Love Is...

It's the annual Self Help Radio Valentine's Day show!  As usual, a detailed & methodical pseudoscientific exploration of a theme - this one is finishing the sentence "love is..."  What is love?  Is it a rose, a stranger, the drug, a heat wave, a gamble, a fiction, a hurting thing, or the sweetest thing?  As you'll discover, the answer is yes!

You can listen to the show right now & even on Valentine's Day & probably for like a year after it (& still never really know what love is) at the Self Help Radio website.  Should you need instant gratification, you can listen to the two parts of the show by clicking either part one or part two.  While love is strange & might well be a mystery, there's no mystery about the songs on this week's show - they're listed below!

Happy Valentine's Day!

(part one)

"Love" The Dream Academy _A Different Kind Of Weather_
"Love Is" A House _The Way We Were: The Best Of A House_
"Love Is A Rose" Neil Young _Decade_

"Love Is A Stranger" Eurthymics _Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)_
"Love Is A Shield" Camouflage _80s Precious Little Diamonds_
"Love Is Lighter Than Air" Magnetic Fields _Get Lost_
"Love Is Blue" Hangman's Beautiful Daughters _Dreamworld 1985-1987_

"Love Is The Drug" Hot Rats _Hot Rats_
"Love Is Like" Strange Fate _Sigh Cry Die: 29 Garage Rock Tales Of Woe & Despair From The Sixties_
"Finding Out True Love Is Blind" Louis XIV _The Best Little Secrets Are Kept_
"(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave" The Jam _Setting Sons_
"Love Is All Around" Hüsker Dü _Eight Miles High_

"Love Is Strange (Take 4)" Mickey & Sylvia _Love Is Strange_

(part two)

"Love Is A Gamble" Johnny Mathis _Rhythms Of Broadway_
"What Is Love" Judy Mackenzie _Judy_
"Love Is A Merry-Go-Round" Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra _Charlie Barnet 1937 - 1939_
"Love Is... 1968" Beaumont _This Is Beaumont_

"Love Is A Sign" The Go-Betweens _16 Lovers Lane Acoustic Démos_
"Love Is The Answer" Even As We Speak _Feral Pop Frenzy_
"Is That Love" Squeeze _East Side Story_
"Love Is The Slug" Fuzzbox _We've Got A Fuzzbox & We're Gonna Use It_
"Sweetest Thing" U2 _Where The Streets Have No Name_

"Love Is Red/Green" Tender Trap _Film Molecules_
"If That's What Love Is" Television Personalities _Constrictor Collector Series 7"_
"Love Is A Fiction" Shirts _Street Light Shine_
"Love Is Like A Bullet" Shoes _Shoes' Best_

"Love Is Everywhere" Pharoah Sanders _Love Will Find A Way_
"Love Is A Hurting Thing" Toussaint McCall _Nothing Takes The Place Of You_
"Love Is Not A Game" Sam E. Solo _Big City Soul, Vol. 1_