Tom: I have no idea why I love this, but oh my word do I love it.
Tim: Um, try big music, nice tune, emotive lyrics – any of that sound about right?
Tom: It’s a cover version of a 1984 track by The The, which a lot of folks hearing it on the radio – including me – won’t know. The original, while nice and almost a bit folky, is a bit too nice and folky for me. Accordions are an instrument that I really don’t want to make a comeback in pop. (That is an excellent early-chromakey video, though.)
Tim: Yeah – part of what I like about this is the rock-ness of it with the big guitars and drums and everything that are entirely absent from that original.
Tom: The Manics have taken the lovely melody, lyrics and sentiment and kicked it up so many notches that it’s barely even the same song any more. It’ll do me very nicely.