“Here's Where The Story Ends” by The Sundays

"Here's Where the Story Ends" was the Sundays' breakthrough, the second single from their 1990 debut album Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, and it went all the way to the top of Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. Harriet Wheeler and David Gavurin wrote it together, and the whole band is on the record: Wheeler singing, Gavurin on guitar, Paul Brindley on bass and Patch Hannan on drums. Rough Trade put it out, following their first single "Can't Be Sure".

It's jangle pop of the most delicate sort, Gavurin's guitar chiming and circling while Wheeler's voice floats over the top, sweet and airy but with a wistful, knowing streak running through it. The mood is a sigh rather than a sob, sad and pretty in equal measure, the kind of record that sounds like a rainy afternoon spent indoors with the window cracked open.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.