HAPPY VALENTINES & DAY

They had a run of hit singles between 1977 and July 1979. Then it stopped.

Many folk blamed a disastrous UK tour in 79 when they were blown off-stage every single night by an up and coming band called Joy Division. Others said they just got fed up with the one-dimensional approach to song-writing and playing. The truth is that they probably just fell out of fashion as so many bands tend to do after a few years in the limelight....and besides, the third LP - A Different Kind Of Tension - had a near impossible task in following up the near perfection of Love Bites.

But 33 years on(!!!!).....this deserves a huge re-assessment. It's a classic pop song of having your heart broken. And denial.

mp3 : Buzzcocks - You Say You Don't Love Me
mp3 : Buzzcocks - Raison D'Etre

You say you don't love me

Well that's alright with me 'cos I'm in love with you

And I wouldn't want you doing things you don't want to do

Oh you know I've always wanted you to be in love with me

And it took so long to realize the way things have to be

I wanted to live in a dream that couldn't be real

And I'm starting to understand now the way that you feel

You say you don't

You say you don't

You say you don't love me

Well that's alright with me 'cos I have got the time

To wait in case someday you maybe change your mind

I've decided not to make the same mistakes this time around

As I'm tired of having heartaches I've been thinking and I've found

I don't want to live in a dream I want something real

And I think I understand now the way that you feel

You say you don't

You say you don't

You say you don't

You say you don't

You say you don't

You say you don't love me

Well that's alright with me I'm not in love with you

I just want us to do the things we both want to do

Though I've got this special feeling I'd be wrong to call it love

For the word entails a few things that I would be well rid of

I've no need to live in a dream it's finally real

And I hope you now understand this feeling I feel

You say you don't

You say you don't

You say you don't love me

You say you don't love me

You say you don't love me

Mmmmm....

It might be sixth-form poetry. But it's bloody good sixth-form poetry. Morrissey-esque....




Fucking brilliant......way better than most of the solo material in recent years!!!

As I say.......Happy Valentine's Day.

The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow Lyrics

Barton Hollow by The Civil Wars, Music Lyrics and Video

Barton Hollow is the title track and the first single by The Civil Wars, from their first full-length studio album “Barton Hollow” (February 1, 2011). The album debuted at #1 on iTunes album sales chart and at #12 on the Billboard 200. As of January 2012, it has sold 270,197 copies in the US.

The “Barton Hollow” refers to the community of Barton, Alabama, a few miles down the road from John Paul White’s hometown of Muscle Shoals.

The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow Lyrics

I’m a dead man walking here
But that’s the least of all my fears
Ooh, underneath the water

It’s not Alabama clay
That gives my trembling hands away
Please forgive me father

(http://musicloversgroups.blogspot.com/2012/02/civil-wars-barton-hollow-lyrics.html)
Ain’t going back to Barton Hollow
Devil gonna follow me e’er I go
Won’t do me no good washing in the river
Can’t no preacher man save my soul

Did that full moon force my hand?
Or that un marked hundred grand?
Ooh, underneath the water
Please forgive me father

Miles and miles in my bare feet
Still can’t lay me down to sleep
If I die before I wake
I know the Lord my soul won’t take

I’m a dead man walking
I’m a dead man walking

Keep walking and running and running for miles
Keep walking and running and running for miles
Keep walking and running and running for miles

Ain’t going back to Barton Hollow
Devil gonna follow me e’er I go
Won’t do me no good washing in the river
Can’t no preacher man save my soul

Ne-Yo - Get In Lyrics

Get In
Lyrics by Ne-Yoenergy is always from youuh uhsays clear to me what you won’t not do mhm mhmdon’t even know my name, baby you’re noti don’t know..is the energy that makes you cool fr us to takeand ambition awaychorus:uh get in into each otheruh ’cause no one will feel get inuh get into one anotheruhh ’cause do what we really get inand the music loud and the lights are loweverybody is

Nicki Minaj - Starships Lyrics

Starships
Lyrics by Nicki Mina

jLet’s go to the beach,
eachLet’s go get away
They say, what they gonna say?
Have a drink, click,
 found the bud light
Bad b-tches like me, is hard to come by
The patron own, let’s go get it on
The zone own, yes i’m in the zone
Is it two, three? leave a good tip
I’mma blow off my money and don’t give too quick
I’m on the floor, floor
I love to dance
So give me more, more, till

Akon - Hurt Somebody Lyrics (Ft. French Montana)

Hurt Somebody
Lyrics by Akon Ft. French Montana

This concrete is too cold,
to be walking on it
Or else walking on it with no shoes on (no shoes on)
Don’t wanna struggle, oh no
Don’t want it to become a habit
I’ve been living in the gutter with no shoes on
Let me get up out of here
Before I hurt somebody
Or I have to hurt somebody
Before I hurt somebody
Or I have to hurt somebody
Before I hurt somebody
Or I

The Only One and Only Gillian Welch

      Well, it's that time of year when I tend to feature a a female alt-country star (Neko Case), Kelly Willis, Lucinda Williams, Iris DeMent), so this year I thought it was high time for a Gillian Welch compilation.  There's one cut from each of her formal releases, but the rest is contributions to tribute albums and soundtracks, duets, and a lot of live tracks.  Disc Two  arrives next week.

Beulah Land

Pocahontas

Pretty Flowers

Summer Evening

Lua

Silver Dagger

I've Been Down Before

Gold Watch And Chain

I'll Fly Away

Wind And Rain

Barstow

One Monkey

Black Star

Tonight I'll Be Stayin' Here with You

White Rabbit

THINKING ABOUT GOLF-PLAYING POP STARS.....

Lloyd Cole's solo career hasn't brought a huge deal of success with just the one chart hit - Like Lovers Do back in 1995.  I'm not sure if it has been Lloyd himself or the record label but some of his better material has been left behind as LP tracks with the stuff released as singles being weak.

This, the second single lifted from Bad Vibes in 1993 is an example of what I'm referring to:-

mp3 : Lloyd Cole - Morning Is Broken

Bad Vibes isn't a great album - it's certainly my least favourite of all the solo material.  But it does itself no favours by leading off with Morning Is Broken which is a rather dull song all round that still got issued as the second single from the LP.  Maybe Lloyd saw something in it that few of the rest of us did.

The start of it nowadays reminds of the hit single Dominoes by The Big Pink, but for years I couldn't get out of my head that it was the sort of nonsense we'd be subjected to by Kula Shaker.

The single was shoved out on two CDs and the four tracks were a bit of a mixed bag:-

mp3 : Lloyd Cole - Radio City Music Hall
mp3 : Lloyd Cole - Eat Your Greens
mp3 : Lloyd Cole - The Slider
mp3 : Lloyd Cole - Mannish Girl

The best of them is The Slider which happens to be a cover of a Marc Bolan song.  The good thing is that a few years later, Lloyd did re-discover his mojo and nowadays his material and live shows are things of joy and often rare beauty.

Here's a TV performance from back in the day:-



Happy Listening