When … modus operandi bite hard, … dream … low, and the gall drive high, but emotion wont grow. And we’re changing our ways, taking different roadstead Then love, love will teardrop us apart again.

A stunning cover version of the seminal joyousness division track “Love Will teardrop Us Apart” by Norseman collective Book of Book of Susanna And The Magical orchestra One that transforms the vocal entirely.

This appeared on the circle mulct 2006 collection “Melody Mountain.

Susanna and pal strip the already sparse vocal down to information technology sad psyche and creates a serene, elegiac piece of unforgettable fine art Simply stunning!

I cant descibe how f*cking much I love this thing! information technology surely up there with the like of true cat Power’s version of satisfaction as the greatest screen version ever!

Ian Glenn Hammond Curtiss “Love Will teardrop Us Apart” is a phenomenonally striking, unforgettable and timeless piece of modern songwriting from a genius who sadly, elderly only 23, died far far too offspring To start with, information technology a vocal with probably the greatest title ever … but the magnificence doesn’t halt there It payoff all the way through this truly haunting and beautiful existential masterpiece, the subdued scream of a truly tortured soul.

It’s a vocal of desparation that’s a paean to the darkness dichotomy of love … yap love will invariably teardrop love apart - information technology just a matter of the extent!

A vocal that’s a powerful wail for good things gone , where the emotive, evocative, poetic and very darkness words reflect the severe problems in Ian’s spousal human relationship to childhood sweetie Deborah , the complication of his ongoing affair with Annika Horogue as well as his generally dark, troubled framework of mind in the bleak months leading up to his self-annihilation in May 1980.

The words tell of a marriage where “the modus operandi bite hard, and dream are low”. A relationship that is irrevocably damaged and doomed … “And the gall drive high but emotion wont grow.” One that’s devolved into hate where the couple emotion have no hope of ressurection but will only deteriorate even further. They’re both ‘different people now compared to when they were Wed some four years earlier … “We’re changing our ways, taking different roads.” He know this love has died.

The nisus compounded yet further by the fact that he cant understand how or why things ended up in this dire state … “Is it something so good just cant function no more?” Beneath the hate, some coal of what they had - will always have - still burn …. “there’s still this appeal that we’ve kept through our lives.”

They’ve been torn apart though by a powerful love.

The wonderful original vocal was recorded at strawberry Studios, Stockport, Lancs in early Mar 1980 and released as a single by joyousness division in April 1980 - just a few week before Glenn Hammond Curtiss tragic self-annihilation The vocal was actually intended for release on 24th May 1980, at which time joyousness division would’ve been in the middle of their first U.S circuit Sadly Ian died on the 19th of May.

It became the circle first chart hit, stretch number 13 in the UK.

“Love Will teardrop Us Apart” was rated by British music magazine NME as the best single of all time in 2002.

Susanna And The Magical Orchestra - Love Will teardrop Us Apart
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