Monday 3 February 1992. The quest to pick up a copy of the new Wedding Present single wasn’t as intense as the previous month. I think we gave up after visiting the three shops closest to our office.
In due course, when the first of the compilation CDs were released in June 1992, I wasn’t all that bothered that I had missed out on this one as I felt at the time, and still do, that it was a rare misfire in terms of singles
mp3: The Wedding Present – Go-Go Dancer
There’s really not much of a tune and the lyric, while concerning itself with the dreams of a lovelorn individual, is a bit on the convoluted side.
The b-side was a Neil Young song, originally released in 1975 on the album Zuma, which he had recorded alongside Crazy Horse:-
mp3: The Wedding Present – Don’t Cry No Tears
I only knew the song thanks to it having been covered by Teenage Fanclub as a b-side to Everything Flows, that had come out the previous year. I thought the Weddoes version was better but in saying that, I would eventually discover that neither of them come up to the original when I became a very very very very very late convert to some of Neil Young’s material.
Go-Go Dancer entered the charts at #20, which was, at the time, the highest placing for any TWP 45. There was no invite to Top of The Pops this time, but here’s the budget promo:-
This one was directed by Phil Taylor.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 
I’ve always felt that while some of these singles were not particularly single-worthy, when compiled and listened to in the context of them becoming an album, they actually work well together. Hence Go-Go Dancer is a more than decent album track.
This is the fun of it. I always enjoyed Go-Go Dancer a lot. And quite a bit more than some of the later singles in the run (in fact all of them after Boing).
It would be awful if we all always agreed.