Let’s flashback two weeks and change. Madonna held the stage for the Super Bowl, but I couldn’t bear being an audience to that mess. So I dove into laptop and threw on The Jeff Lorber Fusion’s “Rain Dance.” Why? Perhaps I needed something to cool me down after the Giants looked flat heading into halftime. Then Eli and the gang played as cool as “Rain Dance”’s melody towards another championship. I feel thanks are in order to Jeff and company for some reason, so this Funk nod should suffice.

Also, on an unrelated note, odds are you’ve heard portions of this record plenty of times. Just listen to the first four chords on the keys and let that “A-ha!” moment sink in.