The Life of Riley, by the British pop band The Lightning Seeds, was the song that I heard on the famous Los Angeles alternative rock station KROQ when I moved from New Mexico to California in the early 90s. I had just left the cold winter weather of the Rocky Mountains in the rear view mirror and was enjoying the warn winter weather of Southern California. The upbeat positive song meshed with my upbeat positive view on my new life on the west coast. I felt like I was actually living the Life of Riley at that time in my life.
"The Life of Riley" is a song by British band The Lightning Seeds. It was released in 1992 from the album Sense.
The song was a minor hit when it was first released on 2 March 1992, reaching number 28 on the UK Singles Chart. However the song later gained popularity when the BBC football programme, Match of the Day, began to use it frequently for segments including "Goal of the Month", throughout most of the 1990s. The song was still associated with the programme many years later and featured in a similar "Goal of the Day" segment in the mid-2000s.
The writer of the song, Ian Broudie, cites his son Riley as the namesake of the piece. The song title has also been used for a compilation album, Life of Riley: The Lightning Seeds Collection. A remix of "The Life of Riley" appeared on the single "Sense", and an instrumental version appeared on "Change". The single was also later reissued.
The song also appears to have influenced the Bruce Springsteen single "We Take Care of Our Own", released in January 2012. Broudie's song may in turn bear the influence of a more raucous track, 1979's "Life of Riley" by Cardiff band Zipper, released on Virgin (the same label as the Lightning Seeds) and written by bassist Andy Brice. It also bears melodic similarity to Burt Bacharach's "Always Something There To Remind Me". - Wiki
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