# Love Me Do vs P. S. I Love You

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [January 1, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-me-do-vs-p-s-i-love-you/995462 "2024-01-01T19:52:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-me-do-vs-p-s-i-love-you/995462/21 "2024-01-03T18:22:54Z")

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Here’s the wonderful Allan Pollack’s thoughts on [Love Me Do](https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/lmd.shtml)…  
…and on [P.S. I Love You](https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/AWP/psily.shtml).

You’ll appreciate Pollack more if you know a little about the nuts and bolts of music (dominant sevenths; slow triplets; modulations; chromatic descending melodies; open fifth harmonies; flat-three chords; dotted rhythms; middle eights…), but even if you don’t, he’s still fun to read.

(I emailed Dr. Pollack to encourage him to have a crack at “Now and Then,” and he graciously replied that he would indeed.)

That moody, surprising flat-VI chord in “P.S.” makes the song for me. (That, and how it was perfect fodder for the [recent parody thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-favorite-songs-that-begin-with-see-rules-in-op/993795/59) of Mean Mister Mustard’s “vote for favorite song that starts with the letter \_\_” seried of threads.)

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