Reviews (page 3 of 9)
One-hit-wonder Britpop.
Great stuff.
Première fois que j'entends parler de ce groupe dont c'est le seul album. C'était franchement sympathique. J'ai trouvé ça riche, plein d'énergie et varié. J'étais pas sûr de ce que ça foutais dans la liste, puis je me suis rendu compte que cet album que je croyais être sorti au début des années 2000 était en réalité daté de 1990 ! Un recherche rapide m'indique que c'est en effet un précurseur de la grosse vague de pop rock anglais des années 90/2000 à la Oasis. Ce qui fait en passer cet album pour un random album de britpop plutôt cool pour le genre, noté 3/5 à un album visionnaire et très influent qui mérite largement son 4/5. Ce qui montre encore une fois que le contexte est très important pour juger de la qualité d'un album.
Another ok album — we need bangers.
Ta viena daina amazing, kitos irgi neblogos.
Oddly when I bought this album 20 years ago, I couldn't really get into it But listened today and its fairly simple and enjoyable Obviously one song is sticking out more than others. But its a fun time
tough album, still needs to grow on me I think but can see a bright future for this album
The great tragedy of The La’s is not that they made a bad record — it’s that they made a pretty good one and then essentially ceased to exist. Lee Mavers’s perfectionism, which reportedly left him furious with the final album even after its release, produced one of the great one-and-done stories in rock history. Listening to The La’s, the frustrating thing is that you can hear exactly why someone might have believed more was possible. “There She Goes” is the obvious centerpiece and it earns its reputation fully — a melodically perfect piece of songwriting that feels like it always existed, the kind of song that sounds inevitable in retrospect. The rest of the album doesn’t reach that height, but it doesn’t embarrass itself either. The jangly guitars, tight arrangements, and Merseybeat warmth give the whole thing a charm and consistency that rewards a single listen without quite demanding a second. That’s ultimately the limitation. The songs are solid, the performances are confident, and the record delivers exactly what it promises — unpretentious, well-crafted guitar pop with genuine melodic instincts. It just doesn’t generate the pull that earns regular rotation. “There She Goes” will always be worth returning to. The album around it is worth knowing. A fair three — promising, pleasantly delivered, and just a little haunted by what might have been.
Not half bad
Sigh. More bland bands with one notable song.
Unremarkable
Pretty ok, not my normal jam, but some cool stuff. Hit song "There She Goes".
not remarkable
I mean, There She Goes is an all-time great song. The rest of the album is fine but forgettable.
Albúm decente, no parece de los 90s, parece mas viejo, y no sé si es una ventaja. Está bueno, no es una tortura, no suena mal, ni tocan mal, pero es meh. Si me gustaron las 2 canciones mas famosas, There She Goes y Way Out. Pero el resto eran canciones que escucharía en la radio sin pensarlo mucho.
I think it’s not bad. There she goes doesn’t blend in this album very well but it’s also not too jarring. Still a solid +1 star for this classic song!
The first half was better than the second. Really felt like the second half just dragged on and it kinda lost its way.
There She Goes is an all time classic song in my opinion, but without doing any research on this recording or The La’s themselves, I don’t quite understand why this album made the list. A middle of the road three stars.
One hit wonder albums are always fun to listen to. Usually I can find a song or two outside of the big hit that I can connect with and sometimes even enjoy more than their main song. That's not the case here. The rest of this album is pretty bad, but "There She Goes" is so good that it bumps it up point.
Nothing grabbed me on this one at all. Pretty boring generic Brit pop.
Some lovable La's from liverpool. There She Goes is pretty timeless.
Cool album, the impact back in the day would have been pretty huge.
There She Goes hits me in the nostalgia but otherwise can't say this is my favorite album. Lead singer has kind of a whiny voice and it annoys me
I don’t understand the cultural significance of this record. Boring from the jump and never quite gets there.
charming rock with some pockets of pop complexity. I didn't pay close attention to the lyrics, but the combination and sequencing of vowel sounds across these songs is sonically rewarding. a pleasant mix of '60s sounds/harmonies with a prescient dose of '90s sensibilities. seems like they were slightly ahead of the curve on some musical choices that would flourish on both sides of the pond in the years following this. 3.5 stars for me.
Singer voice reminds me of mix between Michael Stipe and Joe Strummer. Heard a lot of The Clash and Rolling Stones influence in the music. Good shit.
We watched “So I Married an Axe Murderer” a few weeks ago, and it heavily features “There She Goes” across the length of the movie, so now I can only associate that song with establishing shots of San Francisco. I wonder if they wrote verses for the song and decided they weren’t strong enough for inclusion, or wrote a chorus and decided that was good enough to repeat for 2 minutes and change. Either way, it’s great. Nothing really stood out too much on the rest. The seven-minute closer was cool. 2.5
I think everyone's heard 'there she goes' by this point but I always figured it was from a newer band. Interesting to read on the history of this record, won't lie and say I'm gonna listen to it much after this though.
As much as I love "There She Goes," it can't carry the whole record. Another 80s British band with a good song, but an album that shouldn’t have made the list. 2.5⭐️
Frankly boring. There are too many albums on this list from this genre. 2/5
fun fav song: There She Goes
"There She Goes" is well-known, of course. The rest of the album is merely ok jangle-pop. Best song that isn't "There She Goes": "Looking Glass"
Another unfortunate case of an album that doesn't live up to its hit single.
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
This is a Britpop album that seems to be rooted more in the "Hard Days Night" spangly guitar era Beatles sound. The massive hit here is "There She Goes" which was absolutely everywhere in the 90s. However it has been a while since I have listened to that song and it is easy to see why it was so popular. Its just so catchy and nostalgic without being maudlin. There is a rich sound from the other tracks with warm rich rhythm guitar and upbeat drums. But there are also interesting additions like tambourine, wooden and block. So the overall feeling is bit of a mix between Baggy and Folk rock. I can see why this was always promoted by HMV as one of those albums that you should buy. (3.800)
Meh
Oh so 90's. Reminds me of The Parent Trap (the one with Lindsay Lohan).
me encantó. a mitad del disco los sonidos cambian un montón? casi hasta el punto de no parecer el mismo grupo. Parece qie trataban de encontrar su identidad a través de estas canciones. No sabía que There She goes era suya. Creo que Looking glass ha sido la que más me ha gustado.
one absolute banger, the rest is jangly indie
Increíble que este álbum tenga el temazo que es "There she goes". Las otras canciones son disfrutables, es un buen disco para poner de fondo.
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...).
There She Goes and a bunch of derivative “meh”
2.5 - ok album
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.
There is a musical rawness this this LP that reminds me of the Kinks that I really enjoy. I could get into this band.
One popular song doesn’t warrant being on this list!
Mediocre 90s music that created a one hit wonder, no thanks.
It was fine, perfectly serviceable '90s alt rock. I kinda wonder if the album is on the list because of There She Goes? No way to know.
It was fine.
So many great echoes of the 60s, and of course, There She Goes.
Mostly indifferent on this as its pretty stock standard 90’s alt-rock, but the tracks Liberty Ship, Feelin’ and Way out are pretty solid.
“All my life goes by in Doledrum I'll see ninety five in Doledrum I can't see much down for me I think I'll run away to see” I went a while after listening to this before sitting down to try and get my thoughts on it out. I found myself struggling to think of anything to write apart from that halfway through I realised that “The La’s” is actually the common Scouse colloquialism for “The Lads”. I liked the majority of the songs and it was well pieced together enough I just have little to say about it which is usually a bad sign for me. “There She Goes” is obviously a classic and is the major highlight. If the album could get close to that high on one other occasion I nay have been more affected by it.
Out of these tracks, I think I’ve only heard “There She Goes” and the rest kinda sounds like a totally different band. Pleasantly surprised. Good album! 3.6/5.0
Nothing special, pretty inoffensive. Honestly didn’t leave any kind of impression on me so I don’t really know what to say.
shout out to lorelai gilmore
so bored of all this British sounding music
Middling post Beatles scouse psychedelia with a hit attached.
What a pleasant surprise: Behind the pleasant but played-to-death US hit single “There She Goes” was this UK gem produced by my favorite producer, Steve Lillywhite.
A totally listenable, easy‑going indie pop record that never offends but rarely surprises. Solid 3.0
Actually pretty decent. They are a one hit wonder, but I don't think that discredits the rest of their tracks on this album. I enjoyed most of them.
Classic rock up beat
I feel like the more I listen the more I would like but rn it isn’t speaking to me. I never really liked there she goes anyways
I didn't know this band wrote the song "There She Goes". I assumed it was an original Sixpence song. That song remains the highlight for the album. The rest is decent and reminds me a little of The Proclaimers (their song 500 Miles came out 2 years earlier, so that checks).
"There She Goes" might have been used in half the rom-com movie trailers of the 1990s, but I still don't think that warrants the entire albums inclusion on this list.
Definition of mediocre & forgettable. Does not belong on this list.
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...
Musically I'm enjoying it, but vocally i'm a bit annoyed with that nasally alt-90s quality which is more a personal preference. There She Goes really is a masterpiece tho. Doledrum also IMMEDIATELY grabbed my attention from the first few notes because of that 60s jingle jangly pop-rock quality to it. This is an album that I ended up liking majority of the songs but not loving them. I think I liked the sound because it reminded me of artists I enjoy more with a similar sound. I wasn't absolutely stunned by the music enough to give it a higher rating. Top 3: 1) There She Goes 2) Doledrum 3) Liberty Ship
solid album through not too many notes on it. kept me interested throughout I'd probably go a 7/10
Anonymt. Og hittet trækker ned.
One great song and a whole lotta other stuff
Eiginlega nokkuð ágætt, ætla bara að skella fjórum á þessa.
This is yet another example of this list's curators putting personal favorites on here independent of any sort of musical or cultural significance. There is nothing overtly wrong with this album, in fact despite assuming I'd hate it for being a late 80s/early 90s album from an obscure British rock band, I quite enjoyed it. But the inclusion in 1001 albums you must hear before you die is a head-scratching one. I imagine this would be like me making a list and including something like Django Django's self-titled debut. Fantastic album, somewhat obscure, one radio "hit" on alternative rock stations, a little odd. And definitely not for everyone. Albeit "There She Goes" is infinitely more well known than Django's "Default" but the former is likely more due to the Six Pence None the Richer cover than it is the original. Either way, my point remains: a solid, yet unremarkable album should not be a "must listen" unless we're purely talking personal recommendations, and I don't think any of us signed up for this to get exposed to what British music nerds were listening to in the 90s...maybe write a different book for that. But, despite my not understanding why I had to listen to this, I at least really dug it and am going to rate it based on my personal taste and not whether or not it is "worthy" of being here. I felt the first half of the album was stronger than the second. I could easily hear how a band like this influenced 90s bands like The Cranberries and even later bands such as The Shins and artists like Courtney Barnett. I really hate that we don't half more nuanced scoring, at least to the half point because this an album that fits squarely in the 3.5 spot for me. 3 is too low because I typically reserve that for albums I recognize as good but I'm not a big fan of and will likely never listen to again. It's not a 4 because those are albums I love but something causes them to fall short of the coveted 5-star "nearly perfect" album. So the question is, once again, do I round up or round down, and what's my justification? I'm going 4 because a) I really liked it and b) it was probably more influential on music, especially British alt rock than my ignorant self is aware of.
Em algum momento me lembrou o vídeo do Copolla cantando Oasis e aí foi só ladeira abaixo
Tem ouro e tem neutro
So is this who I have to blame for all the Brit Pop I've had to endure on this list. I do have fond memories of There She Goes being on the So I Married an Axe Murderer soundtrack which had an outsized play count in my teenage years.
Jangly with some excellent musicality. Solid riffs and catchy hooks.
Solid album but overall, not terribly moved by it.
Some great songs in there, surprised how different it sounded now as well.
Easy bitlai. Labai minkšta, labai vibes. Keista, kad taip patiko UK pop
Oddly enough, listened to this album AND the new Lala Lala album yesterday. The world works in mysterious ways
Enjoyed some tracks
A cute little album! The #1 banger off of it, of course, is There She Goes, but I liked the rest of the tracks as well
Shrug. It's a great song and listenable album. 2.7.
Apparently this album was a gigantic influence on Oasis. Personal enjoyment: 4/5 Relevance to this list: 4/5
This was going to be a 2 but I do really love "There She Goes" so I guess it gets a 3.
I don't usually go for Brit pop but these guys had a distinct 60s sound that I liked
I own this CD but haven't listened to it for many years so this listen was almost like hearing it for the first time. I enjoyed this album and would have welcomed more from The La's. Too bad they didn't work out.
I didn’t mind this as much as some other crap on here but it’s still crap. I’m giving it a one star bump due to “There She Goes” because it was the go to 90s rom com song.
Dosta lejm album. 1/5, 1/10
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.
So THESE are the guys we can blame for the deluge of 90's brit pop that plagues this list? Oh well, I guess they at least get points for originality.
Many people are only familiar with "There She Goes" off this album, but it does have some decent tunes apart from that, and a unique sound to boot.
Ganz netter Rock. "There she goes" ist dsa einzig mir bekannte Lied. 3/5
I love this album plain and simple
there's some good individual riffs, but they're just repeated over and over until they're run into the ground instead of being developed, and the whole thing is suffocated by incredibly flat vocals. every song somehow manages to overstay its welcome despite only rarely making it over two and a half minutes
Very REMesq. Good vibes though. 4 stars.
Bleh.
Nice
Intriguing mix of power pop and Nuggets-style 60’s psychedelia. The only real knock against it is the grating vocals, which probably convinced Liam Gallagher he was a good enough singer to front a band.
Little bit boring but not bad. 2.9
I had heard There She Goes many times before, but I didn’t realize that The La’s sang that song. Other than that I had never heard of this band before. I enjoyed this album! Favorite songs: Liberty Ship, Doledrum, Feelin’ Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Enjoyed this a fair amount for not knowing anything about it. It was fun, even knew a song from it. Would potentially listen to again, but no takeaways.
Another British band from the 90s. One hit (that’s a pretty massive hit), then a bunch of cast offs. Nothing terrible but nothing that makes it 1001-worthy for sure.
call me really fucking stupid but i thought this was perfectly good fun
Day773 - i dont think this makes the list without “there she goes” cause the rest of the album is kinda bland
Eccentric rock music but not that crazy, fun to start but more mild by the end
Feels like The Rolling Stones in 1990. I dig it.
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
Eh, not really into it.
There She Goes and Timeless Melody are absolute belters. The rest, fairly so-so.
Love the big hit from this one. The vocals definitely reminded me of Oasis in spots. It grew on me as it went on. 2.8/5.
The La’s of Physics??? Was not expecting There She Goes to play when I put this on so that was cool
so random they only made the one album and it was crazy to place There She Goes a song ive probably heard 100 times and never had any idea who made it/anything about it
Short, quirky, guitar-focused songs. I recognized "There She Goes" from the more successful (and IMO better) Sixpence None the Richer cover, but it's a solid composition. These are all perfectly good songs, but nothing that really calls to me. Favorites: "Liberty Ship", "Way Out"
Decent mix of styles.
How did I not know about these guys? Like a amped-up version of REM. Love it. 4.3
Generic alt rock album. Standout song: There she goes
13/02/2026 This album was somewhat carried by their one good song. The album also started to dip towards the end. Spotify listeners: 5.1 million
Golmore girls song
Totally ok album but borderline filler here
One hit wonder (There She Goes). Overall fairly pleasant, but very average generic, pop music. The main vocalist needs to stay away from slow ballads (such as Looking Glass) because his limitations become even more evident. This certainly wouldn’t make my list of 1001 most essential albums, but I’ve heard worse things.
It was alright. The back half of the album was stronger than the front.
Boring album. Nothing I couldn't get elsewhere.
It's a good album. Definitely influential, but I think I like what it inspired more. Wouldn't really be my first choice in the genre, but I'm not complaining that I listened to it.
This album doesn’t kick the door down. It may be one album that if I listen to it a couple more times, I may start to like it more and more. As of right now it is only mediocre.
So this is a great example of their breakout known hit being nothing like the rest of their catalogue. Got it. Kind of a bummer. Very velvet underground-esque
This sounds more vintage than it actually is- has something like the smiths mixed with the pogues (but in a good way), a simplicity to it. This is fine. It's not particularly outstanding or offensive, there she goes carries this hard. Jangliness is pleasant enough
I should be target market for this (British, nostalgic) and i enjoyed it - especially the hit single - but didn’t get much else from it.
Not bad but nothing out of the ordinary. I didn’t realize The Las wrote There she goes. I’ve always liked that song. There seems to be influences of REM in there. I can’t imagine wanting to Relisten to this but it’s not terrible.
Sometimes it’s good to remember that what is happening is the point. A jangly guitar pop doopdeedoop is the point. I enjoyed reading about how one of the guys is an obsessive perfectionist, given these songs all sound pretty loose.
Always loved the story of his quest to track down recording equipment used by the Beatles, after a huge struggle finally getting it, then having a mental breakdown because someone cleaned all the dust off it and therefore ruining it. It’s like a fable on man’s hubris in trying to capture the past.
First time listening to that album, it had a very REM vibe at the beginning. I also didn't know the name of the band who wrote, there she goes. Now I do!
I couldn’t wait for it to end
This album sounded like the band who did the Friends theme song decided to rip off REM a little bit. 2 stars
Of course I knew "There she goes" but other than that one, the album is quite forgetful but still pretty good.
A very 3 star album for me. Didn't dislike anything, but didnt love anything specific.
I’m as unmoved by this album as I was when I was 16. The ubiquitous There She Goes was a long time hit on “alternative” radio and was the bane of my existence when it was continuously featured on MTV’s 120 Minutes which was the outlet through which I found new music. When one of my friends, also regular 120 Minutes watchers, inevitably got the album, I gave it one listen and dismissed it. My reaction is much the same now.
A great little UK rock album I knew nothing about.
Would love ot know the backstory of this band. Sounds like the singer might have been a dick. The one song shoula coulda propelled them to megastardom and it didn't. Album has some highlights other than the hit.
Ok never mind I don’t like britpop anymore I did recognize There She Goes, and although it’s pleasant enough and definitely the best thing this album has going for it, even that gets boring pretty quick. It’s got the same problem as yesterday’s album where it’s not like it hurts to listen to but there’s just nothing going on in any of the songs. I understand that without this album a lot of turn of the century British music wouldn’t exist, but it’s just a whole lot of nothing. Vocals, instrumentation, lyrics, all just kinda there and nothing else. Maybe I’ll listen to it again in like a year after getting a ton more 90s British albums but definitely not at the top of my list
The songs are too samey and low energy to listen to. And when they do have one upbeat song, it also sounds bad. There are some sounds in there that get my attention, but I dont want to hear it again.
Good not great, finally learned who sings There She Goes. Started poorly, gained steam in the middle then just felt too long.
Another nice album, there’s enough variety in this album that it doesn’t feel overly boring and there’s not too much variety that it becomes weird. Of course, there’s an iconic song that I knew despite never hearing of the band before. All in all, this album is fun and has the excitement when it has it, I might listen to it again.
Now if every 80s - 90s BritPop album on this list was as joyful to listen to as this, I wouldn't complain so much about 80s - 90s BritPop. In all honesty I’m a little concerned by how much I like this album. This is a real odd one to rate. Aside from the obvious hit, I didnt know a thing about this band. A real weird mix of 60s britpop and psychedelic, some 70s American rock but also some strange avant garde alternative, and probably some more obscure references that would require at least a few more listens. Still struggling over whether it is essentially just genre mash up or actual invention. This is a solid album. The songs are short and enjoyable. The production is clean. I agree with some of the reviews I read, that the musical style is somewhat hard the pinpoint. I heard jangle, shoegaze, folk, blues and even country. I also did hear shades of what would influence Britpop. Anyway, "There She Goes" is one of the best songs from that late 80's/early 90's time frame and this an album is worth a listen from all. Did I need to hear this before I die? Without a doubt
2/6/26. Cool sounding album beyond the big song There She Goes. Although the sound is consistent throughout, I like how each song stands on its own through the arrangements.
Muy bueno eh. Un brit pop incipiente. Pre brit pop. Buenas canciones. Interesante álbum. 6/10
I mean... okay, but if they inspired the most overrated band ever (Oasis), then they don't deserve anything more than a 2.
“There She Goes” is their big hit but every song on the album is just as good.
Who knew there was an entire album around There She Goes?
Classic
I like this. It’s kind of garagey and catchy. Nice rhythms. Nice hooks. All of the songs are short and sweet. The Black Album would never.
Nice album
#28/1001 🇬🇧 My first (and second) listen to this album. Sadly not as good as i hope it might be, nothing lives up to what is possibly the perfect pop song with a dark undertone- There She Goes. Best tracks: There She Goes * I actually prefered the bonus tracks All By Myself and Over to most of the album tracks.
j’ai bien aimé
I knew the big hit from this album, but would not have expected this album to be on this list. I get it as a pre-cursor to BritPop, but I don't think it really wowed me. I like Timeless Melody.
Good
Eh. Boring British crap that fills this last unnecessarily. 4/10
Sits in a weird spot between the classic rock of earlier decades and the Britpop that would come shortly after. Some good tunes on here but overall just felt OK about it.
Decent alternative rock. A lot bands in the later 90s sound like tihs (a lot of bands I don't like). In fact I always thought their song "There she goes" was by the Gin Blossoms or someone. It was required on every 90s romantic comedy soundtrack. Total one-hit wonder band, which seems enough for inclusion on this list. Despite that, the album is decent, just never much above a 3 at its best moments, which are usually better at least than the one hit. 3/5
New band and enjoyed listening
Handwerklich ein Meisterwerk. Klingt moderner als selbst jüngere Alben der Kinks. Würde ihnen auch keine Schuld an der jüngeren Britpop-Psychose zuschreiben, die sich ja vor allem durch demonstratives Verweigern von Können und Mühe ausgezeichnet hat. Wie die Band selbst kam das eponyme Album für mich aus dem Nichts und verschwindet wieder in das Nichts. Ohne kulturelle Referenz und Nachwirkung finde ich kaum emotionalen Platz, um mich daran erinnern zu können, dieses Album je gehört zu haben. Schade eigentlich!
Überraschend gutes Album. Brit Pop/Rock wie er sein muss. Qulitätssiegel Liverpool hält was es verspricht. Merseybeat 🎸
Awful stuff. Heads need to be checked as to why this got on the list. 1.5/5. Raising to 2.
I don't know if I would have given this a 4 under my old grading system, but under the new one, the rules are the rules, so I must. It kept my interest all the way through. It's decent. It's like, sweet acoustic-based pop songs with a tiny bit of gristle. I even liked There She Goes (which I previously would have dismissed as "that annoying song from So I Married an Axe Murderer") better than I remember liking it.
This was a nice listen. And now I know who sang There She Goes, which song I did not really "know", but which was instantly familiar when it came on. I wondered about this band, since I knew nothing of them. Sounds like they essentially tanked their prospects by fiddling endlessly with their first album, and then tried a comeback in the aughts and tanked that by fiddling endlessly with whatever they were working on. Bummer. I liked this album enough that I would have loved to hear another (as opposed to an endless collection of outtakes and b-sides). Favorite track was Failure.
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.
Ровный рок-альбом с одним хитом. Вполне можно послушать. Ближайший референс - REM
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.
I thought There She Goes was a Richard Curtis found track from one of his 00s rom-coms. Can't believe it is from 1988, it is a cracking little song. The rest of the album is also here.
Was looking forward to this, but was left pretty disappointed. There she goes is by far the best track, the rest was nowt special at all. It's fine, but that's it. Wasn't aware this was their only album. There she goes aside, completely forgettable. 2.5
Excelente
This album was great. It’s very reminiscent of REM. I didn’t realize this band is the band who sings that song “There sheeeee goes! There she goes again!” That song is very different from the rest of the album. But it’s a welcomed departure.
Not a Brit pop fan, but this so much better than the other Brit pop albums in this list
Suburb discovery!
curti, sinto que no começo tava muito bom e foi chegando no final ue não fui curtindo tanto. descobri que there she goes é deles e não do sixpence none the richer
Son of a Gun 3.3 I Can't Sleep 3.5 Timeless Melody 3.4 Liberty Ship 3.1 There She Goes 3.7 Doledrum 3.3 Feelin' 3.3 Way Out 3 I.O.U. 3 Freedom Song 3.2 Failure 3.5 Looking Glass 3.2 Score: 3.291666667
Apple Music said "you might also like, Supergrass, The Stone Roses, The Verve, The Charlatans..." haha lol. I think The La's are better than those bands for the most part, but still a confusing one-hit wonder to end up on the list.
Altså dette var veldig bra, hørte på flere ganger i mens jeg vaska og rydda! Helt red hot chilli peppers der noen ganger, tøft!
Hits and misses have it right smack down the middle. Won’t go back for seconds, but didn’t throw it up either.
what in the hell is this? Listen to "I Can't Sleep" and be serious. "There She Goes" is a good song, not a good album. Every single song sits in the same twee, shrill, short register. Except "Looking Glass". A drop of water in a musical desert. This was a slog. Nothing is being said or done here, and it's also not good at saying nothing A tiresome 2
Wow it’s so good and they use the same chords every song. Doldrum, Looking Glass and of course There She Goes are peak. The twinkly guitars are almost midwest emo and the acoustic power chords are almost folk punk. How futuristic, and how near to my heart! It can get a bit dull at some points because the songs are similar. Some songs feel aimless; the record thrives in big moments like the chorus for Doldrum.
and if i say that sixpence none the richer's version of there she goes is the superior version
I liked this record. I knew “There She Goes”, but the rest of the album was great too.
This was alright. Obviously the hit, There She Goes, is a great pop song, and there were 1 or 2 others that I really enjoyed, but overall this was the definition of "I bought this CD in the 90s for one song."
It really picked up after There She Goes! This sounds a LOT like oasis with a sprinkle of the smiths…
Something about this sound is the most 90’s thing and I can’t put my finger on what, specifically, it is. Just like Letters to Cleo.
Never tired of hearing There She Goes on the radio, but didn’t know the artists’ name. Solid album worth more listening
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Catchy brit-pop that echoes back to the Beatles and Kinks but with that late 80s sound. There She Goes is a 10/10 song. Overall an enjoyable listen and a good find.
Even at its most minimal evaluation, The La’s self-titled album secures a 3 out of 5 purely on the back of “There She Goes”—a blissfully short, effortlessly catchy, and genuinely delightful pop gem.
Just middle of the road Brit-Pop with one notable song.
4 stars for There She Goes, best song about drug addiction!
If 3.5 was an option that is what I’d give this. Knew “There she goes” going into this album but really enjoyed the lighthearted, chill pop rock feel of this album. Kind of reminds me of the beach boys in a way.
a little bLa, but overall alright. There she goes is undeniable and there are some decent rockers on this.
3 Stars
One exceptional song and a bunch of forgettable ones.
BLah bLah bLah.
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!
Highlights: - There She Goes
pretty forgettable, but a solid listen
I saw The La’s live once and they played There She Goes three times in the same set. Having just listened to their album, I can now see why - it’s their only song. The rest is just plodding skiffle and instantly forgettable.
There She Goes was such a massive hit - it is till on regular rotation on things like local radio, and it's a great pop tune but it was interesting that there were several other songs that I was more familiar with than I expected to be. For me the La's seem to be forever a sort of nice background hum to the 1990s, and even now this seems to remain a nice background hum that just never grabs me.
Very my vibe. Can’t believe I’ve always heard the one song and never listened more
gives me tom petty vibes
A flash back to alt rock of the 90. A lot of similar vibes throughout with one of the biggest singles of the decade in "there she goes".
I did enjoy listening to this but there’s no way that this is essential listening. I have been finding the list skewing towards music from the UK because of the British author and it’s been somewhat tolerable so far but this is the first time I feel like it has over-stepped its boundaries. Once again I will say that I enjoyed listening to this but I would put this album somewhere far beyond a list of 1001. And in order to keep something that looks like this nice album cover let’s replace it with Disco Volante by Mr. Bungle!
I thought this two disk album was super long but they had the same 12 songs re-recorded about 5 different ways. I don’t know that the songs were strong enough to listen to that many times.
Great prebritpop classic, very influential record filled with catchy tunes. Great! 8/10
There She Goes
Favorite tracks: Son of a Gun, I Can't Sleep, There She Goes This album started out strong, but as it went on it felt very repetitive and the lead singer's voice was really grating on me by the end.
It is fine. There was nothing distinguished about it IMO. I suspect it must grow on you quickly, or that a lot of reviewers listened to this when they were young and have a lot of nostalgia for it. Or it just might not have been my bag. Anyway, didn't hate it or love it. Just didn't do anything for me.
60’s sound
Fun British 80’s/90’s rock
"There She Goes" came out of absolute nowhere on this album, and then the album kinda returns to nowhere. I didn't really like the album as a whole but they did write an amazingly catchy song.
i was about to be annoyed that mostly bland college rock albums were making the list on the strength of one song, but then i discovered they're BRITISH and you know what that is notable how'd they learn to sound like that
how does this vocalist sound like mr. the decemberists and mr. smash mouth at the same time
This was fun and it's odd and mysterious that they just made one album and were like "welp that's all then, we're good!" like the story of a guy who gets hired, fixes a bug he opened, and quits. Not like mind blowing but a nice time.
I felt fine about this album, glad I listened but could’ve been fine without it. Did enjoy hearing the origin of “There She Goes”! Standouts: There She Goes, Freedom Song, All By Myself (remastered edition bonus track)
I had no idea who these guys were until I started hearing something that sounded really familiar. There She Goes is a great track, the rest of the album didn’t quite seem to live up to that song.
Pleasant enough, not amazing.
I'd love to imagine what Lee wanted this to sound like since this is pretty good. 4/5
This is pretty good. Energy pretty solid all the way through. You can hear a lot influence from uk pop amd classic rock scene.
***an good album, easy listening
i might have been blinded by nostalgia but anyway i loved it.
More Brit Pop. Gee thanks. 1.5. Round up or down? Let me sleep on it
Wasn’t quite what I expected given the only song of theirs I knew was There She Goes. Some of the arrangements gave me 1960s Rolling Stones vibes. Didn’t love it, didn’t hate it.
There She Goes //
альбом не для меня, но мотивы песен неплохие. понравилось в looking glass постепенное ускорение ритма, вспомнился реквием по мечте. известная there she goes не зацепила вообще
Enjoyable album with a bunch of fun songs and decent variety. Nothing groundbreaking or out of the ordinary but cool nonetheless. 7/10
Ok band. One hit wonder band.
To me I was disappointed, felt like I had high expectations but to me, after listening to a Beatles album the day before; it just sounds like a blatant rip off and trying modernize the sound. Some good tracks however
One great song, a couple of other good ones.
Sounds like bland brit pop rock that's 25 years too late for the beatlemania craze. Their main hit single (There She Goes) and final track (Looking Glass) both feel out of place with the rest of the album. Looking Glass was my favorite track, ending the album on a high note, however it couldn't save the remainder of the bland tracks
It’s okay.
Pretty good
Dug the jangly guitar licks
There's a lot of unnecessary Britpop on here, but this one deserves to be here. Liked it a lot. At times it sounds like it was made in the 60's, but with 90's flare. Pretty unique.
would listen again!
This is a one-hit wonder. WTF? So I now understand that the listmakers are middle-aged Brit la's (see what I did there? What I did there is far more interesting than anything on this album) who had pretty mediocre taste in music while growing up in the late-'80s/early-'90s. That's it. That's the only magic. I still have a long way to go, but this might have to be the last album on the list in this category for the numbers to work out. Influence 1. Hits 4. Intangibles 1. Quality 3. Oh yeah, I remember that song. 2
Deux chansons sympas : There she goes (remix), I can’t sleep
The La’s? More like the Blah’s
I fear that any britpop is an automatic 4 for me
I liked most of the songs I individually but I don't know if listening in an album format added anything for them.
On their self-titled debut, The La’s deliver a tight, melody-first slice of strummy Britpop, drawing heavily from the chiming guitars and nervous energy of ’60s garage pop touchstones like The Kinks, Them, and early Who. The album is packed with catchy choruses and sharp hooks, even if Lee Mavers’ snotty, sneering vocal delivery can grate over time. Highlights abound: “I Can’t Sleep” echoes the breathless tension of The Who’s “I Can’t Explain,” “Liberty Ship” rides a cool, elastic bass groove, “I.O.I.” shines with warm harmonies, and “There She Goes” stands as an effortless pop classic that defines the band’s legacy. The lone misstep is “Looking Glass,” which opens with a lovely arpeggiated guitar figure before unraveling into chaotic excess, but even that stumble can’t dull the album’s enduring charm.
Real shame this is the only album this band ever put out. It's very rough around the edges but their genuine talent and passion for their craft really comes through. It's got a good number of standout moments, just enough to keep me wanting to listen, although there are a lot of less interesting songs too. But just to think what they could have done if they decided to make even just two or three more albums, but instead we are stuck with a somewhat messy and lacking collection of brilliant ideas.
Not as good as I remembered. There She Goes is still an amazing song, but the test of the album is rather confused. Some real 50s/60s i soired moments that really want to be The Kinks but fall well short.
There She Goes is a classic but it’s not enough to make up for the boring repetitive shit that is the rest of the album.
have not listened before i thought this was so fine like it was okay or whatever fav: looking glass
Rock un peu répétitif mais avec quelques morceaux qui ressortent un peu plus, je connaissais There she goes je croyais que c'était de Radiohead mdr
La voix me fait penser à REM par moment Je connaissais déjà « there she goes » qui est très connu (passe dans des films). Et sinon l’album est varié (failure qui est un peu garage) 3,5/5
Superb 👌
One or two good songs don’t make this a must-hear album. Unless I’m missing something about its impact, I don’t really get why it was ever in contention. It’s fine—just solidly average.
Dette er fin musikk. Ikke revolusjonerende, men fint i bakgrunnen
A few classic tracks (Timeless Melody, There She Goes) and some solid other stuff makes a good 90s album for me. A shame we never got to hear more from Lee, really
Nice tight album , grew on me
Good if you want to see how old skiffle fits into britpop but aside from There She Goes it’s not revelatory otherwise.
I was hoping this was the band who sang the literal La la’s on the Gilmore Girls…they weren’t. However, their hit did play on the iconic Parent Trap (Lindsay Lohan era) and in the first episode of the aforementioned Gilmore Girls. The album trailed off by the end and began to be a bit boring after starting off strong.
THERE SHE GOES!!!!! not a bad Britpop release!
This was fine. Everyone knows “There She Goes,” but I actually liked “I can’t sleep” more. Whole album had a little Stones and a little Byrds and was just fine.
A pleasant surprise! A killer indie jangle-pop album by a band I’d never listened to before. Good songwriting, interesting arrangements, and catchy as all hell. It even made me love “There She Goes”, a song that used to annoy the piss out of me because the radio would over play the Sixpence None The Richer version. Will DEFINITELY be rocking this album again, and probably look further into their discography. Good job The La’s🙌
Quite piratey sounding, I like it. Obviously has the big song which doesn't sound like anything else on here.
60s inspired upbeat
The song about heroin is good, the other 11 songs sound like they’re trying to recreate the one hit.
2.1 There she goes is 5 stars, everything else is one.
You can tell I grew up in the 90s because I still think “There She Goes” is awesome. The rest is fine to annoying. 2/5
I was listening to music as a teen in the 90s, and I had no idea how influential the La's were on many of the bands that formed my musical tastes.
Not a vibe :c
meh
Got 0 enjoyment out of this, boring as fuck. 1/10 Favourite track: N/A
A perfect record
This album prompted a discussion of what this web page means when it says "brit pop". This is clearly not a brit pop album it's an indie rock album from England but brit pop it is not. I get that it was influential on brit pop but it was not that good. There was one song on here that I recognized but the rest was just meh.
Muy agradable. Sonido limpio pop-rock. Está muy bien que sea su único disco.
Pretty average Britpop/alternative rock album Bumping up to 4 because of There She Goes, tho.
Solid showing. Something about it. Didn't tip into the five-star category for me.
2.5 - Meh
Dull
= The Beatles
Gotta give this a relisten but I quite liked what I heard. Nice whimsical British rock. Probs more like a 3.5 off first listen but i think I’ll enjoy giving this a couple more spins
Very nice record; certainly some early 90s alt rock. I really like There She Goes.
like 3.3/5. they had me hooked for a song but then would make we want to stop listening the next.
Decent enough to have playing in the background. A few moments stuck out more than the rest, but a lot of those moments didn't take a hold of me in any major way.
Not a bad album, quite competent but outside of the one standout track, infinitely forgettable
No. Unacceptable.
maybe wrong generation or wrong age, but i'm not in the mood for meaningless mediocre upbeat dream pop. i never am.
This was an interesting album because you really can tell that this was the start of a the Britpop movement in the US. It's similar but better than much of the other music, though. "There She Goes" is obviously a timeless classic of the genre/era but I liked a few of the other songs, as well.
Noted from Wikipedia, apparently this had a Velvet Underground like impact on British rock music, where everyone that bought the album started a band. It didn’t do much for me, but was a decent listen.
Not bad at all
Started okay but dropped off quickly and faded into thin air. Inoffensive but it doesn't belong in the book.
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!
Ok but nothing really special.
It was ok I guess.
This was my Thanksgiving album today, so it didn’t get the love or time I usually give to the other albums. I was spending some quality time with the family. Stuffing is the best Thanksgiving food btw, fight me if you disagree. Luckily, this album doesn’t seem to be all that great or memorable. Ok voice, fine instrumentation, just another album I’m going to forget about shortly. Maybe I’ll spend more time with it and see if it hits me differently when I’m not so busy. It was fine, but at the moment I don’t really have much to say about it. Too light for my liking and I was kind of falling asleep listening to it a few times. It’s very passable. Just one of seemingly a thousand of these middle of the road English Rock albums that get progressively harder to write a unique review for. I’m well over 150 albums in now, and it’s already getting rather difficult at times to be unique for these. I don’t know if that says more about me or the rather generic, unremarkable but still passable nature of the album as a whole. It’s almost an hour long, which is a little on the long side for what it is. Plenty of filler here. Most of the songs are forgettable after a single listen and some, especially “All By Myself”, are at times a little hard to get through and outstay their welcome. This is probably a band that falls in the “Hey, remember that band??” category, noting that they only ever made this single album. A few songs were pretty good, I particularly liked “I Can’t Sleep”, and “Doledrum”. There’s just enough variation between the songs here that it’s at least not a chore to get through for the most part, but I don’t think I’ll be keeping this one in the usual rotation or returning to it any time soon. After about a minute, it just fades into background noise. Again, it’s fine for what it is. But only just fine. A 3.3/5.
A solid 3, but I will give it a 4 just for the one single (it's that good). There She Goes is a truly fantastic sing-along anthem - it is a once-in-a-lifetime gem. The rest of the album doesn't really come close. Still this jangly raspy sound is an important milestone in pop music and is kind of the template so many other bands tried to follow in the 90's. Glad for the listen.
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.
Wasn't too familiar with this band, until I heard "There She Goes" Only song that really stood out, to be honest, but it was overall a decent album.
Great pop. Well constructed songs. There She Goes is a beautiful tune. I enjoyed this album immensely.