The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)
- Thread starter Nee Lewman
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jamieanderson1968
ninniest jackaninny
The first song on the first mixed tape that I made for my soon to be girlfriend (and later wife) was “There She Goes”.
She jokes that the she only married me because of that song.
She jokes that the she only married me because of that song.
Nee Lewman
बैस्टर्ड
Unfamiliar, but just started listening and this is awesome.
Joe Mac
Well-Known Member
This is sort of the beginning of britpop in a lot of ways. I just adore this album. Lee Mavers was a crazy junkie musical genius who was never happy with anything he recorded. I think this is the 3rd or 4th attempt to record the album that the record company ended up releasing against his wishes and that he’s since disowned. He’s never really released anything since and there was a running joke in the indie scene at one stage that he was still in a bunker somewhere endless re-recording these songs to try and achieve the perfection he hears in his head.
Nee Lewman
बैस्टर्ड
Definitely heard this song before.
Joe Mac
Well-Known Member
I you’d have to have been hiding under a rock not to have. It’s kinda reached ubiquity without the majority of people having a clue who made it. It’s endlessly used on tv and in films. Not bad for a song about heroin.
jamieanderson1968
ninniest jackaninny
There was a running joke in the mid 90s NME that the next MBV album was going to be delayed because Kevin Shields was helping Lee finish off the next La’s album
TenderLovingKiller®
Well-Known Member
Fun Fact: it’s about heroin but was also a huge hit for 90s quasi Christian pop act Sixpence None The Richer…
Another insane fact about Sixpence None The Richer: their other big 90s hit “Kiss Me” has over 1 BILLION streams on Spotify.