Emotion : Amore
Artist : Gloria Estefan
Track : Si Voy A Pederte
Release Details : Epic, 1989
Just been out for some food and this was playing in the background. Nothing much more to add than that.
Fire it up.
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Emotion : Desperation
Artist : Spandau Ballet
Track : True (12″ Mix)
Release Details : Chrysalis, 1983
It’s not her fault but then again it’s not his either. He’s just a lad from Peckham and she’d do well to remember that.
He’s not like his brother, no, Derek’s a clown but he’s not the man she thinks he is either.
This flat feels odd to him too. Habitat settee, Wood floor and Sade LP’s. He’s no idea how he got here. To this point.
She’d pushed him too far, she only wants the best for him but, well, he needed to set a marker down. To shut her up.
He looks at a picture of her. His Cassandra. The woman of his dreams. There’s a knock at the door.
He looks up. It all starts to dawn on him…
That knock again.
A muffled voice “Mr Trotter, we’d just like to ask you a few questions”
Rodney, you plonker…
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We’re delighted to have a guest submission from Proper Magazine’s Neil Summers to share with you.
Emotion : Sad Sweet Dreamer
Artist : Marcel King
Track : Reach For Love
Album : Cool As Ice : The Be Music Productions
Release Details : Factory Records, 1984
This lost classic has an almost narcotic-like effect on me whenever I listen to it, causing the hairs on the back of my neck to rise like the antennae of a thousand ice-cold ants whilst a lump of solidified tears form in my throat.
Released only as a 12″ on Factory records in 1984 and produced by ACR’s Donald Johnson and New Order’s Bernard Sumner, it should have topped the charts but, as we all know, that wasn’t the way things worked at Mr Wilson’s chaotic label and though a bonafide Hacienda floor-filler it cruelly passed the rest of the country by who, instead, got Lionel Ritchie’s blind, plasticine-sculpting, stalker anthem ‘Hello’ by way of compensation.
Though it works well as a dance tune for me it’s one of those intensely personal songs that you listen to whilst sat at the end of your bed, head in your hands, wondering just where it all went wrong.
Marcel, you may not be around any more mate but you ‘keep on giving me shocks’ every time I hear this intoxicatingly tragic love song.
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Artist : Nicolas Jaar
Release : Space Is Only Noise
Label : Circus Company
Emotion : Relaxed
Nicolas Jaar makes incredibly good, deep, techno & house tracks. He releases them on labels such as Wolf + Lamb and Greta Cottage Workshop.
When I received the promo for this album I immediately got the poppers out and cleared a space in the front room, poised for a serious bit of a throwdown.
The space I’d cleared was eventually filled with a beanbag, a glass of red wine and the missus for this album is not an exercise in deep house chuggers – nor is it the all to often tread path of ‘dance producer makes dance album, tries to involved ALL genres’ – no, what Monsieur Jaar has done is present a beautiful, tranquil and luscious collection of downtempo tracks that take me back to the Halcyon days of the French ‘Chillout’ scene.
Rich funk samples, clipped and warped vocals and a s-l-o-o-o-w tempo makes for a very enjoyable and very versatile album.
For fans of downtempo, balearic, cosmic (etc) this is a must and even if you’re not I’d urge you to give it a listen. A brilliant debut.
Heartbreak, Passion, Rejection, Melancholy, Rage, Desire… They’re all well represented on this, the second volume of the Emotional Pop mix series.
This one is a slow burner, it gets no higher than 110 on the bpm count and spends most of it’s time in the low 80′s but that’s what we’re all about.
It’s so powerful that my turntable got emotional and started speeding up and slowing down during 10cc. If you choose this mix as an accompaniment to some love making and this puts you off your stride I apologise. Just ride it though. It’s a deep track, the old belt-drive clearly got caught up in the moment.
Elsewhere there’s reflections on love from the Art of Noise, loneliness from Eurythmics, passion from Bryan Ferry and shitty Spanish from Madonna.
Stick the heating on, strip down to your smalls and get this on.
Niles – Emotional Pop Volume Two
Thanks to the, frequently hilarious, Phil Anderson for today’s submission.
Emotion : Heartbreak, Rejection and Loneliness
Artist : Oran ‘Juice’ Jones
Track : The Rain
Album : The Juice
Release Details : Def Jam Records, 1986
Oran Jones, was given the ironic nickname “juice” due to his vitamin C deficiancy. The Rain shares the tale of how Oran catches his missus holding hands with another man. Oran has been following her for months, lurking like a rapist in the pissing rain.
I’ve seen my girlfriend playfully touch another man on the shoulder whilst talking to him. If I’d had unstable emotions of “the Juice” I would’ve kneecapped the man, and then realising what I’d done, ripped open my shirt and fallen down on my knees weeping hysterically.
Oran cuts up his girl’s credit cards, and then goes on a massive rant at her saying that “you without me is like cornflakes without the milk”. Drinking a shit-tonne of milk might be ok, but calcium will not make up for a lack of vitamin C will it Oran? However, cornflakes can be made into chocolate cornflake cakes, or taste nice in a flavoured yoghurt, so I reckon his girl has a good future.
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Emotion : Confusion
Artist : Q Lazzarus
Track : Goodbye Horses (Extended Version)
Release Details : All Nations Records, 1991
Instructions
When it stops you may find you are stood in the middle of the room, confused, with your cock out. That’s fine. Wipe the lippy off and get dressed.
Warning – May lead to tears.
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Duncan, of El Diablo’s Social Club, gets thoughtful and deep.
Emotion : Despondent Hope
Artist : Suicide
Track : Dream Baby Dream
Release Details : Island Records, 1979
I imagine this song always to be the last words spoken by a hopeless yet unrequited romantic who has fucked his chances with the love of his life via a succession of awfully judged booze and downer choices. It’s the sound of a fella who just went loco on Hill Billy Heroin and Gin and is sending his last, strained, tear soaked message to the gal he blew it with, only she’ll never hear it.
Alternatively this could have been the song Raoul Moat sang to himself to keep his spirits up until Gazza got there.
Either way it’s utterly immense and makes you get something in your eye when you hear it.
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Rob Hyde, of the superb Montage mix, brings us a superb choice. Mamma Mia!
Emotion : Deep, deep, longing
Artist : Lucio Battisti
Track : Amarsi Un Po
Album : Lo, Tu, Noi Tutti
Release Details : Numero Uno, 1977
As I was browsing his website earlier, I noticed that for a very reasonable £250, Lucio will fly in from wherever he is in the world and sing this song to you, live, as a soundtrack to your lovemaking.
In Italy he’s as big as Tom Jones and an Italian friend says he has another track about coming over to your house and rustling up a pasta sauce (true).
Every day’s a ‘Dolmio Day’ in his world.
I spent a good chunk of last week on the A14 near Kettering, crying in a layby, with this track on repeat. All over a girl I’d never met, who didn’t even exist in the first place. I don’t even understand Italian.
Powerful
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Rob is a lad who understands emotion. He also understands that life’s tasks need to be soundtracked – preferably using soundtrack music.
Whilst browsing his excellent Chips With Everything blog I came across a link for his ‘Glory of Montage’ mix.
This is truly magnificent stuff. In Rob’s own words
“It’s perfect for doing cocaine in the gym to, or for training intensively over a period of 6 months, whatever floats your boat.”
Absolutely massive. Tracklist is below, mix originall hosted over at Akira the Don.
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