Riders On the Storm reminds me of many things:
1) an episode from The Wonder Years when Kevin and Paul are hanging out in the woods with a 'bad' kid.
2) riding in the church van to Moody Bible Institute in Chicago on a stormy night in 1979 and hearing this song on the radio, along with Bad Co's Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy and Robert Palmer's Bad Case of Loving You...why do I remember these details? beats me.
3) Old Mother Hubbard...like a dog without a bone.
4) The song Ghost Riders in the Sky...Jim Morrison's whispered vocals are the ghosts.
5) The Bugs Bunny cartoon called Hare Way to the Stars, the part from 4:00-4:15 when Bugs makes the green bird martian mimic him is like the end of Riders On the Storm from about 4:35-4:45, the keyboard and guitar having a similar exchange.
Best line: His brain is squirmin' like a toad...creepy and gross.
It is a great night song, very dark and lonely, lots of stormy special effects - rain and thunder. Have an umbrella ready. After 2:44 it's pretty much just music, keyboards and guitar stepping in puddles and splashing about.
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