Monday , November 16, 2009
Heavy Rotation: Mark Lanegan & PJ Harvey, Boss Hog, The Urinals + More
We at nogoodforme give the gift of music. We did hip-hop love songs yesterday, but today we're all about a new-school Heavy Rotation and even more quirky love songs for your sweet little ears for Valentine's Day. Find the music after the jump and enjoy.
Mark Lanegan & PJ Harvey, "Come To Me"
Spooky, narcotic and totally seductive, this hymn to the darker aspects of love kind of makes no sense if you listen to the lyrics -- but its fragile, hypnotic beauty totally, undeniably pulls at you, mostly due to it being sung by the two most amazing voices in rock music. I wish this song was around when Allison Anders was making Gas Food Lodging, whose cave scene kind of ranks as one of sweetest scenes ever and gave me a lifelong crush on British geologists who listen to Nick Cave and Dinosaur Jr. (Kat)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "From Her to Eternity"
Crazy, a little dark and a whole lot of twisted. Nick's done genuinely tender love songs ("Into My Arms") but if you're after gut-wrenching full-moon passion where a dude goes bat-shit crazy over some dame, this is the one for you. (Kat)
Shane MacGowan & Sinead O'Connor, "Haunted"
I'd forgotten all about "Haunted" till I heard it playing on a shitty little boombox at a taco stand in Santa Cruz a few weeks back. Thank you, magical Santa Cruz taco stand! This is one of the most beautiful lovesongs that's ever been born, and the best part is how the guitar riff at the chorus is a total ripoff of "Baba O'Riley." I miss Sinead. (Liz)
Boss Hog, "I Dig You"
"I wanna be haunted by the ghost of your precious love" is a pretty good pickup line, but I think "I dig your groovy hips" is maybe much more my speed. And it's so romantic when Jon Spencer tells Cristina Martinez he'd eat raw macaroni for her love! This is really hot to listen to while drinking pony-neck beers and playing darts with your old man, by the way. Also: I really wish "soul kiss" were a way more popular euphemism for frenching. Let's get working on that. (Liz)
Tim Hardin, "First Love Song"
By far and away the most purely romantic song I've ever heard. Free of verbosity, metaphor, and typical singer/songwriter self-aggrandizement, it communicates the barest bones of soul-scraping love without being soppy, gooey or overblown. This song is so heart-breakingly sweet and earnest that it doesn't even make me feel sorry for myself for being a lonely singleton on V-Day; instead, it reminds me that love is REAL and BEAUTIFUL and ALL YOU NEED, and that one day I will have it again, and it will feel like this song. (LJ)
