#since i've been loving you

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[jt1674]

[elliebear75]

🎶 Baby, since I've been loving you

I'm about to lose, I'm about to lose, lose my worried mind 🎶

[intotheclash]

Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You (Official Audio)

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Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You (1970)

[rolandrockover]

Since I've Still Been You

I would be only too happy to dub our two candidates today as Blues Brothers in spirit, if this could not be interpreted as somewhat inappropriate or even distasteful for today's subject.

So, if my instincts don't deceive me in an unspeakable way, some of you will hardly be surprised that I'm pulling Led Zeppelin's Since I've Been Lovin' You (1970) and Kiss' I Still Love You (1982) out of my hat with the not exactly daring thesis above and asking for a little test of strength in the matter of "Who suffers the best" (1). And of course I'll take off my black hat and my sunglasses in this regard.

This is about men left alone with their love, and what they tend do with it when they ponder their distant lover in their inner monologue and give themselves over completely to what bubbles out of them. Which is not necessarily the most constructive path to take in such a case. But since we're talking about Kiss once again, we should be happy with this approach, as they have never been closer to the blues than they are here and now, nor have they ever taken a decisive step beyond it.

While Led Zeppelin simply try to get rid of this insurmountable inner urge, this unique Baby, Baby, Baby - I Just Can't Live Without You thing, in as many details as humanly possible, I am often only too reminded of the depiction of small children in cartoons who hold their breath until they get their way and tend to turn blue in the process. Which is also where the popular saying "Getting the blues" might well have its origins, as I now suspect.

Kiss' I Still Love You, on the other hand, describes a man alone at home in a dim, warm light, surrounded by the ugly darkness, which should provide an appropriate setting for someone who gets the blues in the middle of the night and tends to completely tear his apartment apart in the course of emotional outbursts. Only to be brought back down to earth again and again by grief and insight, and yet, one breath later, banging on the door to self-destruction, screaming for entry.

And despite all of this, the woman remains gone, even though she does seem to have a thing for men who seem to have a thing for the blues (or who also hunt ghosts), just in a slightly different way than Paul does here. Unfortunately, this is of the least use to him.

Any of such a behavior could easily be seen as an almost innocently childish (see above), slightly perverted masochism, dwelling a couple of steps below the normative existential level of romance, or as someone who doesn't quite want to accept that the sun has already set a damn long time ago.

It's not pretty, but it's probably pretty romantic, if you like being down. But do you really want to call that romantic? Maybe. And how about overambitious? Oh, yes. Absolutely.

What else is there to say, except that sometimes it can be helpful to just jump in the shower, go to the hairdresser, and get on a slightly higher wavelength, and whatever else you might do to win back your sweetheart.

Sometimes it works.

Side Note:

(1) The Led Zeps are more of the intellectual version and Kiss the more direct one, at least in this case the one with a good deal more muscle. Speaking of muscles, the drummers of both bands keep their distance from each other acoustically, and yet are able to remain on an equal footing in terms of ambition.

I Still Love You (1982)

Since I've Been Loving You (1970)

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12:49 AM EDT June 19, 2024:

Led Zeppelin - "Since I've Been Loving You" From the album BBC Sessions (November 11, 1997)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under:    Bands That Were, Like, Really Into Tolkien

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JUST BECAUSE. . .

Everyone needs a little perfection in their day.

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

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I cannot tell you how many times in the last six months someone has read a new or newer fic of mine and said they (a new reader who has read nothing else I've done) "can't wait to see what you do next!" I've written 50+ fics and over a million words already.

"I don't know if you're still writing..." click on my profile. I am. I literally wrote a 128k+ fic for that ship last month.

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[katsinspats]

Thematically appropriate comic for Make a Terrible Comic Day!!

I saw the original post this morning and it made me get out of bed to make something, so thank u Pseudonym Jones mission accomplished

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

I spent all day on this, now I'm gonna go spend the rest of my Halloween with my family, I LOVE YOU GUYS, HAVE A GOOD HALLOWEEN!!!!!

I lost the ask this was supposed to be attached to :'(

Woah, actual communication??? Between these bozos?? More likely than you'd think 🙏

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[pokimoko]

Ace Week is upon us again, which means it's time for me to share some more silly little critters with you all! (If you like, you can also say hello to their friends from 2021, 2022 and 2023.) ✨Go and be as amazing as always, aces✨

[jimmypage7]

It does, indeed

Jimmy' solo is Divine

no matter how popular this song may be, that first drop causes an actual eargasm

every.

single.

time.

[mimimar]

only you

(art prints)