Today’s episode features music by Turning Keys, Innerpartysystem, Jullan, Seeming, [ Cell 7 ], Cyferdyne, Voltaire Twins, 2nd Happiest, Bionic Resistance, STRVNGERS, Star Industry, Hong Kong Counterfeit, Golden Halos, Code 64, Skinny Puppy, Minuit Machine, New Today, Turquoise Days, Purwien, Synthetisch Lebensform, En Esch, Petition For Mercy, Alaxia, Stellar Dreams, William Control, Man Without Country, Seingles, The Foreign, and Plastic!
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: 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
Blair Scott: Synthentral 