Love is the Drug

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I'm drunk and Bryan Ferry is telling me all the right things. The beat is sound, the lyrics deliver, and the title is OTM. But what do YOU think? Stake your place in the singles bar.

― Slim Pickens, Sunday, 27 June 2004 06:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it's a fucking classic. I like putting it on the jukebox when I'm boozing out somewhere. It has a nice, sleazy vibe.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Sunday, 27 June 2004 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the fact that it incorporates at least two of the "song opening" cliches discussed in a recent ILM thread: footsteps, and the sound of a car engine igniting. Oh, also, it's by the same guy who sang "Do the Strand," so you know it's going to be all right.

― Slim Pickens, Sunday, 27 June 2004 06:48 (twenty-one years ago)

absolutely totally classic in everyway. Sexy, sleazy, sad, lonely, and always fills a dancefloor.

dim the lights, you can guess the rest

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 27 June 2004 07:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Total "Decaying Lounge Lizard Drinking On My Own And Playing The Jukebox 'Til Forcibly Stopped" Classic. Then I'll still be muttering it under my breath when the ambulance crew lifts me off the pavement.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 27 June 2004 09:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i was humming this to myself yesterday morning.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 27 June 2004 09:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic, but unfortunately it's a "Classic That I'm Bored Shitless of Hearing".

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 27 June 2004 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic, but unfortunately it's a "Classic That I'm Bored Shitless of Hearing".
(excuse the grammar)

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 27 June 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

(now excuse the double post)

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 27 June 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

triple

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Sunday, 27 June 2004 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

If you were growing up in the U.S. in the late 80s you only ever heard two Roxy Music songs: "Love Is The Drug", which you knew was Roxy Music because the classic rock DJ said so, and "More Than This", which you heard in your orthodontist's waiting room and never knew it was the same band until later in life.

Anyway, classic. One of my favorite bands and albums.

― wetmink (wetmink), Sunday, 27 June 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Only one Roxy Music on pitchfork's top 100. What the hell were they thinking?

Superlatively classic

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Sunday, 27 June 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

they said Country Life would have been no. 101. (as if that's any excuse...)

― wetmink (wetmink), Sunday, 27 June 2004 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

my classic rock station never played any roxy music. :-(

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 27 June 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

ditto. Hearing stuff like Roxy Music was one of the few things I liked about London radio when I visited (I had insomnia every night and spent hours spinning the dial). Though hearing David Bowie do "Waterloo Sunset" made me miss Puddle Of Mudd.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 27 June 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah but it was only that one song, and you had to hear 17 BTO songs for every one time you heard "Love Is The Drug"...

― wetmink (wetmink), Sunday, 27 June 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Ladies and Gentlemen... Miss Grace Jones.

Slave... to the rhythm.

― maria b (maria b), Monday, 28 June 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Regrettably, I did not grow up in the U.S. in the late 80s, as my homeland turned out to be Soviet Russia. Mother compensated for socialism's musical poverty as best she could by playing smuggled Beatles records. I am beginning to think that my affinity for music that's over-the-top decadent (Queen, ABBA, Roxy, most of Lou Reed's early lyrics) comes entirely from the complete lack of such influences in my childhood.

― Slim Pickens, Monday, 28 June 2004 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

To suggest that this song is anything less than pure majesty is heresy of a most heinous kind.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

It's no use.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic, but unfortunately it's a "Classic That I'm Bored Shitless of Hearing".

man, my radio never plays it...i wish! anyway, ultra-classic!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 28 June 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I am also not sick of hearing it and it was also my favorite song ever circa when I was a little kid and my father had Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry Greatest Hits.

― artdamages (artdamages), Monday, 28 June 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Totally their best song. It's been stuck in my head all day today.

― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to Karaoke this song about once a month at The Mint in SF.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 05:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I usually karaoke "Strokin" by Clarence Carter. But in due time, Love is the Drug would make a worthy successor.

― Slim Pickens, Tuesday, 29 June 2004 06:08 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah great song. i'm playing an indie disco this weekend and it's one that's definately on my list.

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)

If I had to choose between losing that song or the Talking Heads' discography, it'd be a tough one.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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