What is love? 3 songs for Valentine’s Day

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, the 3 wizards have each chosen a suitable love song.

Rebel Rikkit’s choice: “Hold Me” by Damien Dempsey
The image of the bareknuckle fighting stoner singing so directly about their desire to enter into a physical sexual interaction is one of the most disarming and moving feelings anyone can have. Why mess about with coded romantic messages, let’s get it out there my love come on and “softly sweetly kiss my lips” Oooow Damien stop it, you’re making me blush!

Chorizo Garbanzo’s choice: “Orange Coloured Sky” by Screaming Jay Hawkins
It’s one of those love songs where the protagonist gets bowled off their feet by some divine vision of loveliness powerful enough to cause hallucinations of sky turning orange, purple striped and green polka dots. Nat “King” Cole’s version is the famous one but the tempo changes and typically unhinged vocals on the Screaming Jay version do a better job of capturing the joyful abandon of reason that is falling of love.

Kicker of Elves’ choice: “Whole Wide World” by Wreckless Eric
The best punk love song. Love is all about possibilities and this song gives us plenty. Oh it’s also all about delusion too.

A bit of bonus information:

Haddaway and Howard Jones both memorably posed the question “what is love?”

Well, according to my Itunes library……