I enjoyed those while watching the boys rain singles down on the crowd from the second floor.
Both played the trickily syncopated Monk tune "Evidence" but in strikingly different ways: Mr. Brown coolly demolished his version, raining single-stroke rolls around his toms and snare, while Mr. Stranahan worked more with tension and release, employing a rigid rock groove that finally shifted into swing.
It literally rains singles; hundreds pour from nowhere and everywhere at once.
It needs to rain every single day for a long time".
In a world of rain, one single drop belongs to you".
That's why Tom Gwynne, the museum's vice president of external affairs, recalls with mock bitterness that last summer, "it didn't rain a single day".
"Through the Rain," the single, is the kind of inspirational ballad that might seem self-centered if it weren't so vague: when she sings, "I know that I'm strong enough to mend," she could be talking about anyone.
These are Liberia's peaceniks, a radical, some would say delusional, breed, who for the last three months have been bent on praying on the side of the road, in sun and rain, every single day, to bring an end to war.
Influenced by the techniques of musique concrète, they featured a backmasked line in Rain, a single released in 1966.
