• 5 years ago
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    For my Fav Songs Playlist (Song 5):
    My story with The Book of Love is similar to Hurt, I listened to Peter Gabriel's cover originally, an amazing song that skyrocketed into one of my favorites. And that led me to find the original, lesser known version. It saddens me that the original is only the 5th result when you search for this song on youtube, even Gavin James cover being over it.
    It's understandable, The Magnetic Fields aren't really a mainstream band, and the original version lacks polish, it's far rougher and less pretty, but in contrast, I think that makes it more honest. It's a simpler song, has is the entirety of 69 Love Songs. It's that honesty and that roughness that makes the original version the ultimate one in my opinion. The Book of Love is described as something so huge, transcendental, with flowers, heart shaped boxes, with things that everyone is too young to know ... but at the same time it's boring, and even downright dumb at times. It's not perfect, but that's not the point, the point is that you love the one who's reading it to you.
    The entire album is amazing though, I remember it was one of the very first albums I bought and at the time I only knew this song, but that gave me time to hear and know all the other 68 songs on this mammoth of a record, and you know? The thing is huge, downright dumb at times... but it's imperfectly beautiful... it's imperfectly perfect.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkjXr9SrzQE
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