Songs that denigrate the importance of language in demonstrating affection towards one's partner

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Depeche Mode, Enjoy the Silence
Robin S, Show Me Love
Extreme, More than Words

take me to your lemur (ledge), Friday, 19 March 2010 12:03 (fifteen years ago)

ronal ketting - nuffink at ever

ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Friday, 19 March 2010 12:04 (fifteen years ago)

Betty Blowtorch - Shut Up And Fuck

mdskltr (blueski), Friday, 19 March 2010 12:04 (fifteen years ago)

'i don't speak french' - girls aloud

lipster grifter (history mayne), Friday, 19 March 2010 12:07 (fifteen years ago)

Hundreds of these, I would have thought

Dusty Springfield - You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me

The Oort Locker (Tom D.), Friday, 19 March 2010 12:07 (fifteen years ago)

Right Said Fred - Don't Talk Just Kiss

take me to your lemur (ledge), Friday, 19 March 2010 12:12 (fifteen years ago)

I Can't Explain - The Who

kornrulez6969, Friday, 19 March 2010 14:19 (fifteen years ago)

Buzzcocks, You Say You Don't Love Me
Beach Boys, Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)

dad a, Friday, 19 March 2010 14:35 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KHnxIZGX9I

f. huey gray (tremendoid), Friday, 19 March 2010 17:34 (fifteen years ago)

Joe Jones, "You Talk Too Much"

Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 19 March 2010 17:58 (fifteen years ago)

Don't Speak - No Doubt (sort of relevant...)

Clerk all KNOWIN (B.L.A.M.), Friday, 19 March 2010 19:11 (fifteen years ago)

bill callahan - from the rivers to the ocean
smog - truth serum, vessel in vain

lots of smog songs actually. it's self-conscious, yet still touching -- he's like this hyper-literate (if lapidary) wordsmith singing about the inadequacy of words.

by another name (amateurist), Friday, 19 March 2010 19:24 (fifteen years ago)

No Doubt - Don't Speak

The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 March 2010 19:24 (fifteen years ago)

billie holiday (and others) - don't explain

by another name (amateurist), Friday, 19 March 2010 19:24 (fifteen years ago)

Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U

The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 19 March 2010 19:25 (fifteen years ago)

Bee Gees - Words

famous for hating everything (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 19 March 2010 19:26 (fifteen years ago)

Words Get in the Way -- Miami Sound Machine
I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song -- Jim Croce

mottdeterre, Friday, 19 March 2010 19:31 (fifteen years ago)

ILM should record an album of instrumental cover versions of all of these songs

by another name (amateurist), Friday, 19 March 2010 19:38 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmIoBYzvYCI

mottdeterre, Friday, 19 March 2010 19:46 (fifteen years ago)

you know, i'd buy an album of kermit interpreting the great american songbook

by another name (amateurist), Friday, 19 March 2010 19:47 (fifteen years ago)

"Sing Me Not a Ballad" (Weill)

figgy pudding (La Lechera), Friday, 19 March 2010 19:49 (fifteen years ago)

>>you know, i'd buy an album of kermit interpreting the great american songbook

The frog owns one of the great standards from the '70s: "It's Not Easy Being Green."

mottdeterre, Friday, 19 March 2010 19:54 (fifteen years ago)

Face Accidents - Bit My Lip

"you seem to like it when I shut up"

Snop Snitchin, Friday, 19 March 2010 20:37 (fifteen years ago)

"No Language in Our Lungs" XTC

Melvin van Osterlow, Jr. (res), Friday, 19 March 2010 21:46 (fifteen years ago)

Face Accidents - Bit My Lip

"you seem to like it when I shut up"

― Snop Snitchin, Friday, March 19, 2010 8:37 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

wait who the fuck

69, Friday, 19 March 2010 22:04 (fifteen years ago)

"(With You on My Mind) I Can't Write the Words"
Check out version by either Al Bowlly or the Boswell Sisters

mottdeterre, Monday, 22 March 2010 15:18 (fifteen years ago)

Roxy Music - 2 HB
Magnetic Fields - I'm Tongue-Tied

dad a, Monday, 22 March 2010 15:39 (fifteen years ago)

A bit of a stretch, but howzabout Tom Tom Club's "Wordy Rappinghood" with its "What are words worth?" chant and lines like "Words are like a certain person: can't say what they mean; don't mean what they say." I wonder ... with what was to come after, 'spose Tina was dissing DB here?

mottdeterre, Monday, 22 March 2010 21:31 (fifteen years ago)

elvis - a little less conversation
rihanna - shut up and drive
the bee gees - words

superflyguy, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 12:19 (fifteen years ago)

The Look of Love

Fetchboy, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 12:22 (fifteen years ago)

'spose Tina was dissing DB here?

― mottdeterre, Monday, 22 March 2010 21:31 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Possibly, but it's OK, she overstood.

Mark G, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 12:40 (fifteen years ago)

Lee Hazelwood - Nothing

dad a, Tuesday, 23 March 2010 15:52 (fifteen years ago)

maybe I interpret it wrongly, but Frida Hyvonen - The Modern

boxedjoy, Thursday, 25 March 2010 22:33 (fifteen years ago)


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