Al Green: "Love Is A Beautiful Thing" (BMG)

Here's one minister of the cloth who doesn't so much renounce the sins of the flesh as rejoice in the sacraments of the flesh. This song is nothing he hasn't done before, but yet again the effortless transcendence of that voice makes lowest-common-denominator human behaviour sound like the spiritual, untainting activity that it always should be, and makes this the Unambiguously Uplifting Single of the Fortnight.