The Power of Love vs Pride in the Name of Love

The Power of Love is one of the greatest love songs ever written. Pride is the worst kind of conceited virtue signalling bullshit designed to sell records.

i thought this was about the Huey Lewis song but i still vote for Pride.  Without that song i doubt we'd have gotten TJT.

Pride by a valley

Pride, though I will admit I dig some Huey Lewis & the News. Those first four albums are bangers.

U2 vs Céline ?

U2 all the way.

Guys, this is the Frankie Goes To Hollywood version of The Power of Love

Envy will hurt itself
Let yourself be beautiful
Sparkling love, flowers
And pearls and pretty girls
Love is like an energy
Rushin' an' rushin' inside of me

vs

One man come in the name of love
One man, he come and go
One man comes he to justify
One man to overthrow

Literally, no contest.

1984 Jennifer Rush
1984 Frankie Goes to Hollywood
1985 Huey Lewis
1993 Celine Dion

So, yeah

Blows em all away


AIN’T TALKING ABOUT LOVE

I heard the news baby
All about your disease
Yeah, you may have all you want baby
But I got somethin' you need, oh yeah

Ain't talkin' 'bout love
My love is rotten to the core
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Just like I told you before, yeah before

You know you're semi-good lookin'
And on the streets again
Oh yeah, you think you're really cookin' baby
You better find yourself a friend, my friend

Ain't talkin' 'bout love
My love is rotten to the core
Ain't gonna talk about love
Just like I told you before, before

Blows em all away

AIN’T TALKING ABOUT LOVE

I heard the news baby
All about your disease
Yeah, you may have all you want baby
But I got somethin' you need, oh yeah

Ain't talkin' 'bout love
My love is rotten to the core
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Just like I told you before, yeah before

You know you're semi-good lookin'
And on the streets again
Oh yeah, you think you're really cookin' baby
You better find yourself a friend, my friend

Ain't talkin' 'bout love
My love is rotten to the core
Ain't gonna talk about love
Just like I told you before, before

It deffo blows....

I'm old enough to remember both the Huey Lewis song and the Frankie song when they were brand new and frankly back then I probably preferred the Huey Lewis track but these days...I far prefer the Frankie track, it has a lot more depth to it. I also prefer it to U2's Pride (In the Name of Love). One of the best Xmas tracks ever - superb.

Initially issued as a single in November 1984, and taken from the debut album, Welcome to the Pleasuredome (1984), "The Power of Love" followed its two predecessors, "Relax" and "Two Tribes", to the top of the UK singles chart. It scored the band an early December number-one. "The Power of Love" was also a top 10 hit in several European countries, in Australia and New Zealand, and in Canada. "The Power of Love" is often regarded as a Christmas song, despite having no reference to Christmas within the song lyrics. However, the accompanying video features the Nativity of Jesus, and the single cover was The Assumption of the Virgin. The single spent just one week at number one in the UK, outsold by the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band Aid, which until 1997 was the best selling single ever in the UK.

Since then, reissues and/or remixes of the Frankie Goes to Hollywood recording of this song have been top 10 UK hits on two other occasions, hitting number 10 in 1993 and number 6 in 2000. "The Power of Love" has also charted in the UK in a version by Holly Johnson (a solo recording from 1999). The original version by Frankie Goes to Hollywood was featured in the 2012 film Sightseers, the same year that the song was reissued as a digital download and peaked at number 42, in response to a cover version by Gabrielle Aplin. Her recording of the song also went to number 1 in the UK, exactly 28 years after the original Frankie Goes to Hollywood single topped the chart.

Holly Johnson, who co-wrote the song, later reminisced: "I always felt like 'The Power of Love' was the record that would save me in this life. There is a biblical aspect to its spirituality and passion; the fact that love is the only thing that matters in the end".[2]

Check out the extended version also, all ten minutes of it.

Quote from: So Cruel on July 08, 2024, 03:53:01 PM

Blows em all away

AIN’T TALKING ABOUT LOVE

I heard the news baby
All about your disease
Yeah, you may have all you want baby
But I got somethin' you need, oh yeah

Ain't talkin' 'bout love
My love is rotten to the core
Ain't talkin' 'bout love
Just like I told you before, yeah before

You know you're semi-good lookin'
And on the streets again
Oh yeah, you think you're really cookin' baby
You better find yourself a friend, my friend

Ain't talkin' 'bout love
My love is rotten to the core
Ain't gonna talk about love
Just like I told you before, before

It deffo blows....

Ya gotta turn it up loud …

The Power of Love is one of the greatest love songs ever written. Pride is the worst kind of conceited virtue signalling bullshit designed to sell records.

I don't know- i think it's pretty cheesy (The Power of Love)