32 Replies to “Love Lyrics Have Done a Lot Of Damage”

  3. Love hurts, love scars
    Love wounds and marks
    Any heart
    Not tough or strong enough
    To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain
    Love is like a cloud
    Holds a lot of rain
    Love hurts
    Ooh, ooh love hurts

    1. Heart breaker, soul shaker
      I’ve been told about you
      Steamroller, midnight stroller
      What they’ve been saying must be true
      Red-hot mama
      Velvet charmer
      Time’s come to pay your dues

    2. I remember falling in love for the first time, and suddenly thinking that I finally understood all those cheesy love songs and that they were right. I finally understood what they were singing about. I’m embarrassed to say “Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” by Aerosmith was a hit song that seemed to describe my teenage emotions perfectly.

      Then we broke up, and I finally understood what all those break up songs were really about.

      Maybe Zappa just wasn’t doing it right.

  4. I remember Al Capp lampooning the Beatles in some of his Li’l Abner comic strips with the lyric “I wanna hold your ham.” Some of the characters couldn’t figure out why.

    1. Sesame Street lampooned the Beatles. One of the Sesame Street LPs from a long time ago had a song sung by Burt. It started, “I wanna hold your ear” and also mentioned holding holding someone’s nose and tooth. I don’t think holding a hand was mentioned, though, but it was obvious what song it was parodying.

  5. Love songs cross just about every culture. My Ukrainian Baba would recall the popular songs of her youth in the old country. I asked her what the songs were about and she said they were love songs with themes not unlike country songs you hear on the radio.
    Without love songs you wouldn’t hear poignant heart-felt songs like these.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OABmOJdMoU

    1. The LP that song is from is one of the best albums of the 1970s.

      I looked for it on CD a few years ago. I found it in an old HMV outlet, but I got more than I bargained for, though in a good sense. It was part of a 2-disc budget set of her Capitol Records LPs. What I got was 4 albums for the price of a regular one.

      Some of the songs go back to her early days with the Stone Ponies. What astounded me was that she collaborated with singers who would later become quite well-known, such as Don Henley and Glenn Frey before they formed the Eagles.

  6. Two versions of the same song:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gu8oi8eJSg

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llY6ukDF3DM

    I have the CD from which Bartoli’s recording is taken. I had the privilege of attending her concert in Edmonton in the mid-1990s. It was a wonderful evening’s entertainment and the audience was very well-behaved–not a sound out of turn.

    She was a professional. I got the sense that even if I’d been the only one in attendance, she would have put on a full show. She gave several encores, and I’m sure she would have given us more, but it was getting late.

    Dmitri Hvorostovsky….. taken from us far too soon at age 55 in 2017.

  9. Too much analysis like most things nowadays. Music is a lot like life: there’s the good, the bad and the ugly. Sometimes appropriate like “Ride of the Valkyries” in “Apocalypse Now” or cringe inducing like anything squealed out by Bieber. If ya don’t like it change stations. If you do like it hit the repeat button and turn it up. “Hello. Hello Again…”

    2. Apparently neither is “Harry You’re a Beast.”
      (on “We’re Only In It for the Money”)

      1. “Madge, I want your Body”
        “Harry, get back!”
        “Madge, it’s not merely physical”
        “Harry, youre a beast!”
        *dirty chorus*

        Damn, why did Frank have to die so young?
        🙁

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