“There She Goes (Unplugged)” by The La's

Lee Mavers wrote "There She Goes" for the La's, and the English band first put it out on Go! Discs in 1988; it went on to be the second single from their self-titled album, the only one they ever made. What's heard here is the unplugged version, but the tune underneath is the same small miracle, a pop song so bright and so economical that it sounds as if it had always existed.

It beat Britpop to the punch by four years, and Rolling Stone later counted it among the founding stones of the movement. A 1990 reissue carried it to number 13 on the UK singles chart, and NME has kept coming back to it, ranking it 45th among the greatest indie anthems in 2007 and 22nd on its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.

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