No Easy Way Down
The Rain Parade was part of the Paisley Underground scene that emerged in t… Read Full Bio ↴The Rain Parade was part of the Paisley Underground scene that emerged in the West Coast during the mid-eighties and also included groups like The Dream Syndicate. In August 2023, the band released their first full album in 37 years, Last Rays of a Dying Sun.

The band was founded by college roommates Matt Piucci (guitar, vocals) and David Roback (lead guitar, vocals) in 1981, originally as The Sidewalks. David's brother Steven Roback (bass, vocals) joined the band shortly thereafter. David and Steven had been in a band called The Unconscious with neighbor Susanna Hoffs (who went on to lead the most famous of the Paisley Underground bands, The Bangles.) The band soon added Will Glenn (keyboards and violin) and later Eddie Kalwa (drums). They self-released their debut single, "What She's Done to Your Mind" on their Llama label in 1982.

David Roback left to form a new band, Opal, the rest of the band continuing to record as a four piece, releasing the mini-LP, Explosions in the Glass Palace in 1984. After a single, "You Are My Friend", Kalwa left, his replacement being Mark Marcum, and John Thoman (guitar, vocals) was added to the line-up. The band signed to Island Records, and a live album (Beyond The Sunset) recorded in Japan, and a third album, Crashing Dream, came out in 1985.

The band split in 1986, with Piucci going on to release the LP Gone Fishin' with Tim Lee, and later joining Crazy Horse. The band reformed in 1988 to finish off a double album they had started, but it was never released. The rest of the band formed Viva Saturn. After making the album Rainy Day featuring cover versions performed by various leading lights of the Paisley Underground, David Roback formed Opal, and later Mazzy Star.

No Easy Way Down
Rain Parade Lyrics


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Adam Levy Your toy balloon has sailed in the sky, love But now…
Barbra Streisand Your toy balloon has sailed in the sky, love But now…
Carole King Your toy balloon has sailed In the sky But now it…
Cath Carroll Your toy balloon has sailed in the sky, love But now…
Dusty Springfield Your toy balloon has sailed in the sky, love But now…
Hour Glass Your toy balloon has sailed in the sky, love But now…
J.J. Jackson Your toy balloon has sailed in the sky, love But now…
Jackie DeShannon Your toy balloon has sailed in the sky, love But now…
Mark Eitzel Your toy balloon has sailed in the sky, love But now…
N A Allen Your toy balloon has sailed in the sky, love But now…
Nancy Wilson Your toy balloon has sailed in the sky, love But now…
Norah Jones Your toy balloon has sailed In the sky now, But…
Okkervil River Your toy balloon has sailed in the sky now But soon…
Scott Walker Your toy balloon has sailed in the sky, love But now…
Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes No Easy Way Down (G. Goffin/C. King) Your toy balloon ha…
The Hour Glass Your toy balloon has sailed in the sky, love But now…
The Hourglass Your toy balloon has sailed in the sky, love But now…


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1 Hour 1/2 Ago What's the point of looking back? All you see is an…
Blue It's blue down that street Just might people knew that meet …
I Look Around When I'm lying down I look around I look around And I see…
Sad Eyes Kill I saw your face You had nothing to lose You drew your…



This Can't Be Today don’t know if it’s nice today I don’t go out much…


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Panagiotis Charalampopoulos

just compare what we were listening when we were 15-16 and what our children are hearing today.

i am 47 now and this masterpiece never gone out of my mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

written12

Panagiotis Charalampopoulos
Agreed.
But let’s remember that it was a adolescent elite that was into Rain Parade and Dream Syndicate. And youngish adults at the time like me( I’ve got a decade on you) were by and large unaware of the whole Paisley Underground scene.

Jeff Greenberg

Mind Blowing for the 80's....Still sounds very right now! Incredible production!!

MrCollinGabriel

One of the best album closers I've ever heard. Great EP,

heavyheavysyrup

Just saw them about 2 months ago in San Francisco- an odd experience for me since I was around the first time and haven't seem them in decades. The band sounded great but it was weird to see them playing these songs in their 50s. Bittersweet in a reflective way.

Andrew Douglass

Maybe a little Repo-Man-ish...

kidof70s

A classic.
Works every time.

Velvetclaw

It's such a fantasticly arranged track and so full of atmosphere. A gen from my youth that makes me think of my first boyfriend. Ahh..happy memories.

JimmyTGoose

Around 1990 my then gf did me a fantastic compilation tape but she couldn't be arsed to do a track list . The tape is long since lost and now , entirely by chance , i rediscover this and find out who performed it .....i could almost cry 🤗

Phil Alderson

classic song trippy psychedelia at its best

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