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Remember the group Book of Love? Actually, they're still around, (well, they were until recently, anyway) but they have never really matched their masterpiece: the first album, the self-titled Book of Love. On this album is the song for this week, "Boy" but in a way, I've dedicated this week to the whole album. Book of Love came out in the mid eighties with a sound that was refreshingly innocent, wistfully happy and frankly, almost naive. This, though, was their charm. While many other bands of the synthpop movement were either so poppy as to be uncharacterizable as anything else, others were the masters of dark, brooding, proto-Goth music, but Book of Love was one of the few that made you feel like a child again, or at least that you felt nostalgic about your childhood. By finding such a unique niche and perfecting their placement in it, Book of Love was one of the standout bands of the 80s. "Boy" is perhaps their best remembered song nowadays; the wistful wishing that she could be a boy and see what it was that boys do is at once childish and sexy. However, for anyone who is following up on these songs of the week, the entire album is a wonderful purchase; don't just look for a compilation with "Boy" on it (if there is such a thing, anyway.)
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