Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Son of a gun (The La's) (LP 4414)

The La's  The La's (CD, Polydor/ Go! Discs Records, 1990) *****  

GenreAlt-rock, pop 

Places I remember: Real Groovy Records

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: There She Goes

Gear costume: I. O. U.

They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5Part 6Part 7

Active compensatory factors: The La's have become a legendary band because of main man Lee Maver's insistence on perfection. This is the band's only album. It's a brilliant one too.

It's very sixties sounding and the closest touch point is Ray Davies and The Kinks, but The La's sound like no one else.

As AllMusic pointed out, the album shows how The La's 'exist outside of time, suggesting the '60s in their simple, tuneful, acoustic-driven arrangements but seeming modern in their open, spacy approach'.

Where do they all belong? A true one-off.

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