Had I known that the answer to that particular query was a fair bit of disappointment and a brief flirtation with clubby tops, I might not have bothered thinking much about it. And then of course there was all that newness to look forward to, which included the chart debut of what turned out to be my all time favourite pop group, Saint Etienne — but for a brief and fairly intense period I was officially All About Inga. In the charts, it did about as well as you might expect, which is not very.
But goodness me, I thought it was ace. Still do. Just like a train, it makes stops along the way, first picking up a harmonica and then Lol Creme , and then finally a truly gorgeous lollop-ing guitar line that makes me grin and tip my head from side to side.
Of course the best thing about all of it is Inga herself. With lots of beautifully layered vocals, she comes across a bit like a one woman Andrews Sisters on sedatives, which is obviously no bad thing. I bet Enya was kicking herself. Railway-related pop — by which I mean pop that at some point compels you to use your arms to replicate the motion of a train and yank on an imaginary steam whistle pull cord — is a tricky thing to master.
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