(panther roars) (reel rattling) (static crackling) - [Host] Check out Roy Lee Christian on the lead electric guitar.

Unbelievable like I said last week when I played part of this record.

In like 40 years of record collection.

- [Pablo] Welcome to another show of Ala Vista here with Pablo AKA DJ El Perseguidor.

On WMPG, we are celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.

- [Interviewer] These are young, talented musicians that recently graduated from Gorham High School.

I wasn't surprised because Gorham High School is kind of renowned for really nurturing artistic kids and musical kids and I'm just so impressed with how young they are and how good they are.

And what I'd like if they could please introduce themselves and tell us, you know, which instruments that you each play.

- [Luke] Sounds good.

Hey, my name's Luke.

- [Interviewer] Yeah, first name, last name.

Let your fans hear you.

- [Luke] Yeah, my name is Luke... (upbeat music) ♪ I stand beneath ♪ ♪ All true feelings ♪ ♪ I swear that I will move my place ♪ ♪ A second space that I reside ♪ ♪ Well, it's not up to me ♪ ♪ If I swear that we go our ways ♪ ♪ Another space to reside ♪ ♪ I swear that won't lie ♪ ♪ Not a trade of mine, I will regain ♪ ♪ Say it's all the same ♪ ♪ Not a computer, not in your game ♪ ♪ Ah ♪ ♪ For ways we feel alive ♪ ♪ For what we say ♪ ♪ Ah ♪ ♪ For ways we feel alive ♪ - Bye, Zach.

Another satisfied listener.

I love getting phone calls throughout the show.

It's great.

I mean, I know just by default that there must be, I don't know, there could be hundreds of people listening to radio, but just having a phone call, having someone pick up the phone and go through the effort of, you know, reaching out to you as a DJ and letting you know like their thoughts on a song you're playing is really an amazing thing.

That listener right there was just reaching out to let me know that they really did not like one of the songs I was playing.

♪ One, two, three, go ♪ ♪ WMPG ♪ ♪ WMPG ♪ ♪ WMPG ♪ ♪ WMPG ♪ ♪ Southern Maine community ♪ ♪ Radio for uni ♪ ♪ Left of the dial ♪ ♪ It's time to rock ♪ ♪ Punk from the '70s ♪ ♪ College rock '80s ♪ ♪ Alternative '90s ♪ ♪ Left of the dial ♪ (Rosita speaking foreign language) (mellow music) - When I started this show, I didn't think people were listening.

I used to go to the mass in Spanish at the Catholic Church and I started to promote the show there and then people started listening.

There were only a handful of Latino families here, but now we have lots of families that I don't even know of.

- Oh, man, here we go.

Come on.

(upbeat music) It's too high.

It's too high for my vocals, but it doesn't matter because I've got to get the message.

I got to get the weather to these people and I'm going to do it no matter what.

Here we go.

(upbeat music) (throat clears) Gotta work with the vocals here.

♪ I never will forget that Friday ♪ ♪ It's going to be mostly sunny ♪ ♪ Highs in the mid sixties ♪ ♪ And then on Friday night ♪ ♪ Partly cloudy, lows in the upper ♪ ♪ Lows in the upper forties ♪ ♪ Saturday, chance of rain ♪ ♪ Chance of rain is going to be likely ♪ ♪ I can see you ♪ ♪ You got your radio on ♪ ♪ I see you tuning in ♪ ♪ To your favorite songs, baby ♪ ♪ I can tell you my love for you will still be strong ♪ ♪ After my karaoke ♪ ♪ Where do we go ♪ (upbeat music) It's a good backing track.

- When I started the show, my son was two years old and now he is 27 years old.

I used to bring my son to the station and he'd hang around with me.

I brought him a lot of coloring books because he was so little.

He was really good.

And sometimes I put him on the air to say like, "This is WMPG, the Latina show."

And well, we had fun and it was very helpful to have him with me too.

Mother's Day is tomorrow and I just wanted to give a good message to all women out there.

Don't forget to love yourself.

(Rosita speaking foreign language) I like to uplift people, especially women and especially women in my Hispanic community because I know that sometimes, in my community, we are always second.

We are not first.

We don't think ourselves first because that's how we've been taught.

And I think it is important that we as women know that we are capable of doing many good things and we are doing them, but sometimes we don't even believe it and we are still doing it.

When I go out and I see a little girl and they find out that I do the show and they have been listening to me and they say, "Oh, you are Rosita?"

and they're jumping around and all excited and I think even I'm going to cry, it feels like that little Rosita that felt that way about all the people that were doing things and believe that she couldn't do it.

(bright music) ♪ Last night, your kisses told me ♪ ♪ That you and I were through ♪ - I love the music.

I love coming in here.

I love the fact that I play a sort of music that isn't really available on other radio stations.

You know, contemporary country stations don't play this.

I have this little tagline that, you know, I'll make a country music fan out of you.

And people will come up to me and say, "You've done it.

You have made a country music fan out of me."

So that's really gratifying.

- I have to script out most of my voice breaks because I don't trust myself with improv that often.

I have a behavioral diagnosis.

I have Asperger's syndrome, which is on the autism spectrum and it's kind of interesting living with it.

It's like I do try my hardest to be fairly social with other people, but there are quite a few moments where my social battery tends to run out.

- [Interviewer 2] Has it helped you in any way to be more social, to be part of a community, to come in and- - Oh, yes, definitely.

It's almost what like WMPG and community radio in general is essentially all about.

It's about inclusiveness, hearing different perspectives.

(upbeat music) Hey, everybody, you are tuned into WMPG Gorham, Portland at 90.9, the official radio station of the University of Southern Maine.

WMPG is brought to you by our supporting listeners and from the Portland Farmers Market.

- I was doing the show as usual and I got a phone call from a listener and it was a woman and she asked me for a specific song by Jack Greene, if I'm remembering right.

And I knew I hadn't brought any Jack Greene myself from my own collection.

And I said "We may have a Jack Greene record downstairs.

I'm not sure.

I'll go down and look."

We hung up, I ran downstairs and sure enough, we had one record and on the record was the song that she wanted to hear.

So I played the record and then when the record ended, she called me back, same woman, and she was in tears and she said, "That was our song, mine and my husband's, and I lost him last year."

And she said, you know, that day was the anniversary of his death and it was just such a sweet moment, you know, so.

♪ Somewhere there should be ♪ ♪ For all the world to see ♪ ♪ A statue of a fool ♪ (upbeat music) - Stick McGee before that with the awesome Jungle Juice.

Man, oh man, what a great record there from the king.

He's best known for his great Atlantic record stuff like Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee Drinking Wine but that's a lot of fun.

Going out to my man, Kogar the Swinging Ape right there at the Jungle Juice.

- Look, everywhere I go, I never sleep.

Whenever I travel to another city, I'll find the cool record store there and I'll go check it out.

And I've just built up a stack.

I have something like at least 3,000 LPs and 45s at my house, but not all of them are fit for the radio show but the ones that are, I pick through them every week and drag them in.

And I love every single thing about them.

I'm fascinated with the way they were produced.

I love the labels.

I love to, you know, look at the artwork and read about who did it and who performed them.

And I love being able to have a physical artifact that will play a song and if you flip it over, it'll play another song.

Whoa.

- You like that cover?

- Yeah.

It's one of those just throw everything together on it.

Different fonts and different photos and stuff.

You never mess with girls in cars, for sure.

Another value-added thing about WMPG, I collected all these records so that nobody else has to.

You know, you can just tune in and dig it.

(upbeat music) - For listeners, they may not realize it, but it's special to them and it's special to me as a volunteer who actually does programming.

The freedom that we are afforded here to just follow our own whims.

I can play whatever I want.

I can go wherever I want on my show and ask my listeners to come with me.

♪ Raindrops falling, woo hoo hoo ♪ - So K-pop is like, they're having fun with melodies, samples, fun with sounds.

The more I started to uncover, the more I realized it's like these guys that are producing it are fans of old school hip-hop and R&B like I am.

And the fact that kids that are in their teens are buying it.

We don't have boy bands anymore.

NSYNC is gone, Spice Girls are gone so the kids either have Baby Shark or they go straight to heroin.

I'm excited about K-pop and I'm really happy that WMPG allows me to, you know, play it on the air.

And I've got a lot of people saying, "This is great."

It is great.

(upbeat music) - Release the Bats is a goth, industrial post-punk dark wave, anything darkly inclined.

To my knowledge, we're the only ones that actually play purely goth industrial music.

So it's kind of a hard sell for listeners.

Our goal is to say, yep, this is the type of music that you may not like, but if I play something around that, I'll ease you into it and then maybe make you kind of like enjoy it a little bit more.

Maybe not 100%, but we'll get you there.

(upbeat music) - There's like a relationship between the DJ here and the listener.

The listener comes to WMPG to sort of be challenged, I think, often.

And that's the opposite of what we have now in our sort of playlist culture, which is just to sort of be soothed.

A playlist, it's like you're standing in a mirror and you're like, I like mid-tempo acoustic music played by white guys with guitars and the mirror's like, great, here's a hundred more of those.

And that becomes sort of... It's almost like you take that on as your identity and the algorithm's like feeding you this playlist of songs that it thinks, you know, this is what you want to hear.

You'll go find mid-tempo white guy guitar music playlists or you'll go find like yoga pants in the morning playlists and those will serve almost as like background to, you know, your show.

It's like the commercial of you and this is the soundtrack in the background.

But it all feels very detached and very like unhuman to me.

- It's really weird to think of when I'm talking about whatever I'm listening to or talking about what's going on in my life and then have someone random call me and be like, "You're doing amazing, sweetie."

It's very odd, but it's very touching.

Oh, do I have to talk?

I do.

I'm so sorry.

I mean, I like calling it my hiding hole or my cave, honestly, when I get to hang out in here.

But it's also just absolute paradise for music nerd, you know, with shelves and shelves of CDs and cassettes and vinyl.

And I nerd out and I share way too much about what's going on in my own life like it's social media or something and people actually get invested in that somehow.

- There are only three paid staff at this radio station in this little building.

And through these rooms come 200 odd volunteers every week using the mics, using the equipment.

And you run into people, you cross paths with people.

It's an extraordinary place.

(upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music continues) - [Howard] Where are all the records?

- [Archivist] Okay, we'll get there but this is all of the CDs.

- Oh, my lord.

- Rock, jazz.

I don't think so.

- The vinyl.

You can smell the vinyl.

- [Archivist] Yeah, and the cardboard, the sleeves.

- [Howard] The sleeves, yeah.

M, so K, M. Yeah.

Back here a bit.

That's it.

That is One Fine Morning and that's one of the songs they played in the concert back in, I think that had to be '73.

(upbeat music) - [Crew Member] Hey, hold it there.

- What?

- Hold it there.

- Okay.

- We're running.

- We're running.

And I went and bought a turntable and a little FM wireless microphone and threw wire out the window and started playing records.

I was down to the Gorham dump one day and I was looking at a bunch of trash down there and I saw this washing machine and I said, oh, that control console there, I could take that and turn that into a radio control console.

So I kind of took it all, threw it on my bike, took it home and added a couple of bots and switches and a meter and that became the first switchboard that we used.

- It was a closet in the student center.

And when I mean a closet, I literally mean a closet.

No windows, two turntables, one microphone, and that was it.

- We had a bunch of radicals.

I mean, put it a little bit of perspective that we were all classified as hippies.

The idea that we'd eventually evolve our own radio station and then the nexus for that, what really began in that period of time and in that culture.

- I got a call from or a note from the Dean of Student Affairs, I think it was, to come over and chat.

I had no idea what it was about.

I sat down with him and he says, "So tell me about this radio station.

We didn't know we had one."

I said, "No, we've had one for a year."

He said, "You know, what would it take to make this a real radio station?"

♪ We'll fly ♪ ♪ Yeah, we'll fly ♪ ♪ And on that mornin' when I wake up ♪ ♪ We'll go outside and live our dreams ♪ ♪ I'll buy you candies made of stardust ♪ ♪ And little dolls dressed up in moonbeams ♪ ♪ And everywhere we go, we'll laugh and sing ♪ ♪ I'll kiss you morning, noon and night ♪ ♪ And all the universe will smile on us ♪ ♪ 'Cause they know that our love is finally right ♪ ♪ Fly ♪ ♪ Yeah, we'll fly ♪ ♪ Yeah, we'll fly ♪ ♪ We'll fly ♪ ♪ Yeah, we'll fly ♪ ♪ Yeah, we'll fly to the east, we'll fly to the west ♪ ♪ There'll be no place we can't call our own ♪ ♪ Yeah, we'll fly to the north, we'll fly to the south ♪ ♪ Every planet will become our home ♪ - Happy birthday, WMPG!

(crowd cheers and claps) (upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) - Everybody here at this party or on the air, you know, they're all passionate about music, radio, and community.

- I'm a huge listener.

I've been listening since 1978.

I feel really connected to WMPG because it's talking to me and what I listen to and my community.

It's like MPG is talking to me and the other radio stations are talking to everybody.

- I actually have a speaker under my pillow.

(laughs) The FCC allows you to be a little bit more experimental in the overnight so I enjoy that side of it.

I mean, who else is going to listen at night?

I am.

- [Interviewer 2] Does your wife have trouble sleeping with the radio on?

- No, she just wears earplugs.

(laughs) - I own a bakery on Stevens Avenue in Portland.

Coming to work at 4:00 AM and listen to MPG every morning and I'm very glad that someone's awake also and doing the show.

I really appreciate it.

- Driving home to Maine, coming back from the rest of the country, 90.9 starts to come in around that stretch in New Hampshire where you feel like you're almost home to Maine and you still have an hour left before you get to Portland so it's nice to have that company of WMPG.

Regardless of what the show is, you have something to kind of clue you back in, tune you in to the drive and give you kind of that extra push to get all the way back home.

(people chattering) - Sunny out there?

- Huh?

- Sunny?

- Yeah.

Sorry about that.

- [Joey] How are you?

- Did you go on a summer vacation and?

- Yeah, on the summer.

- All set?

- [Greg] Hey, fellas.

- Hey, how are you?

- Good.

How are you?

- Good.

(people chattering) - Hey, hey, hey!

It's me, it's me.

It's Jason DJ C back in with Joey Baby and Nate Dog.

Yes, sir.

And if anybody wants to call in, the number is 780-4909.

That's 780-4949 and I... - We're a community support day program and the idea is to get into the community and do things, integrate and do things that anyone else would do.

You guys are lighting up the phone lines over there.

Just got two calls.

- Yeah?

- Christine, I don't know who called, who she is in particular.

- Christine?

- But she wanted to hear Stevie Wonder's Golden Lady.

- Oh, Stevie Wonder.

- Stevie Wonder's Golden Lady.

- Okay.

Yeah.

- For Christine.

- Christine.

- I cued it up so I can play it next.

- Right.

- And then somebody else called.

They were making cookies and they were just saying this whole block of music that you've been playing is really uplifting and she's very happy.

- Oh, that's good.

That's good.

- So yeah, thanks for the calls on night of the voice break.

- Yes, great.

I will.

- And I'll queue up that... Will you remember that or you want me to write it down?

- Oh.

- Stevie Wonder.

- [Jason] Stevie Wonder, yeah.

- Golden Lady?

- Golden Lady.

- Yeah, you can write it down.

- Christine.

- Okay.

Stevie Wonder, gotcha.

- I have a lot of people that I work with that love music, so it makes sense that people that love music would be at WMBG making a radio show.

- Rock on.

(upbeat music) - And it's a beautiful day outside, people.

You can't get no sexier than this.

People, outside, it's sexy, people.

Well, I'm DJ Ice, WMPG Caribbean Flava every Saturday morning from 11:00 to 1:30.

We've been doing this for a long time.

My little brother started in 1997.

I started it like 16 years ago.

The people look forward to it every Saturday morning.

It's a joy to bring people together, you know what I'm saying?

♪ Mi love mi life ♪ ♪ Mi love mi life ♪ ♪ Mi life, mi life, mi life ♪ ♪ Mi love mi life ♪ ♪ Mi love mi life ♪ ♪ Mi life, mi life, mi life ♪ ♪ Mi love mi life ♪ ♪ Mi love mi life ♪ ♪ Mi life, mi life, mi life ♪ ♪ Mi love mi life ♪ - And I had a bunch of songs picked out and I didn't realize that the little E next to each of the songs was very explicit.

And so I played one and there's one of those, I don't even remember the words, but it was bad.

And I like tried to very subtly, you know, bring down the volume and I'm like, "Okay, the next one."

And I hit the next one and it's more curse words and I hit, and I'm like, nobody's listening right now.

There's no way anybody's listening right now.

There's no way.

And one of the first friends I saw later that afternoon was like, "Wow, Mel, I heard something on the radio today."

He was like, "You just kept trying to pot down and make it go away and you just kept coming back with more."

And I was like, oh my god.

They're never going to have me back again.

♪ Just like me, just like me ♪ ♪ Just like me, just like me ♪ (vinyl creaking) (pipe tooting) (sign rattling) - If you enjoy a sound, you enjoy the interaction between two different sounds.

Doesn't have to be a guitar or bass or drums or keyboards, you know.

Doesn't have to be singing.

It could be anything.

You know, could be like the curtains blowing in the breeze and the birds outside and the collective texture and feel that those things create.

To me, that's musical.

(quirky music) There was a story from some teenagers who happened upon my show and who were terrified by what they heard because they were acting like I'm hearing like a kidnapping somehow on 90.9.

And you know, I got a little nervous because I'm like, I don't want... Nobody's ever... That's one really positive thing I can say about WMPG and what makes it so great is that nobody has ever, not once in 28 years, nobody has ever told me what to play or what not to play.

Nobody's ever been critical in a way that suggested maybe you could be a little less wild in this direction a little bit.

Never happened.

(quirky music) ♪ Run for your life ♪ ♪ Run for your life ♪ ♪ Run for your life ♪ - When I was coming up with the idea of the Sanctuary of Metal, I said, "All these people are themselves on the air.

I don't want to be me.

I want to be someone else."

And that's kind of where Nightfall came from.

When you're here, you are somebody and I know at least one person out there is listening.

And if one person is listening and then I'm doing my job and even if they hate it, I'm still performing or I'm still putting on a great show and that's what's beautiful about here is that you feel like somebody.

- [Interviewer 2] What do you do for work?

- I am in insurance.

I am in workers' compensation insurance.

I'm a customer service representative by focusing catastrophic and cataclysmic claims.

- [Interviewer 2] And when you're at work, do you think a lot about your show?

- When I'm at work, I only think about my show.

I'm sitting in a cubicle begging for an excuse to get out and be here and do something that has meaning and true expression because it pays the bills, but it doesn't pay your soul and that's what being here is like.

It feeds my emotions, it makes me feel whole and creative and interactive But if I could do this for a living, a meager living actually, I would.

You couldn't even stop me.

I'd have the paper signed before you could even finish your last breath.

- I get here at 3:30 and then I will go downstairs and I will pull out a bunch of vinyl.

And if I didn't get enough, I'll put a song on and I'll run down there again and pull out some more.

How could you not play that?

Does he not look like he's having a good time?

How could you not play this record?

What I like about it is that we can come in and produce shows that aren't dictated by some conglomerate somewhere that we have no control over.

That in a nutshell for me is the most enjoyable thing of all.

- This record, this isn't on Spotify right now.

Like you can't find this record in this form anywhere in the digital world.

Like the more you dig into it, the more you'll find that like this idea that like all the music ever recorded is there is not true.

There are thousands and thousands of records like this that never made the transfer to CD in the '90s and as a result, they never actually got digitized to the point where they now end up on Spotify.

So this history is all lost in that digital world.

(mellow music) - [Interviewer 2] Are these your records?

- Yes, these are all from my collection.

I've been collecting records since I was about six.

- [Interviewer 2] Do you have a lot of records?

- Yeah, I have probably about 20,000 records scattered around my house right now.

It's a mess for sure.

- WMPG DJs, whatever it is, we're obsessed with it.

And I think that WMPG is one of the few places where we have a venue to kind of really express that pent up passion for music 'cause you're just so excited, you have to share it with everybody and what better way than radio.

- I played the blues for WMPG for 32 years.

I have now morphed into just playing good music on Sunday afternoon.

When I came on, we had dot, we had dials and turntables.

And when we came on, we had to really precisely put that needle in the groove.

And a lot of the DJs I work with come in and have their show all in the cloud.

And I'm like, where's the cloud?

(laughs) - Where my head is.

- I remember the first time I came in after getting trained and going into the CD library.

And again, this is pre-internet before music was everywhere and it was all on your phone and it didn't matter as much, you know?

It really, really, really, really... It is not hyperbole to say that my life changed because... I did not expect to actually get emotional talking about this.

But yeah, no, having access to all these CDs and I immediately set to work checking out everything that looked even remotely strange.

It's as holy an experience as I've ever had.

If you asked me earlier about why I keep doing it, part of it is out of gratitude for that.

- It was really hard to navigate life here on my own as an immigrant speaking a language that is not mine.

It's been such a journey because at the beginning, I felt like a ghost, you know, and I think that's sort of like the experience that many people go through when they move to a new country.

What WMPG did for me is bringing this sense of community of belonging.

I suddenly felt seen.

I think of this quote by Can Xue from this book that I read not long ago, Love in the New Millennium, "You are my beauty.

I will keep on resisting for you and for me.

Next time, shout to me and I will shout back to you."

And that's what WMPG is for me.

You know, every time I shout out, someone shouts back and that is so priceless and so meaningful for me.

- We live in a world where we are always on the daily scramble, trying to pay the bills, to try your hardest and to oftentimes find out that it's not good enough.

This radio station, when you arrive here, whether it's on air, whether it's at a community event, that not only what you did was good enough, it was wonderful.

It was appreciated.

(upbeat music) (band claps and cheers) - The vibe of WMPG is like an old friend.

It's like a good buddy that you didn't even know you missed.

I learned so much from this old friend and it's just beautiful.

I don't know.

It's like, it's for everybody and that is not how a lot of our world operates.

Like we all talk about the silos we're in, but everybody's here.

There's old people, there's young people, there's freaks of every stripe, you know?

And straight really type A folks too and we're all mashed together.

It's beautiful.

It's this beautiful little family.

(upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music continues) - I love my show.

I love it.

Here we go.

It is about six o'clock here in Portland, Maine on campus of USM listening to WMPG 90.9 FM's radio.

- [Rosita] (indistinct) Anybody can cross your paths because love is first, love is in the middle and love is last.

I'm saying goodbye now with this song that I always love.

- [Amy] Welcome to Democracy Now!

Democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman.

The death toll across Israel and Gaza... - You have entered Perky's Auditory Canal on WMPG's... - I got to thank Jumping Jackie from Portland and powerful Peter from Yarmouth for calling up and making with the pledges here on WMPG's Begathon.

Now look, there's two names.

I got two names on the list so far.

I'm filling up seats in the rocket ships that'll take us away from this burnt out husk of a planet towards Planet X, the pleasure planet where we'll enjoy nothing but solid pleasure and boss rock and roll parties for all of eternity but I want to put you on this list.

I want to make you part of a happy crew, but I can't until you call 874-3000.

That's how you reserve a seat.

(upbeat music) (upbeat music continues) - [Band Lead] Yes, that is the best of the day.

(band members cheering) Yes.

That is the best of the day.

(Band member speaking foreign language) - [Band Lead] Yes.

That is the best.

- Deadbolt, one of the only gothic surf rock bands that I know of from Southern California with Voodoo Doll.

This is DJ Shaxx.

It's just past 6:00 PM and you know what that means?

It's time for the weather report.

(upbeat music) ♪ We need a rainstorm ♪ ♪ I need a rainstorm to cool me at the end of night ♪ ♪ It's got to be cold ♪ ♪ And the precipitation has got to arrive just in time ♪ ♪ We need a rainstorm ♪ ♪ We need a rainstorm to soothe us here in southern Maine ♪ ♪ Because this heatwave and all of this humidity ♪ ♪ And it really ain't good for our brains ♪ ♪ We need a rainstorm ♪ ♪ We'll get a rainstorm in Portland here on Friday morning ♪ ♪ It's a 30% chance of rainfall ♪ ♪ With the high near 75 ♪ ♪ It says a rainstorm ♪ ♪ It says a rainstorm ♪ ♪ And the forecast here for Friday morning ♪ ♪ And Saturday, 30% chance of showers ♪ ♪ While the temperature drops just a bit ♪ ♪ It's a rainstorm ♪ ♪ Oh, it's a rainstorm, a rainstorm, it's coming ♪ ♪ Well, bring it to me, bring it to me, bring it to me ♪ ♪ Bring it to me, rainstorm ♪ Can you feel it?

I can feel it.

Rain in the summertime, there's nothing like it.

Nothing like it.

In fact, The Alarm, a Welsh post-punk alternative band in the 1980s wrote a song about it.

Rain in the Summertime.

I'm going to play for you right here.