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Love, love will keep us together... ; >

amberglow — Fri, 28 May 2004 05:59:18 -0800

"But they don't know about us, and they've never heard of love..." A Million Love Songs--a new mp3 blog hoping to list them all. Songs stay active for a week, and you can contribute too! So far, they're ranging from Tracey Ullman to Britney to Take That to Eddie Fisher to the Supremes and Abba (send your contributions to: amillionlovesongs@hotmail.com)

By: kaibutsu

kaibutsu — Fri, 28 May 2004 06:52:14 -0800

Wow, there's some incredibly bad stuff nestled in there... I guess it's like the Magnetic Fields sang: "The Book of Love is full of music In fact that's where music comes from. Some of it is just transcedental, Most of it is just really dumb." (And there's 68 more love songs where that one came from...)

By: Faze

Faze — Fri, 28 May 2004 07:22:33 -0800

There's some incredibly bad stuff nestled in there... NOT, however, "They Don't Know," by Tracy Ullman (with backup vocals by the song's brilliant author the late Kirsty MacColl) the greatest non-ABBA song of the 1980s, and one of the greatest songs of all time. All fans of girl-group should get Tracy Ullman's greatest hits CD, which is chock full of other good songs and only one real stinker in the whole bunch. Great production throughout. Someone get that gal back into the studio.

By: JollyWanker

JollyWanker — Fri, 28 May 2004 07:28:58 -0800

Yikes - but in a rather cool "not every item is a US Top 40 slice of schlock" kind of way. I should probably be more embarrassed about this than I am, but I copied a couple of them and actually LIKED them... Thanks, amber!

By: smcniven

smcniven — Fri, 28 May 2004 07:31:26 -0800

Gah... A highschool girlfriend made me a mixed tape once, and on it was a real cheesy number. Wish I could remember what it was. 80's song, something about being halfway round the world. Ring a bell?

By: dhoyt

dhoyt — Fri, 28 May 2004 07:41:49 -0800

guess it's like the Magnetic Fields sang: "The Book of Love is full of music "The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb" /pedantic Merritt fan Thanks for the link, amber

By: micropublishery

micropublishery — Fri, 28 May 2004 07:59:57 -0800

OK, great. This is awesome. Now, where do we go for the most stupendously depressingly mean, sad and un-lovely songs of all time? Not hate songs, but... the Hank Sr. tunes, Palace's "Will You Miss Me When I Burn?", Smog's "Chosen One," Freakwater's "Forgettable Song?" Etc.! Maybe I'll have to start that one. In the meantime, perhaps this will do?

By: stavrogin

stavrogin — Fri, 28 May 2004 08:25:02 -0800

Carly Simon's Halfway Round The World, smcniven?

By: chuq

chuq — Fri, 28 May 2004 08:48:22 -0800

They started off with Take That? Oh, dear. But since I've been on an I-adore-Tracey-Ullman kick ever since HBO started repeating "Tracey Takes On..." and have been looking for an MP3 of "They Don't Know", I say thanks for the link!

By: amberglow

amberglow — Fri, 28 May 2004 08:54:42 -0800

that's actually one of my favorite Magnetic Fields songs (that and Busby Berkeley Dreams and Papa Was A Rodeo and How Fuckin Romantic and Nothing Matters When We're Dancing...) : > and micropublishery--start a million sad songs blog. I'll contribute. I'm so cheesy--i love that Tracey song, and the ABBA, and most of them actually. smcniven: Been Around the World by Lisa Stansfield?

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 28 May 2004 09:17:32 -0800

What, no "I Love the Dead," by Alice Cooper?

By: SisterHavana

SisterHavana — Fri, 28 May 2004 10:13:45 -0800

I love "They Don't Know." One of the most underrated 80s songs.

By: smcniven

smcniven — Fri, 28 May 2004 10:37:20 -0800

stravrogin: doesn't seem familiar amberglow: definately not It had that muted sound like "Life in a Northern Town", although not as "guitary" Maybe it was "other side of the world"

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Fri, 28 May 2004 10:51:18 -0800

smcniven, for some reasons, "80s" "cheesy" "around the world" made me think of When in Rome's The Promise if i had to walk the world, i'd make you fall for me ... CHEE-Z! thanks for the great link, amberglow! once i cast aside my schlock-meter, there are some very good (if mainstream) songs selected.

By: mikeyb

mikeyb — Fri, 28 May 2004 10:59:33 -0800

amillionlovesongs@hotmail.com This seems like a good place for gmail, not hotmail.

By: Jart

Jart — Fri, 28 May 2004 12:03:48 -0800

Maybe they couldn't get an invite.

By: mokujin

mokujin — Fri, 28 May 2004 13:14:47 -0800

I was really hoping this was going to be a million Arthur Lee songs.

By: abcde

abcde — Fri, 28 May 2004 13:27:25 -0800

Actually, if some fan contributed the entire repertoir of Prince, the site would be finished

By: abcde

abcde — Fri, 28 May 2004 13:28:45 -0800

smcniven: "Halfway Around The World" by the A-Teens?

By: micropublishery

micropublishery — Fri, 28 May 2004 14:33:24 -0800

Good one, mokujin! Funny, I was just debating a few weeks ago whether "No Matter What You Do" was better as a love song or a break up song...

By: mr.marx

mr.marx — Fri, 28 May 2004 23:47:44 -0800

ILM: 100 great breakup songs

By: amberglow

amberglow — Sat, 29 May 2004 09:02:29 -0800

great list, mr.marx...now we need only 999,900 more : > (and mp3s of them too)