You Are The Girl
	Produced by Ric Ocasek
	Released on August 1987
	US CHART POSITION #17 (charted Aug. 29, 1987 for 14 weeks)
	Find it at GEMM
7-69446 wo. picture sleeve [high resolution scan]

S omething of a swan song for the band, so we’ll call the nostalgic air that surrounds it prescient. “You Are The Girl” has a dreamlike quality to it that reminds me of The The’s “This Is A Day.” (Attention advertisers: I might be more inclined to buy your client’s brand of mayonnaise/denim jeans/health insurance if this song appeared in their commercials.) “Ta Ta Wayo Wayo” is as good as it sounds, which isn’t very, though it does sound more like The Cars’ earlier work (albeit with an idling engine). I haven’t heard the Door To Door album (from which these come), but on these two tracks anyway Elliot Easton seems to take the lead guitarist role at face value (or he was channeling the fingertips of Gary Moore or something).

TRACK LISTING

1. YOU ARE THE GIRL    (Ric Ocasek)    3:52
2. TA TA WAYO WAYO    (Ric Ocasek)    2:52
   
   12-inch single track listing
   
1. YOU ARE THE GIRL
2. TA TA WAYO WAYO
3. TONIGHT SHE COMES

CREDITS

Joe Barbaria -- engineer

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