Ahh, dude, every old bastard thinks their teen years were the best time ever.
Your time is yet to be viewed through rose coloured glasses, that's all.
This song brings up a memory of a turning point in my life - it was playing the last night that I ever had where I was truly free, without any ties or responsibilities to anyone else. I miss that night whenever I hear this song.
OMG that makes 2 of us.
1983 - Went to a nightclub in NZ and just loved this song......danced with my partner and had such a wonderful night.
She passed away from a car accident about a month later and everytime i hear this.......brings me both joy and tears.
I so miss the 80s and this type of music............takes me back to a time when life was so much simpler.
No computers, internet or cellphones. People actually talked to each other and the future was simple.
We often lived payday to payday, Friday was always reserved for the disco/nightclub & afterwards, we went for $10 pizzas.
Wouldn't it be great just to turn back the clock, actually appreciate the moments that are now lost forever & tell those who we have lost just how much we loved them.
Thank you for reminding me of such a wonderful time...............
Jim NZ x
Have always loved this song…used it when I was training on my bike …always made me work so much harder😊
Wow memories! Great song. I remember waiting for the local college station to play it so I could record it. Things have changed alot since I was 14, but this song is still great.
Beautiful song, absolute 80s masterpiece!
Brilliant band, great music!!! Love Oz music, always will!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great 80,s song NZ band, i believe they might have started in Dunedin playing at vrs pubs like the Gardies student pub.
Gardies Tavern is now part of the university, sorry guys no more beers or nights with music like this.
This still bangs in the pubs til this day will be sad when it does leave though :(
When society has finally gone to shit ..
its timeless anastacia, itll never die-youve just gotta find the right pubs to go too!! haha :) :)
I'm here because of Pond's cover and loving this. 🤍
I knew I heard this song from somewhere.
I can still remember as a teenager. Went Dragon came to my hometown for a concert. Dragon was one of my favourite band of all time. Love listening to all of they song. But my favourite song are Young Years, Shooting Star, Island Night. Thanks Dragon for a great era. Marc Hunter RIP.
For sure Young Years is an absolute classic!
Even the Scottish parliament were acknowledging AC/DC as something to do with their cultural contribution to the world (I'm not too clear on what the matter was, you can look it up)... Personally, I think NZ has a lot to be proud, considering the size and population of the country... If the dudes from Dragon moved to Australia at the age of 5 and built themselves up as people and a band in Australia, then fair enough, they're Aussie... but arriving as adults to progress doesn't make them aussie.
Have you ever heard Marc and Todd y’all about New Zealand they are quite harsh about their homeland saying they would never live in NZ ever again and they couldn’t wait to get out of there If I were New Zealand I would’ve been calling them aussies the way they spoke about NZ lol they were a great kiwi band though and R.I.P Marc
@@MrDannyboyhall yeah, how keen would you aussies be if they were from Africa or Indonesia...
@@punrabum5164 if they are good then they are welcomed with open arms regardless of where they come from
@@punrabum5164 They were a working band, they didn't just come over to Australia and go straight onto welfare... Like the rest of the parasite blow-ins of today.
@@colinl9018 You are DEAD WRONG mate, it's been since 2000 that Kiwi's are not ENTITLED to welfare you absolute Ignorant/Racist plonker. Kiwi's have higher working numbers then Australians within Australia as they can't claim nothing, you know nothing! Definitely an uneducated BOGAN. STRAYA!
Raining here today..So refreshing..❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊🎉
Mid 1980s Dragon, Sharon O'Neill and QED (Jenny Morris) live at a local club, in the one billing. They called it the 'Kiwi Invasion'. The best night of live music I've ever had.
I never get sick of this song , Great :)
Australian and New Zealand Rock n roll from the 80's....still sounds great😎
"the music in Australia was great back then
but I heard it's about the same as here now."-🌐🌎🌍🌏🌐..
33 years later & I have seen them 3 times in recent years,Only Todd still left but Marc Williams does an excellent job on vocals.
Kerry Jacobsen wow ! Totally awesome in the pocket rock solid great sounding drumming ! Rest of band and Marc Hunter equally as awesome - my fave solid, well written, and performed, Dragon song!!!
man i cant stop listening 2 this song
Memories come to my mind, great song from my childhood 😊😍🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 Timeless music, thks 4 sharing
excellent song guys, cheers Marc
Better than that Turkey who does the tribute act of Dragon
We fall apart
LEGENDARY NEW ZEALAND BAND
An Aussie will write NAH mate this band is Aussie 🤣🤣🤣🤣
They became famous in Australia. If they didn't move here they would have been nobody's if they just stayed in EnZed. 💯 %
Brilliant music memories of the early 80's. What a great time for Aussie and NZ artists and music.
Excellent music that accompanied my years of youth there by the 80s, wonderful time that will never return. Greetings from Ica - Peru
hello Peru from Australia!!! xxxx
Marc Hunter was a guest at my cousin's wedding. lol =) How awesome is that eh? Well..... I enjoyed it....Awesome band and MH was an incredible singer...
Lol... he just said "Hi" and that was it.. but yep Dragon were a great band =)
I was only 15 at the time..Guess he didn't think I was ...old enough... lol lol lol
jannalli7
Such a good memory of this band, thank you for share this with us
he use to stay at my house with my father out of Mi sex all the time. I was like 7.
Nyran Stanton Mi sex was a great band...
The drummer for this band (former) i think o.d'd in my parents driveway before i was
born. My mum told me it was because of an uncle of mine who was drug
king pin at that time. He came to our place when my uncle was there and was gone within seconds. I wanna cry every time i hear this band play. This story has scared me for life. "Sins of my forefathers" and all :(
+Abraham Hawkins......I can well believe it. These guys (and other musos) were scoring heroin off a dealer connected to the Mr. Asia syndicate.
Abraham Hawkins ........I’m not making light of something as shocking as an overdose but it certainly wasn’t something you had any control over. Try to enjoy the music, not the negative aspects of the performers’ lives’.
Did he o.d in a car? it's just what I've heard
the drummer yr mom is talking of was neil storey. this drummer ain't him.
@@hankrango105 yeah this is Terry Chambers, former XTC drummer. Joined Dragon in 83
Peruvian here. This song was huge in Peru back in the days. Not sure if the band ever made it to Peru, but I looked up the song because I remembered the guitar riff and now I’m here.
Incredible song.Its a pity this song not was huge here in Brazil.
We did a charity event for Bruce’s daughter Jess at TAFE. Hes so awesome
His advice about "don't go out in the rain" doesn't apply in Australia. We haven't had any rain for months!! Plenty of bushfires instead.
Rather go out in the rain don’t melt your shoes that way
Scott Morrison has left the chat.
It's been smoking for so long,
Is it any wonder the streets are as red as Mars.
Ross Edmonds yes we have rain
Pissed down with rain across QLD, NSW and VIC. Hopefully the bushfire prone areas got some.
Marc hunter had the looks and the voice saw him in concert when I was 17 that was long time ago but that's when they really could sing and that era were the good times good music and parties
First saw this band playing in the main drag at Wollongong on a hot summer night around 80 or 81 .After they were packing I gave the keyboard guy a beer and told him what a great band I thought they were and asked when is there next gig, he told me probably in NZ . He did not hold much hope of cracking it in OZ. Glad they hung around.
¿Quién dice que el Rock no se baila? Yo he bailado esa canción tantas veces ¡Me encanta!
Who says you can't dance rock? I've danced to that song so many times. Love it!
I heard this done in a karaoke bar in 2022 and it went off!
I've had alot of great times with this song playing in the back ground its a great sing along
March 2021 and I'm still loving this song. 'Nuff said.
2 year old me in 1983 loved this song. I still do.
Recently discovered this song and I'm hooked on it.
CanzetYote I probably heard it on the radio prior a bit to warm me up though since 1992 has been in my staple top 10 comfort songs be it an existential / identity crisis, breakup, misc disillusionment even cold /flu & skined knee.
A pure classic of composition, tone and delivery as far as I'm concerned. [I'm a 32 y/o Aussie].
Song at least to me has in conext same punch as Bug Audio Dynamite's Rush, Dave Dobbyn's Slice Of Heaven, v Spy v Spy's Harry's Reasons, Tumbleweed's Sundial, Hunter & Gatherers' Do You See What I See... [{( the vast range of 90s rock etc )}] and fast forward to recent era Young Blood, Grapes Upon The Vine, Slow Down {Placeholder}.
You can check out these that you don't know, more ther more my own ego trip.
You need to Check out the other Dragon Song #Awesome Band
Same
They knew how to write songs back then
Another 100 years and Dragon will still be just as popular, timeless music.
It's a happening thing, and it's happening to you
Full moon and thunder, ribbons of blue
Ice on the window, ice in my heart
Fooling with thunder, every time we start
It's been raining for so long
It's been raining for so long
Oh is it any wonder, the streets are dark
Is it any wonder, we fall apart
Day after day straight rain falls down
All over town, rain coming
It's been raining for so long
It's been raining for so long
Don't you go out in the rain
Don't go out in the pouring rain
If you go out in the rain
We'll never have that time again
Is it any wonder, streets are dark
Is it any wonder, we fall apart
All these feelings that seem so wrong
Remember when we were so strong
Well it's been raining for so long
It's been raining I can't go on
Don't you go out in the rain
Don't go out in the pouring rain
If you go out in the rain
We'll never have that time again
Don't you go out in the rain
Don't go out in the pouring rain
If you go out in the rain
We'll never have that time again
This song never gets, "old". Many songs of that era are - Timeless!
good Music has _no_ expiration date! forever great ~
rg2027x True story ...
Spent 6 months in NZ with the NZ Army. I will never forget the amount of incredible nights I spent with them singing along to this anthem!
En Uruguay hay una version en español del grupo de rock "Trotsky Vengaran" titualdo "Llueve"... por ellos di con esta version de Dragon que es excelente
Yo tambien,aguante la Trotsky y Darth Vader (que tenia que ver) jaja Saludos
Los Shakers son viajeros en el tiempo!!
The king of the kick ass songs ever! That drum above all but also the rest of the instuments are so great... Complete and Powerful song. One of the 10 best songs from the 80's ...for sureeeeeeee
One minute you're a 10 year old playing backyard rugby and cricket, in tears cos your big sister tackled you too hard playing bullrush, drinking straight from the garden hose on a stinking hot day, hanging out with the neighbourhood kids playing tag and hide & go seek until the streetlights came on...
*NEK MINIT*
you're 48 and every joint in your body is either stiff, sore or just straight up arthritic! 🤣😭🤣
*MISS THIS ERA*
Back when $1 bought a full feed of fish & chips and a can of Leed Lemonade 😍
"Dragon" is one of the good reasons to love New Zealand
GREAT KIWI MUSIC
Heard this at the pub last night, still awesome 30+ years on. RIP Marc 💕
Marc is still alive. we are still listening.
Great song rest in peace marc awesome band thanks for your wonderful music still love listening to wonderful voice ❣️💕💝😘😍