jon_chaisson | Y is for You Don't Understand

Yes, that riff totally sounds like the Spencer Davis Group, doesn't it?

This track came out in 1992 from the House of Love's third album Babe Rainbow and really didn't do anything anywhere, but it's a great song nonetheless. By that time, most of the commercial alternative stations had jumped on the grunge bandwagon, leaving a lot of the great Britpop behind. The House of Love had been around since the late 80s with minor hits like "Christine", "I Don't Know Why I Love You" and "Marble" (a b-side given a new life on the US Modern Charts), but by 1993 they'd moved on. Hearing it now, though, it's a solid party rocker that should have had a lot more airplay than it did.