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May 28, 2004 5:59 AM

"But they don't know about us, and they've never heard of love..." A Million Love Songs--a new mp3 blog hoping to list them all. Songs stay active for a week, and you can contribute too! So far, they're ranging from Tracey Ullman to Britney to Take That to Eddie Fisher to the Supremes and Abba (send your contributions to: [e-mail])
posted by amberglow (21 comments total)

Wow, there's some incredibly bad stuff nestled in there...

I guess it's like the Magnetic Fields sang:
"The Book of Love is full of music
In fact that's where music comes from.
Some of it is just transcedental,
Most of it is just really dumb."

(And there's 68 more love songs where that one came from...)
posted by kaibutsu at 6:52 AM on May 28, 2004

There's some incredibly bad stuff nestled in there...
NOT, however, "They Don't Know," by Tracy Ullman (with backup vocals by the song's brilliant author the late Kirsty MacColl) the greatest non-ABBA song of the 1980s, and one of the greatest songs of all time. All fans of girl-group should get Tracy Ullman's greatest hits CD, which is chock full of other good songs and only one real stinker in the whole bunch. Great production throughout. Someone get that gal back into the studio.
posted by Faze at 7:22 AM on May 28, 2004

Yikes - but in a rather cool "not every item is a US Top 40 slice of schlock" kind of way. I should probably be more embarrassed about this than I am, but I copied a couple of them and actually LIKED them...

Thanks, amber!
posted by JollyWanker at 7:28 AM on May 28, 2004

Gah... A highschool girlfriend made me a mixed tape once, and on it was a real cheesy number. Wish I could remember what it was. 80's song, something about being halfway round the world. Ring a bell?
posted by smcniven at 7:31 AM on May 28, 2004

guess it's like the Magnetic Fields sang:
"The Book of Love is full of music

"The book of love has music in it
In fact that's where music comes from
Some of it is just transcendental
Some of it is just really dumb"

/pedantic Merritt fan

Thanks for the link, amber
posted by dhoyt at 7:41 AM on May 28, 2004

OK, great. This is awesome. Now, where do we go for the most stupendously depressingly mean, sad and un-lovely songs of all time? Not hate songs, but... the Hank Sr. tunes, Palace's "Will You Miss Me When I Burn?", Smog's "Chosen One," Freakwater's "Forgettable Song?" Etc.! Maybe I'll have to start that one. In the meantime, perhaps this will do?
posted by micropublishery at 7:59 AM on May 28, 2004

Carly Simon's Halfway Round The World, smcniven?
posted by stavrogin at 8:25 AM on May 28, 2004

They started off with Take That? Oh, dear.

But since I've been on an I-adore-Tracey-Ullman kick ever since HBO started repeating "Tracey Takes On..." and have been looking for an MP3 of "They Don't Know", I say thanks for the link!
posted by chuq at 8:48 AM on May 28, 2004

that's actually one of my favorite Magnetic Fields songs (that and Busby Berkeley Dreams and Papa Was A Rodeo and How Fuckin Romantic and Nothing Matters When We're Dancing...) : >

and micropublishery--start a million sad songs blog. I'll contribute.

I'm so cheesy--i love that Tracey song, and the ABBA, and most of them actually.

smcniven: Been Around the World by Lisa Stansfield?
posted by amberglow at 8:54 AM on May 28, 2004

What, no "I Love the Dead," by Alice Cooper?
posted by jonmc at 9:17 AM on May 28, 2004

I love "They Don't Know." One of the most underrated 80s songs.
posted by SisterHavana at 10:13 AM on May 28, 2004

stravrogin: doesn't seem familiar
amberglow: definately not

It had that muted sound like "Life in a Northern Town", although not as "guitary"

Maybe it was "other side of the world"
posted by smcniven at 10:37 AM on May 28, 2004

smcniven, for some reasons, "80s" "cheesy" "around the world" made me think of When in Rome's The Promise

if i had to walk the world, i'd make you fall for me ...

CHEE-Z!

thanks for the great link, amberglow! once i cast aside my schlock-meter, there are some very good (if mainstream) songs selected.
posted by mrgrimm at 10:51 AM on May 28, 2004

[e-mail]

This seems like a good place for gmail, not hotmail.
posted by mikeyb at 10:59 AM on May 28, 2004

Maybe they couldn't get an invite.
posted by Jart at 12:03 PM on May 28, 2004

I was really hoping this was going to be a million Arthur Lee songs.
posted by mokujin at 1:14 PM on May 28, 2004

Actually, if some fan contributed the entire repertoir of Prince, the site would be finished
posted by abcde at 1:27 PM on May 28, 2004

smcniven: "Halfway Around The World" by the A-Teens?
posted by abcde at 1:28 PM on May 28, 2004

Good one, mokujin! Funny, I was just debating a few weeks ago whether "No Matter What You Do" was better as a love song or a break up song...
posted by micropublishery at 2:33 PM on May 28, 2004

ILM: 100 great breakup songs
posted by mr.marx at 11:47 PM on May 28, 2004

great list, mr.marx...now we need only 999,900 more : > (and mp3s of them too)
posted by amberglow at 9:02 AM on May 29, 2004