My Top 2000 Songs #1090: I Don't Know Why I Love You

The House Of Love's 1988 single "Christine," off their eponymous debut album, was an instant favorite, taking the distortion and reverb of the emerging shoegaze scene and pairing it was a delightfully catchy pop song, simple and shimmering. And it's fair to say 1989's "I Don't Know Why I Love You" didn't exactly mix things up. The band seemed to be simply remaking prior work--indeed, the follow up to 1988's The House Of Love from which this came was, confusingly, also called The House Of Love--with "Don't Know Why" more a remake of "Christine" than a follow-up.

But you know what? I didn't really care, because it's still a great song. As the song title itself suggests, the band is offering nothing deep or insightful, the lyrics seemingly there simply to give themselves something to sing while they play that wonderfully shimmering groove. Fine with me!

Alternate video:

Live 2022:

Ivy cover:

House of Love + Ivy's Dominique Durand:

Soft Science cover, live in the studio: