Best & Worst Love Songs

Dan, you dont half like some pretty cool stuff. From the Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs covers album (which I still play all thanks to you!!) to Tommy James and the Shondells. All good songs.

That Celine Dion one does rather get on yer nerves from the start though......

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Best love songs ever :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrV9NTAXkMU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjkFWYCf-BQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsShw0o_g3w&feature=related

All these people I've never heard of. I look up Leon Russell and the guy has worked with everybody, has cut about 5000 albums and he wrote 'Superstar'. Cool. Due to the volume of useless music trivia I cart around in my head I can tell you that Poison's 'Talk Dirty to Me' was actually composed prior to the band forming, by C.C. Deville. I always found Bret Michaels to be unintentionally hilarious, but I've grown to kinda sorta grudgingly respect him for simply surviving in a tough business. Not surviving with a huge abundance of class mind you, but surviving nonetheless. Thanks for the recommendations Dan C. I'm definintely going to follow up on that. And yessssss to Crimson and Clover. Great pick. As well as being awesome all on it's own, that song was used to such perfect effect in the film 'The Zodiac'. It's not widely known, but the United States actually *had* to take Celine Dion and keep her as part of fine tuning the last Free Trade agreement with Canada. In exchange, we agreed to let the US pillage our oil fields and continue to think that Kiefer Sutherland is American. So worth it. This might be a little countrified for some, but I love the sound of this band, who sometimes sound like this and sometimes sounds different.  Hope that helps. ;) This song is one of those that’s subtle enough to be about a lot of things to a lot of people.  That’s part of the genius of good song writing.   To me it is about unresolved, unspoken things that tie us to people even when they've drifted out of our lives, and about regret and trying to make things right.

And this.  All I can say is the first rule of getting pregnant by a stranger is don’t do it with a guy who apparently doesn’t have the wherewithal to have a) a car or  b) a coat.  The second rule is you should pay for the room.  Finally, don’t write a song about it because you’ll sound really stupid. Everybody has disabled embedding because they know people are just taking it away and laughing at it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-Nw4NOXWs4

OK, now serious, What about this one ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMmTn0IOwH4&feature=avmsc2 And these are in my humble oppinion the 2 BEST love songs EVER

I'm so glad you thought of R.E.M. Pittrek.  Michael Stipe is just so...cool.  Weird, but cool.   I have no bad song today, as yesterday's emotional violence set to romance music was bad enough for two days.  But you made me think of this incomparable performance by R.E.M.  Simple, beautiful lyrics which are so perfect for this message, when all you have at best is some vague intellectual sense that someday you'll be OK again, but the gap between here and there emotionally feels impossibly vast.

Two by Mick and the Stones:

Love in Vain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjVRkOGlr9I

Angie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usEcJwrNHAg 

and of course the saddest of sad songs, Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AscPOozwYA8

What can you say about Angie?  One of the best things ever put put down by anyone. I'd never heard that cover of Love in Vain, which was great.  I've got the Clapton cover on Me and Mr. Johnson.  There was something about the way it was set and performed, and I'm not even going to be able to articulate this right I don't think, where one immediately understands that these are two old souls who have been creating music together for most of their lives.  I mean that's always true because it's just a fact, but it's not usually so immediately part of the feel of every corner of the room. Anyway, I liked it. I am seriously afraid I will never be able to hear Tears in Heaven again in my life without hearing Zebonka claim it was a hasty rework of a demo called 'My Friend Kevin'.  So, uh, thanks for that, Zebonka. Hmmm...how do you top cold pizza for Sunday breakfast?  Tough.  You top it with this, I say.  America did an earlier version of this song.  It's not so much that it was horrifically bad in it's time, it's more that we have to remember it actually happened, twice, so that it can never happen again.  She really should have smiled more.

I love America. I was actually coming to post that exact song! So, now, I have to post this one-two punch of love instead: Todd Rundgren is an amazing musician. His brand of awesome is hardly ever recognized the way it should be.

And what do you say about this ?

Hey, Sweet!  Uhh...sweet!  I remember thinking that song sounded dangerous and cool when I was a kid. Still kinda does. @Dan C.  Ha.  That's funny.  I wonder if it was the "I tried to make it Sunday" lyric on a Sunday that made you think of it.  I think that's what happened to me.  Though if you've got any kind of interest in that 70's vibe you can't get too far in a thread like this without thinking of Sister Golden Hair.  Such a  great song.  Either way, I won.  :) You're right about Todd Rundgren....that album and his sound were just as emblematic of that time as the work of anybody else, but history just hasn't assigned him quite the same stature.  'Hello It's Me' still gets lots of classic rock play.  It's usually seen as an unrequited love type song, but those lyrics are not without their own complexity and I've never been sure. Okay, I see the pair of Rundgrens and raise with three Rob Thomases, and love over time.   Thomas is probably my favourite contemporary musician, both with Matchbox Twenty and in his solo work. He married his wife Marisol in the late 1990's and within a short time she developed an intermittent but debilitating illness for which they didn't have a diagnosis for several years.  Around 2005 or so it was determined to be an auto immune disease similar to lupus for which there is no cure, though some of the various symptoms can be sometimes be managed.  I read an interview with the two of them around 2007 after she seemed to swinging into a positive and healthy period and more than anything they wanted to have a child, which the illness had deferred, and they anticipated then that that would be just around the corner.  In 2010 that still hasn't happened for them. These three songs represent their relationship over more than 10 years.  The first is a love letter of sorts from the late 1990's that he writes to her before they are married.  The second one from around 2005 was written after she fell asleep in his lap crying with fear and pain and frustration. The last one was written last year and talks about the middle of one night when Marisol was again struggling.   You can see in the middle one that his sense of his role is clear.  His job is simply to love her, to assure her that they will stand and fall as one, no matter what, and that she has not let him down.  The last one is tougher.  You can sense the creeping cost, not in love, there's still lots of that, but in something. You see a man who has maybe had to learn that he's not going to be able to be the dragon slayer with love alone.  

Bill Withers. Needs no further blather from me.

Dan Hill would like to hold you: a) till he dies b) until you both break down and cry c) until the fear in him subsides d) all of the above Answer: d).  I'd like to point out that really b) must happen before a) and that c) will naturally follow from a) anyway, so I truly have no idea what he's on about.  I'm not brushed up on my English accents, but could this person really be introducing Dan Hill with the words "very tragic hair"? I'd have added very tragic sweater, but maybe there wasn't time.

The Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNS6D4hSQdA&feature=related

Buddy Holly - True Love Ways
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjFRHIhSvwc

Both great.

I had been waiting for someone to mention this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQQ6SfPZggw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EXRPxC-5bE   

(the second one is the original version)

Best

Foreigner - I want to know what love is
Sinead of Connor - Nothing compares to you
Queen - love of my life is beautfiul

Cnat think of any bad ones

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I'm too sleepy for a proper reply right now, but wanted to post this last thing this evening.  An absolute classic, beautiful, and exquisitely performed.  Those half lit shots tight and in profile are amazing. Billy Joel - Just the Way You Are