Wet Wet Wet's version of Reg Presley's Troggs composition "Love Is All Around" was released in June 1994. It topped the UK singles chart in its week of release and, fuelled by its appearance in the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral, remained there for fifteen consecutive weeks. All told, the song spent 37 weeks on the survey.[1] "We did everybody's head in in the summer of 1994," joked Wets frontman Marti Pellow exactly a decade later. "I still think it's a brilliant record. Its strength is its sheer simplicity. Any band would give their eye teeth to have a hit record like that. I'm very proud of it."[2]
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R.E.M. connection
The employment of film projection onto blank cards in the song's video is reminiscent of R.E.M.'s "Radio Song" video. Regarding the Wets' recording of the song, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck said, "People say they got the idea to do it from seeing us play - and I hope so, because it made Reg a million pounds or something. It's a great song. I thought it was a fine version."[3]
"I heard their live version - they did it on TV once - and [Marti Pellow] sang it with the same little melody that I threw in there, which was kind of nice," added Mike Mills. "That thing like uh-uh-uh-urrr at the end. That doesn't exist on the original version."[3]
"Oh, okay. I thought you meant bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah," concluded Michael Stipe.[3]
References
- ^ http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gary.hart/lyricsw/wet.html
- ^ Sloan, Billy (June 27, 2004). "Wets Get Together Again". Daily Record.
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