Old music: Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories – Stay (I Missed You)

Lisa Loeb's tale of callow self-absorption has weathered rather better than such contemporaries as WhigfieldLike a young Lamacq or Peel, I stumbled across Stay (I Missed You) in the mid-90s on an underground mixtape called Now 29. I'd bought the compilation on the strength of similar one-hit "wonders" Pato Banton and Whigfield, whose songs I now regard with a turbulent mix of revulsion and nostalgia, the way exiled dictators must remember their war crimes. I think time has been kinder to Lisa Lo...

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