Ueba! I found another magazine toplist! This time by NME Magazine, which listed completely different songs from those selected by Rolling Stone Magazine. Well, I think I’ll do like them and update them from 5th to 1st place. So let’s go to the 5th, which is... “La La Love You” by Pixies.
The Pixies were one of the pioneering bands of alternative rock, having their roots in punk and surf rock, and influenced bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins. “La La Love You” was recorded in 1989 in their 2nd studio album, named “Doolittle”. “Doolittle” was considered the 2nd best album of all time by NME.
“La La Love You” is sung by drummer Dave Lovering, the only song which the drummer does the vocals. The whistles are made by Kim Deal and Black Francis, as you can see in this beautiful live show. Below is an excerpt from the book “The Pixies’ Doolittle (33 1/3)” by Ben Sisario, that speaks about this song:
“It is the jokiest, cutest, dumbest song on the album, an upbeat goof with foxy-lady whistles and a Woody Woodypercker guitar riff that is all about love, love, love. ‘All I’m saying, pretty baby / La la love you, don’t mean maybe.’
“It’s bullshit, of course. ‘There is no love in here,’ Thompson told the NME. ‘Not a drop. I’ve never written a love song. It’s just like an abstract sort of joke… it’s just mimicking a really bad 1950s song, or maybe I should say 1980s. ‘First base, second base, third base, home run’ is a very Shakespearean crass joke in America, a crude joke for full copulation. I’m just being a minimalist as I can, but it conjures up lots of images — well, one image, I should say.’
“This joke — abstract, crass, crude — is a dig at the very idea of a love song. (…) The ‘la la’ bilge is sarcastically embraced as a kind of proof that pop music is by definition repetitive and banal. ‘If the song means something,’ he says, ‘then it’s just to be a wiseass.’
“The sneer begins right away, in the opening few seconds of the song. David Lovering starts with a bog come-on-get-your-drink-the-band’s-started-again beat, and the first dumb joke is a call-and-response huzzah shouted over the traps. ‘Shake your butt!’ goes the first guy, presumably with one hand raising high a bottle of Coors Light. The response, barely audible, comes from one of the nerds in the back: ‘Not too harrrd!’ The skit that follows unfolds with all the spin-the-bottle predictability of a real love song. Bass, drums, and acoustic guitar play it straight, while Joey Santiago does a smartass wink followed by various Martian interpolations of surf chords. The come a whistle, a ‘yeah,’ and lots of ‘ I love yous,’ sung tag-team style by each Pixie. (Santiago, panned right, can’t seem to enunciate at the mic.) As if all this was not enough to indicate a spoof, Thompson had the drummer sing it. Tunrs out Lovering was perfect for the part — he’s a cheesy crooner who can do a Rick Astley just as good as Rick Astley.
“‘To me, the biggest fuck-yous are not a song like ‘Tame,’’ Thompson says, ‘but it’s sort of like ‘La La Love You’ that’s the big fuck-you. In that it’s sort of like, oh yeah, I can scream and shout and be abrasive or whatever like the rest of you motherfuckers, but I’m willing to be truly dorky, you know what I mean? I’m willing to be silly.”
(Shake your butt!)
(Not too hard!)
(Shake your butt!)
(Not too hard!)
[whistle]
yeah
I love you
I do
I love you
All I'm saying pretty baby
La la love you don't mean maybe
All I'm saying pretty baby
First base
Second base
Third base
Home run
[whistle]
yeah
I love you
I do
I love you
All I'm saying pretty baby
La la love you, don't mean maybe
All I'm saying pretty baby
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The Pixies were one of the pioneering bands of alternative rock, having their roots in punk and surf rock, and influenced bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins. “La La Love You” was recorded in 1989 in their 2nd studio album, named “Doolittle”. “Doolittle” was considered the 2nd best album of all time by NME.
“La La Love You” is sung by drummer Dave Lovering, the only song which the drummer does the vocals. The whistles are made by Kim Deal and Black Francis, as you can see in this beautiful live show. Below is an excerpt from the book “The Pixies’ Doolittle (33 1/3)” by Ben Sisario, that speaks about this song:
“It is the jokiest, cutest, dumbest song on the album, an upbeat goof with foxy-lady whistles and a Woody Woodypercker guitar riff that is all about love, love, love. ‘All I’m saying, pretty baby / La la love you, don’t mean maybe.’
“It’s bullshit, of course. ‘There is no love in here,’ Thompson told the NME. ‘Not a drop. I’ve never written a love song. It’s just like an abstract sort of joke… it’s just mimicking a really bad 1950s song, or maybe I should say 1980s. ‘First base, second base, third base, home run’ is a very Shakespearean crass joke in America, a crude joke for full copulation. I’m just being a minimalist as I can, but it conjures up lots of images — well, one image, I should say.’
“This joke — abstract, crass, crude — is a dig at the very idea of a love song. (…) The ‘la la’ bilge is sarcastically embraced as a kind of proof that pop music is by definition repetitive and banal. ‘If the song means something,’ he says, ‘then it’s just to be a wiseass.’
“The sneer begins right away, in the opening few seconds of the song. David Lovering starts with a bog come-on-get-your-drink-the-band’s-started-again beat, and the first dumb joke is a call-and-response huzzah shouted over the traps. ‘Shake your butt!’ goes the first guy, presumably with one hand raising high a bottle of Coors Light. The response, barely audible, comes from one of the nerds in the back: ‘Not too harrrd!’ The skit that follows unfolds with all the spin-the-bottle predictability of a real love song. Bass, drums, and acoustic guitar play it straight, while Joey Santiago does a smartass wink followed by various Martian interpolations of surf chords. The come a whistle, a ‘yeah,’ and lots of ‘ I love yous,’ sung tag-team style by each Pixie. (Santiago, panned right, can’t seem to enunciate at the mic.) As if all this was not enough to indicate a spoof, Thompson had the drummer sing it. Tunrs out Lovering was perfect for the part — he’s a cheesy crooner who can do a Rick Astley just as good as Rick Astley.
“‘To me, the biggest fuck-yous are not a song like ‘Tame,’’ Thompson says, ‘but it’s sort of like ‘La La Love You’ that’s the big fuck-you. In that it’s sort of like, oh yeah, I can scream and shout and be abrasive or whatever like the rest of you motherfuckers, but I’m willing to be truly dorky, you know what I mean? I’m willing to be silly.”
(Shake your butt!)
(Not too hard!)
(Shake your butt!)
(Not too hard!)
[whistle]
yeah
I love you
I do
I love you
All I'm saying pretty baby
La la love you don't mean maybe
All I'm saying pretty baby
First base
Second base
Third base
Home run
[whistle]
yeah
I love you
I do
I love you
All I'm saying pretty baby
La la love you, don't mean maybe
All I'm saying pretty baby
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