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  Our Sweet Love by The Beach Boys

  01.30.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  My final “Love Song” choice is Our Sweet Love by The Beach Boys from their penultimate studio album Sunflower in 1970. It might be my favourite Beach Boys record. At least I reckon I will definitely claim it is, if pushed, because if I just said Pet Sounds I’d look like a civilian and no [...]

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  Love Really Hurts Without You by Billy Ocean

  01.29.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  My “Love Song” of the day is Love Really Hurts Without You by Billy Ocean from 1976. A terrific pop record that’s really easy to write off because it’s so familiar. It’s an incredibly upbeat song with brilliant downbeat lyrics, that are so simplistic that it as much in common with bubblegum pop as it [...]

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  Love You Till Tuesday by David Bowie

  01.29.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Today’s “Love Song” is Love You Till Tuesday by David Bowie. It was recorded in 1967 and is probably the most well known song of his pre-Space Oddity/Anthony Newley period. Let me just say that I love David Bowie‘s records, I really do. Most Bowie fans don’t like this period, but they are wrong because [...]

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  Fall in Love With Me by Iggy Pop

  01.28.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  My “Love Song” of the day is Fall in Love With Me by Iggy Pop. It was recorded in Berlin in June 1977 and appears on his Lust For Life album. That’s the one with a picture of Melvyn Hayes from It Ain’t Half Hot Mum on the cover. It’s produced by David Bowie who [...]

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  From Russia With Love by Matt Monroe

  01.27.10 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Todays “Love Song” is From Russia With Love by Matt Monroe. It is the best James Bond song despite Goldfinger being co-written by Anthony Newley. I think it’s beautiful whether you like the movie or James Bond or anything. From Russia With Love was written and composed by Lionel Bart who’s most famous for writing [...]

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  If I Love You (New European Gold Standard Secret Babylonian Brotherhood Cinema Mix) by The Brian Jonestown Massacre

  01.25.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  My “Love Song” of the day is If I Love You? (New European Gold Standard Secret Babylonian Brotherhood Cinema Mix) by The Brian Jonestown Massacre. It comes from their 2001 album Bravery, Repetition & Noise and was written by band leader Anton Newcombe.

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  Love Week

  01.23.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  So we’re now all over half way through the 100 days challenge and Josie Long has put up a video announcing a new caviat. This week is Love Week so as well as posting a blog every day I will also include a link to a favourite “Love Song”, and by this I mean a [...]

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