@Orca40 It's about DDT. A pesticide used widely after WWII and after years of usage found to be causing cancer and to be destroying plant&animal life especially birds.
As the song says "Nothing moves now, but the swaying ripe corn"
There is also a Marvin, Welch and Farrar version - I think that is the original version. Search for it on YouTube, and find out how great MWF were by looking at some of their other songs as well!
Beautiful song, great message from 1981 that has more meaning now in 2011 30 years later. Olivia was ahead of her time as far as videos go MTV would not debut for a few more years.
@MrCejays You are absolutely right. MTV, one of the raunchiest channels in America, still has limits on what videos they will show. 235 years later, America is still Christian prudish. Up yours, Catholic Church!
I LOVED this song. It was my fave on the "Physical" album. I didn't know there was a video for this. She looks like a crazed Tammy Wynette mixed with Jane Lynch in this clip.
Olivia is my favorite singer and my inspiration and im 13 , and she has inspired me to be healthy and ive lost 25 lbs in the past month , and have 50 to go , her music is so amazing and she sings like a angel and i hope i have the chance to meet her someday
Olivia is my favorite singer and my inspiration and im 13 , and she has inspired me to be healthy and ive lost 25 lbs in tha past month , and have 50 to go , her music is so amazing and she sings like a angel and i hope i have the chance to meet her someday
Ahhh the good music, I wish todays musicans would take lessions from these artists of the past and do music right instead of all the wierd stuff their doing. This was THE era of True good music take lessions and Learn, these are the God Fathers and mothers of Music for the Future...
@Orca40 Well, As I see it, In the begining of the video she emerges from a ' bio dome' wearing a ' protective suit' of sorts, ( notice the ventilation hose and helmet that floats off) This is deffinitely set in a post ' we really screwed the earth over' era after so much polution ( Silvery rain) has hit the earth because of us that now its commng from the sky ( In the form of Acid rain). No animals exist, and the few humans left cant escape. ' before theres nothing left to fly at all'.
Written by Hank B. Marvin from The Shadows... there is another version by Cliff Richard (with Hank on acoustic guitar) and Hank Marvin also does an instrumental only version on The Hank Marvin Syndicate, from where Jay-Z stole the sample for "Pray" in American Gangster. Imagine Jay-Z being a closet HBM fan.
Olivia was always willing to take chances. They may not have been as commercially successful as this one (ie Soul Kiss, my favorite CD believe it or not!) but as a musician's mom I must say she is a great role model for artists who don't want to do things by a dot-the-lines formula...
she made an impression on me. love her
fetishisticrose 2 weeks ago
love this song cause i always loved her voice
NICOLE65104EVA 4 months ago
LOve this song, is a bit odd..like me :))
names5000 4 months ago
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@Orca40 It's about DDT. A pesticide used widely after WWII and after years of usage found to be causing cancer and to be destroying plant&animal life especially birds.
As the song says "Nothing moves now, but the swaying ripe corn"
More info at: en(.)wikipedia(.)org/wiki/DDT
anyman75 7 months ago
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en wikipedia org/wiki/DDT
anyman75 7 months ago
Probably one of the earliest environmental songs... And besides that the song and the clip are brilliant... Love Olivia...
anyman75 7 months ago
Interesting.
Demithehunter 7 months ago
Lovin 1:08 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
poppaluv 7 months ago
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butternab1 7 months ago
There is also a Marvin, Welch and Farrar version - I think that is the original version. Search for it on YouTube, and find out how great MWF were by looking at some of their other songs as well!
butternab1 7 months ago
this song used to make me cry.
MrBahhh31 7 months ago
other then pestisides what is she talking about.
michelle landry
littleone2813 7 months ago
I loved this and still do.
traiskin 7 months ago
I never thought I would hear a song about the enviroment and psticides!!!???
259pwm 7 months ago
this song was "green" DECADES before everyone jumped on the bandwagon !!
cristoforoantonio 7 months ago
@Orca40 Silvery Rain is about polution, nuclear attacks, and chemical warfare.
HeartBDoctor 8 months ago
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I recall this video from when i was a kid. It was haunting and sick, but it was supposed to be about nuclear and chemical warfare. Point taken!
HeartBDoctor 8 months ago
Beautiful song, great message from 1981 that has more meaning now in 2011 30 years later. Olivia was ahead of her time as far as videos go MTV would not debut for a few more years.
MrCejays 11 months ago 4
@MrCejays You are absolutely right. MTV, one of the raunchiest channels in America, still has limits on what videos they will show. 235 years later, America is still Christian prudish. Up yours, Catholic Church!
HeartBDoctor 8 months ago
@HeartBDoctor
AMEN TO THAT !! LOL
cristoforoantonio 7 months ago
@HeartBDoctor Amen buddy :)
anyman75 7 months ago
Very beatiful song...
yeroi 1 year ago
I LOVED this song. It was my fave on the "Physical" album. I didn't know there was a video for this. She looks like a crazed Tammy Wynette mixed with Jane Lynch in this clip.
shmuli9 1 year ago 2
her songs really do have good messages though , this one is about the earth and how we are destroying it with pollutants , i love her music
emily2u97 1 year ago 2
@emily2u97 Also about nucler and chemical wafare.
HeartBDoctor 8 months ago
@HeartBDoctor Yes , also that
emily2u97 8 months ago
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Olivia is my favorite singer and my inspiration and im 13 , and she has inspired me to be healthy and ive lost 25 lbs in the past month , and have 50 to go , her music is so amazing and she sings like a angel and i hope i have the chance to meet her someday
emily2u97 1 year ago
Olivia is my favorite singer and my inspiration and im 13 , and she has inspired me to be healthy and ive lost 25 lbs in tha past month , and have 50 to go , her music is so amazing and she sings like a angel and i hope i have the chance to meet her someday
emily2u97 1 year ago
Radical for the time. But considering we are now in 2010 thank God we never ended up in her world.
Blueecliptic 1 year ago
You are the one over all.... the best... thanks for being there again, I'll see you soon in Santiago, Chile.
Ray0X0 1 year ago
Ahhh the good music, I wish todays musicans would take lessions from these artists of the past and do music right instead of all the wierd stuff their doing. This was THE era of True good music take lessions and Learn, these are the God Fathers and mothers of Music for the Future...
ABild 1 year ago
this song is about two parakeets named peeter and pall that used to live with olivia but the mafia came one day and whacked them.
foilseal 1 year ago
This is a great song sung brilliantly by Cliff Richard.
streetwize4ever 1 year ago
so amazing......
marktoddy519 1 year ago
Dedicated to the wildlife trapped in the Gulf of Mexico...Fly away while you can.......
jakerandall123 1 year ago
@Orca40 Well, As I see it, In the begining of the video she emerges from a ' bio dome' wearing a ' protective suit' of sorts, ( notice the ventilation hose and helmet that floats off) This is deffinitely set in a post ' we really screwed the earth over' era after so much polution ( Silvery rain) has hit the earth because of us that now its commng from the sky ( In the form of Acid rain). No animals exist, and the few humans left cant escape. ' before theres nothing left to fly at all'.
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TheBoochan82 1 year ago
love this, reminds me of me..a bit weird but cool lol
names5000 1 year ago
@Orca40 It's about Polution
TheBoochan82 1 year ago
this almost has a kate bush feel to it
lerxt42 1 year ago
this almost has a kate bush feel to it
lerxt42 1 year ago
Brilliant Video and Brilliant Song !!! Brilliant Olivia !!!
Summer4All 2 years ago
A kooky video, but a beautiful, beautiful song!
stillwaterguy04 2 years ago
Written by Hank B. Marvin from The Shadows... there is another version by Cliff Richard (with Hank on acoustic guitar) and Hank Marvin also does an instrumental only version on The Hank Marvin Syndicate, from where Jay-Z stole the sample for "Pray" in American Gangster. Imagine Jay-Z being a closet HBM fan.
customanalogue 2 years ago 4
I never seen this video before... very nice, thanks for posting.
AMXGhibli 2 years ago
Olivia was always willing to take chances. They may not have been as commercially successful as this one (ie Soul Kiss, my favorite CD believe it or not!) but as a musician's mom I must say she is a great role model for artists who don't want to do things by a dot-the-lines formula...
gillfamilync 2 years ago 9
@gillfamilync
it's taken me a long time to find this song(20+yrs) and still amazingly brillant!
bitza47 8 months ago 2
No doubt, this one of my favorites videos.. very advanced way to make a clip for that time...
Ray0X0 2 years ago
what a beautiful song!!!!
titoloenzo 2 years ago
wow, haven't seen this for a long while. it's very david bowie *visually* at the time. thanks for posting.
sookiestackhouse2u 2 years ago
The mandolin player certainly looks like him
Syrinx77 1 year ago
and I remember reading that every video director back then was told to burn out the whites!
gdwme 2 years ago
one of my favorites from this album. I think this was the first album to have a video collection.
gdwme 2 years ago
Love this song! I fell in love with it when Olivia did an HBO special and performed it there.
Weird video. ;-) LOL! Well, it was the 80's!!
brettsmommy 2 years ago