seventy-five

[amethysting.livejournal.com]

There She Goes
The La's
The La's
1990

I'm not going to lie and say that I knew The La's original "There She Goes" before I heard Sixpence None the Richer's cover version, because--even if it would give me more street cred--it isn't true.

When SNTR's version of "There She Goes" inundated the airwaves in 1999, my dad was quick to point out that, while it was okay, the original version was better.  And now, with more musical knowledge under my belt, I wholeheartedly agree.

It's hard not to.  Agree, I mean.  The cover version lacks the...crispness of the original.  The La's version is sweet without being sickly sweet (upon listening to it again, I found Leigh Nash's voice slightly grating).  I think that the guitars in The La's version are beautiful, they really emphasize that lovely repetitive melody.  This song has one of my all-time favourite openings.  There is something instantly appealing about Lee Mavers's voice--the way it hits those piercing highs and rougher lows--paired with the pop jangle of the music.

The lyrics are pretty threadbare, but I love them.  They've been running through my mind lately, for some reason.

"There she goes
There she goes again
Racing through my brain
And I just can't contain
The feeling that remains..."

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[cabaretlights.livejournal.com]

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I love this song.



I remember Sixpence None the Richer's version (that album came out when I was in grade 7 and first getting into my own music...I think I even still have a "Kiss Me" pin from a giveaway pile at my first [and, I think maybe only] high school dance), and I remember really liking it at the time -- I also didn't know it was a cover (not that that would have mattered). But you're right, listening to it again now, it's a little grating...

I can't remember when I first heard The La's version -- probably on a soundtrack to something. I have to admit that, like my seventy-six song, my jaw dropped when I realized (cough, today) what decade it was from. I thought it was like Beatles-contemporary. Legit. I think maybe my time-sense of music is impaired but like that's a different issue, hahaha ---- POINT IS, when I DID hear this song for the first time, I was like SDHGKSJGS! HELLO THERE. Aren't you immensely better than the cover.

And it still is. And I listen to it again now (for the first time in ages -- I didn't even have it on this computer, which is terrible), and it's got new significance, and I relate to the lyrics so differently than I did back in high school, or cegep...and I love that. I love how frequently that happens nowadays. It is absolutely one of those songs that I think will always tug at my heartstrings, and when I saw you'd posted it, I did a little dance-jump-squeal of excitement, because I love having it on our playlist. And I love that you posted it...I love when you "give" me a song like this, and even if I already know it, it becomes yours. Somehow. (Something to talk more about, there's more to say on that note) And, in this case, it starts to means a whole lot lot lot more.


I love, I love, especially, from 1:37 to 2:00:
"There she goes, there she goes again
She calls my name, pulls my train
No one else could heal my pain
But I just can't contain this feeling that remains"
It rips open my heart.

[cabaretlights.livejournal.com]

omg, and the transition from this song to my seventy-six is fucking epic, hahahaha YES. I LOVE IT.