Originally Posted by
Edgar
"Bad Weather" is my favorite Supremes song. Maybe because it marked the moment I first entered a gay discotheque in Old San Juan [[Puerto Rico). I still remember the crowd's joy every time it was played. We all jumped to it as a single unit, wonderful!!! As a matter of fact, it reached #1 in the radio charts. But apart from the effect it had in my life, I think it is a great song, with covers by Melissa Manchester and Mathilde Santing [[which is incredibly good). I love the horns, which seem to be mocking the melodrama Jean is describing. Here's a little review I wrote for the site Rate Your Music: «"Bad Weather" is a masterpiece of popular music. The typical story of a love affair drifting along a wrong path is given new breath by funky horn arrangements, strong lead performance and beautiful background vocals. While the trumpets propel you to avoid falling into any kind of "bad weather", the chorus of the second strophe has an angelic air as the voices substitute strings and they turn the complete song into a rite, an invocation, a plea against the regretful moments of love. The disco whistle, the innuendo in Terrell's voice and the joyful backings by Wilson and Laurence, all hint at reconciliation. Great song & production.»
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