Let the heavens shudder baby, I belong to you

Thursday music corner: The Sundays were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1988 by singer Harriet Wheeler and guitarist David Gavurin. They released three albums between 1990 and their disbandment in 1997, all of which reached the UK top 20, and two of which reached the US top 40.

The ethereal jangle-pop of Goodbye was the band's fourth single, and the second released from their second album, 1992's Blind. It reached number 27 in the UK pop charts, but performed better in the US, where it reached number 11 in the US Alternative chart. The band's cover of the Rolling Stones' Wild Horses appeared on the single's B-side, and was featured on the soundtracks to the 1996 movie Fear and the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

On a personal note, I was introduced to this album and The Sundays by Fiona McDonald, the singer for Strawpeople and the Headless Chickens. We weren't acquainted; rather, she was the Saturday manager of the Sounds music shop adjacent to the Whitcoulls bookshop that I was the Saturday manager of, in the Auckland Downtown Shopping Centre (which closed in 2016 and was replaced by the Commercial Bay development). She was playing the Blind album one Saturday through the shop stereo, and I wandered over during a lull in business to ask who was playing. Thanks Fiona! It was a distinct improvement on the Whitcoulls soundtrack at the time, which thanks to the musical tastes of the shop's regular manager was generally a loop of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert soundtrack. (To this day the introduction to Alicia Bridges' I Love The Nightlife sends shivers down my spine). 

The Sundays - Goodbye (1992)

See also:

Music: The Sundays - Wild Horses (1992)

Music: The Sundays - Here's Where The Story Ends (1990)

Music: Strawpeople - Taller Than God (1996)