“I SAW HER STANDING THERE” IS THE BEST FIRST SONG ON A debut album, ever. The longest, loudest, drunkest debate I’ve ever had about this was with Craig Finn of the Hold Steady, where we narrowed it down to the final two candidates: “I Saw Her Standing There” and Joy Division’s “Disorder.” Both songs by Northern English yobs, knowing they have only three minutes to seize their chance; both bar bands jittery at finding themselves in a real studio; both bands with maniac drummers; everyone jumping into the violence of it, getting faster now, getting out of hand, until it’s impossible not to get
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