Reviews (page 6 of 9)
This album gets better as it goes. I knew the hit, there she goes. This album is pretty good. I’m surprised I have never heard of them before.
Energetic 3
Not for me. 1/5
Surprisingly enjoyable but not sure it is a listen to before you die album
Pretty music. Some pretty good songs and some pretty OK songs.
Another good, but not great album. Mostly forgettable.
Some good stuff but basically background sound.
The Good: this album does contain a classic song in There She Goes The Bad: after she is gone, there really isn't a reason to stay around The Ugly: why do people keep expecting Liverpool to be the bedrock of good music???
This actually fit the mood and pace of the day. Some down tempo tracks mingles in with some belters. The Las continue to be iconic to this day and for this album especially?! I have a love love relationship with this
I really enjoyed the jangly guitars but damn I wish the singer was just a little better. Spoiled the album a bit for me since I loved the sound. Also legit didn't know There She Goes was from 1988 as I thought it was some rock classic from the 50s or something. 4.5/5
Hätte nicht gedacht, dass das aus 1990 ist. Sehr gitarrig, dabei nicht zu rockig. Ganz gut. 3,1
Never heard of the group. There She Goes sounds like it came from a movie. I am very familiar with that tune.
Really good!
If I was alive/ a young adult when this album came out I think I would have been a fan. It sounds like it could be from so many generations -60s. 70s, 80s, 90s. I appreciate the lyrics being clear and easy to hear and just transparent enough to understand.
I only knew the big hit off of this so it was great to hear the whole thing, which is incredibly nostalgic. Went in a little long and stuck in the 60s, but great.
This is a pretty fun a low stakes indie album, as most jangle pop tends to be. I have no idea if this is influential of significant in any way, as I have hardly every heard about it outside the discourse around this book. Key tracks: There She Goes Feelin'
In this album: British invasion cosplay made by some losers in the 90's who were born in the wrong generation. Another generic British rock album but completely uninspired. Once I got to Looking Glass I wanted to shoot myself. I struggled to finish this record. Looking Glass and All By Myself were incredibly painful, I nearly gave up on finishing this album when I had to deal with them. WHY ARE THEY SO LONG AND REPETETIVE? I GET IT CUNT, YOU'RE ALL BY YOURSELF, SHUT UP. This album is obviously just a one-hit-wonder album, as There She Goes is the only recognisable (and good) song on the album. Why does the quality of the music suddenly perk up only for There She Goes, then the rest of the album sounds like it was recorded on a used microphone from the 1960's? Did they spend all their budget on the one hit song and forgot they had to record a whole album around it? Why is There She Goes a completely different genre to the rest of the album? Just go listen to literally any British invasion album instead, it sounds the exact same but at least it's good.
This was mostly serviceable, poppy rock songs that were occasionally hamstrung by an inconsistent lead singer. He has weird nasally octave he hits that was really unpleasant to hear. The one track that was a supposed hit from this album didn't really impress me that much either, honestly the bonuses at the end were my favourite parts of this whole thing. Also, writing a song called 'Timeless Melody' and then just making a generic pop rock song is very funny Highlights Over (Live) I.O.U (Alternate Version)
One hit wonder band. Even the 'hit' on this album is mid at best. I guess it's just an earworm pop song that's made it into karaoke mixes because literally anyone could convincingly sing this song which is almost an indictment on how basic this tune is. This was a total chore to get through. Really plain, no spark or panache. It must have been a chore for the band members too because The La's have had gone through more band members (25) than they've released songs on studio albums (12-17 idk) It's astounding to me that anyone would give enough of a fuck about this band or this album to warrant a DELUXE edition. The peak chart position in the UK was 30 and in the US it was 196. Nobody gave a fuck about this album when it game out, why am I listening to this in current year?
i swear the mother fucker that wrote this book had the rfk brain worm
Every second day with this list I find myself asking: why this album? What about THIS specific album is soooo special that it went on the 1001 MUST LISTENS? Like it’s not terrible music, but I just can’t imagine anyone going out of their way to listen to this. It’s just a nothing record. I feel like I have nothing to say about it really. The only impression it left was of something that would be jammed between midnight oil and REM on a triple M midday bracket. It’s like if you asked ai to make safe radio rock. I just know there’s some Gen X loser who thinks this is the best album of all time which makes me sick. I stress again this isn’t bad or unlistenable. It’s just background noise. It’s on the radio in a shoe store when you’re buying new joggers for school. The only reason I’m not giving this album a 1 for basically being uninteresting white noise is because I did pick up my phone to see what song was on when Clean Prophet came on. The biggest crime here is this absolute non event taking up a slot that could have been filled by something more interesting.
This album is literally one thing: boring. The music on this album isn't necessarily bad or offensive, it's just boring. This might be the fault of my ADHD riddled, stimulant dependant, goonmaxxed brain that subsists on two hundred 6s videos a day to get just the right amount of fried dopamine receptors to make sure I'm unhappy enough to constantly think of killing myself but not so unhappy that I actually kill myself, but it is just so painfully generic. Not one song stood out to me at all, I can't recall one lyric save for There She Goes, which is an average song at best that's been stamped into the brains of all through terrible romcoms of the 90s and early 00s (don't get me wrong, I love a fucking terrible romcom, but the soundtrack often leaves much to be desired). That's the issue, The La's are a one hit wonder, and the one hit off the album sounds nothing like the rest of the tracks. Honestly just about any song off this album by itself is fine, and mixed into a playlist it would be fine. However, being forced to listen to this album in one sitting is like being stuck on hold with some fucking shitty telco for 90m trying to get my NBN fixed. When There She Goes comes on, it's like when you're taken off hold for 30s while an Indian man with a heavy accent spits violently into his headset that is way too close to his mouth, asking me to restart my router again for him. It's better than being on hold, but still fucking annoying. And then back to sitting on hold for another 60 agonising minutes, and you know that cunt has actually taken his headset off and is having lunch or going for a piss and vape and that just makes you even more annoyed. Honestly, the fact that we both know that he isn't going to be able to fix my internet and this whole exercise is a waste of fucking time and he's just gonna get a technician to come out in 3 weeks to fix the issue is what really pisses me off. It's even worse when the internet just fucking fixes itself like 2 days later. Like wtf is this dogshit outfit. I usually switch to a different provider at that point and hope they have a good cheap deal. That said, internet seems to be getting more reliable here in Aus (atleast in my area) but I'm not sure if that's reflected everywhere. And even better, I've managed to palm off managing the internet to my housemate, so I don't have to deal with this bullshit anymore. Luckily we've actually just signed up to a new internet plan that (touch wood) has been great so far and has like an average 240Mbps download at all times which is waaayy more than we need, but is nice to have. Unfortunately my PC has been busted for a while due to a dead CPU (I think, it's throwing a bluescreen MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION error all the time just randomly and it's doing my head in to try and diagnose). See how boring that was to read? That's how I felt listening to this album. Perhaps the La's should've kept this one in the slums of liverpool. At least they had the common decency to stop after one album unlike some *cough The Police cough*
Nostalgia bait for millennial and gen x as it falls right on the edge of their respective music tastes Because of this one might expect the most insufferable album ever created. But in a cruel twist of fate its just the album a British hit single happened to be on. It's bland beyond understanding. The first couple tracks are okay but sound but don't really go anywhere interesting and when you think they're about to they just end. Beyond that you just get tired melodies and riffs and vocal flourishes that had fucking nothing but sounding like 50 alt rock singles you might hear in a shopping centre in the UK or a pig and whistle in Australia. This is the first album on this project I have genuinely experienced displeasure listening to. Looking glass is the only track on the album I might return to but even then it's hard to not imagine some skinny gen x with long hair and a soul patch biting his bottom lip and thrusting while he belts out the same chord on one of the few halfway decent songs on the album. This sing gave me a little hope before plunging itself back into a few more songs that aren't bad but go nowhere and then a few more songs that are bad and bland and also go nowhere. I can't sleep and Doledrum are also okay I guess. This album didn't need to be over an hour, what made you think you ate musically competent enough to demand someone's attention for longer than a standard 45 minutes. Entitled pricks. 4/10 Fav tracks - I can't sleep, There She Goes, Doledrum, Looking Glass Least Fav - The rest
What shits me about this album is that because this is in the list it means we miss out on hundreds of other albums that are better than this generic crap. The only impact this album has produced is all the people that crashed their cars into oncoming traffic at 110km an hour because doing that is quicker than shutting off the fucking car stereo. Like dexies I can't get my time back from listening to this album, fucked up. Crazy frog has had a greater impact on peoples lives than this album. I only know "There she goes" from the hit movie parent trap (1998) and that's it. Fuck the guy that thought this warranted a place on this list, only saving grace is that this was not a Friday album so I don't have to worry about listening to this over the weekend. 1/5
Not much to say, enjoyed a few of the songs on here and from what I’ve read this album was pretty inspirational to British music in the 90s but apart from there she goes again (which sounds totally different from the rest of the album) the songs here are groovy but neither remarkable nor memorable. Competently made background music. Good for pacifying Gen X Brits.
pleasant
Another prime example of an album that's only true value comes from the lone breakout single of this One Hit Wonder (in this case, "There She Goes"). The rest of this project could be forgotten about entirely, but the entire album is arbitrarily tossed on this list, because apparently by this list's logic, if you find a diamond in the rough, the whole rough is suddenly just as valuable as the diamond itself.
I could see these folks making some real hits but I didn’t find them here. My favorite was “Doledrum”
Not bad
That is a great album. I've never heard them before!
The only reason I'm giving this album 2 stars is because There She Goes is a certified banger. The rest of the album is simply boring.
I think one of the things this list points out is that mainstream rock in the late 80s was just so awful that an album like this becomes one you need to listen to before you die. 30+ years on this is such a forgettable drag. They wrote “There She Goes” - cool. That song and the rest of this is a snooze.
A lot of The Smiths vibes on this album. Favourite Songs: I Can't Sleep, Timeless Melody, There She Goes. Least Favourite Songs: Son of a Gun, Freedom Song.
Never heard this album before. It was pretty good.
You clearly hear the influence a very famous Liverpool band had on The La's. I also hear some hints of The Who and strangely, Ian Drury. I only knew of "There She Goes" off this album. Which stands out like a Georgous Golden Unicorn, basking in the sunlight in an otherwise dark cavern. Just a beautiful song. Everything else(musically and lyrically) in my humble opinion just doesn't seem to match, it just sounds like a completely different album and band. It's not horrible, just different. Instead of eating a typical PB&J sandwich, it's like eating a PB& pickled sandwich, just a wierd combo, I hope that makes sense. Pickles are great, they just don't belong with peanut butter, although, I am positive somebody out there likes that... just not me.
Trying too hard to be the Beatles
Starts quite good, ends with one of the worst four-track runs I've ever heard, features one of the worst songs ever committed to tape half way through. Not for me
Heard this loads of times but was happy to listen to it again. Not quite a masterpiece but not far off. Iou is maybe the worst song but even that's decent. 8.5/10
the hit There She Goes is nice, but this album is otherwise aggressively forgettable.
Sounded familiar to something but I cannot put my finger on it.
I really really wanted to like this. It has a cult following in Manchester and I know the story about the band and the production of the album, but it's just a one-hit wonder album (especially when There She Goes is wildly different to the rest of the album)
This album was just ok. Did not understand why it was a must-listen aside from the one hit song I knew.
Funnily enough I had the Zoutons yesterday then this today. I've heard There She Goes SO many times that I'm sick of it, but the rest of the album more than made up for it - Never really appreciated them before this.
Not much to say about this particular record - some decent enough Britpop from the early 90s, if a bit washed out and unmemorable at times. 'There She Goes' is an undeniable classic; melodically speaking, something about it sounds eerily contemporary. The occasional harmonies were enjoyable - but the general direction the majority of this album goes in comes off as sonically undefined - and not in a good way.
Never heard of this band before, really took to it.
I forgot I had heard of them before, just with their one hit of There She Goes. I like most everything else on the album more than that song now that I've heard the whole thing. Also hearing the album as a whole, it almost sounded like they were going for being a newer version of Tommy era The Who, in a good way.
2.75
One pretty good song and a very average album to follow. It's actually quite frustrating how big the discrepancy is between There She Goes and the rest. It's not something I'm going to remember for long (two days max).
I like this take on British island-influenced rock.
This was better when I listened to it for the second time. It has some very good and catchy Melodies that I really enjoyed. But the quieter songs were not really mine.
Ĺee Mavers had a reputation for perfectionism which caused major difficulties in the recording of this album. Rhyming 'knowledge' with 'porridge' does not attest to this. It's OK- There She Goes is obviously a belter, but the rest is bland skiffle-inflected indie pop.
2,5
3.5 rounds up to 4. Some catchy pop but nothing stellar.
Nice background music on a sunny day. Lots of short pop songs. I actually quite enjoy Britpop.
Reaching a point where this list is becoming a genuine challenge with the lack of range of albums
Pretty generic rock, absolutely lacking any hook or edge.
Eh
Meh
Pretty mid. One of the best and most iconic songs in \"There She Goes,\" but other than that, there is a bunch of misses.
There She Goes Feelin'
I liked it. Interesting vocal style that's hard to understand but the album builds momentum as it goes
Oh wow, another obscure 90s British alt-rock album. Yippee. This is another one of those bands that has like one somewhat well known song and that's it. "There She Goes" is a solid song. It's not my favorite thing ever or anything, but it's not a bad song. The album as a whole is kind of mid though. I'll start with my biggest complaint. The singing is annoying. It just is and I can't explain why. At least the instrumental sound is fine. It's not great, but it isn't painful to listen to. The writing is whatever. It isn't particularly bad, but it doesn't interest me at all. That's basically what this album is. It's basically just a worse version of R.E.M., a group that has 4 albums on the list. Why does this need to be on the list? Does it really need to be on here? I don't think it does, mainly because of its low cultural impact and the fact that it doesn't do really anything that other albums from more iconic bands do better. 2/5.
Fine. Not likely to seek it out.
When I saw this was my album of the day, I figured sure, I'll listen to it but I didn't have much hope. Especially when the group is called the La's, and it's a self titled album. Really? Couldn't you think of anything else, or at least throw in another La, and maybe a Tra? But listen I did...and Wow. For some random 90's one album wonder, this is really good.
Interesting, folky at parts
Fantastic album. "There She Goes" is a all time great! Great listen!
A few great songs but some had a rhythm I couldn’t quite get in to
At points bearable But mostly nauseating Poppy rock drivel
They sound like the period they came from
I picked this up based solely on the cover and was surprised at how catchy every song on the album was. Then there was the breakout hit. I was 16. The only 16 year old in the American South in 1990 who'd heard the term 'loggerheads'. Guaranteed. And these songs? This is some very tightly written stuff. It all still works for me. I especially still love the way the opening of 'There She Goes' always sounds like it's on one beat and how it all changes up when the drums kick in. I like the magic trick there.
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.
I was already familiar with "There She Goes", but the rest of the album was new to me. Solid listen.
1 hit with There She Goes, but generally enjoyable sounding start to the 90's for a more refined British pop
another generally good alt rock collection, this one having a good mix of dark and light. there's a hit song or two in there, but this is yet another case of an album i only have so much to say on... it's strange, i can't put my finger on it, but it feels like something is missing. it's got a bit of jaunt that i like.
Fun blast from the past with There She Goes, but the rest of this album is a fairly forgettable. 90s british pop band. Its funny to me that we had a zillion beatles clones in the 60s, then 30 years later we got a zillion more. Don't you people get tired of hearing the same old song over and over again? It's a decent album, but nothing really stirred me. 2.5/5
Classic
Makes you happy and has that oldies nostalgia
Muy bueno
Just ok
Light and poppy. Undistinguished.
Great album
OK
some good songs but the album felt a bit all over the place
forgettable pop
Great single, the rest of the material was workmanlike but unremarkable.
Another absolute snooze fest. Boring and tepid, nothing remarkable about this album besides that one song 'there she goes' which really only triggers my PTSD for flashbacks of forcibly watching romcoms with the missus.
Decent—of course the best song is their hit.
There She Goes gives me pleasurable auditory frissons whenever I hear it. Like Shawshank Redemption, whenever I light upon it, I must experience it all the way through before I can continue with what I was doing. It’s a magical song that transports me straight to the 90s. Stranger still that it was recorded in 1988. While the rest of this album doesn’t have that much fervent acoustic energy, it’s still a solid listen.
I'm unfamiliar... Its like the Monkeys and REM had a baby... but actually nothing like that at all. 80's sound minus the synth (hence REMish). OHHHHH There She Goes! I do know The La's! Some tracks are grating and painful, like Looking Glass (could have called it Shards of Glass) and the slow, ethereal All By Myself feels terribly out of place and amateur - like a 7th grader's poetry played to his older sister's forced harpsichord practice track. Giving an extra star for There She Goes but otherwise The La's don't seem like an album I need to listen to before I die.
This doesn’t sound like 1990. Really growing on me in the second listen. These guys exceeded the one hit wonder reputation
A totally competent, but mostly forgettable-to-me acoustic pop/rock album that fails to reach the heights of its juggernaut single, There She Goes. But then- not many songs from that era can say that they reached those heights either. Was really torn between a two and a three star rating because I think this is more of a 2.5 star for my taste, but TSG is such a banger that I’m giving it the benefit of the doubt, though I don’t see myself revisiting any tracks on this outside of the aforementioned and also Freedom Song which kinda ripped.
Three tracks in, I'm really not into this. Brit rock that sounds like less-good REM (who I already am not a big fan of). Oh wow, There She Goes... never knew who did that song. Really stands out immediately for its single quality. Can't really take this one seriously given how much it was used in 90s romcom montages. Alright, this one just doesn't do it for me. 2 / 5
One hit wonder alert. There she goes again. Interesting album. 3 stars for me
Sounds very similar to REM which I can get down with. Didn't expect to know a song on here but There She Goes is a jam. Nice short and sweet album with some really cool guitar parts and a singer who fits really well. There's something to be said about getting an album that's only 35 minutes long. Wish that they made more than 1 album.
Some early Brit rock/pop. Had its moments but certainly not my cup of tea. Only song that stood out was There She Goes and that’s only because I’ve heard it before not because it’s good.
Not bad. But another one where one song carried most of the album.
I didn’t know There She Goes was on this album! Incredible song! Doledrum was also good. Other songs were meh.
An album of two halves. Lovely happy clappy jingle jangly indie pop for the first half and the second starts to channel some lovely ‘70’s psychedelia - cracking stuff. Now where’s my tambourine?
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.
Obviously some might say one hit wonders but I would throw Timeless melody in there as well, so two hit wonders, which is better than most. I thought I liked this album more but now not so much.
I went in expecting a one hit wonder that didn't deserve a place on the list. What I heard was a slightly unpolished gem. What a shame that these guys only ever had one album. Though judging from their 10 releases on Spotify, they gave people enough to obsess over. According to Wikipedia, they struggled to get the sound they wanted over the course of three years. I'd say that those efforts paid off pretty well, as this is a varied and interesting debut, with loads of great songs. 'There She Goes' stands out like a manicured thumb on an otherwise guitar callused hand. I suspect that it may have been there undoing. It must be hard to manage the expectations of people only want a full album of that but miss out on brilliant tracks like 'I Can't Sleep' and 'Looking Glass'. But I genuinely loved this album and think that one hit could have easily been removed, or replaced with one of the many outtake versions. Hopefully they're still getting royalty checks for all of the soundtracks that used it in the 90s though.
Liked it! Good 90s memories
Some lovely proto-Britpop jangle pop. I feel like if I had listened to the whole album when I was obsessed with Britpop it would now be one of my favourites. I’m surprised I didn’t, given that ‘There She Goes’ was one of my favourite songs at the time. Heard before: ‘There She Goes’
Surprisingly good
I am so sick of all the British rock on this list. But it was alright
The vocalist sounds like someone singing bad on purpose.
There's some classic indie-retro styled tunes on this album. The strangely compelling vocals sound a lot like Cast, so it's no surprise this band has Cast frontman John Power. Oddly, the one song I'm not that keen on is the well known 'There She Goes'.
Nice album but nothing special. There she goes the obvious stand out. I felt like it could have been / should have been… better
Nice nice Indie sounds very 60s sounding but groovy with the irrisitable there she goes.
This was in every charity shop in the 90s, I was one of the many who felt ripped off by the unrealised promise of that one great single.
There She Goes is such a classic jingly jangly happy song. I've always been disappointed by the rest of The La's output and this album backed that up. One good song doesn't make an album.
This album used to be on my regular rotation during the 90s, it's been a while since I'd listened to it. It's difficult for me to listen subjectively, to separate the nostalgia from the album - being (a tiny) part of the Liverpool music scene in the 90s, The La's meant something to all of us. While I didn't know any of them personally, (realistically there was a decade between us gigging), I had mates who did know them and we played the same venues, (Phil Hayes once told me to get the fuck out of his office!), so I felt close enough connection. As for the album itself, I've really enjoyed re-listening to it today, so many great songs! But the album does feel like a thrown together collection of songs, rather than a coherently flowing track list. I've read the stories that the record company were exhausted of waiting for Lee Mavers' approval, so released the album anyway. Whatever Mavers uncompromisingly envisaged as the sound of the album, I'm glad that a version of it did see the light of day.
It was a blend of a lot of fun, established sounds.
Hoy toca banda desconocida, de un subgénero que me gusta mucho como es el britpop (ahora estoy cayendo que he escuchado mil veces "There she goes" pero no sabía que era de ellos). Desde el primer tema ya se nota la tonada sucia y particular de Manchester y de bandas como The Stone Roses, además de algunas sutilezas en la música de los Beatles. Tiene en principio un sonido más crudo que bandas como Blur u Oasis pero con canciones igual de pegadizas y bailables/colgadas. Suena a rock viejo. Algo que vuelve a las raíces. Muy muy buena banda
Ensimmäinen kuuntelukerta lähinnä ärsytti. Toka kerta parani ja vielä yksi kierros viikonlopun jälkeen pyöristi kivasti reunat ja musa oli ihan lepposaa. Pari vakuuttavaa vetoa ja muuten tasalaatusen OK.
Ihan ok toimiva kolmen tähden plätty
Liked Song There She Goes
Total delight! I used to find there she goes way over played and slightly annoying. Why’s it taken me so long to listen to an entire album by The La’s. Brilliant. 4.6
I think I would like this if I was into poppy 90s alternative. It's catchy and pleasant.
This album was pretty good. It honestly was just too long and felt like it was drawn out a bit too much. The first half is nice, it's consistent. It feels like the beginnings of good 90s music - impressive for 1989. The end feels a lot like The Beatles. Overall, it wasn't bad, but it wasn't my cup of tea.
Итс олрайт, но как бы немного задерживается больше положенного. Лучшая песня - There She Goes.
When this first started I thought, who in the world thinks this needs to be listened too, and then There She Goes came on and I realized I'm being forced to listen to a whole album from a one hit wonder... The second half of the album was better than the first. 2.5/5
I could see why some people like this, but to me it sounds kind of like a late 80’s version of the Monkees. That’s not exactly a negative, but it’s not much of a compliment, either. I’m going with three stars, but it’s more of a two and a half.
The La's were around for a long time, yet they only released one single album. They're a 90s one-hit wonder, so I'm always going to compare them to my favorite one-hit wonders of the 90s, Spin Doctors (Pocketful of Kryptonite should have been on this list!). "There She Goes" is a wonderful song, and there are other very strong songs here. But most of the album is just okay, not bad but not very memorable.
This project has a very strong British-lean when it comes to selecting artists that must be heard. This album brings up the question of whether an album must be heard if the artist was one of the first to do it or the artist who did it best. The good news presented by this book is that if a band is British, then it doesn't matter as both artists will be represented. I did enjoy this album and it is apparently the only album this band put out. This seems to be a forebearer to Brit-pop, which I can appreciate. I would have been interested to know where they went after this album, as there is a lot of good here. I think if you take "There She Goes" off the album then this isn't a particularly notable album. It's a case of a good band having a big hit and they also happen to be early adopters of a genre which will greatly impact the musical scene over the next 3-4 years...much like Iron Butterfly. Overall, I enjoyed the album and thought Son of a Gun, Timeless Melody, Feelin' and Way Out were good tunes.
without this list, i would have in fact died never listening to this, and upon my arrival in hell would have been dutifully informed i had missed out on some classic British jangle pop. "thank god" i would have said
I tried to like this album, but I came away from it not finding a connection after two listens. It may be generic feeling because it paved the way for other bands to build on their sound to create something even better, but if so I can't see it. 3/5 because maybe a 3rd or fourth listen will have me fall in love at a later date.
This was pretty good. The single wasn’t like any of the rest of the album, but it worked out okay. This sounds like R.E.M., Soul Coughing, and Dave Matthew’s Band all in one. That’s good but not enough for me to place on the top 100 or even 200 greatest albums list.
Sounds familiar yet not familiar at the same time
A Tower Records No Risk Disc back in the day.
another forgettable rock album with one iconic song on it and a ton of mid
there she goes ! I was very bored, would have liked this in 2013
3/5 - I enjoyed! standout tracks: - there she goes 5/5 - clean prophet 4/5 - over 5/5 - I LOVE THIS ONE
prime dad rock, but not overplayed lol. I cant beleive its 1990 it feels like 1965. fine work music. 3. if i had to.
Rally 2.5 but I’ll round up
Wow! I forgot how good this album is.
Relatively generic - some enjoyable tunes but not my favorite group. I do like their original version of "There She Goes" but other than that, nothing really stood out. Not something I'd run back to.
En esta lista hay discos muy prescindibles. Este está en el top ten.
Meh.
i found this album tedious and unremarkable. the songs all sound exactly the same (just a soupy 90s shoegazy alt rock) except the breakout single and the worst song on here, All By Myself. while I'm glad they happened to luck into a big hit, I'm even happier that they only chose to release one album. favorites: there she goes, feelin'
4.0
Wait the sixpence version was a cover?!?! Regardless give me more Gilmore Girls music.
Repetitive
One good song, and a lot of jangly guitars. Worse bands that this have done a lot more with less...
It was okay, maybe another listen sometime and I would pick up on it some more. Mostly just like there she goes
Mid. Although fun its Definitively not a top 1,000 album.
🦶
A couple of decent tracks
Everyone knows There She Goes, besides that I thought Liberty Ship was a standout track. I'm struggling to place a lot of these because they'll have one or two songs I like and the rest are mediocre (to my taste) and just don't do much for me, so even though I wouldn't turn the album off and I enjoyed listening to it I struggle to say I actively liked it. This feels more like a 3.5 if I could, I thought it was better than average, even relative to the albums from here so far, it's good old fashioned British rock and that's not a bad genre, but it's not enough to be exciting, so a 3 is what it gets.
There She Goes is the obvious stand out track here but the rest of the album is alright, there were a couple of tracks that were a little more than alright too
was going to give it a 1 but "there she goes" is on here so it gets bumped up
Great but sounds dated
Very good
Not bad, but not terribly interesting, either. The story of this band is more interesting.
I guess everything gets a 3 this week.
There She Goes is an all timer, but is it enough to lift the rest of the album to make it essential?
There she goes was good and the rest was okay
It was fine
Freedom Song Looking Glass
Fantastic rock and roll, did not know they were the "There She Goes" band.
This was pretty good
Nostalgic
Meh
Simple music. D lyrics but well composed and catchy
Like a cross between the beetles and the kinks (depending on the song). If you want to listen to something different, listen to this.
Passabler alternative Rock.
British Country :(
A star for each song I actually enjoyed.
Mostly harmless. 2½.
Their stuff is alright, not super memorable for me.
If completely forgotten I’d even heard of them!! Then one of their “radio” play songs came on… overall I enjoyed this album a lot!
It’s fine, but there are better 90s alt records out there. There She Goes will always be a banger though. And I will say Looking Glass caught me by surprise. Those two pull this up to 3 stars
a nice collection of songs too bad they did not make it further into the 90's.
I was going to write a diatribe about apostrophe use. However, the La's is allegedly short for 'the Lads' (which seems unlikely), or so people know how to pronounce it (which is still grammatically incorrect, but fair enough). As it turns out, the bad grammar is far from the worst thing about this record. I was expecting some excellent indie pop, but it seems 'There She Goes' is a beacon of good amongst a see of poor to meh songs. Rating: 1.5/5 Playlist track: There She Goes Date listened: 29/03/24
Perhaps it’s the over exposure to Brit pop through the years, but I found this album to be so painfully boring for large sections. Here she comes is a great single if not massively repetitive, looking glass is a good tune although not remarkable, the two best songs are by far freedom song and over , the version of which I had was recorded live in a stable. Musically there’s nothing here to write home about and it would perhaps have been a two star, if not for the above mentioned two tracks. If your a Brit pop fan maybe give it a go otherwise leave it in 1990.
It's kind of a shame that this band is known pretty much exclusively for \"There She Goes\" as that song is kind of boring and dumb and the rest of this record is quick, dirty, easy pop music. It's not incredible but certainly an enjoyable listen.
one good song but it’s pretty good
Un bel album sans prétention, me laisse une impression de douceur même si c'est rock
Very sixties inspired, all tracks are much of a muchness
hit or miss
I wanted to like this album, I thought the first song was fairly decent and had some R.E.M. vibes. Sadly, I feel like every song got just a little bit worse as the album went on.
Really enjoyed this. Listened to it a couple of times immediately. I can hear some Michael Stipe in his voice. Standouts are "There She Goes" and "Looking Glass."
I really love this record, and this is the first time I've heard it. It feels very late 80s/early 90s alternative to me, and it set up a lot of what pop rock would do over the next decade.
Not bad I suppose
Strong start with Son Of A Gun. The La’s are reminiscent of a less-whiny version of The Smiths. I was familiar with There She Goes which made me look out the window of the bus and smile nostalgically. Quite a good record, it’s a high 3 but falls short of the 4 because I don’t feel like I’d listen to it again in a hurry.
There she goes
Rock alternativo. Recuerdan a REM en alguna canción. Ni fu ni fa.
Generic. Maybe Lee was right.
The forefront of the ‘90s revival of ‘60s jangle rock. “There She Goes” is the obvious monumental hit but isn’t a fair reflection of this otherwise impeccable album. It’s too bad we never saw more from them.
The La’s I wasn’t able to listen to this as much as I normally would yesterday , although I did listen to it last week. On first listen last week I was a bit underwhelmed and I struggled to pick anything discernible out. I think I might have been expecting an album full of very melodic jangly 60s guitar pop like There She Goes, or something as polished and immediate as The Stone Roses. The 2nd time around yesterday I listened to it sporadically throughout the day I enjoyed it more. And There She Goes is actually a bit of an outlier, not necessarily in quality but in structure and sound. It’s definitely not the proto Britpop album it’s gets described as, it’s much less wedded to a classic 60s guitar group template, it’s a bit more sinewy and moves outside those boundaries. Liberty Ship has a kind of musical slipperiness, maybe a bit Talking Heads-ish, with a folky, she shanty-ish melody. In fact there feels like a lot of sea shanty influences on this. There She Goes is an excellent song though. Like a lot of the overfamiliar of songs on these albums on the list, when you concentrate on them you really appreciate them. Son of a Gun, Timeless Melody, Liberty Ship I.O.U really stood out on that second listen. Feelin’ and Way Out I didn’t much like though. I’m not convinced by the overall sound. I know it was recorded over a lot of sessions but there is a bit of flatness on some songs and there’s a particular sound on some of the rhythm guitar that I’m not keen on. There She Goes is also a bit of an outlier in this regard as it does sound very different to the rest of the album. Bit of a tough one to rate, I haven’t listened to it as much as have the other albums we’ve done but I did like it, and there are definitely some very good songs on here, although a couple I want keen on and the production/sound was a bit of a letdown. I’ll go 3 for now, but will definitely listen more, it’s almost certainly a grower. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
i love “there she goes,” but the rest of the album is very disappointing.
wow that one song is so much better than everything else on this record
I enjoyed this. I'm not a huge fan of this kind of Brit rock but this album was good for me.
This was quite interesting. Wasn't exactly what I was expecting. Lately I've been so scared of any assignment from the 90s thinking it'll be electronic music that I've grown tired of. So this was delightful. Some of it was nice and short and sweet. Some of it went on and on kind of repetitive. But some of it was genuinely really interesting to me. I liked it. A lot.
OK
Had no idea what to expect only knowing THAT song, but surprisingly good album. Shame they were defined by that one song because there's some good stuff on here. Runs out of steam though
'There she goes' is extremely annoying, just slathered in cloying John Cusack face vibes. The rest is Beatles knock off indie pop for the post-Smiths era with a garage rock twist. It has a nice jangle to it, some psychedelic flair, and the hooks are strong. It gets better and better as it progresses though, dropping the bubblegum pop and getting into more exploratory deconstructed territory with a darker edge. Favorites: feelin', freedom song, failure, looking glass
It was okay. This was another case where the most popular song on the album was not the best, in my opinion. I enjoyed listening to it, but there wasn't really anything special about it
Thought I caught an REM vibe, but then it was gone. Pretty blah music to me. Though not bad, it's did not engage me.
Gut durchzuhören.
Not a bad album in any way, but none of the songs managed to stick to my memory.
It was alright
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
One classic song, some good songs, and a lot of boring songs.
The hit single is really strong but that's really the only thing of note
There’s a couple decent songs, and I can see how this probably influenced the Britpop bands. I certainly don’t think I needed to hear this before I die, though. Best song: There She Goes
There she goes again
Great
This started off as a mediocre at best entry into the 2010s indie pop scene and then a song I actually recognized that's completely terrible came on which definitely drop this album down a bit. Unfortunately just borderline enjoyable
Imagine an ENTIRE album with 12 songs as glorious and beautiful as "There She Goes" - would easily be in the Top 100 albums ever. Unfortunately this album only has 1 song that good.
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
Meh, that's all i'll say
Pulled into the 3s by one song
Proof there are not 1001 albums you must listen to.
Not a bad album! It’s got the charm of Rubber Soul, the attitude of Badfinger, and the lyrics of 80s Britain. Lee Mavers has an odd voice that shines when it shines and dims when it dims, but otherwise, the album is good. 3.4/5 Fav: “Feelin’”, “Son of a Gun” Least Fav: “Looking Glass”
It’s fine. Freedom Song was a standout, as well as the final song Looking Glass. But overall… maybe I needed to be in a better mood to appreciate more? Meh.
this seems indulgently long
Not my jam
Sounded like a Canadian band from the early to mid 80s.
Kind of boring.
Really fun Brit pop - never listened to this album in it’s entirety - will be on rotation moving forward.
Did not expect to like it. Sounded like it was from the 60's. Heavy Beatles influence, even heard some Pink Floyd hints in there. There She Goes is a huge hit that I never could have told you who wrote/performed and when. Pretty solid.
Good stuff!
There she goes kenne ich
I knew I recognized these guys heading into "There She Goes". Very 90s sound even though the album came out in 1990. Really liked their sound and thought the vocals were unique and sounded great. Kind of sounded like R.E.M. I would say that the album is a bit too long and the last few songs aren't really needed and should've been scrapped. 8/10.
Not bad, not great. Good throwback melodic pop, but nothing on the album rises past "There She Goes". Still might give this another spin later though.
Not great, but not bad. Middle of the road album for me with that one famous song from every 90s movie.
Not bad for a band I have never heard of
Favorite tracks: there she goes & looking glass
It started out strong, like I would have listened to this for sure in 1990, but after their one hit it just sucked.
Nothing insanely gripping, but an interesting album
This reminding of the smiths and I don't like it because I don't exactly like the smiths styles it's so weird and feels like a mess after a few songs I don't think I can go further anymore I apologize.
Some solid tunes but the album started to drag long after a while.
There she goes! Good album
Kinda boring, not sure
Bubblegum. Sometimes thoughtful, other times a little derivate of jangle 60s pop.
One of the very best!
not bad but a bit boring
First song and not a good start. I like the way he says run. Wasn't the vibe and unexpectedly slow. Second is Slightly better, drums and guitar are actually doing their job, they(or he idk) have a different way of singing, like that. It's not enough for me, I need more of this song, and it just ended ehh. Weirdly good start of the 3rd song. The guitar is different and love that. Also I didn't see any type of chorus until this song, and not even here it is clear, just permanent wave. Nice instrumental break, best part I suppose. Low key boring, also his voice sounds too basic. Weird lyrical start of 4th song. Not the vibe here. Guitar sucks. I hear whistles. He said "slave" a lot. It's repetitive at the end as if it wasn't before. This is worse than Bob Marley, because at least Bob was unique in his way. 5th song is their best song as I remember, and it does start pop-py, kind of love it. Nothing dramatically different. 3th one was better than this come onn. Not bad just not enough 6th song not bad, liking the background vibe. 7tb song is quite basic nothing much. 8th song same fucking shit(I'm sleepy and this is better worse and worse) 8th song has different way of instruments and it sang uniquely too. 9th song is very slow but at the end it has a beat I already love. It's monotonous but this is my fav song here. 10th song is not lazy but basic AF. 11th song is slow but it has that interesting melancholic beat which makes me sad. Also it was progressive I think, liked that. 12th song has Celine Dion song's title. the most boring one but also would be good when I'm down. Quite short 13th song is. Basiiic. 14th song I'm tired and this is not giving me smth to say good. 15th is a live version. Naah nothing much just nice noises they made. 16th song is also nothing to me, another upbeat whohoo song eh. Anyway 2 star I guess, I slept on it accidentally (then listened again) and I'm not fond of it, it's the first album I rated so short and dumbly, excuse me. It really is nothing to me, that's it.
The only thing wrong with this album is that they didn’t make another one.
"There She Goes" is a 10/10 banger, but the rest of the album is a little lacking in that same drive, at least to my ears. Bordered on rockabilly in some parts
This is where the 90s began. Worth a listen. 3.5 stars.
Moarf 2/5
Good album. Hadnt heard this before.pleasant to listen to.
"why do I know this band? Why do I know this band? Ah there it is.
Sound like they were dropped out of the sixties into the nineties. Hints of the Stones, Beatles, and others from across the pond, plus some originality. Rather good British Rock with era guitar, decent harmonies, decent melodies, and overall balance. They could have had quite an impact thirty years earlier -- or today -- but the nineties are another matter.
Hated "There She Goes" in the 90s, and apparently I still hate it. Neat. Hadn't heard the rest of this album before now. I keep zoning out listening to it. It's just 90s pop rock in the background of a coffee shop to me, I think. Not bad but not particularly standing out, either.
There She Goes. Truly a diamond in the rough
Loved it, didn’t know they were the first to record “There she goes”.
Oh, they wrote that song??? Cool vocals, great instrumentation, some good songs aside from "There She Goes," but does not resonate much with me overall.
Generic dad rock
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.
Bonus point for 1990 nostalgia. Ubiquitous then, and influential, though hard to believe now, as it sounds so imperfect (recording the album was a notorious saga), and there's not much musically that's endured. There She Goes is great, but feels so different to the rest. I've soft spots for Way Out and Looking Glass, because I liked them when I was 16. Those songs drag the album up, barely and generously, to a 3. Nostalgia best left in the past.
that one hit song sounds entirely different than the rest of the album… and is also their only hit. what’s up with that?
I appreciated some parts of the album, but for the most part I didn't want to be listening to it. I would call it above average BritPop for my personal taste.
Pre-Nevermimd pop rock was special. "Here She Comes" is still a classic.
Gear: Meze 109 Pro Mische: flach und unaufdringlich Mugge: "There She Goes" ist nett - der Rest langweilt zunehmend Wertung: 2/5
More boring britrock
Therse she goes is a timeless song, beautiful, truly emotinal and magnificent, some say its about heroin addiction, but apparently its not, but surely about love and hope. The iconic guitar riff is really make it the masterpiece of this album. Its the most alt-rock song on the album. The rest of the songs are not at the same level, but some are very good like Son of a gun, I Can't Sleep, Feelin', way out and I.O.U A downside could be that some of the good song like Feelin' (who could have been a very Beatles song), is that they are too short like less than 2 minutes for some. Like some songs could have been longer and the album could have less songs but just my oppinion. Overall the sound is a bit like a 60's british rock band and an alt rock band of the 80's. Some drew comparaison between the Lead singer Lee Marvers and Lou Reed as rock poet and torture soul and i could agree to that. Its a classic of british alt rock, very good stuff, it echo to 60's pop rock and british invasion so its very very good.
Som bem agradável no início, lembra REM, mas as demais são bem chatinhas
THERE SHE GOOOOOOOOES
Nothing new here that I haven’t heard in at least 10 other albums in this list. Not bad music, just bland.
I like the slower songs on this album. Rest is just OK.
Just not as good as all the indie press made out.
There She Goes and I.O.U.
slightly less good REM
Very good. Catchy, didn't overstay its welcome.
I didn't know the La's only made one album. There She Goes was of course a massive hit, and a great song. The other songs on this album are very good, not groundbreaking but good, solid pop songs. Overall, it's a very good album. I wish they had continued on; it would have been interesting to see where they went from here. 3 stars.
It's a soundtrack to Friends
Bardzo przyjemny rock. Kilka znanych hitów. 4/5
Solid
Not really my style. Kind of boring to me.
Pretty GAS. There she pogs
Looking glass was a bop. Obviously there she (initiates meta) goes always hits. all by myself was sneaky a good song. all in all pretty decent album with some good songs sprinkled throughout
I adored There She Goes as a child. I think it was on the soundtrack to a film I liked. I want to say it was The Parent Trap or some silly Mary-Kate and Ashley film (for some reason, I’m sure it was twin related). I don’t think I know any other songs by The La’s, so it should be nice to listen to this today. Songs I already knew: There She Goes Favourites: There She Goes, Doledrum This was a decent album, but I can certainly see why one song got much be lighter than the others. Even trying to listen with unbiased ears, There She Goes is so ridiculously simple of a song, but works so pleasantly. The rest of the album is in a very similar vain: acoustic pop rock from front to back. I wish I enjoyed this more than I did, but it was still a nice listen.
Sometimes I can't resist... I read the reviews before I listened. The jist I got is that There She Goes is the only worthwhile song and I know that song and I'm kinda sick of it. So I didn't have high hopes here. Yet it's a lot better than I expected. I had no idea that Timeless Melody was this band, I really like that song. For a while, it was pleasant enough, I got through There She Goes. At some point I drifted off though. Came to during the second half of Looking Glass. That was trippy. So I don't know, I'm not gonna play it again, but I won't leave the room if someone else puts it on
The fact is that the only song that stands out is the one that put them on the map. Nonetheless, is was a very enjoyable and nice surprise. Since it’s their only record, it might even go on my must-have list. [0080/1001]
It's got that one song you know. Otherwise unremarkable
Meh. Not a lot of stand out songs. It wasn’t that bad, but the songs blended together and most of the time didn’t feel like much. Good tracks but the rest are mediocre.
the only reason this album made the list is because of 'there she goes'
Sounds like a 90’s band playing 60’s music.
pretty listenable with a good song on it
“There she goes” Great song. Album pretty good too.
Hmmm ja prima zou het niet uit mezelf aanzetten
If i'd bought this on the strength of "There She Goes" I'd be terribly disappointed
Perfectly good guitar pop that presages the sound of numerous bands like Oasis and Blur to follow. Presumably, this record and the work of The Stone Roses served as catalysts for the development of that sound. I found the closing track, Failure, to be the most compelling tune. They're all decent but little stuck with me. Not bad, not great and seemed to serve to push British music back to basics at just the right time. Points for influence.
Thought it was just alright. Maybe I need another listen.
The one hit song was good the rest was just ok.
Just dogshit. Id rather [description of immoral/dangerous acts] than listen to shit like this again. Listened to the first two songs, skipped around next three, hit the stop and hid the artist on spotify forever. Fuck this type of music. Significant 17/45 Liked 7/45 Added 1/45 Unironically fuck this album
Great!!!! Some lovely songs added to my playlist :)
Can't believe I'd not listened to this before, good Mersey beat inspired Britpop, shame they never made another album.
They sound like the Smiths, but better. Less melodramatic and more fun to listen to. They aren’t doing anything groundbreaking, but they have a distinct sound that makes them unique. Good structure, production, and arrangement. The vocals and instrumentation work well with the vibe of the album. This is a nice album I’ve never heard of. 4/5
Pretty good! The breakout song (There She Goes) is really good. And the vibes throughout are nice.
Fun tunes. Very easy listening. Not very exciting.
Liked it but didn’t love it
I really, really love the hit. Pure 90s. The rest is meh
There She Goes was on so many soundtracks. Would have loved this in the 90’s but doesn’t really hold up outside of that decade.
Disappointing. There She Goes is a classic but the rest doesn't come close. The songs that follow it are better than the songs that precede it but I wanted more.
One classic single aside, there's not loads to this really. They try out a few different genres (the venture towards reggae is a bit much for me!), nothing really groundbreaking apart from the overplayed single. 2/5.
Sometimes poppy and sometimes with feeling, but never soulful disposable music.