80's Classic: Katrina & The Waves - "Walking On Sunshine" C/D

I love Rew's riff as it's reminiscent of the Soft Boys but put in an entirely different context. Great song all in all I guess.

Original version, awesome. Re-recorded 1985 single version, suX0rz.

That goes double for "Going Down to Liverpool," as well.

Fuck! I guess I should hear the original version then!

Great song in either version -- one of the few overplayed eighties touchstones that sounds great, in large part thanks to the lust in Katrina's voice.

But how do I know whether I've downloaded the original version??

The Scott Litt remix has the horn section.

Yeah, I kind of take back my "suX0rz" proclamation upthread. The Litt remix is alright in its own way (maybe even preferable on a bright sunny day).

But I stand by my view of the re-recorded "Going Down to Liverpool." COMPLETE BS!

maybe one of my ten least favorite songs of all-time

Yeah, well, go commiserate with Geir, he probably feels the same way.

let's see, do i have a personal anecdote connected to this song? yes! when i was a jr. in high school i got recruited out of the band percussion section to play drums for the middle school choir's rendition of "walking on sunshine," which they were performing at some choir competition out of town. so me and this high school sr. named dave who played piano had to ride a bus loaded with 6th-8th graders out to cow country jr. high to provide musical backing for what sounded more or less like a rural american kidz bop session (complete with rather wobbly backbeat, courtesy of me). what i mostly remember is dave (who was 18 or so and leader of a prince cover band) hitting on the 8th-grade girls. so i've kind of associated the song with lolita-ish indecency ever since.

still, classic.

(i do not remember who won the competition, but i kind of doubt it was us.)

That's the kind of posting that makes me glad I started the thread.

Also I think I've found the original version of this now.

Of the pre-Capitol/Scott Litt stuff, also search: "She Loves to Groove."

And any version of "The Game of Love."

One of the Waves (Kimberly Rew, specifically) was in the fuckin' Soft Boys. RESPECT IS DUE!

this song: classic
my karaoke rendition of it: dud

Hey Bimble, long time no talk. . .anyway, the essential KaTW package is Bongo Beat's reissue of the first two Canadian LPs on one CD, plus there's a DVD included of a fantastic ca. '83 gig on some US Army base in Europe. As mentioned above, this is all the pre-Capitol, pre-Scott Litt recordings. This (and the Capitol LP) were the high-water marks.
_Waves_ is also worth finding, _Break of Hearts_ (which ended the game for them in North America) less so, and there's three Euro-only '90s-era discs. Rew's recent solo albums are OK but don't bear much resemblance to the KaTW stuff.

I often find myself whistling the horn part from this song without even realizing it. this is how I know that I am in a good mood.

But I stand by my view of the re-recorded "Going Down to Liverpool." COMPLETE BS!
The Bangles version was much better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtA9rC1JnwE

The favorite song of Futurama's Philip J. Fry. (And his dog, Seymour.) K-classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52mFabgHgkg

Nice! Anything that adds to Kimberley's bank account...

this was the first song i nominated on ILM POLLS THE 20TH CENTURY'S BEST TRACKS (Nominations Thread - Ends at Midnight on Friday, November 12 EST)

This song is fucking shit btw

^This post is fucking shit btw

touché

Joyless fucks go die

It's better than Celebrate Good Times.

Come on

dud

Love it. It'd be a dud without Katrina's vocals.

of course. i'd never want to hear a cover of this, but i'd never not want to hear the original.

original better than tolerable, remake dire.

Original (Kimberly Rew, right?) okay to good, remake marvelous, thanks to Katrina Leskanich. Here's a pop voice if there was any. Any questions?

Leskanich sang both, so there's that

Are we talking about the Scott Litt remix?

I hate this song more than I can even try to describe.

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buncha sourpusses y'all.

Just in case you needed yet another reason to absolutely adore Katrina Leskanich:

Katrina & the Waves join Tom Petty's fight against Michele Bachmann

i always sympathized with light fast upbeat pop without any remorse.
still, in a perfect world this would have been even more successful:
Makin' Time - here's my number

http://s1.directupload.net/images/110703/9cmmfn43.jpg

Sure I saw these guys with Graham Day from the Prisoners in the band, think he used to date Faye Hallam
lovely example

Original version: classic.
Dutch cover version ("It's finally weekend") even more so:
http://youtu.be/SblnwenJdbc

Damn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SblnwenJdbc

I wondered for a long time why their first two albums only came out in Canada, considering they're an English band. Turns out, it was the only label who expressed interest. So they were essentially a Canadian band for 3 years.

I think the Indigo Girls might have borrowed a little bit of "Brown Eyed Sun" for "Closer to Fine."

god damn I love the one-note guitar solo on this

Why was I being so hard to the 1985 version of "Liverpool" upthread? I just relistened to it and it's not horrific at all. It's different than the original, and the Bangles' version by extension, but it's nice enough in its own way.