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True Romance

  True Romance: Love Stories Hidden on Rock B-Sides February sells us love in neat little packages. Three minutes long. Chorus on cue. Happy endings guaranteed. But real romance? Real love? That stuff rarely makes the A-side. It lives in the margins. In hotel rooms at 3am. In lyrics never meant for radio. On the flip side of vinyl—where artists stopped chasing hits and started telling the truth. These are not polished love songs. These are confessions. Some are tender. Some are devastating. Some sit right on the fault line between devotion and obsession. All of them were written about real people, real relationships, and real emotional wreckage. Welcome to True Romance. Love Written While the World Was Pulling Them Apart Black Sabbath – Solitude Ozzy Osbourne rarely sounded this vulnerable. Stripped of doom riffs, Solitude is fragile and inward—loneliness wrapped in affection that was never returned the same way. This is love turning inward, echoing in empty rooms. Desire without r...
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Girls, Groove, and Glitter

  GIRLS, GROOVE, AND GLITTER Women, Rhythm, and Power on Rock’s B-Sides This Is Not About Influence. This is not about who women inspired. This is not about who stood beside them. This is about women alone, in full control of the groove. On the B-side — where expectations drop and instincts take over — women in rock didn’t compete for volume. They set the rhythm, owned the mood, and defined style on their own terms. These are songs that move, shimmer, sway, and sting. Girls only. B-sides only. No permission asked. 1. Groove as Authority Pretenders – “Cuban Slide” Loose, funky, effortless. Chrissie Hynde doesn’t perform — she inhabits. This is groove as confidence. No chorus trying to hook you. No drama. Just a woman who knows exactly where the beat belongs. Power here is relaxed — and that’s the point. 2. Glitter With Teeth Blondie – “Rifle Range” Debbie Harry always understood that style could disarm and attack at the same time. “Rifle Range” is sharp, urban, and cool — fashion-fo...
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And Now For Something Completely Different

  And Now for Something Completely Different — You Just Gotta Love These Obscure Heavy Rock Bands Month of Love — but not the predictable kind. Not the power ballads. Not the arena anthems. Not the chart-toppers. This Monday feature is about a different kind of love: the love of discovery. The love of the deep crate. The love of the bands that never quite made it — but absolutely should have been heard. These are the records you recommend with a grin. The tracks you send to fellow rock heads with: “Trust me — play this.” And once you’re in — you’re in for good. And now for something completely different. Stack Waddy — Built From Volume and Attitude Stack Waddy came out of Manchester swinging — loud, gritty, and proudly unpolished. Their blend of heavy blues rock and proto-metal swagger felt more like a live wire than a studio project. There’s a bar-room danger to their sound. The guitars are thick, the vocals unfiltered, and the groove hits like a hammer. They never chased commerci...
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Love Songs, for people who hate Love Songs

  Love Songs for People Who Hate Love Songs A Friday the 13th Valentine’s Special February usually arrives wrapped in red paper and predictable promises. Flowers. Cards. Clean endings. But love has always had a darker twin — the side that keeps you awake, asks dangerous questions, lingers too long, or arrives wearing the wrong face. Rock music never ignored that side. It wrote songs about it and quietly hid many of them in deep cuts and overlooked corners. So with Friday the 13th landing right before Valentine’s Day, it feels like the perfect time to open the candlelit basement instead of the greeting card aisle. These are love songs — but not the comfortable kind. They deal in obsession, distance, emotional ghosts, and fragile devotion. Perfect for listeners who don’t trust shiny romance but still believe in something real. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — Do You Love Me? Love as interrogation, not reassurance. Cave turns intimacy into a spotlight and stands inside it. The song bur...
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My Heart Will Go On (The B-Side)

  My Heart Will Go On (The B-Side) A Titanic Love Story Told Through Rock’s Hidden Tracks They met where most love stories don’t — just off to the side. Not centre stage. Not under the spotlight. Somewhere between Side A and Side B, where the deep cuts live. He believed the best songs were the ones you had to find. She liked a good chorus, something familiar, something safe. They locked eyes as the ship pulled away — the band tuning up below deck, far from the grand ballroom. This wasn’t a love story meant to top the charts. This was a B-side romance. The Band Played On (And No One Requested These Songs) As the ship sailed, the music grew stranger, braver, more emotional. These weren’t songs built for radio rotation or greatest-hits compilations. They were confessions. Experiments. Cracks in the armour. Love, like B-sides, doesn’t announce itself loudly. It sneaks in when you’re not looking. Below deck, the band struck up something heavier. 1. Black Sabbath – “Laguna Sunrise” A rar...
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