As I say I don't get it when you get n have people who make comments like that? As they must be watching it So they can make comments on it NOW I DIDN'T KNOW THAT MUSIC HAD A LISTEN TO BY DATE 🤔🤔
For those who don’t know, this was the La’s one and only album. Around the time of 1994, the band completely vanished from the music scene and never properly resurfaced afterwards. Its sad to see a band with so much potential simply dissapear for reasons unknown, especially when you know they could have been one of the greats.
99.999% of the time its just bad management who didnt know how to capitalize on that 15 minutes of fame and turn it into something sustained. There are so many examples of great bands who actually either did or could have had long careers of great songs, but idiotic management meant the world only ever got to see a single songs brief but brilliant day in the sun. And more often than not , the crushing disapointment of not maintaining that hit streak just crushes a bands morale and it dies.
Those of us that knew the scene in Liverpool know the reason why the la's never had a second album... You're right that they could have been one of the greats but eventually promoters, labels, venues and fans get tired of no shows and sub par live performances. Addiction is an awful thing and I hope he's clean and healthy now but they missed the boat to fame unfortunately. At least we will always have this perfect pop song.
@@Hagg-o-tron I hadn't realised that. Certainly, I'm struck by how unhealthy one of the band members looks in this video. I never saw this video at the time but got the album about the time it came out and loved it. What a terrible waste of talent.
@@commanderjameson2708 You have a point there. If you wouldn't tell the person the release date, someone might actually guess the song to be from the 60s. You're right.
If you like this and want more, check out The House of Love. If you like this but want it even sadder, check out Red House Painters. If you like this but want it _even_ sadder and slower, check out Soul Whirling Somewhere. If you like this but want it rockier, check out Big Star. If you like this but want it more mysterious, check out R.E.M.'s first EP and first 3 albums. If you like this but want it more dreamy, check out This Mortal Coil. If you like this but want it _much_ more dreamy, check out Love Spirals Downwards. If you like this but want it more experimental, check out Eyeless in Gaza And if you like this but want it stripped down and instrumental, check out The Durutti Column. Bon appetit! 😁
The bittersweetness of this song touches your soul... it's strikingly simple yet so ineffably _haunting_ and that lilting guitar riff is like a lost lover's caress. A crystalline serenade of heady carefree days that seemed to last forever.
You write very beautifully. I read that not with my eyes, rather my heart. From a time before our hearts were forever tamed & took the shape of the world around us. Like a mirage in the desert, forever seemed to have no end.
If you were ever going to have a one hit wonder this has to be it. It’s the perfect three minute single. Once you’ve produced this you can never surpass it. It’s the citizen Kane of pop music.
I like Lee Mavers face expression into the camera at 0:15 …… it’s like ‘I’ve created one of the best songs of all time , I’m gonna enjoy this 3.5 minutes of bliss’ …. Lol
And sadly about 5 years too early to ride the Britpop invasion into the US. while this stuff was on the fringes of pop in the UK in 88, the americans had no idea what to make of it. It would have sounded at once both anachronistic and futuristic to them. If they had launched in the US after about 93 they would have been chart killers. Alas, I think the label spent too much trying to promote a band in the US that the US market wasnt ready for and it broke the band.
It is called happy sad, happily unhappy. It is when you have reached a point of sadness that you are happy about your sadness. It's a mature state of mind. Always love this feeling.
Also just turned 60. I keep forgetting the rest of the album exists! I'll have to go find it and listen to it. Thanks for the reminder. And happy birthday!
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@@dmlevitt Sorry, but the „Finally I am old, which type of music must I listen to be taken serious?“ bus for sexagenarians left last Friday….. and you missed it.
For me, this is an absolute happy song. It plays in Gilmore Girls which is my comfort tv-show and it gives me this feeling of pure cozyness. I'm gonna go watch Gilmore Girls now☺
_is played_ 😉 But I _totally_ agree with you! On the very first episode, furthermore: on the very first scene of _Gilmore girls_ Lorelai is walking to Luke's café while this song can be heard in the background. 😊
After two miscarriages my wife gave birth to our two little twins girls only four days ago. Since they were premature (32 weeks of pregnancy), it was necessary to put them immediately under full-time assistance for newborns, and they shall remain there for more than one month. Although there is a very competent team with them, I can't help but feeling a mix of sorrow, hope, relief, and pain while watching them struggle for their lives. To be born and to die shares the same dwell against odds, and you never know what will be the result. While they are being fed and sleep, I try to cuddle and sing a lullaby. This song happened to appear on UA-cam's suggestion. The lyrics express their situation because there are several cables to nurture them through their veins, mouth, and nose. In the meantime, I'm constantly praying for their speedy recovery and growth. What is left for me as their father is to image them running down through the corridor once they're older enough, and all of this will be a beacon of a shade memory fading away in my mind.
My brother was born when my mum was only 7mths pregnant,he was less than 2lb,hes all grown up and is the father to two sets off twins,both sets are boys,one set identical the other set are so different to each other,they too had the same fight my brother had when he came into the world,these little premature babies are stronger than we can ever imagine,enjoy them at every stage off their lives as they grow up so fast,oh btw I was 18 when my brother was born,he was a surprise,my mum didn’t find out until she was 5mths pregnant,he was in a hurry to be born so was a big surprise to us all,good luck to you and your little girls x❤️❤️x
@@mangoblaze Much better, Mango! The girls have now completed 18 months and are fully healthy and developing according to their corrected age (16 months). The trouble now is the sleep deprivation that is affecting me and my wife, but that is the best outcome we could have in our lives since it means they are here with both of us!
Ahsan Rao Seriously..? Just rip it off youtube, convert it to an mp3, download it to your phone and set it as your ringtone. It’s 2019, not that hard to do anymore...
This song is acoustic perfection, it encapsulates the 60’s Mersey beat with the melancholy vibes of the late 80’s. The reason it is so iconic is that you can hear the heart felt strain in the singers voice, yearning, loss and hope all at the same time. Is it a song about an elusive, unobtainable love or in is in in fact about chasing the dragon that is heroin? Who knows? All I do know is that it just fucking rocks!
This song is so great because it doesn't seem to have verses and chorus, every part is a singalong chorus. And John Powers drifting backing vocals push it up another level.
Great point. Just shows you can write a fantastic pop song and not conform to the same strict set of pop rules. I wish pop singers and producers today would do the same.
Everything about this song, playing and video is perfect. The dreamy video with the mysterious girl fading in and out; the drummer so precise and clear; the band's physical movements; the guitar-playing, Mavers' diction; the repetitive melody - I can listen to this over and over again .... (It reminds me of the first girl I ever loved 60 years ago!)
@@nickchow3706 no, its probably not, do a bit more research buddy ;) non of the band had even tried heroin when this song was written, its an urban myth.
Lee M and John Power named after John Lennon as he went to the same Liverpool primary school etc JP later fronting the 90s Brit pop band CAST 1st Hit Alright etc inc Walkaway a great LIVERPOOL FC ballad
Great song. great guys. Drank with them on several occasions in the Albert on Lark Lane in the mid 0's Worked for Lee a couple of years ago doing a bit of plastering. Really nice guy in real life. Proper scouser, and a gentelman. John Powers is also a fantastic singer and really nice bloke. Love these guys.
it is not about heroin, been proven to not be the case in multiple interviews. he had not even tried heroin until 2 years after this song was released.. golden brown however is a very popular song that is secretly about heroin @@stevenaddison4167
esta canción me transporta a la vez que pise Londres por primera vez, y bajo el rocío sereno de lluvia otoñal la conocí a Clari, pasamos toda la tarde paseando y nunca mas la volvi a ver :( pero aun me acuerdo de vos
1990 I was 17 with lots of dreams in my drawer .... I heard this song on telly in Italy today and my heart raced!!!! So many great memories from Italy to England ..this song used to be played a lot In 1997 On The radio What a great journey my life has been so far.. 47 now Love you all godbless Follow your dreams ..but mostly follow your instinct ..your heart and you’ll be fine Trust me!!! ❤️
+Nuno Alex there were plenty of twats about in the 80's, i think technology and what have you has probably made people more absorbed in their little worlds now, but whatever human nature hasn't drastically changed in the last 30 years thats for sure. if the internet had come out in the 60's then people in the 80's would have been exactly as they are now.
✨I lost my girlriend, the love of my life three months ago and three weeks after she passed, I heard this song. Idk if I believe in signs .. but THIS! her death was sudden, and happened when her went to sleep(never left her bed). We were planning on getting married next year. There isn't a day that goes by since I heard this song, where I don't listen to it. Thank you for making such a powerful song! by far and always will be my favorite song!✨
I miss Lee Mavers, if he only could record himself singing some of his tunes i would be really glad. I miss this kind of genuine musicians and i miss my childhood listening to The La’s, god bless Lee Mavers❤ greetings from Mexico🇲🇽
This song is up there with 'Love will tear us apart'. A song that other top bands wish they'd written and recorded. Doesn't matter that the band, in its various line ups, didn't conquer the world. Everyone remembers this song - it takes over your mind and takes you places.
I was obsessed with this song and this band in my teens. Was able to play the entire album back to front on my acoustic and did so much to the annoyance of listeners at my few gigs during that time XD So few bands get recognized for their talents. Fewer get signed and have a break out. Fewer still ever have any longevity. Sometimes all you get is a single album, a single and a b side, or even just a single song to prove you've got something to say. Much to Lee's continued chagrin, The La's debut is a perfect record. Lightning struck, magic and "natural aerials", (as Lee would call them), coalesced to give us a tried and true musical thunderbolt back in 1990. 30 minutes of pure, unabashed musical genius. Oh, and then there is "There She Goes", arguably one of the most perfect pop songs ever written. Though they would fade soon after, The La's musical legend continues to endure now some thirty years later. Sometimes an album or a song is enough. It certainly was for me, a now 32 year old with 22 years of guitar playing under my belt, to look back on as a stone in my musical foundation. Cheers, La.
Es una de las cinco canciones perfectas según la ciencia, los acordes mueven los estados de ánimo de la felicidad a la nostalgia. Es ciencia, pero parece magia.
I'm 43 so this song is hardly new to me, but I can't stop listening to it at the moment. I've decided it's the best pop song of all time - The Beatles included.
Best pop song of all time? It's a good song, but in a world where songs like "Under the Boardwalk" by The Drifters, "Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding, "Thunder Road" by Bruce Springsteen, "American Pie" by Don McLean, "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" by Paul Simon, etc., etc., etc., etc. exist, that may be a slight overstatement...
@@andrewstubbs822 Dude, I wasn't trying to be an arse. I agree that it's a really good song, I was just trying to show my vast disagreement with the whole "best" thing in a joking way. But this is the internet, and nothing is official until somebody insults somebody, so you got that out of the way. I'm an arse...
I played this song in the car recently whilst giving my mother a lift somewhere. She said "Oh I remember this song from the 60s". I said "It's not a 60s song mum, it just sounds like it is". She swore blind that this was a cover of a 60s song, which goes to show just how much these guys nailed what they were going after.
The first time I heard this song was when Sixpence None the richer covered it. I loved that cover, but this is something magical. The song sung how it's supposed to be, not sanitised and standardised... the intended accent and emotion. Everything is perfect about this song, including the fact that it doesn't mess around. Says what it wants to say and ends before it gets boring and repetitive.
heard this in the news agents in Paddington station yesterday. now im singing my heart out in my bedroom before heading out for the night. neighbours must think im mental. lol. Cracking song!
As a half Brit half Greek I’m really proud of my British roots,not only for the great music but generally for the Uk and all the things Brits have done/Created 🇬🇧🇬🇷❤️
@@ahmadyogi1340 at least we left the places we went to, unlike all the waves of human rejects that wash up on our shores by the millions every year with empty pockets and a sense of entitlement. The truth is no other ppl have been as exploited and used as modern Britain. It is our country that is really being colonised and none of those colonisers is ever going to leave.
Me encanta la ropa de Lee Mavers... me encanta todo de él, su corte de cabello, su postura, su voz, su presencia. Y además estoy enamorada de John Power. Es tan lindo (para mi). Tenía un aspecto muy juvenil y de chico común y corriente. Un chico que tranquilamente podrías cruzarte por cualquier lado. Me encanta !! En fin. Estos muchachos fueron fabulosos. Podrían haber llegado a mucho ! De hecho "Cast" es una gran banda y John dijo "ahora canto yo", lo hizo de diez =)
Meu irmao preto amava tocar essa música, agora carrega nas costas um mochilao maior que ele, dando plantão na frente da c0vid. Ele que cuidou dos meus filhos, um dia perguntei onde estava o baixo que dei para ele, ele respondeu que vendeu para pagar um curso de enfermagem, o sonho dele era ser socorrista.
.An old friend, Nigel Weston RIP, once told me he was working for a commercial property leasing firm on Merseyside in the late 80s - early 90s. One day his boss tells him to get the keys for a derelict factory building that was on their books, get his arse down there and let in a pop band and camera crew who are shooting a music video. As this was not the usual he asked who the band was, his boss looks at the paperwork and tells him "it's the L.A.'s, never heard of 'em, probably Americans from the name" Anyways the L.A.'s were the Las and he spent the day watching them make this. Always think of Nige when I hear this.
@@lennon1482 I have to say, i always thought this was an American band (Although i was 6 years old when it was first released) and its only been in recent years ive found out it was a Liverpool band...but now that i know it is obvious when i listen to it, 100% northern England. Also i didn't not know the lead singer of Cast was in this band too
this song has been one of my favourites ever, i’d even go as far as saying top 5, i’m 27 now so not sure I was even born when it was released but I just adore it so much, & no matter how many times I hear it it just always sounds so fresh & new... does anyone else think that?
If only Lee could overcome his perfectionism. He's could be up there with the songwriting GOATs. This one album is this good, it makes you feel sad to think what could have been.
This actually probably IS the greatest song ever made, it isn't my favourite song ever made but it is literally flawless, what more culd you want a song to actually be?
My best friend worked for a while with the drummer (He's a rope access worker these days). He said this song is his pension as he gets a nice royalties cheque through the door every month just from this one song.
***** You make me laugh mate. England is still one of the best countries in the world to live in. One problem it has got though is that it is full of moaning fuckers like you who don't know when they have got it good.
i always called this one the epitome of pop music cuz it has a catchy riff,catchy progression,catchy melody,catchy lyrics and basically everything is catchy its a well made song
No, your sad already. Get the "pistols" on the hi-fi and crack out the special brew. If that doesn't make you punch the wife on the chin well I just guess you'll never be happy.
This song gives me a weird feeling of happiness and sadness at the same time
I was looking for this comment! It's not even nostalgia idkkkkk
@@anushkagupta3897 I think it's about heroin, LOL!
@@vdochev yep, thats why the mixed feelings I'd say. Great song though.
@@titmusspaultpaul5 Yes, I like the song very much!
it's one of the perfect songs according to science
I hate when people ask who's still listening in 2018 or whatever the year is. always going to be listening to The La's no matter what year it is.
yes
Ditto
As I say I don't get it when you get n have people who make comments like that? As they must be watching it So they can make comments on it NOW I DIDN'T KNOW THAT MUSIC HAD A LISTEN TO BY DATE 🤔🤔
Only just remembered the tune about 30 years later.
Or something like this series brought me here.... or people whose dead family member who died from some terrible disease loved this song....
For those who don’t know, this was the La’s one and only album. Around the time of 1994, the band completely vanished from the music scene and never properly resurfaced afterwards. Its sad to see a band with so much potential simply dissapear for reasons unknown, especially when you know they could have been one of the greats.
99.999% of the time its just bad management who didnt know how to capitalize on that 15 minutes of fame and turn it into something sustained. There are so many examples of great bands who actually either did or could have had long careers of great songs, but idiotic management meant the world only ever got to see a single songs brief but brilliant day in the sun. And more often than not , the crushing disapointment of not maintaining that hit streak just crushes a bands morale and it dies.
CAST John Power from the LA’s
Those of us that knew the scene in Liverpool know the reason why the la's never had a second album... You're right that they could have been one of the greats but eventually promoters, labels, venues and fans get tired of no shows and sub par live performances. Addiction is an awful thing and I hope he's clean and healthy now but they missed the boat to fame unfortunately. At least we will always have this perfect pop song.
@@Hagg-o-tron I hadn't realised that. Certainly, I'm struck by how unhealthy one of the band members looks in this video. I never saw this video at the time but got the album about the time it came out and loved it. What a terrible waste of talent.
lighting in a bottle isn't supposed to strike twice. more would have diluted it.
As a non-English speaker, I'm proud of myself for understanding the lyrics and being able to find the song.
as an English speaker, trying to learn a foreign language, I hope I can do what you have achieved in the future!
Good effort. It isn't easy.
Well done, I wish well because trying to get the words in another language song is incredibly difficult
Congrats, moment of silence for all the brothers still serching
You're literally successfully using English right now. You can say it's not your native language, not that you don't speak any at all.
the fact that this song is over 30 years old is unbelievable. Talk about a timeless tune
As Morrissey said, time is like a dream.
It honestly sounds much older. A band in the 1980s made the ultimate 1960s song.
@@commanderjameson2708 You have a point there. If you wouldn't tell the person the release date, someone might actually guess the song to be from the 60s. You're right.
It sounds like from 1964, yeah
@stevehunt7938shit... we're old.
This will be forever the autumn song , the romcom song and the comforting song for me
oh what romcom was this in?
it is fall season right now lol
It always makes me think of So, I Married An Axe Murderer. Which, I guess, fits the rom-com category.
Yup
@@jm123abczzz that too
The simplicity of this song is what makes it beautiful and great, it's almost magical.
Hey you should look up a band called The Doublejumps if you like The La's
If you like this and want more, check out The House of Love.
If you like this but want it even sadder, check out Red House Painters.
If you like this but want it _even_ sadder and slower, check out Soul Whirling Somewhere.
If you like this but want it rockier, check out Big Star.
If you like this but want it more mysterious, check out R.E.M.'s first EP and first 3 albums.
If you like this but want it more dreamy, check out This Mortal Coil.
If you like this but want it _much_ more dreamy, check out Love Spirals Downwards.
If you like this but want it more experimental, check out Eyeless in Gaza
And if you like this but want it stripped down and instrumental, check out The Durutti Column.
Bon appetit! 😁
The rip-off of the Velvet Underground song.
All the best music is simple. Just a fact
@@marguskiis7711which song?
The bittersweetness of this song touches your soul... it's strikingly simple yet so ineffably _haunting_ and that lilting guitar riff is like a lost lover's caress. A crystalline serenade of heady carefree days that seemed to last forever.
You write very beautifully. I read that not with my eyes, rather my heart. From a time before our hearts were forever tamed & took the shape of the world around us. Like a mirage in the desert, forever seemed to have no end.
Crazy how someone can write a better UA-cam comment than my four paragraph essay
Jesus, nice work!!!! Keep writing!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤
Once you write a song like this, you know it can't get any better. A song I can never get bored of.
I live next door but one to him
Holy shet. If it's never getting better than that, shoot me in the head right now..
the whole album though! so good
Think so.
And it never did get better for the Las
If you were ever going to have a one hit wonder this has to be it. It’s the perfect three minute single. Once you’ve produced this you can never surpass it. It’s the citizen Kane of pop music.
Far from being a one hit wonder, some of these guys went on to be a key part of Cast, who were an amazing, successful group
@@richardtuxford1812 that’s true and Cast are a great band. This is Lee Mavers’ Citizen Kane
@@GarethE94 Except Welles did Touch of Evil which is even better than Citizen Kane
The Citizen Kane of music????? LOL, you have no idea what you are talking about....
Na,Naresh is right..Its pretty much pop perfection.
I like Lee Mavers face expression into the camera at 0:15 …… it’s like ‘I’ve created one of the best songs of all time , I’m gonna enjoy this 3.5 minutes of bliss’ …. Lol
More like "I am singing about my heroin addiction"
pretty sure its the heroin hitting the spot lmao
Hard to believe this is 1990. Looks and sounds so fresh it could have come out this year, and it would still have been a hit.
Moje srdcovka ❤. Zdravím z 🇨🇿
So True x
It's 1988
This isn't even a 90s song, thought it was, it's from 1988 which makes it even more insane
I know it's not from nowadays because nowadays "mainstream" is almost ALMOST 100% SHIT
Probably the most perfect Indie song ever written. It's just perfect in every way.
And sadly about 5 years too early to ride the Britpop invasion into the US. while this stuff was on the fringes of pop in the UK in 88, the americans had no idea what to make of it. It would have sounded at once both anachronistic and futuristic to them. If they had launched in the US after about 93 they would have been chart killers. Alas, I think the label spent too much trying to promote a band in the US that the US market wasnt ready for and it broke the band.
@@shayneoneill1506and yet this song lives on forever.
Totally agree 👍 ❤😊
It is called happy sad, happily unhappy. It is when you have reached a point of sadness that you are happy about your sadness. It's a mature state of mind. Always love this feeling.
Beautiful/hermoso :)
i understoood this. Though im not sure its mature, resigned perhaps.
Gokil lu bang
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad
-Victor Hugo
I don't love this feeling 💔💔💔. But I am happy😌😌😌
I just turned sixty. In my opinion this is one of the best songs ever. And I tell you, the entire album is pretty darn good.
Also just turned 60. I keep forgetting the rest of the album exists! I'll have to go find it and listen to it. Thanks for the reminder. And happy birthday!
maybe listen to monk,c oltraine and miles Davis. this is childish cotton candy. we are the same age. grow.
@@dmlevitt Sorry, but the comment section for _„Finally I’m a sexagenarian, which music is appropriate?“_ just moved elsewhere. You’ve missed it by that 🖕🏼much.
@@julieaskingforafriendhappy birthday guys! @fatdad664able 💯💯🥳🥳🎂🎂 this album is a masterpiece, imho.
@@dmlevitt Sorry, but the „Finally I am old, which type of music must I listen to be taken serious?“ bus for sexagenarians left last Friday….. and you missed it.
For me, this is an absolute happy song. It plays in Gilmore Girls which is my comfort tv-show and it gives me this feeling of pure cozyness.
I'm gonna go watch Gilmore Girls now☺
I can relate 💯
This song plays in parent trap when Hallie went to go see her mom for the first time
_is played_ 😉 But I _totally_ agree with you! On the very first episode, furthermore: on the very first scene of _Gilmore girls_ Lorelai is walking to Luke's café while this song can be heard in the background. 😊
Heroin song!
@@bh8394 urban legend
One of the greatest riffs ever written.
I like this song too, but that's a crazy thing to say
@@toptentechtipsthingsricegu8822 why? It’s a perfect example of original and catchy and accessible song writing that connects with the listener.
After two miscarriages my wife gave birth to our two little twins girls only four days ago.
Since they were premature (32 weeks of pregnancy), it was necessary to put them immediately under full-time assistance for newborns, and they shall remain there for more than one month.
Although there is a very competent team with them, I can't help but feeling a mix of sorrow, hope, relief, and pain while watching them struggle for their lives.
To be born and to die shares the same dwell against odds, and you never know what will be the result.
While they are being fed and sleep, I try to cuddle and sing a lullaby. This song happened to appear on UA-cam's suggestion.
The lyrics express their situation because there are several cables to nurture them through their veins, mouth, and nose. In the meantime, I'm constantly praying for their speedy recovery and growth.
What is left for me as their father is to image them running down through the corridor once they're older enough, and all of this will be a beacon of a shade memory fading away in my mind.
My brother was born when my mum was only 7mths pregnant,he was less than 2lb,hes all grown up and is the father to two sets off twins,both sets are boys,one set identical the other set are so different to each other,they too had the same fight my brother had when he came into the world,these little premature babies are stronger than we can ever imagine,enjoy them at every stage off their lives as they grow up so fast,oh btw I was 18 when my brother was born,he was a surprise,my mum didn’t find out until she was 5mths pregnant,he was in a hurry to be born so was a big surprise to us all,good luck to you and your little girls x❤️❤️x
How are you all now?
@@mangoblaze Much better, Mango! The girls have now completed 18 months and are fully healthy and developing according to their corrected age (16 months).
The trouble now is the sleep deprivation that is affecting me and my wife, but that is the best outcome we could have in our lives since it means they are here with both of us!
God bless them for you and your wife
Almost thirty years, and still timeless.
Thank you Lee Mavers.
One of the true timeless classics. So simple yet so good. Masterpiece.
Ping floydy
30 years now, jay. ;-)
Now....30 years ago.... ;)
We all love The Las. Great comment... heroin running through our veins will always be timeless.
Great post dude.
Probably the finest indie song from Liverpool ever.😍
I think a couple of guys named John, Paul, George and Ringo might have an issue with that....but good song nonetheless.
Correction: New Wave song.
It's a revival song from 60s
@@gbonkers666 Hey, dopey Dan
He wrote finest "indie song"....Beatles weren't "indie"
Wake up, pull yer head out of yer arse, and try to keep up
@@gbonkers666 And, hey, Trump! A "couple" of guys is two....then you named four
You've gotta be high on bath salts, man
My dad has this song as his ringtone and I have spent my whole childhood listening to this. Serious nostalgia.
Where I can get a ringtone ?
Ahsan Rao Seriously..? Just rip it off youtube, convert it to an mp3, download it to your phone and set it as your ringtone. It’s 2019, not that hard to do anymore...
@@ahsirao wow where can i get a ringtone????? this man has stepped out a time machine ladies and gentlemen
@@rashidjurgens9992 welcome to the world of idiots
When your dad was 25
seriously one of the best songs ever written
Im surprised it doesnt have more views
Agreed
This song is acoustic perfection, it encapsulates the 60’s Mersey beat with the melancholy vibes of the late 80’s. The reason it is so iconic is that you can hear the heart felt strain in the singers voice, yearning, loss and hope all at the same time. Is it a song about an elusive, unobtainable love or in is in in fact about chasing the dragon that is heroin? Who knows? All I do know is that it just fucking rocks!
Yeah, it's impossible to date if you've never heard it before. It could have been recorded in the 60's...or last week.
It's about heroin, mate.
"Chasing through my veins..." Classic H song.
@@emiledarraghbarry They're scousers, so definitely heroin.
"heart felt strain" could have as well been one of the rhymes in the song :p
A proper British classic.
possibly, international ... ? :)
This song is so great because it doesn't seem to have verses and chorus, every part is a singalong chorus. And John Powers drifting backing vocals push it up another level.
@James Cricket Someone will be along to use smaller words for you to understand
Great point. Just shows you can write a fantastic pop song and not conform to the same strict set of pop rules. I wish pop singers and producers today would do the same.
so true !
Didn’t Bohemian Rhapsody already did that?
yeah those kinda structures in songs lovem
This song has a special spot in every persons heart in the uk 🇬🇧
Even Liz Truss? 😇
And in the rest of the world .
I don't have a heart
@@BigGirlsReallyDoCry i'm sorry.
Not quite
the way in that the melody changes in 1:38 is heaven
Yes❤
IT does not change.
Only YOU are changing...
@@tisiluca 🎵all my life… is changing every day… in every possible way…🎵
@@bderrick4944
Great !!
The only constant is, change !!
Who thought using a different chord would have such power in music 🥱🤔
If your band only ever puts out one album, it might as well be as good as The La's record. Simply perfect
Everything about this song, playing and video is perfect. The dreamy video with the mysterious girl fading in and out; the drummer so precise and clear; the band's physical movements; the guitar-playing, Mavers' diction; the repetitive melody - I can listen to this over and over again .... (It reminds me of the first girl I ever loved 60 years ago!)
My wife walked down the aisle to this song at our Wedding.
sorry to break it to you but the song is about heroin because they were drug addicts i think
That’s so cute I’m so happy for youuuu
@@nickchow3706 no, its probably not, do a bit more research buddy ;) non of the band had even tried heroin when this song was written, its an urban myth.
thats such a shame, i hope you got over it, 'plenty more fish in the sea buddy!
An urban myth? The guy used to lick the end of used syringes to get a hit
lee said in an interview that he initially used this riff to tune his guitar and he just made the lyrics up as he was tuning. genius
One of the greatest riffs of all time. Learned it and re-arranged it for an open mic night and was very well received!
My dad's band supported The La's! Love them!
2024💛
Genuinely one of the greatest songs ever made.
One of the best songs ever, on my opinion.
well,your opinion is spot on
Annika Patel well said Abuja 🙏🏻☘️🌹👍🙏🏻
Lee M and John Power named after John Lennon as he went to the same Liverpool primary school etc JP later fronting the 90s Brit pop band CAST 1st Hit Alright etc inc Walkaway a great LIVERPOOL FC ballad
👍👍👍👍
My opinion too! Greatings from Germany
Over eight and a half thousand comments, and every single one full of love for this song.🤩
Great song. great guys. Drank with them on several occasions in the Albert on Lark Lane in the mid 0's Worked for Lee a couple of years ago doing a bit of plastering. Really nice guy in real life. Proper scouser, and a gentelman. John Powers is also a fantastic singer and really nice bloke. Love these guys.
I feel like this song has been in so many romance films.
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Woulda been better in trainspotting
and its about heroin
Same and omg ur pfp!!
it has
I love this song. I knew this music in The Parent Trap movie. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
ah that's were the bizarre song is aswell. makes sense lol
@@onesyphorus the song is about heroin
Same 😢
So I Married an Axe Murderer , de mike myers
it is not about heroin, been proven to not be the case in multiple interviews. he had not even tried heroin until 2 years after this song was released.. golden brown however is a very popular song that is secretly about heroin @@stevenaddison4167
This is one of the best ever written and recorded. They should be proud . I love this song . Always will .
Lead singer is a cross between Mick Jagger and Noel Gallagher. Can't be more British that that!
He's their love child, héhé 😏
He even sounds like Mick Jagger
Throw some Peter Gabriel in the mix
Lol
Sounds nothing like either
I've been listening to this song for 32 years and it always makes me smile
Song came out in 1990 you liar
@@scott398 It was just a small mistake without relevance. You are a police?
yeah!!! same here!! love this song
We should grab a beer lol:)
@@scott398 no it came out in 1988
this band deserves way more recognition, im glad they could still release some quality music!
esta canción me transporta a la vez que pise Londres por primera vez, y bajo el rocío sereno de lluvia otoñal la conocí a Clari, pasamos toda la tarde paseando y nunca mas la volvi a ver :( pero aun me acuerdo de vos
Kyt si tú eres latino pobre no eres originario de London y y ni sabes de su música
1990 I was 17 with lots of dreams in my drawer .... I heard this song on telly in Italy today and my heart raced!!!! So many great memories from Italy to England ..this song used to be played a lot In 1997 On The radio
What a great journey my life has been so far.. 47 now
Love you all godbless
Follow your dreams ..but mostly follow your instinct ..your heart and you’ll be fine
Trust me!!!
❤️
Thanks mate
Bless up brother x
I like that photograph in your profile pic. Old pics indeed always awsome. Is that you?
@@StJimmy-eq8zg james Dean ❤️
@@luislizard2626 Keep enjoying it Luis. Scouser music !!
The 80's man... The freedom, the cold, the positive atitude, good people everywhere... What have we become?
We've become lazy, selfish and gentrified. Makes me fuckin sick
This song is about Herion so yh
+Nuno Alex there were plenty of twats about in the 80's, i think technology and what have you has probably made people more absorbed in their little worlds now, but whatever human nature hasn't drastically changed in the last 30 years thats for sure. if the internet had come out in the 60's then people in the 80's would have been exactly as they are now.
+Nuno Alex Positive attitude and the 80s do not go together.
+Wazzok1 in liverpool it had to
I love reading those comments where people share their childhood memories or any kind of memory with a particular song.
✨I lost my girlriend, the love of my life three months ago and three weeks after she passed, I heard this song. Idk if I believe in signs .. but THIS! her death was sudden, and happened when her went to sleep(never left her bed). We were planning on getting married next year. There isn't a day that goes by since I heard this song, where I don't listen to it. Thank you for making such a powerful song! by far and always will be my favorite song!✨
Impossible not to repeat this song several times in a row
Because why ???
thought I'd listen to just one song before bed and am now on to 7th listen already...
4 going on 5...
Me at this moment
7 this will be the 8th... having a crush doeant help rn
Congratulation you finally find the song that play in your head all along
ahahhahahahah its true bro!
Literally.
I miss Lee Mavers, if he only could record himself singing some of his tunes i would be really glad. I miss this kind of genuine musicians and i miss my childhood listening to The La’s, god bless Lee Mavers❤ greetings from Mexico🇲🇽
Great comment, it made me look up his story and wow.💛
GOD I LOVE THIS SONG! Even in my darkest moments, it reaches me. Everything about it is flawed perfection. Thank you, La's.
Literally, the song is just a Chorus, a beautiful chorus ans that's it... its amazing.
This song is up there with 'Love will tear us apart'. A song that other top bands wish they'd written and recorded. Doesn't matter that the band, in its various line ups, didn't conquer the world. Everyone remembers this song - it takes over your mind and takes you places.
Great comparison 👏
To be fair there are thousands of songs other artists wish they'd written and recorded.
Two top song
I was obsessed with this song and this band in my teens. Was able to play the entire album back to front on my acoustic and did so much to the annoyance of listeners at my few gigs during that time XD
So few bands get recognized for their talents. Fewer get signed and have a break out. Fewer still ever have any longevity. Sometimes all you get is a single album, a single and a b side, or even just a single song to prove you've got something to say.
Much to Lee's continued chagrin, The La's debut is a perfect record. Lightning struck, magic and "natural aerials", (as Lee would call them), coalesced to give us a tried and true musical thunderbolt back in 1990. 30 minutes of pure, unabashed musical genius. Oh, and then there is "There She Goes", arguably one of the most perfect pop songs ever written. Though they would fade soon after, The La's musical legend continues to endure now some thirty years later.
Sometimes an album or a song is enough. It certainly was for me, a now 32 year old with 22 years of guitar playing under my belt, to look back on as a stone in my musical foundation. Cheers, La.
Es una de las cinco canciones perfectas según la ciencia, los acordes mueven los estados de ánimo de la felicidad a la nostalgia. Es ciencia, pero parece magia.
Antes que salga esta lista ya era una musica que me llegaba mucho ahora entiendo porque al parecer no era yo el unico que sentia eso
Guaaauuuu
Tiene algo
Lo es también en mi top five de preferidas!😊
@@fernandovillalba1762 there's a place es otra
Nobody does rock music like the Brits.
*scousers
David Quinn Oasis?
@@davidquinn5256 not really?
yup and now remember England,Wales,Scotland and Northern Ireland have all produced some great bands our lovely United Kingdom these blessed isles
Cringe
I just love how my life changed since I first heard it, I love even more the emotions it brings back from that time
This came back to me randomly after years. Still hits the same.
If there was any band on earth who deserved more than one hit song, it’s the LA’s. The entire album is brilliant.
Which other ones are good?
@@gabrielmartinelli2549 clearly someone hasn’t listened to the album 🙄
I love this song ,it makes me feel happy ,its like a warm fuzzy feeling inside me
same feelings here as well :D
Do you know it about heroin right? lol if you didnt i ruined the song for you sorry :D
+Noa Sigan Ah no ,I've read it on wikipedia ,the band member said its just about a girl ,nothing about heroine
like heroin
the stranglers also said golden brown was about toast.. not buying it 😂😂
I'm 43 so this song is hardly new to me, but I can't stop listening to it at the moment. I've decided it's the best pop song of all time - The Beatles included.
I heard this music when i was 15/16 Years old.at this moment, i song in a rock band and i had got a look punk!! Best Years, so émotion.
Best pop song of all time? It's a good song, but in a world where songs like "Under the Boardwalk" by The Drifters, "Sittin' On The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding, "Thunder Road" by Bruce Springsteen, "American Pie" by Don McLean, "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" by Paul Simon, etc., etc., etc., etc. exist, that may be a slight overstatement...
@@suchanhachan Ok. So we don't agree. No need to be an arse about it.
@@andrewstubbs822 Dude, I wasn't trying to be an arse. I agree that it's a really good song, I was just trying to show my vast disagreement with the whole "best" thing in a joking way. But this is the internet, and nothing is official until somebody insults somebody, so you got that out of the way. I'm an arse...
This might be the most perfect song ever written.
Loved it and then it was the opening for the „high fidelity“ movie adaption - perfect
This song would have been a hit in ANY decade.
These guys look and sound like every famous British band combined
That's because they are British
They are so stereotypically british, the lead singer looks like david bowie and hugh laurie combined
They were the founders of 90s britpop
@@MrGlk Exactly, they're the forerunners of some of the other bands mentioned here.
Yeah, the bassist looks exactly like the singer from Cast. Weird.
2 minutes and 50 seconds of pure joy.
Mario Škof 2minutes and 52 seconds to be precis
Mario Škof yeah the other two seconds were pretty depressing but besides that it was great
I can’t even begin to explain how much I love this song, it’s so amazing. The la’s are such a brilliant band ❤️😁
heart rendering, somehow joyful and melancholic as well. It fits to a wedding and to a funeral. This song comforts you, simply great.
What a beautiful song even now !! It's a real timeless melody...
I played this song in the car recently whilst giving my mother a lift somewhere. She said "Oh I remember this song from the 60s". I said "It's not a 60s song mum, it just sounds like it is". She swore blind that this was a cover of a 60s song, which goes to show just how much these guys nailed what they were going after.
The first time I heard this song was when Sixpence None the richer covered it. I loved that cover, but this is something magical. The song sung how it's supposed to be, not sanitised and standardised... the intended accent and emotion. Everything is perfect about this song, including the fact that it doesn't mess around. Says what it wants to say and ends before it gets boring and repetitive.
Best pop song of all time!
Kiss Me by Sixpence Noen The Richer wins that title. They also did a cover of this song.
I think it doesn’t have the depth to compete, only my opinion.@@ivanjulian2532
extremely ahead of time piece of music. if they wrote that song in 2013 nobody would notice...
heard this in the news agents in Paddington station yesterday. now im singing my heart out in my bedroom before heading out for the night. neighbours must think im mental. lol.
Cracking song!
As a half Brit half Greek I’m really proud of my British roots,not only for the great music but generally for the Uk and all the things Brits have done/Created 🇬🇧🇬🇷❤️
I'm from Greece and I love this song!!
@@Μιχαέλα-ν9ζ Αχαχαχα τέλεια
Except colonialism
@@ahmadyogi1340 yep! Wouldn’t be proud of that.
@@ahmadyogi1340 at least we left the places we went to, unlike all the waves of human rejects that wash up on our shores by the millions every year with empty pockets and a sense of entitlement. The truth is no other ppl have been as exploited and used as modern Britain. It is our country that is really being colonised and none of those colonisers is ever going to leave.
Me encanta la ropa de Lee Mavers... me encanta todo de él, su corte de cabello, su postura, su voz, su presencia. Y además estoy enamorada de John Power. Es tan lindo (para mi). Tenía un aspecto muy juvenil y de chico común y corriente. Un chico que tranquilamente podrías cruzarte por cualquier lado. Me encanta !! En fin. Estos muchachos fueron fabulosos. Podrían haber llegado a mucho ! De hecho "Cast" es una gran banda y John dijo "ahora canto yo", lo hizo de diez =)
Meu irmao preto amava tocar essa música, agora carrega nas costas um mochilao maior que ele, dando plantão na frente da c0vid. Ele que cuidou dos meus filhos, um dia perguntei onde estava o baixo que dei para ele, ele respondeu que vendeu para pagar um curso de enfermagem, o sonho dele era ser socorrista.
Damn, they nailed the song with 3 nails, gorgeous sound boys!
I remember listening to this on vinyl in the early 90s. There was never not a good time to put it on. It still feels like a breath of fresh air today.
Hi👍
.An old friend, Nigel Weston RIP, once told me he was working for a commercial property leasing firm on Merseyside in the late 80s - early 90s. One day his boss tells him to get the keys for a derelict factory building that was on their books, get his arse down there and let in a pop band and camera crew who are shooting a music video. As this was not the usual he asked who the band was, his boss looks at the paperwork and tells him "it's the L.A.'s, never heard of 'em, probably Americans from the name" Anyways the L.A.'s were the Las and he spent the day watching them make this. Always think of Nige when I hear this.
This music can only come from the UK
Really? I'd agree on Beatles, Kinks, Smiths and many more, but this has a very 60s West Coast feel to me (Byrds) - the music, mind you, not the looks!
@@thenavajoknow nah mate this sounds scouse
@@lennon1482 I have to say, i always thought this was an American band (Although i was 6 years old when it was first released) and its only been in recent years ive found out it was a Liverpool band...but now that i know it is obvious when i listen to it, 100% northern England.
Also i didn't not know the lead singer of Cast was in this band too
The good Music always come from UK
@@lennon1482 Made my fucking day ;-)
this song has been one of my favourites ever, i’d even go as far as saying top 5, i’m 27 now so not sure I was even born when it was released but I just adore it so much, & no matter how many times I hear it it just always sounds so fresh & new... does anyone else think that?
such a short yet simple and beautiful song
The highest level of volume on my earphones isn't loud enough for this classic.
If only Lee could overcome his perfectionism. He's could be up there with the songwriting GOATs. This one album is this good, it makes you feel sad to think what could have been.
Am I the only one who likes this version better? I just feel like it's more honest.
That's because this is the original
+Lauren Smart I'll just grab some ointment and bandages
+Lauren Smart +tinid0r he never said it wasn't...
The reason why you feel that is because this is the original version.
HAHAHAHA oh lordy. Send help. I can't even. I have no words.
This actually probably IS the greatest song ever made, it isn't my favourite song ever made but it is literally flawless, what more culd you want a song to actually be?
This song is in like every 2000s movie❤️❤️
Naraj 85 yass!!!
This song was featured in Love Actually
Parent trap🥰
My best friend worked for a while with the drummer (He's a rope access worker these days). He said this song is his pension as he gets a nice royalties cheque through the door every month just from this one song.
@Cool Waters Can't see why he'd lie about it. It may not be an equal division though.
Lightning in a bottle! A perfect pop song in 2 minutes and 51 seconds. I still have my original UK vinyl of this.
It's perfect. That's it! Absolutely perfect.
Damn, Songs like these and Football make me wanna visit England :(, i wish i could someday.
dont bother, I live here and want to get out, taxed too much and shitty living on the contrary to popular belief, heed my advice and don't
***** So i've heard, but i don't wanna go to live there i just wanna visit and come back to my country that's all lol.
***** You make me laugh mate. England is still one of the best countries in the world to live in. One problem it has got though is that it is full of moaning fuckers like you who don't know when they have got it good.
bridesheadrev hear hear we aint the best country in the world but we are a lot further up the list than the most
oooh keyboard warrior, work on your speech pal and get out out of your arse, the place is a shithole, and everyone normal person knows it
This song is unreal seriously! Sounds even better now than it did in the 80s
One of the most perfect pop songs ever written. Could have come out any year since the mid 80s and still would have been a banger.
great little song. really unique voice. pity we didnt hear much more from the la's
Have not heard this song in ages. Suddenly thought of the lyrics today ^^.
i always called this one the epitome of pop music cuz it has a catchy riff,catchy progression,catchy melody,catchy lyrics and basically everything is catchy its a well made song
Loved it! I was at the Belfast motor show and the DJ was playing this just about every hour. A belter👊
Wow, I don't really know how this song makes me feel, happy, nostalgic, sad??
Daniel Buggie same. I can’t figure it out either
I think that's the beauty of this song, it makes you feel so many things - nostalgia, sadness, loss, happiness, good memories, excitement
Same here dude, !!
No, your sad already. Get the "pistols" on the hi-fi and crack out the special brew. If that doesn't make you punch the wife on the chin well I just guess you'll never be happy.
it’s probably because this songs about the sad and happy parts of using heroin that what the songs about btw
Lucky it was recommended to me, thank you UA-cam.
Best song in the history of song making - guitar riff is legendary