There She Goes - The La's | College Students' FIRST TIME REACTION!
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This song has a very unusual structure: 4 choruses and a bridge, with no verses. If neither Andy nor Alex notices this and comments on it, I will be very surprised.
First thing they mentioned!
So you like to write comments before you actually watch the videos?
He assumed you knew that lol🥸👍
It’s really not that unusual, just a little old fashioned these days, most Tin Pan Alley stuff was AABA. A lot of Billy Joel stuff is in the same form.
The One I Love by REM is very similar.
I think one reason why songs like this didn’t drag or sound repetitive to us back in the day is because we listened to them while we were driving, at the beach, doing homework, etc., not sitting down and analyzing them word for word. It’s not better or worse, just a different way of hearing a song, so if your mind drifted for a minute, you were happy to hear the chorus again. 😊
So true!👍
Or while shopping at Rite Aid.
I agree. If I like a song, I like a song. Period. I don't question it, I don't analyze it, I just enjoy it.
yup. By the way a lot of early Beatles' songs started with the chorus.
You nailed it.
A fantastic song! Sounds like a 1990s version of the Byrds. Jangle-pop heaven.
To me it's a mix of The Byrds and R.E.M. (which is a great combination)
They came from Liverpool so the Merseyside influences are strong here.
Crazy that no one mentioned SIXPENCE NONE THE RICHER as they covered this. They had their own hit with "KISS ME" and its perhaps the most wholesome nostalgic song that came out of the 90's. It was pretty popular at school dances and stuff.
I know the guy that wrote "Kiss Me" and he still receives some healthy royalty checks from that song since it was in so many teen movies and TV shows.
I loved the way they did kiss me ,there she goes. That was me always on the go.
The Boo Radleys did a really good version as well.
Not crazy at all. Who the fuck gives a shit about Christian Alt Pop covers from the nineties?
Yeah, I love their version of There She Goes.
I've loved this song ever since I first heard it in the 1993 movie "So I Married An Axe Murderer" with Mike Meyers and Nancy Travis (love the movie too). It's just a peppy, feel good song.
The illuminaty is secretly run by the Pentaverate. Sonny Jim... lol...
"She smelled like soup."
I love that movie. Just saw it a few months ago. More Mike Myers comedy brilliance. Hard to believe that the same guy killed all those people in Haddonfield.
Love the song... and the movie. Mike Meyer's dad calling him "Head".. makes me laugh every time.
Great film.
That’s how I first heard this song-that soundtrack is also good!
The Stone Roses would be another great band to hit from this era. "I Wanna Be Adored" or "I Am The Resurrection" would be a great introduction to the band. "Love Spreads" is also great.
I think Andy and Alex would love the whole Second Coming album. That’s such a great guitar album!
For me, 'Fools Gold' is infectious, especially if ya like to dance.
"Waterfall"... "Elephant Stone"... "Bang The Drum"... the album is filled with riches.
Love Spreads is killer...
"She Bangs The Drum" is a killer!
This song never gets old for me. Never. Might be perfect. Certainly one of my fav songs of the 90s.
The Dumb and Dumber soundtrack has a lot of gems like this.
The entire album is worth a listen, easily. Every song on the LP is top notch. 5 star album no question!
So glad you guys like that buttery smooth Britpop! Now for sure you should hit the first Stone Roses album! It's this same sound but at an utterly amazing level across the whole album.
Amazing album!
She Bangs the Drums is shiny pop heaven. Several other great songs. Seminal album.
Any song off that album would be worth checking out.
A MOST excellent suggestion! Go git it A&A!
I mentioned in another comment, but worth repeating: THE LA's, STONE ROSES, THE SHINS, THE WONDER STUFF... all released PERFECT pop albums that sound great from beginning to end. I think the boys would love that killer debut from the ROSES. Too bad about the follow up... but they'll always have that perfect debut.
Noel Gallagher stated The Las had a huge inspiration on his writing and on the band of Oasis as a whole.
If I'm not mistaken, he named this album as one of, if not the best albums ever
@@g3g.931 … 💯 correct
Ahhhh this plays in the very first opening scene in the pilot for Gilmore girls.
Always, my mind goes straight there.
"In an interview with Les Inrockuptibles, Mavers admits to trying heroin in 1990. The song therefore predated his experience as it was originally released in 1988. Mavers himself has also emphatically denied that the song is about heroin."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_She_Goes_(The_La%27s_song)
Love is a drug.
Man, so smack. Racing through my veins. Like, hey Jude, by an earlier Liverpool band.
BRILLIANT song from a BRILLIANT debut album. The La's were like a shooting star... blazing away then gone.
NOW do XTC ("Senses Working Overtime" or "Complicated Game" or "The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead") and GUIDED BY VOICES ("Enemy" or "Space Gun")
Making plans for Nigel
Egad not XTC, they're an 80s Brit band I love to hate.
Seems like their album Skylarking was issued to all the geeky girls in my high school -- hated it.
I'll second "Senses Working Overtime".
Complicated Game is a freaking masterpiece, I just doubt that they'd fully appreciate it, because it's also weird (which I like). I guess XTC is just a deep rabbit hole, not only because Andy Partridge is such a masterful songwriter but also because they have such huge variety in their catalogue.
Yessss XTC PLEASE
The La`s debut album is a full album reaction in itself. 35 minute album with 12 straight bangers. Son of a Gun, I Cant Sleep, Timeless Melody, Liberty Ship, There she Goes, Feelin, I.O.U, Failure and The 7 minute epic closer Looking Glass. Just an all out perfect debut album, and only album by The La`s. Lee Mavers and the Band hated the production and the sound each producer gave them, they split up not too long after the album was released. Such a Great album!
Lee Mavers is his own worst enemy. He's one of those obsessive perfectionists who would never have released any music at all if someone hadn't pried the tapes out of his hands, because in his head it's never finished and it never sounds quite good enough.
It’s also pretty much what inspired Oasis.
AMEN. This album, STONE ROSES, THE SHINS, THE WONDER STUFF... those are PERFECT pop debut albums... so much greatness packed in....
You guys are right on the money! This is a perfect debut! One of my fav records of all time
Yeah, amazing album and well worth listening too.
I’d love for you guys to hear the Sundays. Songs is Here’s where the story ends. Late 80’s early 90’s Brit pop. The singer Harriet Wheeler’s voice is like an angel
The original song version is TONS better.
Oh Reading, Writing and Arithmetic is pretty close to a complete album for me. I can listen to it start to finish.
I am a huge Sundays fan and have two of their three efforts...Harriet is/was super hot and had/s an angelic voice. I hope she still does...
I would bet folding money that A&A would LOVE "Here's Where The Story Ends" and "My Finest Hour".
@@fusiliers I am an avowed Sundays fan and "I Can't Wait" from Static and Silence is another great one but my fave from their first is "You're the Not the Only One I Know" (other than "...Story"). I believe a visual aid may be persuasive for A & A although it was a while ago: ruclips.net/video/Z778slDEsds/видео.html I pray she has retained that voice of perfection and if not, we have these three efforts to savor. Aside from Chrissie Hynde, Grace Slick, Billie Holiday, and several more, there are few female voices I like more.
John Power , The La's bassist went on to help form the band Cast. Sandstorm, Walk Away and Alright are three good examples of their songs. And, The Bluetones singing Slight Return is another good example of music in this era.
Walk away ❤
Massive tune in the early 90's UK this...such a nostalgic and timeless vibe.
In the US too.
listen to their album. An all time masterpiece. Lee Mavers was a genius. They never made another album. But they were perfection. Best Liverpool band after the Beatles for me
cough...Echo & the Bunnymen...cough
Would say Cast was pretty good as well
You guys should check out the Smithereens. Blood and Roses, A Girl Like You are my favorites from them.
Pure, by the Lightning Seeds. It came out a year after this, in '89.
One of my favourite guitar riffs and songs. Pure melody.
Great song, great vibe from an era that still felt, if not completely carefree, optimistic. Music that never gets made now when everything and everybody is just shitty and mean.
Well said, Crabby
While the one side is being shitty and mean, the other side is overcompensating by being overtly pretentious and PC and taking the fun out of everything (trying to avoid the 'w' word), and I don't want to associate myself with either of them. So yeah, no fun times indeed. The only thing that still carries the truth is good art.
Music like this still gets made and released. You have to look for it, but it's definitely still being made. For an example of just one of the bands in this vein, check out Teenage Fanclub's last several albums. They've been making music as beautiful, catchy, fun, and infectious as this song since the early '90s, and they're still together and making great new albums to this day.
@@christianman73 Problem is, with today's over-abundance of media, the lack of exposure and the increasing fragmentation into millions of subcultures and microgenres, it's becoming harder and harder for something great to get noticed by enough people to really make a difference.
@@christianman73 Teenage Fanclub is one of the great lost power pop bands of all time, like Big Star and the La's before them. I think that you can make a strong case that they're the best band Scotland has ever produced. The sad thing is that Teenage Fanclub, like their Canadian contemporaries Sloan, remains undiscovered by so many despite the fact that they've been around for three decades and have an extensive catalog just waiting to be discovered.
Hi guys ! This song is, in fact, not really about a girl but about heroïn.
That's the beauty of it, at first it seems very light, but when you discover its true meaning, you understand the darkness within.
Greatings from France, your videos are great, long live Rock'n'Roll !
@Randy White Girls don't go " racing through my brain... pulsing through my veins... no one else can heal my pain" Its clearly about heroin.
@Randy White So the rumor might be wrong, but I can't help thinking that some of the lyrics are meant to have a double meaning girl/drug. I can understand why the band would deny in public that this song is ambiguous and might also refer to drug abuse. On the other hand, the bassist said he didn't know and didn't want to know and many journalists wrote that Mavers had problems with drugs. Probably not with heroin in 1988. In Rock & Folk, it was always stated that the song was about drugs but they could be wrong, in Les Inrockuptibles Mavers stated it was about a girl. I'm a Rock & Folk reader, so I've only heard their version of the story. I guess we'll never really know for sure but you're right, the official version is that it's only about a girl, my mistake ;-)
Well I never! I was brought up on the myth! Good knowledge! I was convinced it was the H-bomb
These brits...so many great bands!
Greatings from Italy.
It’s short and sweet. I think once you’ve listened to it a few times, the ending is just right.
Covered by Six pence none the richer. Also a great version. 😊
Andy, really loved your comments about this song & 1st love... & "having the light hit the cones in your eyes." (A bit like the Counting Crows' "And all at once you look across a crowded room to see the way that light attaches to a girl...")
Simply, the perfect Pop-Rock song. Summer-day-driving-to-the-beach song! Thanks!
Peace from SF
I loooove Britpop! Elastica - Connection; Waking Up...Placebo - Pure Morning, Blur - Coffee & TV; Music Is My Radar; Song 2; Girls & Boys...Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You
I hear this song and all I can think of is “So I Married an Axe Murderer”, one of the greatest comedies ever!
I've always loved this song. Reminds me of Marshall Crenshaw's "Whenever You're on My Mind" - which I haven't heard in ages.
Marshall Crenshaw would be a good artist for th’boys review…!
Marshall's first album is another gem that never tires....it also rendered two hits.
Wow, absolutely perfect comparison with "Whenever You're on My Mind" -- it's a nearly identical emotional feeling.
Andy & Alex The La's singer and songwriter Lee Mavers is an interesting sort. He's considered a genius talent but sadly got very fed up with the recording business only after recording this one album, 1990's 'The La's' where two of its singles went to the top 10 on the charts, including There She Goes. The band split up and Mavers drifted away into obscurity. A lot of people believed he'd been dead for years. Rumour had it that Mavers got deep into heroin addiction in Scotland and committed suicide, among other crazy stuff. But low and behold, in the 2010s he re-emerged and starting playing at local pubs and clubs in Liverpool and Manchester. He'd just been with his wife raising his kids the whole time, Lol.
Mavers was never satisfied with the final studio mix and disowns the album, however many people including myself consider it a masterpiece of pop rock, indie and folk. The other members went on to form CAST and released a few terrific albums during the mid to late 90s. Ex-La's guitarist John Power is lead singer and songwriter, and their album 'All Change' is an underrated "britpop" gem worth checking out.
Love this song. Has such a danceable 60’s vibe to it. It sounds great every time you hear it.
This great song is featured throughout the classic--and hilarious--Mike Myers movie, 'So I Married an Axe Murderer'.
loved that movie!!
Heid 😁
The La's from Liverpool.Great song
I haven't heard this song in ages. I forgot how much I enjoyed it. Such a fun bop.
The Sundays are another great group with a similar feel. Many good songs but their version of Wild Horses is better than the Rolling Stones, IMO.
This is one of those songs that just makes me smile. 😎🎶🎵
Great tune. Another guitar-driven power pop band from the late '80s/early '90s you would love is the Smithereens. Their tunes "A Girl Like You" and "Behind the Wall of Sleep" are great rockers. Also Matthew Sweet's retro-banger "Girlfriend" from '91.
It wasn't a hit or even a single but I think "In a Lonely Place" would be an interesting track for them to dissect
Possibly the most misunderstood song in rock history. This is La's frontman Lee Mavers in the throes of addiction singing his love for e's and coke and horse. Band and Mavers have denied it in recent years, but that's more to do with the massive songwriting royalties from this. And hey, if dads wanna walk their daughters down the aisle to a song about heroin addiction, more power to 'em. ;)
I mean: "Racing through my brain" "Pulsing through my veins" "The feeling that remains" and when "She calls my name", anyone who's ever had an addiction knows the feeling.
It's the listener who gets the ultimate say over what the song means, not the artist.
The lyrics also work in a purely romantic context. That's how I choose to understand them.
Mavers first tried heroin in 1990. The song was written and recorded in 1988. When Mavers says that his song is not about heroin, believe him.
Besides, he's hardly one to aver that it isn't about heroin in order to maintain his royalties income. The guy steadfastly refused to release any music at all for decades, due to his chronic perfectionism. If he was that into cashing royalty checks, he wouldn't have withheld his music from the public.
What makes you think he would be forthcoming about something like that? The lyrics a very obviously about a heroin high.
@@jayhpaq "Very obviously"? lol I don't think so. He mentions "veins" once, that's about it, that's all you got, not very obvious at all but rather tenuous.
@@jayhpaq No, they're not. They can be interpreted that way, if you're inclined to look for drug messages in songs, but they can just as easily be interpreted as what they're really about, which is a girl. Andy and Alex interpreted it (correctly) that way, as have most listeners.
Your question makes no sense. Turn it around -- if the song *was* about heroin, and if, as you insist, that's an obvious conclusion to be drawn, then why in the world would Lee Mavers deny it? What would he gain by that? Drug songs are typically written to be viewed as honest, daring artistic choices in which the songwriter is thumbing his or her nose at social convention, so pulling back from that by denying it entirely, as Mavers has done, would be completely self-defeating. And the charge that drowner1 made, which is that Mavers had second thoughts and wanted to keep the royalty checks coming in by denying that it was about heroin, makes no sense, either. Mavers made his statement to the press about a dozen years ago, long after the song had passed its sell-by date in terms of being a moneymaker (e.g., its use in the soundtracks of films such as *So I Married an Axe Murderer* and TV shows such as *Gilmore Girls* , cover versions by the likes of Sixpence None the Richer, etc.). Plus, Mavers is hardly the type of songwriter who prioritizes making money off of his songs. For crying out loud, the La's broke up because Mavers was such a perfectionist that he refused to release any of the band's music. They practically had to rip the recording tapes that constituted the first album out of his hands. And he's released practically no new music in the three-decades-plus since then. That's *not* the kind of guy who's looking to squeeze every last dime out of his songwriting.
Occam's Razor dictates that Mavers told the truth -- he wrote the song about a girl, not about heroin.
first time I heard this song was in the movie "So I married an axe murderer" 1993 Mike Myers. Six pence none the richer did a cover of it. Most people know this version because of Leigh Nash. She also sang Kiss Me.
You must hit the Stone Roses soon. I Am The Resurrection from their first album is an incredible song from a whole bunch of incredible songs. I'd love to hear your reaction to it
Agree with I am the Resurrection. Waterfall, Made of Stone, Love Spreads are great songs and each considerably different from the other. Problem is Stone Roses had no chart topping singles to speak of, because you would always buy the album. So what album tracks do you play? That is the problem on a reaction channel. Most reaction people play the songs that are commercial successes rather than the artist's best music.
@@trufflehund start on I want to be adored, do it all, 89, the album was spiritual in the real sense - disconnected from physicality, just a ball of energy - In this is that one. Amazing band.
Sixpence None The Richer did a great cover of this song in the 90s... it is worth a listen as well
Right, 6pence has never been done here. There are lots of options
I prefer their cover to the original.
@@kevinkingmaker7395 I think Leigh Nash's surreal vocals added a lot to the song
Such a cool vibe song. Never get tired of it. Learned it on guitar and never tire of playing it.
I would support a constitutional amendment banning use of the word "vibe".
@@Pistakeerick I wouldn't. I'm pretty much a 1st amendment purist.
I wish you a great evening--with many good vibes. On top of other good vibes. Multi-layered good vibes, I guess.
🤪🤪🤪
The LA's version was actually late 80s. It's the cover version by Sixpence None The Richer that was the 90s version and was on Dawson's Creek if memory serves.
This is one of those songs whose replay value is ridiculously high. You can just get lost in those guitars. Similar to the guitars in Beast of Burden by the Stones.
Didn't recognize the band or song just by the title but as soon as it played it was immediately familiar.
i will never tire of this song.
A song that is similarly structured, but does the exact thing that Andy wanted it to do at the beginning to extend your interest: "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand
I'm a pop guy. This is as pop as you can get!
GOOOOOOOD MORNING A&A FAMILY!!!
☮️💟♾️
I love this song! My bar band back in the 90s played this song. Some of the best music was the alternative scene around 1989 to 1991 (think MTV 190 minutes!) - just before the whole Seattle grunge scene.
The whole LA's album is great.just pick any. It's boss La!
The closest thing to a perfect pop song you can get
This song was on a movie called "So I married an axe murderer" Very funny movie with Mike Meyers. He also did the Austin Powers movies, Waynes world, Voice on Shrek, and many others. All of his movies are worth watching. Love this song and thank you for the reaction.
There she goes. She’s just walking, but, wow, she’s just walking!
Please do Stone roses soon you will not be disappointed. keep up the good work guys
The one thing you guys didn't mention was the background vocals ... they are used very sparingly, at unusual times and they're at the back of the mix.... very ethereal and ghostly.... in the context of the song... perfection.
I love this tune. Hard to believe they came and went so fast.
Well apparently, Lee Mavers was kind of a pain in the ass to work with, which is probably why they never made it beyond a single album, but he did put a lot of effort into striving for an 'authentic' sound. Not awash with synths and gated reverb like most contemporary recordings, and not retro and deliberately 60s sounding like Lenny Kravitz either, but just timelessly modern and classic at the same time. And boy, what an album it was! Every single track on it is a banger.
@@mondegreen9709 thanks. looks like I'll be listening to this album for the first time!
in the nick lowe, graham parker vein... this song appeared in the film 'i married an axe murderer'
British jangle guitar. Back in the British Invasion days, the Gretsch and Rickenbacker guitars predominated.
This song is a perfect example of why I now miss the 90's.. after missing the 80's, and first missing the 70's and 60's. Can't really say that about much of the 2000 to 2010 era and I am certain that I won't miss much of anything current because it is a largely barren landscape for music these days.
If you enjoyed this I think you'd like Alright by Supergrass, Valerie by The Zutons and Wash in The Rain by The Bees
This song just kills me, it use to be played on a children's program, "The Big Comfy Couch" on PBS, my daughter use to watch it when she was in preschool. I've always liked it myself. Awesome reaction!
What a privilege to listen to this for the first time
This song was also in the remake of Parent Trap with Lindsey Lohan playing the twins. This song plays as the American twin is driving thru London after switching places
Go along with all that Andy said about this song - he was essentially saying that it was fairly slight in the number of musical ideas it contains - and he was right. But on the other hand it is a younger person's perspective that all tracks need a build and multiple sections - probably cos you were raised on 3, 4 or 5 minute hit singles.
If you grew up in earlier times, you were quite used to 2 or 2.5 minute tracks which just go for it and don't contain very many elements - so long as the elements they do contain are sugar-sweet appealing - and that's exactly what this track is doing I think. A killer riff, a skillfully executed vocal repeated a few times a brief middle without a solo and brief breakdown and out. Sure it gets old fairly fast, but between when you first hear it and that point, you can't get enough of it.
This is what I come for! Love to see you guys love the songs we love!
This is university music for me back in the early ‘90s as I watched the Mike Myers movie, “So I Married an Axe Murderer”. I love this song. Thank you for bringing back some great memories by reacting to this song.
He’s got a gargantuan cranium - it’s like an orange on a toothpick!
British pop perfection. So good!
The Drum Beat used throughout is the Late 50's early 60's Dance beat used by nearly every group.
I come back to this album almost every other month. The melodies are beautiful! What they put together melodiewise in one album other bands can't deliver in decades.
Listen to the first Cosmic Rough Riders album, you may love them! Very hippie sounding band from the early 2000s or was it late 90s?? AWESOME harmonies and jingle jangle sound too! I think the album was called 'enjoy the melodic sunshine.' 😊🌞🌻
@@agemoth thanks for the recommendation! First two tracks were already really nice. 👍🏻
This is one of those songs that I was pretty sure was in basically every quirky 90s film where a guy likes a girl. It felt like it was everywhere in that regard. Was surprised to see its only been used in 3 movies according to IMDB.
On IMDB: I know I can look up any movie and view the tracks on its soundtrack, but how do you do the opposite???
I mean: look up a song and view every movie/show it's appeared in? I've never been able to find a way.
I remember hearing this for the first time, live in 1986, back in Liverpool. These guys were on the same bill as my group at the time - and already the style that would define them ( and later Cast ) was clear. The album wouldn't appear until 1989, and at the same time as the Stone Roses LP and both were absolute revelations. And by the way, Lee Mavers was a heroine addict, and he's singing about smack. Give it another listen and the penny will drop immediately.
These 90s songs give me such nostalgia for my childhood
Have you guys done any Matthew Sweet yet? I forget. But for the American purveyors of this charming jangle pop, he's right up there - REM, the Posies, Marshall Crenshaw....one of my fave genres. glad you hit all this!
Always loved this song. I saw The La ‘s open for Elvis Costello when this song was out.
I love this song. A 90‘s classic Brit/Rock|pop bloody brilliant you can’t slate it
This song is an after Break Up Song where she still lives in the same building or on the same street. Sixpence none the richer does a great version of this song.
Whew! I thought I was late for the Premiere! 😼
I had this CD. Loved this song. I couldn't guess these were Liverpool lads. Sixpence None the Richer has a nice cover.
Always remember me and my buddies signing this to a girl on her way to work from the school bus every day.
Heat of the moment by Asia. Such a fun and cool track.
Absolute classic, and instant mood lifter! I'd love you guys to react to songs by The Coral, a 90s brit band with a heavy 60s sound.
This song is just so pretty (a bit girlie I know!). The great Chris Sharrock on drums (and tambourine!) spent a brief period playing for The La’s, on this song for sure before playing drums for Robbie Williams, Oasis, Liam Gallagher’s Beady Eye, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds to name a few. I first came across him in The Icicle Works in the 80’s, massively underrated band from the UK.
Cheers guys!
If you want to hear a catchy early 90s pop tune, check out Blind Melon, "No Rain".
This song is prominent in the film I Married an Axe Murderer, great Mike Myers RomCom. Makes the song even better.
This song features prominently in the movie "So I Married an Axe Murderer" with Mike Meyers. So funny with a great soundtrack.
A deceptively simple yet stunning earworm of a 2:30 min song about the 'drug' written by a scrawny 60's obsessed 'scouse' kid ,(Lee Mavers) whose levels of belligerent perfectionism meant the band went through 20 odd members and 4 producers and rumoured £1 million of GoDiscs money before the record co forcibly released the LP, Mavers called the record 'rushed' . He's the JD Sallinger of Brit Pop. He never released another LP. 32 yrs and numerous cover versions and radio plays later the song still has 2.6Million plays a month on Spotify
This whole album is great.
Thanks, Andy! Thanks, Alex! 💎 #AndyAndAlex #TheLas #ThereSheGoes
I first heard this song my senior year in high school (late '90 or early '91) - we had a UHF station called The Video Jukebox. It had a 1-900 number and a chyron scrolling along the bottom with numbers to enter for the song you wanted to hear/see. The first weekend after my folks dropped me off at college for summer school, I walked the couple of miles from my dorm to downtown Pullman, WA (#GOCOUGS), bought this CD at Budget Tapes & Discs, stopped at Pizza Haven for a personal size, then walked back to campus and listened to the album on repeat for the rest of that day.
Excellent song. It kind of leaves a feel of nostalgia.
This is a just one flawless song off an entirely flawless album. I don’t say this lightly as it’s an exceedingly rare accomplishment. Listen to the whole thing straight through. It’s short. (Maybe too short, so I guess that’s the flaw…but still.)
the la's were instant pop, the album closer "looking glass" is one of the most epic songs I've ever heard in my life
Best song in the last 50 years no doubt 👌👌
I loooove this song 🎵 an all time favourite 😍 thanks guys!
I think they started on "there she goes" because there she went. Her passing by is the inspiration, and they want to catch you up to that moment straight away. That's the start of the narrative, then the other lines are him elaborating on what she does to his brain and his heart just by passing by. The choruses don't repeat, they change lyrics, so they cover for verses.
The Las were part of a cluster of Liverpool indie-rock, Merseybeat revival, guitar bands in the '90s and early 'oughts, including The Las, The Coral and Cast, which all had excellent musicianship, harmonies and layered sound.
Lee Mavers, reclusive Scouse genius famously disowned this version of the song. Check out The La's at the BBC for an alternative version that might be more like how he imagined the song.
Another really good soft Britpop song that kind of hit then quickly faded was Pure by the Lightning Seeds. Similar vibe.
Let's get some World Party in there
I loved All I Want and Pure!!!