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Thursday, February 14, 2008
PLEASE SEND ME SOMEONE TO LOVE Percy Mayfield Specialty : 1950 Available on: Poet of the Blues Specialty : 1990 [Buy It]
WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW The Shirelles Scepter : 1961 Available on: 25 All-Time Greatest Hits Varese : 1999 [Buy It]
LOVE GOES TO BUILDING ON FIRE (DEMO) The Talking Heads CBS : 1975 CBS Demo Recordings [Unreleased]
TEENAGER IN LOVE The Wailers Studio One : 1964 Available on: One Love: The Wailers at Studio One Heartbeat : 1991 [Buy It]
HOW DO YOU SPELL LOVE? Bobby Patterson Paula : 1972 Available on: How Do You Spell Love? (The Paula Recordings 1971-1973) Jewel-Paula : 2002 [Buy It]
L-O-V-E Leon Thomas Blues and The Soulful Truth RCA : 1972 [Buy It]
WHOLE LOTTA LOVE Prince Live at The Alladin in Vegas DVD Hip-0 : 2003
OLD GREGG/LOVE GAMES
LOVE GAMES (LIVE)
LOVE GAMES (LIVE ACOUSTIC) Noel Fielding & Julian Barratt : The Mighty Boosh
CAN'T NOBODY LOVE YOU Solomon Burke Atlantic : 1966 Available on: Home In Your Heart Atlantic : 1992 [Buy It]
TEENAGER IN LOVE Yo La Tengo
LOVE POTION #9 The Coasters King : 1971 Available on: Down Home Varese : 2007 [Buy It]
FUEL FOR LOVE Wrinker's Experience EMI : 1971? [Out of Print]
A PRIVATE DANCE LESSON WITH... The Unfuckwithable James Brown
IT'S GREAT TO BE YOUNG AND IN LOVE (DEMO) Doc Pomus & Mort Schuman c.1959 Available on: Great To Be Young and in Love Whiskey, Women, and... : 1990 [Buy It]
YOUR LOVE IS TRUE (DEMO) Irma Thomas c. 1960 Available on: The Instant & Minit Story Charly : 2005 [Buy It]
WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW The Zombies c. 1965 Available on: Live at The BBC Repertoire : 2003 [Buy It]
BABY, IT'S YOU The Beatles c. 1963 Available on: Live at The BBC Capitol : 1994 [Buy It]
TO LOVE SOMEONE (THAT DON'T LOVE YOU) The Kaldirons Twinight : 1970 Available on: Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation Numero : 2007 [Buy It]
A VALENTINE FROM EVA Brad Neely
WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW Slim Smith Unity : 1971 Available on: Keep That Lovelight Shining Trojan : 2004 [Buy It]
L-O-V-E Nat "King" Cole L-O-V-E Capitol : 1964 [Buy It]
HAVE LOVE WILL TRAVEL Richard Berry Flip : 1959 Available on: Have "Louie" Will Travel Ace : 2004 [Buy It]
WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW Amy Winehouse Bridget Jones Edge of Reason OST UMVD : 2004 [Buy It]
PLEASE SEND ME SOMEONE TO LOVE James Booker c. 1976 King of The New Orleans Keyboard JSP : 2005 [Buy It]
...moistworks wishes you & yours a happy valentine's day.Labels: alex, love
posted by Alex
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
SEA OF LOVE Phil Phillips with the Twilights Single Mercury : 1959 [Buy It]
ALWAYS ON MY MIND The Pet Shop Boys Discography Capitol : 1991 [Buy It]
HALAH Mazzy Star Rough Trade : 1990 [Buy It]
MAMA, YOU BEEN ON MY MIND Bob Dylan The Bootleg Series, Volumes 1-3 Columbia : 1991 [Buy It]
KATH Sebadoh Sebadoh III Homestead : 1991 [Buy It]
Last week I sent an email to about twenty friends, relatives, ex-boyfriends, new friends, old friends, and people I hardly know but thought would have good answers, asking "I'm making a list for my Moistworks Valentine's Day post...what are your favorite love and anti-love songs...?"
My main reason for asking was that I was curious to see how certain people would respond. Who would ignore it, thinking "What a stupid question." Or, who would ask "Don't all songs fit into one category or the other?" Who would respond immediately with a long, rambling list, or who would write, also immediately, with "I need to think."
My people did not disappoint; I got all of the above. Al Green (obviously) and Ween (awesomely) showed up on several lists. Bob Dylan, yes (and even I, with vast ambivalence about him, am torn apart by the last line of this song). Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, Throbbing Gristle, Monochrome Set, Judas Priest, Orange Juice, Sebadoh, Van Halen, and the Buzzcocks, yes, yes, yes. But the best answers, which I did not anticipate, were those songs that would make absolutely no sense to anyone but me, due only to the nature of my relationship with the responder.
"Sea of Love" fits squarely into the last sentence. "That was the day I knew you were my pet," does not typically ring the bell of today's modern woman, yet the man who named that song has sent me so far to the brink of sanity and submissive lust that I could do nothing but nod and drool and wonder which version to use here. (Of course I opted for the one he had specified.) The Pet Shop Boys version of "Always on My Mind," could only be on the list of the man who held my hand at a concert in an airplane hangar in Berlin, as both of our jaws dropped at the odd and scary sight of a thousand German fists banging the air to the rhythm. "Halah" by Mazzy Star would be merely a pretty, dreamy whine were it not for the fact that the record was played over and over again to mask the sounds of the first great sex I ever had. "Kath" was mentioned by both a close friend who knows I wrote a poem after it in college and a man who has no idea how much my heart aches for him whenever I hear it.
All this to say: Love is such a specific, alchemical thing, that to merely hear someone else sing about his/her love for yet someone else doesn't quite register. To me, a love song is all about association. But anti-love, that's another story. Gut-tearing, nauseating rejection and loss, now that is indeed universal. Here, though, is where my friends did disappoint, and where I, for fear of breaking down into a quivering wreck before finishing this post, have failed. This is what I leave to you, dear readers. Tell me the saddest (or angriest) love songs you know, and by sunset (just in time for the east coasters to burn a mix for their dinnertime sweetie), I'll post a handful here.
Thank you! Here are some highlights. I wish I could post them all...
FARE THEE WELL, MISS CAROUSEL Townes Van Zandt Townes Van Zandt Sunspots : 1969 [Buy It]
ALL THE LOVE I EVER HAD Hank Williams Single, 1951 Available on The Original Singles Collection Mercury : 1991 [Buy It]
GIN HOUSE BLUES Nina Simone Nuff Said! RCA : 1968 [Buy It]
THE CHAIN Fleetwood Mac Rumours Warner : 1977 [Buy It]
HOW CAN YOU MEND A BROKEN HEART? Al Green Let's Stay Together Hi Records : 1972 [Buy It]
And a late-stage addition, for a friend and reader who knows who he is (and whose own version I prefer but don't have a recording of):
EVERY TIME IT RAINS Randy Newman Bad Love Dreamworks : 1999 [Buy It]Labels: indie, joanna, love, oldies, pop
posted by Joanna
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