thefriday7 13 Feb 09

Friday the 13th, and having not been killed by a mask wearing psycho it's time for another seven to end the week with, and as Saturday is St Valentines it's 7 songs related to Cupid.

Then again I was watching the news yesterday and the Catholic church has announce that Valentine is the wrong saint and the date's wrong - it should be September or some such. But never mind here are

seven songs for that certain someone

The Temptations - Ain't Too Proud To Beg




Man I love The Temptations. There's a vast richness of their sound and the harmonies are to die for. If Get Ready was their song to woo a lady, this is the other end of the story, trying to stop her going and turning into a bit of a weeping willow just to stop his lady going

I know you wanna leave me,
but I refuse to let you go
If I have to beg and plead for your sympathy,
I don't mind coz' you mean that much to me

Ain't too proud to beg, sweet darlin
Please don't leave me girl, don't you go
Ain't to proud to plead, baby, baby
Please don't leave me, girl, don't you go

Now I heard a cryin' man, is half a man
with no sense of pride
But if I have to cry to keep you,
I don't mind weepin' if it'll keep you by my side

Ain't to proud to beg, sweet darlin
Please don't leave me girl, don't you go
Ain't to proud to plead, baby, baby
Please don't leave me girl, don't you go

If I have to sleep on your doorstep
all night and day just to keep you from walkin' away
let your friends laugh, even this I can stand
cause I want to keep you any way I can

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - Tears of a Clown




Now if there's a smile on my face it's only there to fool the public is possible the greatest opening gambit in song. Like The Temptations, Smokey and the boys were a template of a Motown band but unlike todays put together bands they had real talent. While The Beat covered it with aplomb there's no beating Smokey and his happy song of sorrow. Even the circus music hook adds to the eternal hopelessness he's feeling.

Kelis - Caught Out There



last year Valentines Day,
You would swarm and say,
Babe I love you, love you, (yeah well he's lyin')
babe I ,swear,
Held you when you were sick,
Even, sucked your dick,
The whole time I think to myself
this isn't fair,

One for anyone who's been fucked over by a lover and needs to vent.

Richard Ashcroft - A Song For The Lovers




Not really a love song but all the better for it and one of the best songs he did without The Verve backing him up.

Liberty X featuring Reverend Run - Song 4 Lovers






One of the strangest team ups of music, and a really good piece of joyfully pure pop music



Edwin Starr - S.O.S



Edwin was one of my early musical favourites and here he is asking people around the world to stop the young lady he loves so he can get to her. He even asks the F.B.I., and that's an episode of Without a Trace I'd love to see