May contain a heavy dose of Jim Kerr
I LITERALLY WANT TO CRY! I CANNOT BELIEVE I FOUND THIS AFTER ALL THIS TIME! AND…I COULD HAVE HAD A COPY. FUCK YOU RARE RECORDS FOR GETTING MY COPY LOST IN THE POST (SUPPOSEDLY!) AND THAT PHOTO IN THE SPREAD IS SSOOOOOO A VIRGINIA TURBETT…I WILL PUT MY HOUSE ON IT (I am sssssoooooo asking…
I have always loved the final few seconds of the Love Song video. As all the other patrons are trapped in the nightclub by an invisible barrier…Jim and the boys just walk on through without a “Kerr in the world”. Lol. Jim even gives the patrons around him a cursory (or should that be KERRsory?…
3rd time lucky? Flipping hope so!!!
God…that opening synth! It could go on for minutes! I’d be very happy if it did. What a FAB drum and bass groove come in! Then…wow, such screeching awesome guitar from Charlie. Quite a nod to hero Mick Ronson, actually. Lyric wise, it’s all Kerr ambiguity and abstraction. The lines denote ANYTHING BUT a “Love…
Who doesn’t loooove 12 inches of Love (Song)? I know!!!! Lol. I can’t help myself! This is my fave mix of Love Song…it really is only very subtly different…but I darling love those differences. One in particular recorded in this bit. ??
My one little musical purchase I’ve allowed myself with my commission payment. I have a copy of this version on the Themes CD Box Set but wanted a 12″ vinyl copy too. Pot luck with what side Love Song is actually on. Lol. I’ll have fun finding out. :-))
Us Aussie’s knew a good thing when we heard it! (Even if some of us took 30 odd years to REALLY appreciate it! Now – that always makes me sound like I wasn’t a fan then. Not so! I was…but I was decidedly casual and not the UBER DIE HARD fan I am now.) So…
God…he is just…so…so…PLEASE, SOMEONE…just…HAVE MERCY ON ME!!! Jim Kerr…if it has not been obvious to you for the past seven months (or more)…as reflected in a title of a David Bowie song, “I Would Be Your Slave”. I am at your mercy. Do with me as you wish and see fit (that’ll be nothing –…
I love this version of the song. Love the musicality of it as much as what gets recorded for the Sons And Fascination album version.
Divine. Just…sweet, sweet divinity :-))