Love-Ya'

written in 1989 and 1990 / recorded in 1990

The chord progression of the intro, which is also used in the middle for the guitar solo, was written in the summer of 1989 as a part of an abandoned conceptual work. Other sections were all written in early 1990 when this demo was recorded.

Apart from using the wah-wah pedal on the guitar and featuring of subtle twists in the rhythm programming, this tune is quite simple and boring stuff. In other words, I only wrote this tune for preserving the said chord progression by using it in this way rather than forsaking it as a part of the lost project altogether.

The original recording also featured lyrics, which was designed to describe a story about a non-English speaking boy fell in love with a girl, who only speaks English. Perhaps, this idea was unconsciously inspired by Que Te Quiero, one of my favourite tracks from the eponymous Katrina & the Waves album from 1985. The song was about an English speaking girl, sung by the band’s singer Katrina Leskanich, fell in love with a boy ‘down in Mexico’. I don’t think my attempt was successful but the reason why I chose to call this tune Love-Ya’ came from the idea for the lyrics; I didn’t want my boy character to be so fluent in English that he would deliberately misspell ‘luv’ instead of ‘love’, but I also wanted to include an unusual spelling in the song title… the conclusion was Love-Ya’.