{"id":4618,"date":"2010-04-17T10:24:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T10:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/04\/17\/silly-unconventional-love-song\/"},"modified":"2010-04-17T10:24:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T10:24:33","slug":"silly-unconventional-love-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/04\/17\/silly-unconventional-love-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Silly Unconventional Love Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/kate-nepveu.livejournal.com\/477039.html\">Kate<\/a>, a call for <a href=\"http:\/\/spiralsheep.dreamwidth.org\/318211.html\">love songs<\/a>. I like most of the songs on Kate&#8217;s list, but as I tried to think of songs to add, I realized a couple of things: 1) I own more really good kiss-off songs than I do traditional love songs, and 2) even the songs that I like about loving relationships tend to be a little&#8230; odd. Make of this what you will.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as a complement to Kate&#8217;s list of relatively conventional love songs, here&#8217;s a list of some odder tracks, mostly by less well-known artists. They&#8217;re all songs about love or people in love, but not quite the sort of thing you should expect to hear as the first dance at a wedding any time soon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/The%2520Magnetic%2520Fields\/_\/Papa%2520Was%2520a%2520Rodeo?ac=magnetic%20fields%20rodeo\">Papa Was a Rodeo<\/a> by the Magnetic Fields. The romance of the century, involving truckers, cowboys, and gator wrestling.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Fountains+of+Wayne\/Welcome+Interstate+Managers\/Hey+Julie\">Hey Julie<\/a> by Fountains of Wayne. A sweet song about how much an office job sucks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=74mHRUXRv_E\">Mississippi<\/a> by Bob Dylan. He never had a good voice, and what&#8217;s left of it is a wreck, but it works well for this song.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z7hhDINyBP0\">The Rock Show<\/a> by Blink-182. Because snotty punk kids fall in love, too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/s0.ilike.com\/play#Chuck+Prophet:Just+To+See+You+Smile:96979:s28619893.8161042.7549244.0.1.75%2Cstd_fc3ca56f35367a48104a424c7e74beb3\">Just to See You Smile<\/a> by Chuck Prophet. OK, this one is fairly straightforward and sappy, but not enough people have heard it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/s0.ilike.com\/play#Richard+Thompson:Cooksferry+Queen:1092452:s34495219.9635166.15456527.0.2.129%2Cstd_ea93dee9576b4e4aa6d76f8dfe695a26\">Cooksferry Queen<\/a> by Richard Thompson. Because &#8220;1952 Vincent Black Lightning&#8221; is too obvious.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/new.music.yahoo.com\/stew\/tracks\/north-bronx-french-marie--24110006\">North Bronx French Marie<\/a> by Stew. I have a lot of odds and ends in my music collection. This is one of them, but it&#8217;s kind of sweet in an off-kilter way.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/s0.ilike.com\/play#The+Rugburns:Lockjaw:208261:s38401833.10443520.18150729.0.2.140%2Cstd_92c768a459514650ae6ce5d2ca0c9114\">Lockjaw<\/a> by the Rugburns. Another odd little song, from an album that swings between this sort of sweet little tune and ridiculous juvenalia.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eoaTl7IcFs8\">Say Hey (I Love You)<\/a> by Michael Franti. Because these needs something more upbeat to close it out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, there you go. This is deliberately skewed a little weird, even by my standards, because it&#8217;s more fun that way. It&#8217;s also skewed a little by the availability of good versions online&#8211; there are some great tracks that Google only turns up in off-key live versions, or weird edits.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to suggest more weird stuff in the comments. Be warned, though, that too many links (where &#8220;too many&#8221; is usually &#8220;more than two&#8221;) will put your comment in limbo until I get a chance to approve it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Kate, a call for love songs. I like most of the songs on Kate&#8217;s list, but as I tried to think of songs to add, I realized a couple of things: 1) I own more really good kiss-off songs than I do traditional love songs, and 2) even the songs that I like about&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/04\/17\/silly-unconventional-love-song\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Silly Unconventional Love Songs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pop_culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}