Jade's Music Blog

I’m nothing if not predictable.
But it’s time to set a few things straight.
The album it came from may have done more harm than good in Liverpool - but There She Goes, by The La’s, remains the best pop song to have ever emerged from our fair city.
It’s a tune that gets a raw deal these days: over-familiar, on countless compilations, blamed for the cosmic Scouse culture and plucked by every busker this side of Bold Street.
But so what? That’s not the song’s fault, right? Four wheels are still good enough to get an ambulance to an emergency - despite all our advances in technology - and There She Goes can still get the job done for me.
It was American diner owners that decreed all pop hits should be around two-and-a-half minutes in length (more dimes in the jukebox baby!) and the greatest tune ever written by Lee Mavers obeys all the rules.
Great riff (God, there’s an understatement). Massive chorus - that opens the song too, a little Beatles nod there. Perfect harmonies. Exciting drums. A left turn of a middle eight. And a yearning, bittersweet lyric. Perfect combinations for great pop music - and (this is Keef Richards’ rule) something different happens every 20 seconds.
It always puts me in the right mood - but never the same one.
There She Goes is a song to be sung by all different people, really. And that’s its trick - it’s a tune that works on every level.
Bellowed by the lads on a night out, soundchecked by a band in The Zanzibar, screamed by the girls surrounding a busker on Church Street and hummed by your nan, when Billy Butler gives it its weekly spin on Radio Merseyside.
See. All things to everyone - and there is still those “written about smack” rumours to keep the next generation of NME readers interested, alongside the old farts from Mojo and Uncut.
A perfect pop song? It’s something to be ...

The Trestles play 3345, Parr Street on Thursday, July 3 to launch Liverpool Music Today.
The boys are also in the studio working on new material -
check out www.myspace.com/thetrestles for more info.