My Top 1000 Songs #766: I Love John, She Loves Paul

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

San Francisco-based 90s/00s indie rockers Beulah were a peripheral part of the era-defining retro-pop Elephant 6 scene; and while their later work became increasingly baroque and sophisticated, their earlier recordings perfectly encapsulate that jubilant lo-fi recreated 60s vibe. "I Love John, She Loves Paul," from 1997 debut Handsome Western States (produced by Apples in Stereo's Robert Schneider) perfectly captures the ethos. It's a raw, crunchy hook, pure late 60s garage-band grunge, but--the absence of the titular Beatles notwithstanding--it conjures a joyous pop song rush.

I played the hell out of this back at the time, as much a part of the core of my late 90s music existence as the better-known but like-minded Apples, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Olivia Trevor Control.
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