Chris Rea : Stainsby Girls
10/10/2015
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Beautiful song!
Posted by: Grumpy | 10/10/2015 at 04:42 PM
Is it just me, or has the link stopped working?
Posted by: Paul | 10/10/2015 at 06:59 PM
My favorite Chris Rea song. And there are a whole lot of good ones.
Posted by: Mac | 10/10/2015 at 07:00 PM
Still works for me, Paul.
Posted by: Mac | 10/10/2015 at 07:03 PM
It works now. Before it was just a black rectangle that did nothing when clicked on.
Posted by: Paul | 10/10/2015 at 08:01 PM
It's too bad that the video is not as evocative as the song. The women look like standard-issue MTV girls of the period, not Stainsby girls. Not that I have any idea at all of what an actual Stainsby girl would have looked like, but she would have been more interesting-looking than these.
Posted by: Mac | 10/11/2015 at 04:19 PM
In a sense, perhaps. I gather that Stainsby was the local girls' school near where he went to school himself, and as a teenage boy the pupils at the girls' school, although his own age, seemed impossibly glamorous. So my guess would be that, like most teenagers, actual Stainsby girls had a marked resemblance to unbaked dough.
Posted by: Paul | 10/12/2015 at 03:26 AM
They didn't look that way to him, apparently. Maybe secondary modern schools, whatever they are, turn out a more glamorous sort.
Posted by: Mac | 10/12/2015 at 07:11 AM
Teenage boys notoriously see these things differently. I suspect the song has more to do with personal mythology than with the objective characteristics of the school or its pupils. ("Secondary modern" means not providing a particularly academic or technical curriculum, as a grammar school or a technical school would, so basically a very ordinary type of school.)
Posted by: Paul | 10/12/2015 at 07:40 AM
The song is definitely about nostalgia for adolescent infatuations, but that doesn't mean the girls weren't actually beautiful. I've certainly seen some since I was a teenager, though they were probably a bit past 15.
Posted by: Mac | 10/12/2015 at 10:20 AM
Knowing that the song is about schoolgirls makes the video, in retrospect, extremely creepy.
Posted by: Paul | 10/12/2015 at 11:58 AM