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Music Time! “LOVE” Edition (Part One)! 6/14/16

My Facebook feed has been so full of hatred lately. Hate toward “libtards,” hate toward “Republitards,” hate toward the LGBT community, hate toward political candidates or politicians, hate toward gun owners or anti-gun advocates. Remember when public tragedies brought us together? I guess the political discourse has gotten to the point that even after a tragedy we can’t come together as a nation anymore.

We need love: not hate. So my morning will be filled with love songs:

ARTIST: Happy Mondays
SONG: Sunshine and Love
ALBUM: …Yes, Please!
YEAR: 1992

ARTIST: Green Day
SONG: Oh Love
ALBUM: !UNO!
YEAR: 2012

ARTIST: !distain
SONG: Black Mountain Love Affair
ALBUM: 25 Frames A Second (Expanded Edition)
YEAR: 2004

ARTIST: Wolfsheim
SONG: Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town
ALBUM: 55578
YEAR: 1995

ARTIST: Erasure
SONG: Lay All Your Love On Me
ALBUM: Abba-Esque
YEAR: 1992

ARTIST: ABC
SONG: Look of Love, The (Part I)
ALBUM: Absolutely ABC: Best of ABC
YEAR: 1982 (Song)

ARTIST: Code 64
SONG: Love Sees No Colour
ALBUM: Accelerate EP
YEAR: 2013

ARTIST: Men Without Hats
SONG: I’m In Love
ALBUM: The Adventures Of Women & Men Without Hate In The 21st Century
YEAR: 1989

ARTIST: Bronski Beat
SONG: I Fee Love
ALBUM: Age of Consent
YEAR: 1983

ARTIST: IAMX
SONG: This Will Make You Love Again
ALBUM: The Alternative
YEAR: 2006

ARTIST: Future Holotape
SONG: Summer In Love
ALBUM: Analog Renegades
YEAR: 2014

ARTIST: Visage
SONG: Again We Love
ALBUM: The Anvil
YEAR: 1982

ARTIST: The Presets
SONG: This Boy’s in Love
ALBUM: Apocalypso
YEAR: 2008

ARTIST: informatik
SONG: My True Love (Pulse State Mix)
ALBUM: Arena
YEAR: 2009

ARTIST: Atlantic Popes
SONG: Love
ALBUM: Atlantic Popes
YEAR: 2000

ARTIST: Boytronic
SONG: Love Remains
ALBUM: Autotunes
YEAR: 2002

ARTIST: Blancmange
SONG: Don’t You Love It All?
ALBUM: Believe You Me (Remastered)
YEAR: 1985

ARTIST: A Flock of Seagulls
SONG: Space Age Love Song
ALBUM: The Best of A Flock of Seagulls
YEAR: 1982 (song)

ARTIST: Cutting Crew
SONG: I’ve Been In Love Before
ALBUM: The Best of Cutting Crew
YEAR: 1987

ARTIST: Howard Jones
SONG: Everlasting Love
ALBUM: The Best of Howard Jones
YEAR: 1989

Music TIme! Valentine’s Day Edition! 2/14/16

Feb14

It’s time to put MediaMonkey on shuffle again, but this time with the filter “Love” so that it only plays songs with the word “love” in them. It’s Valentine’s Day, so it was either “love” or “murder.” I decided to go with “love.”

Suzie and I pretty much boycott this commercial holiday that has no relationship to love anyway. Seriously, go look up the origins of the holiday. Instead we do cool stuff without all the hearts and candies: like going to the Gothic Ball in Austin!

ARTIST: Happy Mondays
SONG: Sunshine and Love
ALBUM: …Yes, Please!
YEAR: 1992

ARTIST: Plastic
SONG: Lovesong
ALBUM: [kunst]Stoff
YEAR: 2002

ARTIST: Deine Lakaien
SONG: Flowers of Love
ALBUM: 1987 (The Early Tapes)
YEAR: 1987

ARTIST: Praga Khan
SONG: Supersonic Lovetoy
ALBUM: 21st Century Skin
YEAR: 1999

ARTIST: Legacy of Music
SONG: Don’t Love Me Anymore
ALBUM: 4[ward]
YEAR: 2009

Yes, it’s the Kenny Rogers song, but it’s sooooo much better than the Kenny Rogers song.

ARTIST: Wolfsheim
SONG: Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love To Town
ALBUM: 55578
YEAR: 1995

ARTIST: SPARK!
SONG: Making Love With The Boots On
ALBUM: 65 Ton Stål
YEAR: 2007

ARTIST: Apoptygma Berzerk
SONG: Love Never Dies, Pt. 1
ALBUM: 7
YEAR: 1998

Yes, it’s an ABBA cover! We all love ABBA, either openly or secretly. And Erasure does a lot of ABBA covers and they are all just as great as the original songs by ABBA!

ARTIST: Erasure
SONG: Lay All Your Love On Me
ALBUM: Abba-Esque
YEAR: 1992

ARTIST: Club 8
SONG: Less Than Love
ALBUM: Above the City
YEAR: 2013

ARTIST: ABC
SONG: The Look of Love
ALBUM: Absolutely ABC: Best of ABC
YEAR: 1982

Bronski Beat with Marc Almond from Soft Cell. Well, you know it’s gonna be awesome!

ARTIST: Bronski Beat (feat Marc Almond (official))
SONG: I Feel Love
ALBUM: Age of Consent
YEAR: 1983

ARTIST: The Buggles
SONG: I Love You (Miss Robot)
ALBUM: The Age of Plastic
YEAR: 1980

ARTIST: Agonised By Love
SONG: More Love – More Suffer
ALBUM: All Of White Horizons
YEAR: 2007

ARTIST: CYLIX
SONG: So Much For Love
ALBUM: Alpha
YEAR: 2010

Got to see IAMX in Birmingham, AL of all places. I hope I’ll get to see them again.

ARTIST: IAMX
SONG: This Will Make You Love Again
ALBUM: The Alternative
YEAR: 2006

BWAHAHA: 8/23 – 8/29

Aug30

BWAHAHA (Blair’s Week Attempts at Haha’s) 8/23 – 8/29: This was a pretty fun week all things considered. We’ve unpacked more boxes, got more work done on the bathroom, decorated the home some more, and I doing better at my water aerobics class. I’m still the skinniest person in the class, so still helping out my confidence! Got to go storm chasing a few times this week, but mostly Mother Nature was just being a dick and sending all the good stuff somewhere else.

And then there’s the serious stuff: more videos surfacing of cops being stupid and engaging in unnecessary violence with excessive force. I have been a lifelong defender of police because there are good cops out there and it’s easy to fall into confirmation bias of “all cops are bad” because we only see the bad. Are police brutality instances actually on the rise, or is the predominance of cell phones capturing more of what was already there? That’s hard to say definitively, but one thing is for sure, it’s getting harder and harder to defend police in general when more of this crazy shit is happening. Protect and serve people. That’s your fucking job: protect and serve.

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