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Post a banger that isn’t in English.

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Day nine of the Valentine’s inspired ‘songs as old romance comics’ series - this time Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart.

Happy 70th birthday to Bernard Sumner. Easily one of the four best singers in the original line-up of New Order 🎉

Category: Sufjan Stevens ​The Christmas version! There are few things more polarising than Christmas music. You either love it or hate it. Or, more likely, you love it and hate it, depending on the time of year. For maybe...

Your annual reminder that Love Will Tear Us Apart is not just for life, it's also for Christmas.

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Have a good one. And if this is a tough time for you, an extra hug x

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Category: Rebecca Hancock & The Prison Wives The country rock version! And one of the early indications that LWTUA could survive virtually any genre it was subjected to. It's less common than many of the other LWTUA covers – I couldn’t find...

The Australian country rock version… possibly my favourite LWTUA cover of all.

Disappointingly, the backing band are all men and don't look like they've been anywhere near a prison.

Love Will Tear Us Apart #8

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It was tonight. An utterly joyful evening. A few more dates on their tour still to come, I believe x

YouTube video by London Records Shack - Beautiful

Been a tough week one way and another so Shack at Shepherds Bush is just what I need. Fully expect grown men crying.

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In a cruel and unsettling world sometimes all we have is surprising pop trivia 😂

YouTube video by TopPop Patrick Hernandez - Born To Be Alive • TopPop

Saturday’s boring fact of the day.
Madonna is the young dancer and backing singer at the front in this video of the 1979 disco classic, she toured with Patrick Hernandez for 6 months.

I need to get out more.

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I didn’t know that, and I love that song. Thanks for the public service 🙏

Mind you it was only a couple of months ago I found out that Young at Heart is a cover of a Bananarama album track, 40 years after it came out.

Love Will Tear Us Apart Again heard from two rooms away and approximately transcribed.

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Bought a copy at the Publishing Scotland book fair thing at the weekend. Looking forward to diving in! 🙏

To have played in one great band may be regarded as good fortune. To have played in two looks like genius.

RIP Mani ✊xx

Thanks so much for bringing DG back into the light Jude. I devoured his 70s and 80s albums after seeing him at the Band on the Wall in Manchester while a student there. What a voice! Had no idea this had all happened to him. Have just donated to the campaign 🙏

YouTube video by TradTG4 Wild Mountain Thyme - Dick Gaughan | Transatlantic Sessions | TG4

(And here's the Transatlantic Sessions performance I mention, which includes a young Rufus Wainwright, his mother and aunt, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and Emmylou Harris.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Bo...

Simultaneously the gentlest and fiercest voice in folk music. A sad and eye-opening story but good to know DG is still around 🙏

YouTube video by IRISHZEYEZ Mary Coughlan - Ancient Rain

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Category: Boy Division The no-frills German punk version. How long does it take to play LWTUA? Up to now, I think the winner is Jada Facer from a couple of weeks ago at 2.30, although props also to Amythyst Kiah , Evelyn...

The no-frills German punk version – all done and dusted in less than 90 seconds

Love Will Tear Us Apart #60

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Category: Hannah Epperson Yet another version that’s over a minute old before the vocal starts. In fact it’s a good thirty seconds, while the looped pizzicato percussion is set up, before it’s in any way recognisable as...

The electronic loop-pedal version recorded in a ceramics shop in Amsterdam by a violinist and international frisbee-player from Vancouver… and one of the very best.

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Can we just appreciate the majesty and the hilarity of these screams altogether! Magic.

Category: Aysar Capys By the time this post appears I will be on a train heading for Milan so I thought the time was right for the first Italian version of LWTUA (yes, there will be others). I can’t remember the first...

The Italian medieval rock version

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YouTube video by Invisible Limits - Topic Love Will Tear Us Apart (Remastered)

The eighties synth-pop version from Dortmund.

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She literally loves you

Ruin a song by adding the word ‘literally’ to the title. I’ll start.

Love will literally tear us apart.

Category: Unbroken ​The Southern Californian straight edge DIY metalcore version.   This early 90s hardcore group from San Diego* chose the name Unbroken to reflect their commitment to the straight edge philosophy:...

The Californian straight-edge version

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Category: Human Drama The LA Scream scene version. Pretty much the slowest version to date, and, in keeping with the group’s name, one of the more dramatic. It starts languidly, with strummed acoustic guitar and the...

The LA scream scene version

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Category: Alabama 3 The made version. I inadvertently went to the wake of Bruce Reynolds, the Great Train Robber. True story. I’d been invited to a book launch in an upstairs room of the King’s Head pub in Hoxton,...

The made version… includes the story of how I inadvertently went to Bruce Reynolds’ wake.

Love Will Tear Us Apart #47

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Slightly diminish a band:

N***az with Gratitude