"It's hard to imagine anyone's heart not being lifted a little by Right Back Where We Started From: the euphoric rush of new love rendered into three minutes of cod-northern soul (performed, unexpectedly, by various ex members of ELO, the Animals and 60s soft-poppers Honeybus). Avoid the 80s cover by Sinitta at all costs. A song about fresh starts for anyone who's made a new year resolution with no intention of sticking to it."
"CMAT announces her departure for Tennessee, organises a farewell party (We'll cry to K-pop and tequila shots) and gives her friends presents to remember her by. One problem: she's made the whole story of her emigration up. 18. The Carpenters We've Only Just Begun (1970) We've Only Just Begun had unpromising beginnings a jingle on a US TV advert for a bank, opportunistically picked up on by a hit-hungry Richard Carpenter. Enter his sister, Karen, whose incredible vocal alternately joyous and tender transformed a song intended to flog mortgages into an authentically moving hymn to new love."
Right Back Where We Started From delivers a euphoric rush of new love in three minutes of cod-northern soul, performed by unexpected lineups. CMAT stages a theatrical farewell to Tennessee, complete with K-pop, tequila shots and gifts, but invents the emigration story. We've Only Just Begun began as a bank jingle but Karen Carpenter's alternately joyous and tender vocal transformed it into a moving hymn to new love. Astrud Gilberto's cover of Beginnings renders the song lush, funky and epic, evoking falling in love. Joe Smooth's Promised Land offered house music optimism during the AIDS crisis.
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