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Every Friday, we give away a Golden Discs voucher that would normally fetch twenty five euros on the open market.
All we ask from you is a tune we can play at some unspecified time (on Monday).
This week’s theme: Loud love songs.
What non-ballad love choon gives you the goosebumps in all the right places?
To enter, please complete this sentence.
‘The greatest non-ballad love song ever is ___________________by________________because__________’
Lines MUST close at MIDNIGHT
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The greatest non-ballad love song ever is ‘whole lotta rosie’ by ac/dc because it makes you look at 15-stone australian hookers in a new light.
I agree with Scottser. However, just to clear up a technical point, Rosie in the song weighed 19 stone, which is just under the combined weight of Conor McGregor and Katie Taylor together. Strewth!
i stand corrected sir.
The greatest non-ballad love song ever is The Lemon Song by Led Zeppelin because PANCAKE TUESDAY.
The greatest non-ballad love song ever is “Fell in Love with a Girl” by the White Stripes because it’s a great manic song that comes in under two minutes, which is more than enough for any love song or associated acts!
The video Is pretty class too which just enhances the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mvgYVX2rs4
Wrong vid!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTH71AAxXmM
That’s a great one
I don’t know if this is considered a ballad but I absolutely love the way Alicia Keys sings this
I’m no music critic but i often thought it may be because it seems to be slightly out of her vocal range so it seems like she’s reaching for the notes and so seems to be yearning even more
Anyhow, don’t listen to it if you’re mad for someone and can’t have them, you’ll have to go off and stand on a cold square of lino to get yourself back on track :)
https://youtu.be/Ju8Hr50Ckwk
The greatest non-ballad love song ever is ‘One Day Like This’ by Elbow because if “one day like this a year would see me right” how bloody fantastic must that love be? (Also, the other 364 days to yourself – result!)
Seconded!
‘Whatever’ by Liam Lynch. He puts up so many barriers but shows his true love for Zaphron by the end. Maybe its friendship, maybe its more. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll kiss 1 minute and 29 seconds goodbye.
MWAH!
For me, the greatest non-ballad love song ever is “Turning Japanese” by the Vapors because…well, just because.
‘The greatest non-ballad love song ever is Love Machine by Supermax because how could you pick anything else with a lyric like “If you need a one day lover just call 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 1 day lover. If you need a two day lover just call 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 2 days lover” ’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o3DIEL9LT0
I love it already
The greatest non-ballad love song ever is Harvest Moon by Neil Young because it reminds me of a beautiful, contented, relaxed feeling in the early days of the only love of my life, many moons ago. We were in the back of a taxi when it started to play, when I just got the feels *sigh*. It was not to be in the end…..
Yes that is an amazing song – so heartfelt
The greatest non-ballad love song ever is ‘Handsome Devil’ by The Smiths because it has the most honest of love lyrics :
Let me get my hands
on your mammary glands
and let me get your head
on the conjugal bed
I say, I say, I say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcJac6OykfM
cos of the bit that goes ‘hunkahunka burnin love, just a hunkahunka burnin love’
Love will tear us apart by joy divison because it does..
Was she a blueshirt?
Would all make sense….
Haha very funny
don’t know if the band woe that colour of shirt but the name did come from the actions of thhe blushirts fascist heroes, against women in concentration camps..
“During the Second World War, Nazi officers stationed at concentration camps used the expression “Joy Division” in reference to the younger women imprisoned there – women that they frequently raped”
http://www.musicko.com/joy-division/where-does-the-name-%E2%80%9Cjoy-division%E2%80%9D-come-from-was-it-chosen-by-the-band-because-of-nazi-sympathies
The greatest non-ballad love song ever is Feed Me With Your Kiss by My Bloody Valentine
‘Cause things the way they are
I guess you might go real far
So feed me with your kiss’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6I3JGzJAdM
The (second) greatest non-ballad love song ever is ‘Dangerous Love’ by FUSE ODG (featuring Sean Paul) because it has so many hooks that you can’t escape being captured and loving it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cdpbjfV4e4
Everybody else is breaking the rules with late entries, so so can I.
To wit, and third time lucky, etc.
Dita Dimone by Pop Levi.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f_tdsv-Sdlk
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Oops… I forgot to fill in the ‘because…’ bit…
…Because of the exhuberant ‘WHOOAHHH!!! at the beginning.
The greatest love ballad is Without you by Harry Nillson. Haunting and beautiful
The greatest ever non – ballad love song is Never Tear Us Apart by INXS, because it captures the feeling of your worlds colliding and fusing and it even has a sax solo. Nothing says love like a sax solo.
ah come on, you remove a little ‘choke n stroke’ humour?
you guys have changed. you used to be cool..
Under Clery’s Clock by the late Phil Chevron and performed by The Radiators, because not only is it a genuinely gay Irish song (‘last bus to An Lar’), and not only did it capture the anxiety of being gay before decriminalisation (song: 1989; law change: 1993), and not only because is recounts an honesty that we don’t talk about in polite society (‘Burgh Quay at night/In this dark and stinking place’), but also because in those dark days it was so, so visionary, looking a day of equality long before even gay activists were thinking about it (‘to hold him and embrace/Just like other lovers do/Without disgrace’).
https://g.co/kgs/BvutRI
I would vote for this, but…. I don’t think it falls under the heading of ‘non-
Bladesballad’.Not your fault Tomboktu. I don’t read rules either.
Good tune nonetheless. ;-)
*1
The greatest non ballad love song is “When I Go Deaf” by Low.
Honourable mention to “Green Eyes” by Husker Du.
Co-incidentally both bands from Minnesota. Must be the weather.
‘The greatest non-ballad love song ever is Teenage Kicks by The Undertones because it’s a guitar jangling, hand clapping, pogofest that captures the energy and excitement of young love.
Hanky Lanky by Madonna Yesssss true love indeed.
Panky.You know what I mean.
Stay Class Folks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoEZnWKtTOU
Hah! I regularly break out that song when doing karaoke
The greatest non ballad love song is “Buddy Holly” by Weezer, cause Weezer, and the Fonz…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kemivUKb4f4
‘The greatest non-ballad love song ever is Dead Ringer for Love by Meatloaf because that voice, those moves, that video. It doesn’t get much better. A great arrangement with Cher. Check out the faces he makes in the video, beautiful. Taught me everything I need to know about picking up ladies in 80’s bars, so much so that I have a backlog of 80’s ladies. A word of warning though, 99% of bar staff do not appreciate you getting up on their bar counter and roaring your head off. You will be singing this one for days though.
“Ever since I can remember you been hanging ’round this joint
You been trying to look away but now you finally got the point
I don’t have to know your name and I won’t tell you what to do
But a girl – she doesn’t live by only rock ‘n roll and brew
Baby baby, baby baby”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSTIsZULYmY
‘The greatest non-ballad love song ever is F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E. by Pulp because the lyrics are astoundingly brilliant and the melody and arrangement perfectly match the wildness, craziness and uncontrollable urges of love.
https://youtu.be/mhdTbqdYCRU
The room is cold
And has been like this for several months
If I close my eyes, I can visualise everything in it
Right down
Right down to the broken handle on the third drawer down of the dressing table
And the world outside this room
Has also assumed a familiar shape
The same events shuffeled in a slightly different order each day
Just like a modern shopping centre
And it’s so cold
Yeah, it’s so cold
What is this feeling called love?
Why me, why you?
Why here, why now?
It doesn’t make no sense, no
It’s not convenient, no
It doesn’t fit my plans, no
It’s something I don’t understand, oh
F-E-E-L-I-N-G-C-A-double-L-E-D (and as I’m standing across this room I feel as if my whole life has been leading to this one moment)
L-O-V-E, what is this thing that is happening to me? (and as I touch your shoulder tonight this room has become the centre of the entire universe)
So what do I do?
I’ve got a slightly sick feeling in my stomach
Like I’m standing on top of a very high building, oh, yeah
All the stuff they tell you about in the movies
But this isn’t chocolate boxes and roses, it’s dirtier than that
Like some small animal that only comes out at night
And I see flashes of the shape of your breasts
And the curve of your belly
And they make me have to sit down and catch my breath
And it’s so cold
And it’s so cold
What is this feeling called love?
Why me, why you?
Why here, and why now?
Oh, it doesn’t make no sense, no
It’s not convenient, no
It doesn’t fit my plans
But I got that taste in my mouth again, oh
F-E-E-L-I-N-G-C-A-double-L-E-D
L-O-V-E, what is this thing that is happening to me?
F-E-E-L-I-N-G-C-A-double-L-E-D
L-O-V-E, what is this thing that is happening to me?
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh, honourable mention to Uncontrollable Urge by DEVO. :-)
Bí cúramach: copyright.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhdTbqdYCRU
‘The greatest non-ballad love song ever is Creep by Radiohead, because…well just listen to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk
Easy
The greatest non-ballad love song ever is I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing by Pet Shop Boys because it’s sounds daft as a brush, looks dafter, has an ace descending bassline, you can dance to it and it references the Rite of flippin Spring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnwREox5JrU
‘The greatest non-ballad love song ever is I Will Always Love you by Whitney Houston because it touches places where only those who have loved can feel
Do we need a definition of ‘ballad’ and ‘non-ballad”?
Ballad, slow set. Not ballad, moshing.
“WHERES YERE FÚ((((KÍNG PRIDE”
seems appropriate
given the season were playing
U2 – The Sweetest Thing
Note: this is just my entry not an actual shout out- (Paul Weller’s “You do something to me” if ye want ta’know)
Yikes, it’s not a slow set, well in that case I’d say the greatest non-ballad love song ever is “Let your love flow” by the Bellamy Brothers because t’is the season and watching the clip – it’s good old fashioned romantic love which we all want deep down!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Bl_VQ2inM
Everything abve are all good picks, especially Neil Young and harvest moon, but my pick has to be LoveSong by The Cure, because…just because
‘The greatest non-ballad love song ever is Glenn Danzig’s ode to his love of osteology in ‘Skulls’ by Danzig because… well, skulls of course, the chorus is just lovely, and it’s Friday
Danzig – Skulls
the corpses all hang headless and limp bodies with no surprises and the blood drains down like devil’s rain we’ll bathe tonight
i want your skulls
i need your skulls
i want your skulls
i need your skulls
demon i am and face i peel to see your skin turned inside out, ’cause gotta have you on my wall gotta have you on my wall, ’cause
i want your skulls
i need your skulls
i want your skulls
i need your skulls
go collect the heads of little girls and put ’em on my wall hack the heads off little girls and put ’em on my wall oh oh
i want your skulls
i need your skulls
i want your skulls
i need your skulls
i want your skulls
i need your skulls
i want your skulls
i need your skulls whoa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmFZqbh7TaU
The greatest non-ballad love song ever is ‘Closer’ by “Nine Inch Nails” because of it’s pure honesty.
The greatest non ballad love song ever is “This is not a Love Song” by PIL.
Throbbing Wobble base and wailing anti-capitalist / neo-liberal sentiment delivered by Lydon. The title says it all.
When you say ‘The title’ you’re referring to the title of the post, yeah?
Turn your headphones down… listen to the _=whoosh
(sorry ;-) )
Yes. Ironic. Well done.
This is just a suggestion, but why not move this competition to Thursday, and announce the winner on Friday?
– Putting a short time-limit on entries, (which is NEVER adhered to), only serves to encourage premature submissions, which don’t ever look good on reflection.
…just sayin…
‘The greatest non-ballad love song ever is “Hey Boy, Hey Girl” by the Chemical Brothers because it is so joyous and high-energy and Paul Oakenfold opened a set with it which still gives me goosebumps’
The greatest non-ballad etc., is Born To Run by Bruce. He robs the best of the Spector sound with lyrics so powerful that, nearly 42 years after hearing it for the first time (in the swamps of Jersey), it still gives me goosebumps. Turn this up beyond 11 everyone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3t9SfrfDZM