Love Songs

2. Amira - My Desire (Dreem Teem Mix) The name says it all. "My Desire" does the whole yearning shtick as well as any indie record ever has, because it captures the texture as well as the narrative of the sentiment. For dancing with tears in your eyes.

The rest:

3. The Magnetic Fields - The Book Of Love 4. Bjork - Come To Me 5. Sparklehorse - Saturday 6. Aaliyah - One In A Million 7. The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out 8. Joni Mitchell - A Case Of You 9. 10. Britney Spears - Born To Make You Happy

It'd make a helluva mix tape, eh?

Other grand ones include "Somebody" by DM (natch), "In Your Eyes" by Peter G (natchnatch), "Just Like Heaven" by The Cure, "Forever In My Life" by Prince, "Adore" by Prince, "Safe From Harm" by Massive Attack (it IS a love song, dammit), "Caught Up In The Rapture" by Anita Baker and "One More Time" by The Cure (iIals,d).

the smiths -- there is a light that never goes out

sonic youth -- i love her all the time green light wish fulfilment

smashing pumpkins -- hummer

native nod -- tangled

unrest -- breather xoxo

team dresch -- screwing yer courage

the magnetic fields -- come back from san francisco the luckiest guy on the lower east side don't look away

fugazi -- do you like me?

what an alternawuss this question has made me

Claire by the Rheostatics... so many songs to consider. There's got to be something by Lou Barlow amongst my favourites since his voice is so melty and stuff. I'd have to think about it some more.

don't know about the rest of the album though.

One of the first questions our very own Frank K asked himself (after he'd established which leg to move first when walking, clue: left) was why are there so many love songs? I've never read what he had to write, and I'm sure it went beyond any of boring answers that I'd further, I'm sure he noticed that more often than not love songs (unless they're breakup love songs) often insist on the infinity of love: the permanence: no reference to its ending. He would've noted, a lot more interestingly than this: that the Beach Boys song which starts "I may not always loves you" secures itself a reality and refreshingness by its concession of the temporaryness of love. I'm worried he wouldn't have been so crass as to say this, though: The Blue Nile took the Beach Boys bet and raised it, almost casting love as something painful, something that, actually, we might not want because of the troubles it causes: the gut cramps and relationship troubles: the almost certain impending dissolution: it's unproveability: don't worry, girl, "soon, this will all be over": time for leaving the parade. If he had have noted that, which I doubt because dude's dead old and that song probably wasn't written back then he would definitely scribbled something along the lines about exactly how painful this song just actually is.

And damned near the entire Jill Scott solo album to thread!

Nick Drake, "Northern Sky"; Syd Barrett, "Dark Globe," "Golden Hair"; Bastro, "Decent Skin"; The Bee Gees, "To Love Somebody"; Chris Bell, "I Am the Cosmos"; pretty much all of Big Star's recorded output; Camper Van Beethoven, "June"; Captain Beefheart, "I Love You, You Big Dummy," "I Need To Find Me a Woman To Hold My Big Toe," that one song whose title I'm forgetting from Clear Spot; Codeine, "Sea"; Ornette Coleman, "Lonely Woman"; The Dead C., "Hell Is Now Love"; Echo and the Bunnymen, "Ocean Rain"; Electric Prunes, "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night," "I Happen To Love You"; Eno, "I'll Come Running to Tie Your Shoe"; Galaxie 500, "Melt Away"; Grateful Dead, "Box of Rain"; Tim Hardin, "If I Were a Carpenter," "Lady Came from Baltimore"; Love, "My Little Red Book"; Lungfish, "Signpost"; Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Tuesday's Gone," "Free Bird"; Mercury Rev, "Car Wash Hair," "Everlasting Arm," "Opus 40"; Palace, Inc. "All Gone"; The Sea and Cake, "Parasol"; Sonny Sharrock, "A Portrait of Linda in Three Colors, All Black"; Shellac, "Doris"; Slint, "Washer"; Smog "To Be of Use," "Held"; Stone Roses, "She Bangs the Drums"; 13th Floor Elevators, "You're Gonna Miss Me"; Caetano Veloso/Gal Costa, "Baby"; The Walker Brothers, "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore"; Scott Walker, "On Your Own Again," "The World's Strongest Man"; Neil Young, "Only Love Can Break Your Heart"

You're not at all well, are you.

I've assumed that broken hearts are fair game in this thread

Morphine "All Your Way"
Ani DiFranco "Untouchable Face"
Wilco "I'm The Man Who Loves You"
Bjork "Venus as a Boy"
The Beatles "Within You Without You"
The Cure "Pictures of You"

Pet Shop Boys - "Liberation"

Pet Shop Boys - "It always comes as a surprise" (underrated song from their underrated album Billingual)

This might fall more under the "meta-love-song" category but Bjork's "All is full of love" is gorgeous, especially the Plaid remix.

"Daisy Bell" is my favorite love song of all time.

Harvest Moon is my favorite.

"More Than This" -- Roxy Music

"In Perpetuity" -- Too Much Joy

another vote for "Pictures of You"

"Melt With You" -- Modern English

"I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend" -- Ramones

And I've noticed that some of the best love songs have an element of uncertainty to them. It's not "I definitely love you!", but more like "maybe I love you". The Beach Boys' "God Only Knows" opens with "I may not always love you...."; George Harrison's "Something (In the Way She Moves)" says "you're asking me will my love grow, I don't know....I don't know...."

al green - "here i am (come and take me)" is on some profound real sexual spiritual shit all wrapped up in one package, then i'd pick "loving you" from the belle album for the sheer ecstatic joy of being w/ some one u love

'silently' - blonde redhead
'sea song' - robert wyatt

Curtis Mayfield - So In Love. Loses nothing for being utterly straightforward.

CBC listeners pick the ten worst:

https://www.cbcmusic.ca/posts/20939/the-10-worst-love-songs-paul-anka-the-police

Mostly low hanging fruit, but I’m sure most are deserving (though I like the Police song, which is not even a love song anyway). I’ve still only know “Muskrat Love” as a punchline, not as a song.

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