The La's

the bla's

Okay, it's starting to get pretty obvious that the collective of critics involved in making this list probably leans heavy on British critics who served as tastemakers in the 1980s and the 1990s. That seems like the only logical explanation for what seems like a gross over representation of mediocre and unworthy British albums from the 1980s and 1990s. This album is a perfect example of this. Aside from the hit that everyone knows from so many movies from the 1990s, this album and band is completely inconsequential. Nothing really here at all.

‘’The La’s” by The La’s (1990). La? Why La? (inside joke for fans of Derek and the Dominos). “La” is “lad” in Liverpool dialect. I might rather have titled this album “The Ho’s” by The Hums. The songs feature lyrics that employ excessive obscurity in the dutiful service of meaninglessness. The point is, one must assume, not the words, but the sounds. And the sounds are a slight improvement over bad rock from the 60s. On a song entitled “Timeless Melody”, a serious listener would naturally have high expectations for the melody. But nope. Subpar lead vocal which absolutely requires reverb—not good. Otherwise, competent instrumentals and backing vocals, but nothing to applaud. One highlight on this album: “There She Goes” is cool, but when she’s gone, there’s not much left. A one hit wonder from a one album blunder. This album is Herman’s Hermits trying to learn from U2. Keep studying, lads. 2/5

As much as I love "There she goes", it can't carry the whole album

Pretty confused on how this album is included in a "must listen before you die" list. It's just generic early 90s alt rock, nothing special to it at all.

This is unexpectedly excellent! Nearly flawless poppy alt rock. "There She Goes" is properly timeless, as I was very surprised to learn this was its origin - I assumed it must be a cover of something that had been around since the 60s or 70s! There are a lot of great tracks besides that one, though. "I Can't Sleep" and "Timeless Melody" are both awesome, but my fave track award has to go to the closing phantasmagorical wonder "Looking Glass"...

I only knew "There She Goes" from this ("There She Goes" is a 5). So based on that perfect pop song, along with the fact it's on this list, I was expecting great things. It's not the perfect pop album some claim it is. You know what is the perfect pop album from a similar time? "Girlfriend" by Matthew Sweet. Girlfriend is a 5, and somehow that perfect pop album isn't on this list. But The La's is? I don't get it. The album is fine, it just doesn't need to be on this list. Put Matthew Sweet on here instead. Still love "There She Goes" though. But one perfect song does not a great album make.

This album does what a lot of albums through the 90s tried to do, but not many came to the level that The La's did. Each song stands alone and has its own character without feeling too uncohesive as a whole for the album. And it's got There She Goes, so...

This kinda sounds like if The Beatles had come up during the late 80s alt/college rock scene and I’m all about it.

It is hard to believe that this is over 30 years old. Most music sounds like it comes from a certain period (the distinctive 80s gated drum sound fr example). Not the La's. This music floats along effortlessly. I was among the cult when this was released in 1990. The cult may have grown out of cult status, but I am still on board. There She Goes is a perfect pop song, but there are many highpoints (Timeless Melody and Looking Glass are exceptional). They may have been a one and done, but it is magnificent one indeed.

End to end greatness - snotty, melodic, great musicianship and then there’s ‘There She Goes’ throughly fun and enjoyable.

Budget britpop band cosplaying as REM, the worst of jangle pop meets bland lyrics. There She Goes is still fun though.

Hmmm, so I thought this was the worst oasis album, always thought the big song on this album was just the worst oasis song. So my bad. Just really not good

The only thing wrong with this album is that they didn’t make another one.

Never heard of this band, and this was great! Halfway through the album, brace for a "oh, the version I know (and kind of hate) was a COVER?!"

This is an odd one, once again from 1990's top drawer but hard to date from its components. The fairly straightforward songs, their uncluttered arrangements and Mavers' heavy scouse accent gives The La's an eccentric quality that sets it outside of any particular era; it would not surprise me if extravagantly-bearded hipsters were playing something similar in an Austin bar in 2015, nor if a time-traveller came back from Lancashire during the Black Plague with a bootleg recording (at least, the recording itself wouldn't surprise me). No wonder none of Mike Hedges, John Leckie or Steve Lillywhite could capture the sound in Mavers' head correctly, as I'm not sure that sound really existed anywhere else. Regardless, there are some good tunes on here. I think "Son Of A Gun" is one of the great album openers, and even the more awkward numbers ("IOU", "Freedom Song") have their place. It was fun to hear the rumours out of Go! Discs as they desperately chased the follow-up - one week Lee's recording on a house boat, the following week recording in Corsica, the next week he's sailing the house boat to record on Sardinia. Didn't happen, of course. I am lucky to have caught one of their final gigs at the Mean Fiddler on New Years Eve (?) 1991; to be honest they didn't sound any different to these recordings as far as I remember. John Power had just quit; rather poignantly the last line on this album is "the change is Cast". Don't blame them for Oasis! Looks like I talked myself into a 5 again, certainly an interesting album and one I enjoy quite a lot on occasion.

Two of my favourite albums ever in a week, Pixies then this, this algorithm is on it (cue some utter shite next week). Anyway, this is the first indie album I ever fell in love with, and it directed my earliest musical journeys I guess. I just love the, I’m gonna say bouncy style (you heard it here first) acoustic driven sound and the songs are just so well written. Spent years wanting more from them, but over time that’s made this lone effort feel more timeless. Odd aside is that I’ve always thought There She Goes is the weakest song on the album, it never sounded like it fit to me - guess I’m the outlier here. This has also left me wanting to listen to Weed Bus by The Stairs.

Perfect jangle pop, it's never been done better. If only The La's could have been happy with this album and released many other albums, the world would not have needed or noticed the overrated Oasis. I don't know why the band couldn't be satisfied, but I'm glad, at least, that this got released. It's happy and poppy, yet it is still one of the most enjoyable albums of the 90's

This was okay, but no real stand out songs aside from "There She Goes." Everything basically blended together. This whole time I thought a woman sung There She Goes, but I think I was just misremembering the song.

Music for college 90s movies

Absolute belter of an album

Sometimes I wish Time-Life was still putting out their weird compilations and shilling them on tv via infomercials. I mean, what would a “Alternative Super Hits of the Early 90’s” compilation from Time-Life look like? You’d have your Gin-Blossoms, that awful 4 Non-Blondes song, some Counting Crows, Soul Asylum or maybe Deep Blue Something’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and, of course, “There She Goes” by The La’s. Not a judgement on this record (ok, maybe a little), just that I probably I heard that song a thousands times growing up, but never actually knew who it was by. It just kind of blended into the ether of the 90’s alt rock landscape for me and is associated more with a time and place than an actual band. Like Superdrag…bet you haven’t heard that name in years, but now you’ve got “Sucked Out” stuck in your head, ya weirdo. The La’s debut (and only) album is pretty damn good; concise with well written and enjoyable songs. Ultimately, I like my power-pop to have a little more “power” than “pop”, but it’s a good record nonetheless.

One of my all time favorites, this album is a perfect blend of all things Britpop. What really sets it apart is the melodicism which is exquisite. I had the cassette when it came out and I wore the thing out. It goes beyond " There She Goes Again," there are so many great songs on here and it hasn't lost anything in the 3 + decades since its release. Really tragic that this was their only album. They laid the groundwork for Blur, Oasis, Pulp and the rest of Britpop.

A great collection of amazing well crafted pop songs. They are perfection.

This is probably the most underrated album I've ever listened to. I first listen it 6 years ago, after reading an interview with Noel Gallagher, where he mentioned his 13 favorite albums, and to this day, The La's first and only release is among my 20 favorite albums of all time! We know that a huge wave of influence from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Who would hit the market with the bands of the 90s in England. That's how Britpop was born. But right at the end of the 80s, some other bands stood out, like those from the Madchester scene, with bands like Happy Mondays, Charlatans, and of course, the Stone Roses (which the first album is also in my top 20 and I also think it's very underrated). But practically going in the opposite direction of all the bands of that time, The La's appears, and instead of seeking influence from bands from the 60s, like the Beatles, they drink from the same source that inspired bands like the Beatles, like the Rock n Roll of the 50s, Skiffle bands and others. It's as if a band from the British invasion had been trapped in the 90s after a time travel gone wrong (or very right depending on your point of view). All the 12 songs here are absolute hits! Starting with the simple and catchy "Son Of A Gun", going through the contagious "Timeless Melody", with great acoustic hits like "Liberty Ship", "Doledrum" and "Freedom Song", stunning rock n' roll songs like "I Can't Sleep", "Feelin'" and "Failure" and of course, the magical finale "Looking Glass" which to this day, is one of my favorite album closers of all time. But of course the big hit on this album is "There She Goes". I was very happy when not long ago this song went viral on social media in short videos. It's one of the few good things this type of media does, introducing people to great songs from the past. The rating would be nothing other than 5 stars, of course!

I know people seem to fall into two camps with this one. Those who think There She Goes is the only good song and those who think the album as a whole is brilliant: I’ve always fallen in the latter category. This is a superb album with so many excellent songs. There She Goes is clearly a great song but this album is so much more than just that one song. As a whole it just works and also gives us many more standout tracks, such as Feelin’ and Timeless Melody. And it finished off with the magnificent Looking Glass. Simply a great album.

I sometimes use the term 'graverobbing' here, perhaps a little too liberally - but what the La's achieve here is nothing short of necromancy. Legend has it that Lee Mavers wanted the songs to be recorded on equipment that still had 'dust from the 1960s' on it - perhaps an urban myth, but this has emerged sounding like a clutch of lost recordings from the Byrds, the Who et al. What is totally surprising is that it's brilliant - an album that has the aural mouthfeel (earfeel?) of a warm hug, spiky Rickenbackers and some really punchy jangle pop. 'There She Goes', 'Feelin'', 'Doledrum' and the epic 'Looking Glass' are for the ages. Proper class, that.

Wow! I forgot how good this album is.

The human mind is an eternal mystery. It's just mind-boggling to think of how Lee Mavers, in his many attempts to capture the "sound" he had envisioned in his head for The La's, has exhausted an army of producers--some of them high-profile, such as John Leckie or Steve Lillywhite--to then just disown the band's first album once it was finally released. Especially when said debut (mostly produced by Lillywhite) is such a gem, convincing both critics and the audience at the time that it was a masterwork of a debut, and still convincing listeners who only discovered it recently (like me). What is it that Mavers heard in that final record that couldn't sustain his high hopes--to the point that he left the music business and has never recorded any other album, nor even reappeared since (except for a few reunion concerts once in a while)? There lies the biggest mystery, suggesting that there's a very thin line separating perfectionism from neurosis--or genius from unrealistic expectations. Oddly enough, the lyrics of old-school sixties rock stomper "Failure", about a character going through the throes of depression, unwittingly shed some light on the sort of issues Mavers probably faced at the time : "No you can't throw failure over your shoulders / If you don't look after - you gonna look back / No, you can't hurry forward...". How many times has Mavers "looked back", instead of looking forward? At the end of this tune, the depressed protagonist elects to leave his self-imposed isolation to return to the world (here symbolized by his family). "And you go downstairs and you sit in your place". Sad to think that Mavers has not returned yet to the seat he deserves to have among the family of important rock figures. More than thrity five years later, there are still some great tunes by him we only have a demo version of (example: " I Am The Key"). And this, mostly because he erroneously thought--and apparently still thinks--that there is something wrong in the sound of his band's first album. Like any sort of depression, it seems like long-time *creative* depressions can be triggered by the most innocuous events. And like all depressions, their real starting point probably lies elsewhere... Sure, if really you had to *nitpick*, you could argue that a *slightly* grittier production would have served this record right. But c'mon, even with that very minor grudge in mind, *The La's* has aged like fine wine. Especially when you consider the sheer number of "rock albums" from that particular period whose horrible eighties sound still mark them as hackneyed and/or irremediably dated... And the songs in this debut are just incredibly beautiful or effective. There's the instantly recognizable hit "There She Goes", of course, but also "Timeless Melody" and its epic, breathtaking harmonies, the dizzying 3/4-timed "Way Out", the lively "IOU", or the moving acoustic ballad "Looking Glass"--closing the proceedings on a wonderful and unexpected climactic racket. Half of those tunes give you the feeling they have been around since "mature" rock surged at the tail end of the sixties, so immediately catchy as they are. And the other half is still pretty impressive-going to all sorts of interesting directions that bring welcome dynamics to the whole tracklist. Indeed, what unites all those magnificent tracks is the scope of influences Mavers draws from to create distinctive and immediately likable aesthetics for his own band. Those influences go from jangle pop and psychedelic folk-rock to Big Star and The Velvet Underground, up to the best of what The Soft Boys and The Replacements had to offer during the eighites. And they also foretell the Britpop wave about to engulf the UK (and the world) in the following years. Yet this album is also very much its *own thing*. Which is why it will always have a special place in the hearts of many rock fans. The human mind is a mystery, I said. I found one reviewer in this section complaining that the name *Timeless Melody* couldn't apply to the song it refers to. Excuse me? That vocal line is one of the most beautiful melodies that has ever surged from the pop-rock idiom in the last sixty years or so. What more do you want, seriously? And equally striking is the other "timeless melody" that graces "There She Goes". Please, give five stars to *them*, at least. Because those two tracks alone warrants a place for the whole album in a list such as this one. 5/5, of course. Number of albums left to review: 272 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 322 (including this one) Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 178. Albums from the list I won't include in mine (many other records are more important to me): 234

BL: Complete Blind Listen AL: Awesome proto-Britpop album, lots of catchy licks, dreamy vocal performances and generally catchy 90s rock. One of the better hidden gems on this generator so far FT: "Son of a Gun", "I Can't Sleep", "Timeless Melody", "There She Goes", "I.O.U", "Looking Glass" 5/5

One of the very best!

1990s English indie/jangle pop at its very best. The songs are varied and each of them are good but they also work so well as an album. 'There She Goes' is one of the most famous songs from the decade and 'Looking Glass' is an epic closer, though all songs are good on this one. Lee Mavers was extremely perfecionist and he was so dissatisfied with the final product after years of working on it, saying it didn't have the right sound and mood that he turned his back on the music industry and 'The La's' remained the one and only album the band made. Wish we knew what sound he wanted to hear; but nevertheless, this is one of my favorites from the 1990s - an excellent album.

Awesome - classic

Dig it. Diverse!

At La’st!!! My album of the 90’s. Still sounding as fresh as ever, over 30 years on. And still waiting for the follow-up. The album ends with an 8-minute epic, Looking Glass, which begins with the lyrics : Oh tell me where I’m going / Tell me where I’m bound. Appropriate. The other 11 tracks average less than 2 & 1/2 minutes in length. Just like an early 60’s album. From Liverpool, The La’s somehow build a bridge from The Fab Four to Oasis with this amazing record. They’re quick out of the gates with Son Of A Gun, and just when you’re loving it, they abruptly end it in less than 2 minutes. (But read the lyrics & then read the lyrics of Flanagan & Allen’s Run Rabbit Run, recorded 50 years before this. Everything the band does here is cleverly conceived). There are no duds here so I ‘ll just mention my highlights - all of them. It never gets boring. There She Goes is deservedly a classic, Timeless Melody is one of Lee Mavers’ finest vocals, Feelin is such a clear nod to The Beatles & tears it up in only 1:45. Freedom Song is unlike the rest of the album, more like a statement than a song. The variety here is rare. I feel lucky to have been enjoying this record for so long now. The best.

I really liked this! Every song was different and engaging and just overall pleasant. I didn’t think it was necessarily groundbreaking but I do think it’s really well done for 90s power pop. On my first listen, I was thinking I would give it a 4, but after listening to twice, I’m giving it a 5 because I plan to keep it on my phone.

Your favorite Brit-pop band's favorite Brit-pop band. The most interesting thing about the La's is how influential they remain even though they only made this one album 35 years ago and then disappeared. I wouldn't be at all surprised if this is the album that inspired this entire 1001 project. "There She Goes" has to be one of the catchiest earworms of all time. I hate it so much. No, I love it! No, I think I hate it. I give up. Doesn't matter. This album is like the Mona Lisa in that no one gives a shit if you like it or not - that's entirely beside the point - but you must check it out before you die. Or else!

Forgettable 90s alt-rock.

This is like if your friends dad's band accidentally made a one hit wonder. It felt much longer than it's runtime, due to the songs being repetitive, and preachy yet empty lyrics. It's only saving grace was some of "Failure" and the tail end of the last song "Looking Glass". 1.5/5 - 2/5

🫥

The La's gave me the bla's

Not very exciting at all.. no wonder they sunk without trace.

The Blah’s

Meh except for one song

I think 90s alt bands have a fascinating ability to have a hit song that sounds absolutely nothing like the rest of their catalog, thereby rendering their album worse than intended. The La’s might be one of the first victims of this because Jesus is this a real confusing album. How come none of the other albums have the vocal effect and falsetto that There She Goes has? Why do the rest of the songs almost feel like bad reggae. What happened

One popular song doesn’t warrant being on this list!

More Brit Pop. Gee thanks. 1.5. Round up or down? Let me sleep on it

No. Unacceptable.

Don’t think so

This album is kinda ass. There She Goes is a good song with great guitar effects so of course they immediately decide to never make anything that sounds like it again. They try to do many things on this album, all badly. There is some weird foot stomping bluegrassy garbage, some odd ragtime crap, and a lot of tortured moaning. This is the rare album I genuinely could not finish.

Way too many Brit pop albums on this thing.

One hit wonder makes a record. It has one good song. whodathunk.

This guy has the voice of a dirty dish rag and the charisma of a squished gnat. 🦟

Listening to this record I started to wonder if I liked music. This is nothing. Even the hit was forgettable in the 90 as it is now. This record really makes me wonder a lot about how I view music. It's a little Beatles. A little Oasis. But the most boring of both. Combined into an hour long wash of meh. Everything is grey and humans have ruined the earth.

This is bad. Really bad. It's an early 90s one hit wonder (strike one), the hit is awful (strike two), and the rest of the album sounds like poppy, watered down Morrissey (strike three). This album is best left forgotten and its one stupid hit is best left to shitty direct-to-DVD romcom soundtracks.

Gross

Didn’t make it through whole thing. Was meh.

Very boring and disappointing. Apple Music compared them to the Smiths, but they’re way too poppy for that comparison to be true. 3/10

I did not like this at all. The first 1/3 I wanted to skip every song.

Umm no ty

Terrible

„There she Goes“ Won‘t mind if she stays gone for longer

#no

This one is a walk down the memory lane.

This is why you do this task: Every once in a while you get an album you've never heard, heard about, or ran across at a big open-air fest. The La's are this for me. Although I was living in Europe at the time of this album's release and I went to music fests all over the continent (and England), I don't remember ever hearing of or hearing this album/band. Too bad, because this is an awesome album. I want to say it's perfect but a couple of the songs are not perfect. Still...this is great. Without hesitation, 5 fucking-"I love this shit"-stars. I will definitely be listening to this album again (and again...).

I got Who vibes listening to this. Is that blasphemy? I'm not going to contribute to the argument enjoyed by Americans about what should and shouldn't be on the list (if you don't like it you know what you can do). It's on the list. I listened to it. And I enjoyed listening to it. (and I'm kinda surprised they didn't go on to bigger things) 4½

Lee Mavers hated it, ("like a snake with a broken back") but with the producers he went through, I'm not sure he'd ever be happy. I bloody love this album, have done since it came out, and it ends with two belters; play it loud. Not a duff track here. Timeless classic. Easy five star.

So many great echoes of the 60s, and of course, There She Goes.

Yeaaaaa this shit is pure flames…an All time karaoke song on an album is a great measure of where it stacks up in history imo. Then upon further listen, every other song on the album is good too. Some of them even pulling the emotion out of me. Surprising five star album from me, I thought they were one song wonders but they shit my ass up!

There she goes...

I was very pleasantly surprised here. Obviously I knew There She Goes, but I'm generally not overly turned on by that thin 90s jangly sound (except for Red House Painters; those guys rule). But the songs here are just SO solid. I listened to the UK remastered edition, with 17 track total, and it's just excellent. Favourite tracks: I started writing a list but it turned out to be pretty much all of them.

I love this album plain and simple

Colossal banger!! One of the all time great indie rock albums, a tower of scouse achievement, like the liver building, paddy’s wigwam, the philharmonic toilets or the pilgrim smoking area. It’s a shame the dfs adverts have used there she goes for so long that it makes you think of sofas, but there’s just so much incredible songwriting here that I don’t care. If The LA’s had got as big as Oasis, the Iraq war would never have happened

Überraschend gutes Album. Brit Pop/Rock wie er sein muss. Qulitätssiegel Liverpool hält was es verspricht. Merseybeat 🎸

I had a cassette tape of this album and absolutely wore it out. It sounds great to me even if Lee Mavers never felt it properly represented. As a squarely mediocre musician I guess I get having musical ideas you can’t quite fulfill. Glad they got paid eventually. It’s just a shame it took Sixpence None The Richer to get that done.

I know this one well from (as with Jason's comment in the chat) playing the shit out of it in the 1990s. Haven't listened to much of it more recently except for There She Goes, which has deservedly become a standard. It was a lot of fun to revisit the rest. Other favorites from this trip through: I Can't Sleep, Timeless Melody, Failure, and the epic Looking Glass. So weird, and unfortunate, that this was the only album from these guys. My two minutes of research gave me no insight on wtf happened, just something about doomed by perfectionism.

5/5 - I absolutely wore this CD out in the early 90s. I like it the whole way through, and never skip a track. Sweet, comfort pop for me.

First half of this album is a nailed on 5, slightly quirky psychedelic sound that loads of Liverpool bands have but really tight pop songs that have that effortlessly listenable quality. Bit lemonheadsy. There she goes sounds like a timeless classic from 20 years before it's released. The songs in the second half were a bit more meandering and not as immediately enjoyable, though not bad. Don't think they added anything. In two minds, think I'll say 4.5 because that first half is so good and I wasn't expecting it.

Altså dette var veldig bra, hørte på flere ganger i mens jeg vaska og rydda! Helt red hot chilli peppers der noen ganger, tøft!

Never tired of hearing There She Goes on the radio, but didn’t know the artists’ name. Solid album worth more listening

4 stars for There She Goes, best song about drug addiction!

i never got into it at the time (just the singles) so it's a treat to listen through the LP properly for the first time. what a DELIGHT!

Superb 👌

60s inspired upbeat

A perfect record

A love letter to the sounds of British institutions like The Who that somehow managed to also be a precursor to what would become known as Britpop. There She Goes may be their most popular song they ever released but don't sleep on the rest of this!

Now this is what I'm talking about. Irresistable rhythms, perfect melodies seemingly beamed straight from the cosmos itself, all unerpinned by and earthy, acoustic heart - The La's is as simple and straightforward as a couple of lads with guitars and a drumkit can sound. There is an energy and sense of dynamics which surpasses anything the following Britpop boom was able to muster, and it sounds every bit as fresh as it did 35 years ago. The mastermind behind it all, Lee Mavers was/is famously unhappy with this particular attempt - one of many throughought the mid-to-late-80s - to capture his clutch of compositions on magnetic tape, but an increasingly frustrated Go! Discs released it regardless. In the end, my wish would be to grant Lee the objectivity to simply stand back and see what a classic he has created. A joy from start to finish, this has been one of my favourite albums from the moment I first listened to it - the five stars were ensured as soon as I scrolled down to see that familiar green, half-tone eye staring back at me.

I've loved this album for many years.

Brilliant, love it.

Already really liked There She Goes and the rest of the album is almost as good! I’ll be listening to a lot of this again

Another new to me album and band. I just listened to the 12 tracks from the original release, at 35 minutes I played through several times. Solid Britpop with his vocals. I enjoyed this one.

¡Qué gozada este disco para un domingo insulso! The La’s, que parecían una one-hit wonder band, se quedaron en una one-album wonder band, porque yo creo que aquí hay más de un hit. A la archiconocida “There She Goes” le podemos sumar “Timeless Melody” o “Way Out”. A comienzos de los 90, este disco abrió la puerta al Britpop estando fuertemente arraigado en el rock más clásico de las islas (The Beatles, The Kinks). Un álbum con toques retro pero con unas guitarras exquisitas que forman una obra que todavía hoy es una delicia para escuchar.

Baustelle, Gerstetten, Deutschland. Tolles Album!

Um verdadeiro achado, hoje a lista me alegrou. Banda e disco incríveis. O som deles parece completamente desconectado dessa linha do tempo mundana que vivemos. Em tempos, ele remete aos sons retrôs da década de 1960, canalizando riffs de Kinks e melodias de Beatles. Em outros tempos, eles parecem traçar linhas diretas precedendo seus contemporâneos, como Oasis, Radiohead, Coldplay, R.E.M., Blur… e por aí vai. Fica claro que foi um disco gravado de maneira meticulosa. Os cortes são cirúrgicos. Faixas de curta duração que são perfeitamente balanceadas e compostas. E mesmo assim, aparentemente a banda ficou insatisfeita com o resultado final, e por isso este é o único lançamento do grupo. Uma verdadeira pena, consigo facilmente imaginar eles sendo titãs do Britpop juntos de Oasis e Blur. Ao todo, um disco que se encaixa integralmente no meu viés musical pessoal, como se tivesse sido gravado para mim. Então obrigado! Com ele, dei cinco estrelas para três discos seguidos, daqui a pouco ele gera algo terrível pra balancear. 5/5

Great vibe, play in the car on a drive sometime

9/10

Right, in a very real way - this is not a review, this is a 'They're called the La's, I'm from Liverpool, 'There She Goes' rarely leaves my Spotify rotation every summer, and this is a very servicable album. I'm giving it five stars but I'm hopelessly, hopelessly biased aren't I

An imperfect album only because one song is more perfect than the others, but if this doesn't get a 5 I'm not sure anything will! Love how you can hear their influences and who they influenced, despite having a clear and recognisable sound, even with so much variety on the album.

Amazing 60's pop jangle throwback as good as, if not better, than BJMs Take it From the Man and Thank God for Mental Illness. Really cool callback to Buddy Holly rocking too. I Can't Sleep, Doledrum, IOU and the closer Looking Glass stand out, obv besides their number 1 hit.

Legendary album. For me it's also the quintessential Liverpool album (sorry John & Paul)