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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~

Belgium
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Posted - 09/04/2007 :  10:07:54  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
A difficult choice.

I don't look to Frank or to music for tributes to love. However, Frank has a way of grabbing one's attention with lyrics/songs about love.

So...what's your fave?

Speedy Marie is the first that comes to mind...


the cure make me want to die, but in a good way -- mr.biscuitdoughhead

coastline
> Teenager of the Year <

USA
3111 Posts

Posted - 09/04/2007 :  10:09:50  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Define love song, K. Does it have to be adoration? Then I'd agree with the choice of "Speedy Marie." If you count heartbreak songs as love songs, then it opens up the field.


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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~

Belgium
15320 Posts

Posted - 09/04/2007 :  11:37:04  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Whatever floats your boat, coastie. But keep it to people because the argument could be made that Frank has a great love of the road or outer space, etc. I'm talking Selkie Bride and Violet and Speedy Marie and Adda Lee.


the cure make me want to die, but in a good way -- mr.biscuitdoughhead

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ClassicalRey
- FB Fan -

USA
56 Posts

Posted - 09/04/2007 :  12:15:59  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I love Farewell Bend.

But Pacoima is a weird name, no?
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~

Belgium
15320 Posts

Posted - 09/04/2007 :  12:49:41  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Check this out, Rey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacoima,_California


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pixiestu
> Teenager of the Year <

United Kingdom
2564 Posts

Posted - 09/04/2007 :  16:21:54  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I've not really given this a lot of thought but the one that comes to mind instantly is 'I Will Run After You'. It's a gorgeous song, really beautiful.

I also think 'I Love Your Brain' is a good love song. I don't know what is intended but my interpretation of it is that it's the little intricacies of how people's minds work that is attractive. The complexities of people's behaviour is something to love, those imperfections that make someone 'perfect'. Maybe I'm way off, but that's what it means to me.

Also, I like the word 'urbane'.


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1965
= Cult of Ray =

Australia
799 Posts

Posted - 09/04/2007 :  16:24:50  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
VALENTINE -&- GARUDA ... I Love Love Love ...


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treetime
- FB Fan -

USA
217 Posts

Posted - 09/04/2007 :  17:45:42  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This sounds like a strictly Frank post, but I would have to go with the Pixies with this one and pick Gigantic.
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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~

Belize
5305 Posts

Posted - 09/04/2007 :  18:05:10  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I would pick Violet. I love the fact that it's about Violet. It's that real-life love story that makes it so sweet and tender. I just think the two make such an amazing couple and it's so cool that FB/BF is so open about his love for her and she is such a lovely muse.

Anyway, I love the song itself. I love the music and the imagery in the words. I think my favorite FB line is "Halfway between blood and the sky."

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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <

USA
3111 Posts

Posted - 09/04/2007 :  18:56:43  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Yuck, Daisy!


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Daisy Girl
~ Abstract Brain ~

Belize
5305 Posts

Posted - 09/04/2007 :  19:01:00  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Better get your cootie catcher out.

bluefinger
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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <

USA
3111 Posts

Posted - 09/04/2007 :  19:02:06  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
You might as well just listen to Justin Timberlake from now on!


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Joey Joe Jo Jr. Chabadoo
* Dog in the Sand *

1052 Posts

Posted - 09/05/2007 :  03:39:25  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I will run after you.

Have you ever run after someone you loved?
I did once...

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houstonguthrie
- FB Fan -

187 Posts

Posted - 09/05/2007 :  09:43:23  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
My Favorite Kiss

just when her mouth is warm - yes that's definitely my favorite one
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Wee Mac
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35 Posts

Posted - 09/08/2007 :  01:49:16  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I burn today - lovely song
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Czar
= Cult of Ray =

Canada
321 Posts

Posted - 09/08/2007 :  06:10:56  Show Profile  Visit Czar's Homepage  Reply with Quote
<i>St. Francis Dam Disaster</i>. Oups! Sorry, wrong topic.

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Broken Face
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USA
5155 Posts

Posted - 09/08/2007 :  06:53:15  Show Profile  Visit Broken Face's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Speedy Marie, hands down.

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mixedbizz
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USA
176 Posts

Posted - 09/08/2007 :  09:39:22  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Speedy Marie is the obvious choice.

She's My Way even better and then some.
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mr.biscuitdoughhead
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
1729 Posts

Posted - 09/08/2007 :  10:47:57  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Selkie Bride, fo' sho.


"How do you like that, Sir Harold?"
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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <

USA
3111 Posts

Posted - 09/08/2007 :  12:35:04  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Biscuit, did you know that song is about having sex with sea lions? Have you had sex with sea lions?


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Edited by - coastline on 09/08/2007 18:13:46
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mr.biscuitdoughhead
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
1729 Posts

Posted - 09/08/2007 :  13:03:59  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
the answer to both your questions is yes.


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mr.biscuitdoughhead
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
1729 Posts

Posted - 09/08/2007 :  21:37:13  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
the answer is still yes, cohen.


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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~

Belgium
15320 Posts

Posted - 09/09/2007 :  04:52:58  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by coastline

Biscuit, did you know that song is about having sex with sea lions?



That's not exactly what the lore of the selkie is about. If you wish, you may consult the thread on forum, plus this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkie


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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -

Ireland
11546 Posts

Posted - 09/09/2007 :  06:04:55  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Somebody should add Selkie Bride to the 'Selkies in fiction, music and pop culture' section of that article!

"I hate how the reptile dreams it's a mammal. Scaley monster: be what you are!!" - Erebus.
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debaserrr
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121 Posts

Posted - 09/09/2007 :  09:17:08  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
i will runnnnnnnnnn aaAAfterr youuu



"The arc of triumph!"
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fbc
-= Modulator =-

United Kingdom
4903 Posts

Posted - 09/09/2007 :  09:21:28  Show Profile  Visit fbc's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I Switched You
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cptnpasty
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Spain
151 Posts

Posted - 09/10/2007 :  02:01:32  Show Profile  Visit cptnpasty's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by mixedbizz

Speedy Marie is the obvious choice.

She's My Way even better and then some.



totally agree with She's My Way, also Supid Me, for a sad love song.
and Atom In My heart, and....ok, he's basically quite good at love songs...
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trobrianders
> Teenager of the Year <

Papua New Guinea
3302 Posts

Posted - 09/13/2007 :  18:50:55  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Stupid Me. It's slight but it always gets me. I removed my original post about She's My Way cos I got this sudden feeling that it isn't a love song. Now I don't know. Is it a love song?

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mr.biscuitdoughhead
* Dog in the Sand *

USA
1729 Posts

Posted - 09/14/2007 :  13:24:57  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
"she's my way out of here". he might not even be referring to an actual "she".


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OLDMANOTY
= Cult of Ray =

United Kingdom
469 Posts

Posted - 09/14/2007 :  13:57:18  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by trobrianders

Stupid Me. It's slight but it always gets me.

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Ed is the hoo hoo


Me too. It's a bit of a pastiche and an atypical FB song but sung from the heart.
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Carl
- A 'Fifth' Catholic -

Ireland
11546 Posts

Posted - 09/15/2007 :  09:03:36  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
It should have been on 93-03.

"I hate how the reptile dreams it's a mammal. Scaley monster: be what you are!!" - Erebus.
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FlexMentallo
- FB Fan -

Argentina
12 Posts

Posted - 09/15/2007 :  16:24:35  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Frank's best love song?

"When will happiness find me again?"
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billgoodman
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<

Netherlands
5999 Posts

Posted - 09/15/2007 :  16:52:11  Show Profile  Click to see billgoodman's MSN Messenger address  Reply with Quote
''I don't want to hurt you''

Especially the bridge, although I don't know what all those words mean,
it's just the rhyming and the rhythm and the emotion that wells up

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pioneers parrot
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18 Posts

Posted - 09/21/2007 :  18:30:51  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Questions about favorite things can stump me, me being perhaps too flighty for the concept. But I picked some songs that others mentioned: Speedy Marie, She's My Way, I Will Run After You, Valentine and Garuda, Places Named After Numbers (black hole, yes). I Will Run After You I liked, but its ruminating quality troubles me a bit. Honeycomb I like quite a lot. Also, I remember floop commenting some time ago on Frank's voice in, um, ah yes, Southbound Bevy, and me thinking, huh... Anyway, that song turned into a love song one day on the streets of New England's largest city when I saw walking with the gray-haired man the elegant one. Matters of timing had doomed us, me and this elegant one, in a different city no less, and now, in a sweaty cross-eyed confusion, Southbound Bevy came to mind, and I thought, "'I stood below a county levy'? And, hmm, that doesn't make a keen amount of sense, which is appropriate, considering... considering nothing does." (I'm writing, "All is lost, all is lost...") And, of course, like Daffy Duck's renowned "pronoun trouble," verb and preposition trouble had victimized me. But I think I tend to hear the most resonant passion in the Pixies' Hey, a song that recently began to sound "classic." Not in the "yeah, dude, that's classic" sense, but in the sense that one might hear Sail On Sailor and Under My Thumb and Hey and not need to say "hey!"

While we're on the topic of romance, just wondering, any guys trim the hair in their pits? If one dates again, you see, one wants to know the shrewdest way to go these days. Of course, one also fears that this kathryn person will swoop in and say, "We discussed personal grooming on this thread here..." And oh, how one fears this swooping! One might say that this swooping is one's second biggest fear behind some Cennobites swooping in and tearing one's soul apart in the "I've seen the future of terror and his name is..." Now, I've forgotten that gentleman's name. Someone remind me. Anyway, gentle, please. That's all I ask.


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coastline
> Teenager of the Year <

USA
3111 Posts

Posted - 09/21/2007 :  19:20:30  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Kathryn's a pussycat, pp. And she swoons more than she swoops. You'll see.

I've been thinking about this thread since you started it, K. And I go with the song from my sig, "I'll Be Blue." Love isn't just roses and kisses. It's also absolute heartbreak, which is what this song's about. But I hate the piano-less version the band was playing on tour last fall. Without EDF, it's just another rock song.


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tisasawath
= Cult of Ray =

Wallis and Futuna Islands
783 Posts

Posted - 09/22/2007 :  05:47:53  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Ana

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