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WE LOVE YOU



Trax: We Love You, The Girl About Town, We Love You (B), Punk Boy 1
Label: Damaged Goods, DAMGOOD 95
Released: 1996, 4-track 7" and CD
More info: The last single on Damaged Goods celebrated the DIY ethic so beloved of underground bands, but not in the usual po-faced style so perfectly ridiculed by Kenickie's Punka. Controversy time - this single could have been a chart hit but Damaged Goods supposedly completely messed up the distribution and it got nowhere. To be exact (and I do like to be), it made the giddy heights of number 152 on 22 June 1996. This, I've heard, was one of the main reasons why Helen Love decided to find a new record label.
The Girl About Town originally appeared on the Astral Angora 7" compilation and ranked high in John Peel's Festive 50 for 1996. We Love You also featured another previously released track in the shape of Punk Boy 1 - I guess it was put on here after hundreds of Ash fans had besieged Damaged Goods asking how they could get hold of it.
I'd really like someone to tell me what the 'MC5s' reference is all about in The Girl About Town. I know it's a band, but that doesn't fit the lyrics, so I thought it might be a nightclub in Swansea, but that doesn't exactly make sense either. So what is it?

WE LOVE YOU

Bubblegum, punk pop, disco, don't stop,
Make a record in your home,
You don't need a studio,
Bubblegum, punk pop, disco, don't stop,
Drum machine, Casio,
Get it on the radio

Can't stop Julie and her synthesizer,
She's got more fizz than a bottle of Tizer,
Can't stop Sheena and her Super Kay,
With the fuzzbox on she'll play all day

Pop boy, pop girl, we love you,
Pop boy, pop girl, we love you,
Pop boy, pop girl, we love you,
We love you

Bubblegum, punk pop, disco, don't stop,
Make a record in your home,
You don't need a studio,
Bubblegum, punk pop, disco, don't stop,
Get some pictures, cut them out,
Paste them up and put it out

Can't stop Julie having disco fun,
She's got more records than Radio 1,
Can't stop Judy with her drum machine,
She's got more patterns than the Human League

Pop boy, pop girl, we love you,
Pop boy, pop girl, we love you,
Pop boy, pop girl, we love you

I bought these jeans to make you love me,
I cut a hole so your hand would fit,
Now I don't care about you,
I'm gonna sew up all the rips

I got these boots to make you happy,
I scuffed them up to turn you on,
Now I don't care about you,
I've got my Helen Love t-shirt on

Can't stop Julie and her super Moog,
You'll be amazed at the things she'll do,
Can't stop Sheena and her Super Kay,
With the fuzzbox on she'll play all day

We love you,
We love you,
We love you,
We love you

We love, we love you,
We love, we love you,
We love, we love you,
We love, we love you,
We love, we love you,
We love, we love you,
We love, we love you,
We love, we love you


THE GIRL ABOUT TOWN

See that girl running around,
She used to play in a band in town,
Had an electric guitar covered in stars,
The big, bad queen of the music scene

She got signed to a record label,
Spent the advance on a pinball table,
Sold a hundred records to all her friends,
Now she's back again

She lives in a flat halfway up in the sky,
Goes out with her boy into the MC5s,
Wears a different t-shirt every night,
With 'Access all areas' pinned on tight

See her running around,
She's the girl about town that you heard of,
See her running around,
She's the girl about town that you heard of,
See her running around,
She's the girl about town that you heard of,
Girl about town that you heard of,
Girl about town that you heard of

See that girl lying under the bar,
She used to be a rock'n'roll star,
Smoked cigarettes with Joan Jett in America

She got her picture in Rolling Stone,
She was third from the left behind Joey Ramone,
You couldn't see her face,
But I'm sure she looked great anyway

She lives in a flat halfway up in the sky,
Goes out with her boy into the MC5s,
She's be OK if he didn't hit her,
Or go to bed with the babysitter

See her running around,
She's the girl about town that you heard of,
See her running around,
She's the girl about town that you heard of,
See her running around,
She's the girl about town that you heard of,
Girl about town that you heard of,
Girl about town that you heard of

Girl about town that you heard of,
Girl about town that you heard of,
Girl about town that you heard of,
Girl about town that you heard of,
Girl about town that you heard of,
Girl about town that you heard of,
Girl about town that you heard of


WE LOVE YOU (B)

Lyrics coming very soon


PUNK BOY 1

Lyrics can be found on the Punk Boy page.


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