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.

@johnhughes3214

Жыл бұрын

First thing they mentioned!

@rollomaughfling380

Жыл бұрын

So you like to write comments before you actually watch the videos?

@earl6969

Жыл бұрын

He assumed you knew that lol🥸👍

@almostframps

Жыл бұрын

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.

@tristramcoffin926

Жыл бұрын

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. 😊

@steve55sogood16

Жыл бұрын

So true!👍

@k_salter

Жыл бұрын

Or while shopping at Rite Aid.

@donnakubiski5572

Жыл бұрын

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.

@stevemd6488

Жыл бұрын

yup. By the way a lot of early Beatles' songs started with the chorus.

@Wordsmyth8

Жыл бұрын

You nailed it.

A fantastic song! Sounds like a 1990s version of the Byrds. Jangle-pop heaven.

@Reani71

Жыл бұрын

To me it's a mix of The Byrds and R.E.M. (which is a great combination)

@richardfairlamb9728

Жыл бұрын

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.

@mledbetter

Жыл бұрын

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.

@rainabosworthf393

Жыл бұрын

I loved the way they did kiss me ,there she goes. That was me always on the go.

@Lonejustice1

Жыл бұрын

The Boo Radleys did a really good version as well.

@rollomaughfling380

Жыл бұрын

Not crazy at all. Who the fuck gives a shit about Christian Alt Pop covers from the nineties?

@Himmiefan

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I love their version of There She Goes.

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.

@adamp2029

Жыл бұрын

I think Andy and Alex would love the whole Second Coming album. That’s such a great guitar album!

@McBeth.

Жыл бұрын

For me, 'Fools Gold' is infectious, especially if ya like to dance.

@johnmavroudis2054

Жыл бұрын

"Waterfall"... "Elephant Stone"... "Bang The Drum"... the album is filled with riches.

@BrooklynBear63

Жыл бұрын

Love Spreads is killer...

@fusiliers

Жыл бұрын

"She Bangs The Drum" is a killer!

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.

@Lonejustice1

Жыл бұрын

The illuminaty is secretly run by the Pentaverate. Sonny Jim... lol... "She smelled like soup."

@stevenkmiller

Жыл бұрын

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.

@aBeatleFan4ever

Жыл бұрын

Love the song... and the movie. Mike Meyer's dad calling him "Head".. makes me laugh every time.

@liverush24

Жыл бұрын

Great film.

@fredinaz

Жыл бұрын

That’s how I first heard this song-that soundtrack is also good!

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.

@mledbetter

Жыл бұрын

Amazing album!

@privatename123

Жыл бұрын

She Bangs the Drums is shiny pop heaven. Several other great songs. Seminal album.

@craighill2825

Жыл бұрын

Any song off that album would be worth checking out.

@glenndespres5317

Жыл бұрын

A MOST excellent suggestion! Go git it A&A!

@johnmavroudis2054

Жыл бұрын

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.

This song never gets old for me. Never. Might be perfect. Certainly one of my fav songs of the 90s.

The entire album is worth a listen, easily. Every song on the LP is top notch. 5 star album no question!

@randywhite3947

Жыл бұрын

I still need to listen to it

The Dumb and Dumber soundtrack has a lot of gems like this.

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!

@gregsager2062

Жыл бұрын

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.

@adamp2029

Жыл бұрын

It’s also pretty much what inspired Oasis.

@johnmavroudis2054

Жыл бұрын

AMEN. This album, STONE ROSES, THE SHINS, THE WONDER STUFF... those are PERFECT pop debut albums... so much greatness packed in....

@gl2700

Жыл бұрын

You guys are right on the money! This is a perfect debut! One of my fav records of all time

@richardfairlamb9728

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, amazing album and well worth listening too.

Ahhhh this plays in the very first opening scene in the pilot for Gilmore girls.

@anabellelei8540

Жыл бұрын

Always, my mind goes straight there.

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")

@stephenwilliams4844

Жыл бұрын

Making plans for Nigel

@robland6804

Жыл бұрын

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.

@otisdylan9532

Жыл бұрын

I'll second "Senses Working Overtime".

@Reani71

Жыл бұрын

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.

@adriangaray5913

Жыл бұрын

Yessss XTC PLEASE

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.

Noel Gallagher stated The Las had a huge inspiration on his writing and on the band of Oasis as a whole.

@g3g.931

Жыл бұрын

If I'm not mistaken, he named this album as one of, if not the best albums ever

@WalkerStalker

Жыл бұрын

@@g3g.931 … 💯 correct

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

@agemoth

Жыл бұрын

The original song version is TONS better.

@stevenkmiller

Жыл бұрын

Oh Reading, Writing and Arithmetic is pretty close to a complete album for me. I can listen to it start to finish.

@chuckmeyers1153

Жыл бұрын

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...

@fusiliers

Жыл бұрын

I would bet folding money that A&A would LOVE "Here's Where The Story Ends" and "My Finest Hour".

@chuckmeyers1153

Жыл бұрын

​@@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: kzread.info/dash/bejne/jGtrmtWldKjZlNY.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.

Massive tune in the early 90's UK this...such a nostalgic and timeless vibe.

@3DJapan

Жыл бұрын

In the US too.

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.

@markb_123

Жыл бұрын

Well said, Crabby

@mondegreen9709

Жыл бұрын

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.

@christianman73

Жыл бұрын

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.

@mondegreen9709

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@gregsager2062

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

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

@mondegreen9709

Жыл бұрын

cough...Echo & the Bunnymen...cough

@stevenanderson7461

Жыл бұрын

Would say Cast was pretty good as well

It’s short and sweet. I think once you’ve listened to it a few times, the ending is just right.

Love this song. Has such a danceable 60’s vibe to it. It sounds great every time you hear it.

I haven't heard this song in ages. I forgot how much I enjoyed it. Such a fun bop.

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.

@harriotteworthington3147

Жыл бұрын

Marshall Crenshaw would be a good artist for th’boys review…!

@chuckmeyers1153

Жыл бұрын

Marshall's first album is another gem that never tires....it also rendered two hits.

@jonsdavis

Жыл бұрын

Wow, absolutely perfect comparison with "Whenever You're on My Mind" -- it's a nearly identical emotional feeling.

This great song is featured throughout the classic--and hilarious--Mike Myers movie, 'So I Married an Axe Murderer'.

@sunnyday_lemonbars

Жыл бұрын

loved that movie!!

@Bongo138

11 ай бұрын

Heid 😁

Covered by Six pence none the richer. Also a great version. 😊

I hear this song and all I can think of is “So I Married an Axe Murderer”, one of the greatest comedies ever!

This is one of those songs that just makes me smile. 😎🎶🎵

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.

The most straight-up pop song from a really amazing album. Every song on it is immaculate, especially the closer "Looking Glass"

@jacobohara2636

Жыл бұрын

Best song of the last 50 years for me!

@biggles3332

Жыл бұрын

Looking glass and. Timeless melody both highlights from that album

Simply, the perfect Pop-Rock song. Summer-day-driving-to-the-beach song! Thanks! Peace from SF

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.

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...")

Such a cool vibe song. Never get tired of it. Learned it on guitar and never tire of playing it.

@Pistakeerick

Жыл бұрын

I would support a constitutional amendment banning use of the word "vibe".

@michaelbeasley5783

Жыл бұрын

@@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. 🤪🤪🤪

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 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.

@brianmiller1077

Жыл бұрын

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

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

@trufflehund

Жыл бұрын

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.

Sixpence None The Richer did a great cover of this song in the 90s... it is worth a listen as well

@tswanstrom2000

Жыл бұрын

Right, 6pence has never been done here. There are lots of options

@kevinkingmaker7395

Жыл бұрын

I prefer their cover to the original.

@ReleaseTheQuackers

Жыл бұрын

@@kevinkingmaker7395 I think Leigh Nash's surreal vocals added a lot to the song

"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.

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.

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

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.

The La's from Liverpool.Great song

This is what I come for! Love to see you guys love the songs we love!

I love this tune. Hard to believe they came and went so fast.

@mondegreen9709

Жыл бұрын

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.

@tkroupa

Жыл бұрын

@@mondegreen9709 thanks. looks like I'll be listening to this album for the first time!

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

Didn't recognize the band or song just by the title but as soon as it played it was immediately familiar.

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 !

@randywhite3947

Жыл бұрын

No it’s about a girl the band confirmed it

@celt67

Жыл бұрын

@@randywhite3947 Girls don't go " racing through my brain... pulsing through my veins... no one else can heal my pain" Its clearly about heroin.

@randywhite3947

Жыл бұрын

@@celt67 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.

@heathcliffhyde3300

Жыл бұрын

@@randywhite3947 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 ;-)

@neilford8580

Жыл бұрын

Well I never! I was brought up on the myth! Good knowledge! I was convinced it was the H-bomb

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.

The closest thing to a perfect pop song you can get

These brits...so many great bands! Greatings from Italy.

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'm a pop guy. This is as pop as you can get!

i will never tire of this song.

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.

@agemoth

Жыл бұрын

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.' 😊🌞🌻

@wollfixx

Жыл бұрын

@@agemoth thanks for the recommendation! First two tracks were already really nice. 👍🏻

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!

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.

There she goes. She’s just walking, but, wow, she’s just walking!

Always remember me and my buddies signing this to a girl on her way to work from the school bus every day.

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.

@robland6804

Жыл бұрын

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.

@gregsager2062

Жыл бұрын

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.

@jayhpaq

Жыл бұрын

What makes you think he would be forthcoming about something like that? The lyrics a very obviously about a heroin high.

@robland6804

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@gregsager2062

Жыл бұрын

@@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.

You guys should check out the Smithereens. Blood and Roses, A Girl Like You are my favorites from them.

GOOOOOOOD MORNING A&A FAMILY!!! ☮️💟♾️

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.

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.

The whole LA's album is great.just pick any. It's boss La!

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.

@mikewoodrow5878

Жыл бұрын

He’s got a gargantuan cranium - it’s like an orange on a toothpick!

What a privilege to listen to this for the first time

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.

@ghostofyourmom

Жыл бұрын

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.

Whew! I thought I was late for the Premiere! 😼

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.

This song is a takeoff from The Velvet Underground's There She Goes Again. You should also check out Heroin by VU, which I have been recommending for months. Check it out - it is next level and totally the opposite of the La's poppy song. The Banana Album only sold 30,000 copies, but everyone who bough the album started a band.

@3DJapan

Жыл бұрын

It's got the same title, that's about it.

@gregsager2062

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@@3DJapan Yep. And in fact the lyrics of "There She Goes Again" and "There She Goes" are diametrically opposed to each other.

Great song from a perfect album. You guys definitely need to cover the rest of this one someday!

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

This whole album is great.

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

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

@jacobohara2636

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Best song in the last 50 years no doubt 👌👌

British jangle guitar. Back in the British Invasion days, the Gretsch and Rickenbacker guitars predominated.

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!

The Drum Beat used throughout is the Late 50's early 60's Dance beat used by nearly every group.

I loooove this song 🎵 an all time favourite 😍 thanks guys!

in the nick lowe, graham parker vein... this song appeared in the film 'i married an axe murderer'

Always loved this song. I saw The La ‘s open for Elvis Costello when this song was out.

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.

Thanks, Andy! Thanks, Alex! 💎 #AndyAndAlex #TheLas #ThereSheGoes

Please do Stone roses soon you will not be disappointed. keep up the good work guys

British pop perfection. So good!

I love this song. A 90‘s classic Brit/Rock|pop bloody brilliant you can’t slate it

If you enjoyed this I think you'd like Alright by Supergrass, Valerie by The Zutons and Wash in The Rain by The Bees

The Charlatans - The Only One I Know. Ride - Leave Them All Behind. + Curve, Catherine Wheel, Swervedriver etc I loved 90s shoe gazing indie britpop! 😁

@eboethrasher

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3/4 down the page and the first person to even mention Ride, thought I think that in this vein they need to listen to Vapour Trail. Then maybe Taste. Can't let them listen to Seagull so they can call out the "Taxman" bassline, lol.

These 90s songs give me such nostalgia for my childhood

I think the thing that gets me about this song is how perfectly late 90s it sounds, which really just means it was wildly ahead of its time because it was written a full decade prior

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.

I imagine purgatory as a large department store with high ceilings, glitzy displays, no money in your account and this song on an endless loop

@mamasinger49

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For some like me that would be heaven lol, except for the no money in your account part of course!

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.

The whole album is terrific. Timeless melody ranks as a favourite single for me

One word...I mean one letter, "S." I love this song!!

Lola. She was the "there she goes" girl for me. Anyone else?

This was the theme song of ever 90's High school love drama movie.

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.)

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.