Every Britpop band claimed they weren't part of the scene or that they resented the label. Lush's first two records were very shoegaze-y but their last record smacks of jumping on the Britpop bandwagon, sadly at the point it was running out of steam.
The thing is, "Lovelife" is ripe with tick-offs towards Britpop, especially addressing male dominance in the genre. Melodically, this song is super ironic, rather than succumbing to the mid-90s Britpop hype. But it's super regardless...
They seemed so happy in this quirky and wonderful video. Chris with his wonky glasses looked so content. It's such a shame things changed. I still love the song and love the video.
I ain’t no kid but my late teens and early twenties in the early 90’s...my CD album collection is well over 100...then again I am a (smashy and nicey voice) Hospital Radio DJ mate. 🤙🏻
Somewhere in the missed chances of shoegaze... there's a song/video with Miki singing on a Galaxie 500 song and her lead footing a a bright red 7.4L 60s Ford across the desert.
Only a few bands could pull a track like this off, and Lush was most certainly one of them. They were criminally underrated, but I'm a way, it was a good thing as they didn't have big music breathing down their necks and ruining their product.
+Blood Guts They were amazing. We didn't care for this album when it came out because it was such a move towards a pop band, but listening to it now it's not all that bad. A lot of people that were into grunge at the time kind of shunned Lush and the other shoegaze bands as being too spacey. Shoegaze was just kind of a niche but a niche that some people(including myself)obsessed over.
vista7 grunge was crap anyway,I'd rather listen to the shoegaze bands anyday,anytime and all the other alternative bands from back in that era. Lush did start shifting towards a more poppier sound but you can never accuse them of making the same album over and over, also you can't blame them for at least trying to evolve musically. I'll listen to this song and have fond memories, grunge just makes me want to cut myself up an inch at a time.Though I will give props to Mother Love Bone.
Personally I liked a lot post-punk from SST and Sub-pop, but shoegaze was my favorite. I followed Lush with a group of friends from their early days and we liked the way they evolved. We finally got to see them up close at a small venue for the Split release party We ended up being really disappointed. Miki didn't show up for the session and they were all kind of blah about being there. I think they just got really burned out trying to please all the record execs.
More sombering to see Miki singing, "Let's run away and be so alive." to him shortly before he went and killed himself. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Miki can't bear to watch this video because of that.
Miki & Emma...a match made in heaven. thanks for the great tunes Lush! just saw Miki Berenyi has a book coming out in early Feb. can't wait to read it!! Fingers Crossed: Memoir of a Lush Life Book by Miki Berenyi
This song and video sends me to another place - the carefree 1990's! - when everything didn't suck. Why aren't songs like this created anymore? Seriously, what happened?
I always thought Emma's lead guitar lines sounded very Hank B.Marvin-ish (...no, really - that's no insult). And I love the John Cleese/Fawlty Towers parody at 1:23 in the video!
The opening guitars reminds me of John Squire and I almost expected to hear Ian Brown singing. I aint saying this is a blatant copy or anything. In fact this song is great and I love it absolutely.
Underrated band, lovely melody & a good catchy chorus with a hook that pulls you right in there. Departed from their early shoegazing material in an effort to break into the britpop movement at the time.
I bought this 7" single pressed on red vinyl back in 1996 but made the mistake of leaving it in its original PVC sleeve. Over time, the PVC plastic left chemical marks on the vinyl. It still plays great but has hazy spots all over. "Lovelife" and all three corresponding singles were released in PVC sleeves so I'm sure this problem is quite common today.
Shake, baby, shake, you know i can fit you in my arms Brake, baby, brake, taking me in with all you're charms I've never been inside you but you're so alluring They call you "little mouse" by name in rome and turin Looking now at your famous shape They don't make them like anymore Shake, baby, shake, you know i can fit you in my arms Brake, baby, brake, taking me in with all your charms When things are looking good there's always complications I can't be with you so i'm at the railway station Let's run away and be so alive Escape the drudgery of this nine to five Shake, baby, shake, you know i can fit you in my arms Brake, baby, brake, taking me in with all your charms Shake, baby, shake, you know i worship from afar Brake, baby, brake, how i wish you were my car
Miki's the one that "all the blokes fancy", it's true- and she is lovely, no doubt about it- but I think that Emma's few brief shots in this video show how truly stunning she is. Just a matter of taste, but Emma is muy bonita y mucho para me gusto!
Kieran Foster, man your not kidding, Emma is so hot on this and other videos" nothing natural". I can't stop watching her, on this video she looks like a rich beautiful aristocrat. she is not as gestural as Miki. Miki is beautiful too, but Emma says a lot with very little and it works very well for her with mystifying Beauty.
Love some of Emma's live vids, where she misses a line or starts singing on top one of Miki's lines, then starts laughing. She has a beautiful smile going.
@@tomgat6314 One that comes to mind is the ''Ladykiller'' music video. When the line ''Oh my God, the boy has such an ego'' is sung, Emma mimes it as well, she realizes what just happened, then covers her mouth and starts laughing while looking back at Chris
Not to gloss over anything but I wish Chris Acland was simply remembered for a legacy of music that some us of have enjoyed and played regularly ever since. Lovelife is a classic album and should have put Lush on a par with Blur and Oasis IMHO.
i think its strange that when they were a shoegaze band before this came out, she didn't sing in a particularly british accent, but as soon as they went britpop the accent comes out thick
+Bender Rodriguez Funny...I can always hear the accent, especially live. And although she is British, her parents are Hungarian and Japanese but she does have a very thick accent, doesn't she? Does she speak either of her parents' original languages? Never thought about it. I just love her and that hair...
I just came to check out their other stuff after rediscovering their shoegaze music. I might have liked this if I heard it first, but as much as I love their old music, this isn't for me. I also agree with your assessment of her accent. It's night and day.
After reading Miki's book, i can't help but look at all the members in a sort of intimate light. I see innocent Miki, and think of Nora. Emma appears, and i feel like she might get pissed off at the director. Even Miki mentions "bobbing her head it time to the music, like an idiot", and now i picture her thinking that, while driving the car.
There third album was definitely britpop but they took cue from the riot girl movement and made into there own, it's sad that Chris took his own life and the band disbanded in 1998, It was brilliant to see them did a one off reunion in 2016 what a brilliant time for me.
I don't love cars, i like biking. I am in a merry-go-round watching this video. "A horse! Merrygoround in dreams, merrygoround with me" - The RE-P-LA-CEMENTS
This song makes me laugh because I can always look back through time and see all the oh-so-serious male shoegaze nerds’ heads exploding from disgust and disbelief.
I'm probably alone in this assessment, but... Lush was a *decent* shoegaze band, but a *fantastic* Britpop/powerpop-with-shoegaze-influences band. "500 (Shake Baby Shake)" is a fantastic tune, and so is "Hypocrite", and "Kiss Chase", and "Superblast!" and... point is, all of their best tunes work better as *songs* than as etherial dreamy soundscapes of noise and self-deprecation. And I think if you judge them as songwriters in the classical sense, they come off better than they do if you're trying to hold them to some indie-shoegazy standard. I mean, even "Ladykillers" (which maybe isn't their best song) was about "nice guys" about 15 years before "nice guys" were a thing - Miki and Emma definitely tapped into something there. "Sweetness And Light" is their one really good pure-shoegazy song, and it's basically them trying to be Chapterhouse. But oh man, Lush had a *lot* of great songs, and if the music world had been okay with them being "a pop band that likes shoegaze a lot," they'd be a lot more fondly regarded. That's just my opinion.
I'm disagree with your comment. "Split" is one of the best shoegaze albums, i think for those brit-songs it was not very valued this album, but if you listen without you knowning their brit-songs "Split" is a great shoegaze album.
I very much agree with your comment. While I like a fair chunk of pre-Spooky Lush where Robin Guthrie very much had his way with them ('Mad Love' is my favorite of the EPs), I tend to like the songs where their catchy vocal melodies take the center stage. What makes their best vocal melodies so interesting is that they often go where you don't expected them to go. I do like the shimmering guitars when they happen, but they sound better when they're not mucking up the mix (in the context of Lush). When I stopped seeing their 'short-comings' as a shoegaze band, and instead viewed them - like you say - in more of a power-pop way I found I enjoyed them much more. 'Lovelife' is my favorite album from them as a whole, but they hit their peak with me during the entire first side of 'Split' (which is more power-pop anyways).
Spot-on. Lush were such a great band all the way around, from their most abstract and shoe-gazeiest, to their most catch and punky indie-rock and brit-popiest. Their only downside is that they didn't have more recorded output.
I’m still in love with Miki, & always will be.
IKWYM
This song helped this goth cheer up a lil bit back in the day
Proper pop music. It could have been a hit in the 1960s.
Or early 80s!
@@TracyRichards-lg4mq It's very important to you that things are 'blown away'.
@@TracyRichards-lg4mq Are you?
@@TracyRichards-lg4mq I didn't say it was epic, or a number one, but I turned 13 in 1961, so I know (as well as ANYone) what a 60s hit sounded like.
They had enduring hits in the nineties.👍👍👍👍
Chris looks happy in this video.
Great song and super underrated band! LUSH forever!
Its interesting that Lush always claimed to be outside of Britpop, yet this is the MOST Britpop sounding song ever.
They changed their sound quite a bit at this point. The stuff that go them noticed was a bit more trippy.
Lush preceded britpop.. But yes
Every Britpop band claimed they weren't part of the scene or that they resented the label. Lush's first two records were very shoegaze-y but their last record smacks of jumping on the Britpop bandwagon, sadly at the point it was running out of steam.
The thing is, "Lovelife" is ripe with tick-offs towards Britpop, especially addressing male dominance in the genre. Melodically, this song is super ironic, rather than succumbing to the mid-90s Britpop hype. But it's super regardless...
You know who else isn't britpop? 4AD! Hmm! 😃
They seemed so happy in this quirky and wonderful video. Chris with his wonky glasses looked so content. It's such a shame things changed. I still love the song and love the video.
If you don't mind can you tell what happened?
@@Mal01-khan The drummer, Chris, committed suicide. This obviously changed everything and soon after Lush disbanded.
It’s January 2, 2021 and this band is pretty badass
no, its June 10, 2021
@@ing_frantisek_mohykan No its July 20th, 2021
@@jalpro7997 no
@@jalpro7997 no it's january 2nd 2023
nah, its october 2024
What a delightfully uplifting song .
Never heard this song, before. 🇺🇸
Just bought a 1957 retro edition FIAT 500.
Car dealer, sent me here.
I love how they managed to fit so many typical 90s TV car adverts in a music video
Welcome Back Lush!
there's something so bittersweet about this song and especially the video
Britain had/has so much good music. Kids out there must spend a damn fortune on Vinyl/Cd's and cocerts.
I ain’t no kid but my late teens and early twenties in the early 90’s...my CD album collection is well over 100...then again I am a (smashy and nicey voice) Hospital Radio DJ mate. 🤙🏻
This delicious ''500'' and ''Friday I'm In Love'' are the best guitar pop songs from the 90's
💗 Lush 💗
Somewhere in the missed chances of shoegaze... there's a song/video with Miki singing on a Galaxie 500 song and her lead footing a a bright red 7.4L 60s Ford across the desert.
One of my fave bands from the 90s Lush.... and they were!
Only a few bands could pull a track like this off, and Lush was most certainly one of them. They were criminally underrated, but I'm a way, it was a good thing as they didn't have big music breathing down their necks and ruining their product.
They were a good band for the time although terribly underrated.
+Blood Guts They were amazing. We didn't care for this album when it came out because it was such a move towards a pop band, but listening to it now it's not all that bad. A lot of people that were into grunge at the time kind of shunned Lush and the other shoegaze bands as being too spacey. Shoegaze was just kind of a niche but a niche that some people(including myself)obsessed over.
vista7 grunge was crap anyway,I'd rather listen to the shoegaze bands anyday,anytime and all the other alternative bands from back in that era. Lush did start shifting towards a more poppier sound but you can never accuse them of making the same album over and over, also you can't blame them for at least trying to evolve musically. I'll listen to this song and have fond memories, grunge just makes me want to cut myself up an inch at a time.Though I will give props to Mother Love Bone.
Personally I liked a lot post-punk from SST and Sub-pop, but shoegaze was my favorite. I followed Lush with a group of friends from their early days and we liked the way they evolved. We finally got to see them up close at a small venue for the Split release party We ended up being really disappointed. Miki didn't show up for the session and they were all kind of blah about being there. I think they just got really burned out trying to please all the record execs.
vista7 Yeah,that's how it happens.
I agree
Nearly 20 years have gone by since Chris Acland died, to see him here thrashing a car a-là Basil Fawlty is both hilarious and sombering.
More sombering to see Miki singing, "Let's run away and be so alive." to him shortly before he went and killed himself. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Miki can't bear to watch this video because of that.
@@seldon913 ugh
@@seldon913 She didn't pick up a guitar for years after the band broke up, it was too painful.
Lembro da música,não lembro do video,devia passar no gás total da mtv,saudadescdessacépoca!
Love this video. So cute.
THE BEST OF 90'S
i love this music video so much
Miki & Emma...a match made in heaven. thanks for the great tunes Lush! just saw Miki Berenyi has a book coming out in early Feb. can't wait to read it!!
Fingers Crossed: Memoir of a Lush Life
Book by Miki Berenyi
This song and video sends me to another place - the carefree 1990's! - when everything didn't suck. Why aren't songs like this created anymore? Seriously, what happened?
Nostalgia overload
It makes me want to blow it all up after going back and apologizing to 90's me.
This video deserves million views!!😤☹️😕
Best Fiat Advert ever
I have an unconditional love for the 90s
I read in an interview that Miki drove into a ditch accidentally during the filming
I miss these times.
Oh! That feeling when you very like both 500 and Jaguar, but now (in 2016) those Golf and Laguna are nostalgic for you too!!!
Fiat owe Lush all their revenue post 1996. Was this ever in a 500 ad? If not, we're living in some weird bizarro universe.
I love this video.
those basslines are masterpieces
Such a sweet n cool song
Masterpiece
Thanks for putting the videos online.
Ride me around the countryside in a lil red fiat and play me some tunes❤
I love lush cheers from Mexico 🇲🇽
I always thought Emma's lead guitar lines sounded very Hank B.Marvin-ish (...no, really - that's no insult). And I love the John Cleese/Fawlty Towers parody at 1:23 in the video!
The opening guitars reminds me of John Squire and I almost expected to hear Ian Brown singing. I aint saying this is a blatant copy or anything. In fact this song is great and I love it absolutely.
+danny haobam agreed. was just thinking, very stone roses sounding... or maybe more primal scream's first album
Yeah now you mention it 👍
RIP Chris ❤️
THIS BAND IS SO UNDERRATED
POP PERFECTION!!!!!!!!!!!
Play this, followed by crash by the primitives, followed by roam by the b52's. Love it!
Phil looks awesome here.
Wow! Miki!
I keep hearing "Hey Carrie Ann" Hollies on the opening riff?
Such a cool song.... definitely best of British!😀😀😀
love this song!!!
Underrated band, lovely melody & a good catchy chorus with a hook that pulls you right in there. Departed from their early shoegazing material in an effort to break into the britpop movement at the time.
Tonight’s Only Connect episode reminded me of this lovely song
LOVE LUSH!
What a cute song.
この動画、メチャクチャ尊敬します😌
ABSOLUMENT FANTASTIQUE...
The most romantic song about a car ever
i used to love these so much
Sooo catchy
I bought this 7" single pressed on red vinyl back in 1996 but made the mistake of leaving it in its original PVC sleeve. Over time, the PVC plastic left chemical marks on the vinyl. It still plays great but has hazy spots all over. "Lovelife" and all three corresponding singles were released in PVC sleeves so I'm sure this problem is quite common today.
Shake, baby, shake, you know i can fit you in my arms
Brake, baby, brake, taking me in with all you're charms
I've never been inside you but you're so alluring
They call you "little mouse" by name in rome and turin
Looking now at your famous shape
They don't make them like anymore
Shake, baby, shake, you know i can fit you in my arms
Brake, baby, brake, taking me in with all your charms
When things are looking good there's always complications
I can't be with you so i'm at the railway station
Let's run away and be so alive
Escape the drudgery of this nine to five
Shake, baby, shake, you know i can fit you in my arms
Brake, baby, brake, taking me in with all your charms
Shake, baby, shake, you know i worship from afar
Brake, baby, brake, how i wish you were my car
A good happy song.
Shaaaake baby shake 🕺🕺
1:22 Brit Pop LOLOLOLOL
I totally agree
I love the reference to a fawlty towers episode at 1:24. So funny.
eles voltaram!
Great band!
Miki at 2:11 😍
This is the better video of the two! Thanks 4AD! :)
Lush are always Lush for those who know them!
last scene... backseamed tights... oh god yes 💕💕💕💕...
Memories of university. :)
love it.
2:08 I had that golf in white!
This was such a massive departure from their style but MAN I loved this song!
happy song!
shake a baby shake!
Miki Berenyi, queen of 90
Miki's the one that "all the blokes fancy", it's true- and she is lovely, no doubt about it- but I think that Emma's few brief shots in this video show how truly stunning she is. Just a matter of taste, but Emma is muy bonita y mucho para me gusto!
Kieran Foster, man your not kidding, Emma is so hot on this and other videos" nothing natural". I can't stop watching her, on this video she looks like a rich beautiful aristocrat. she is not as gestural as Miki. Miki is beautiful too, but Emma says a lot with very little and it works very well for her with mystifying Beauty.
Love some of Emma's live vids, where she misses a line or starts singing on top one of Miki's lines, then starts laughing. She has a beautiful smile going.
@@Romany1111 examples? I wanna watch itttt 😭
@@tomgat6314 One that comes to mind is the ''Ladykiller'' music video. When the line ''Oh my God, the boy has such an ego'' is sung, Emma mimes it as well, she realizes what just happened, then covers her mouth and starts laughing while looking back at Chris
No insult to Miki, but without the record company makeovers I think Emma is the beauty of the group.
When girls were perfect by not being perfect
A real masterpiece : "Sunbathing",in Gala album...
Not to gloss over anything but I wish Chris Acland was simply remembered for a legacy of music that some us of have enjoyed and played regularly ever since. Lovelife is a classic album and should have put Lush on a par with Blur and Oasis IMHO.
Happy happy, joy joy!
Hard to be more britpop than this...
It does sounds great though!
i think its strange that when they were a shoegaze band before this came out, she didn't sing in a particularly british accent, but as soon as they went britpop the accent comes out thick
+Bender Rodriguez Funny...I can always hear the accent, especially live. And although she is British, her parents are Hungarian and Japanese but she does have a very thick accent, doesn't she? Does she speak either of her parents' original languages? Never thought about it. I just love her and that hair...
Her accent is pretty thick in De-luxe.
I just came to check out their other stuff after rediscovering their shoegaze music. I might have liked this if I heard it first, but as much as I love their old music, this isn't for me. I also agree with your assessment of her accent. It's night and day.
I think they've always been in that vein. I can still hear the shoegaze here.
I really did not care for _Lovelife_, but the singles off it are pretty damn catchy.
This video is so cute
This is so original and clever. Just tried it at 1.25 speed, and it sounds a lot like Single Girl - same tempo!
After reading Miki's book, i can't help but look at all the members in a sort of intimate light.
I see innocent Miki, and think of Nora.
Emma appears, and i feel like she might get pissed off at the director.
Even Miki mentions "bobbing her head it time to the music, like an idiot", and now i picture her
thinking that, while driving the car.
There third album was definitely britpop but they took cue from the riot girl movement and made into there own, it's sad that Chris took his own life and the band disbanded in 1998, It was brilliant to see them did a one off reunion in 2016 what a brilliant time for me.
Dreampop :D love it
I don't love cars, i like biking. I am in a merry-go-round watching this video. "A horse! Merrygoround in dreams, merrygoround with me" - The RE-P-LA-CEMENTS
This song makes me laugh because I can always look back through time and see all the oh-so-serious male shoegaze nerds’ heads exploding from disgust and disbelief.
I'm probably alone in this assessment, but... Lush was a *decent* shoegaze band, but a *fantastic* Britpop/powerpop-with-shoegaze-influences band. "500 (Shake Baby Shake)" is a fantastic tune, and so is "Hypocrite", and "Kiss Chase", and "Superblast!" and... point is, all of their best tunes work better as *songs* than as etherial dreamy soundscapes of noise and self-deprecation. And I think if you judge them as songwriters in the classical sense, they come off better than they do if you're trying to hold them to some indie-shoegazy standard. I mean, even "Ladykillers" (which maybe isn't their best song) was about "nice guys" about 15 years before "nice guys" were a thing - Miki and Emma definitely tapped into something there.
"Sweetness And Light" is their one really good pure-shoegazy song, and it's basically them trying to be Chapterhouse. But oh man, Lush had a *lot* of great songs, and if the music world had been okay with them being "a pop band that likes shoegaze a lot," they'd be a lot more fondly regarded. That's just my opinion.
I'm disagree with your comment. "Split" is one of the best shoegaze albums, i think for those brit-songs it was not very valued this album, but if you listen without you knowning their brit-songs "Split" is a great shoegaze album.
I very much agree with your comment.
While I like a fair chunk of pre-Spooky Lush where Robin Guthrie very much had his way with them ('Mad Love' is my favorite of the EPs), I tend to like the songs where their catchy vocal melodies take the center stage. What makes their best vocal melodies so interesting is that they often go where you don't expected them to go. I do like the shimmering guitars when they happen, but they sound better when they're not mucking up the mix (in the context of Lush).
When I stopped seeing their 'short-comings' as a shoegaze band, and instead viewed them - like you say - in more of a power-pop way I found I enjoyed them much more. 'Lovelife' is my favorite album from them as a whole, but they hit their peak with me during the entire first side of 'Split' (which is more power-pop anyways).
Apparently I was preoccupied in the early 90's....I had to Google "shoegaze".
Same dif. "Nice guys" are failed attempts at pick-up artists.
@@CallumDavage1
Spot-on. Lush were such a great band all the way around, from their most abstract and shoe-gazeiest, to their most catch and punky indie-rock and brit-popiest. Their only downside is that they didn't have more recorded output.
All I want is my own Miki Berenyi. Is that too much to ask for??
I wish the God I could have seen much back in the nineties and under 2016 the Union
If only they’d play again
"I don't need some dude skateboarding" had me laughing so hard!😂 Most 90's things: dude skateboarding. That may have been a CEO decision.
Shake bye be shake