Time Travel Tuesday: Relics of Love
Today's Time Travel takes us to some older love songs to woo your valentine.
One of the finestI know is Bryan Ferry's pulse-beat "Slave To Love" for its bittersweet portrayal of both the joys of love and the resigned surrender to falling. "Valentine" from the same album is darker and crisper, but both are sexy as hell. This is the dark chocolate of love music.
"The spring is turning
Your face to mine
I can hear your laughter
I can see you smile
Slave to love
I can't escape
I'm a slave to love."
Bryan Ferry from Boys and Girls (1985) [iTunes]
Slave To Love
Valentine
From the impeccable alternative gem Girlfriend we have Matthew Sweet's worshipful ode to love from afar.
Matthew Sweet: Winona from Girlfriend (1991) [Buy]
Wonderful shimmery shoegaze...
Chapterhouse:Love Forever from Blood Music (1993) [Buy]
Darren Robbins, now with Destroy the Heart, made one solo album in the late 80's, of which this little song is a standout. Kind of Marshall Crenshaw on helium, but nice.
Darren Robbins: Love of Another Wave from Darren Robbins Steals Your Girlfriend (1988)
Chan Marshall's unfortunately brief rendition of the old Honeydripper's favorite, also covered by Robert Plant, is outstanding for its simplicity.
Cat Power: Sea of Love from The Covers Record (2000) [Buy]
Related post: Love Songs For Valentines
2 comments:
Nice bunch of tunes. "Sea of Love" was originally done by Phil Phillips (see movie) also there's a hit version by Del Shannon. Robert Plant sang the lead in The Honeydrippers, did he do another version?
Yes, I knew the song was older than the Honeydrippers version, but I wasn't attempting a complete history of it here. You can go to Wikipedia and read a full page about it if you want that much detail.
"Sea of Love" was on the first disk of Robert Plant's "Sixty Six to Timbuktu," released in 2003, a greatest hits album and a history of the career of Robert Plant from 1966 to a recording done at the Festival in the Desert in Mali.
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