Best & Worst Love Songs

GreatfulFan. The more you post, the more I like you. My two favorite Bills!

Heres my fave from Bill

Dan C. wrote: GreatfulFan. The more you post, the more I like you. My two favorite Bills! ============================= Yeah give me some time, I can probably mess that up. :) @everybody else:  You'd have been waiting a long time for me to come up with either 'Love is all Around' or 'True Love Ways', that's for sure.  Like probably forever long time.  Excellent contributions both.  And what a melody on 'Love is all Around'.  I listened to it late just before going to sleep the evening it was posted, and the next morning I smiled when I caught myself singing it almost first thing.  'Tracks of My Tears' was on my list to get to, so you've saved me that. An unquestionable classic. Thanks for the second Billy Joel Mr. M.,  and for your songs as well freddiefan.  Billy's voice has held up pretty well over 30+ years. He's still a consumate entertainer. This would be no more or less offensive than anything else if it weren't for the fact that Peter Cetera clearly needed a forcible shearing and to be taught some goddamn humility.  Well not really, but it made me laugh to say so.  Without further ado, I present  Peter Cet - 'hair' - a and 'The Glory of Love'.  Best chin thrust ever at 2:36.

Anguished desire, searing and perfect. Radiohead - Creep

The beautiful 'Songbird' from Christine McVie, off an album so impossibly flush with amazing music that half of it could have probably easily made this thread.     This bit of surreptitious evil from the 1970's is certainly the greatest corrupter of innocence of all time.  Nine year old girls, ministers, rabbis and little old ladies alike all cluelessly singing at the top of our lungs about SEX.  And not just any sex, but afternoon sex, which everybody knows is the most sneaky and hard to accomplish and therefore the naughtiest. Starland Vocal Band = SVB = Satan's Vortex (Band).

Sigh.  It's 4:30 am-ish and I'm awake and suffering because my 15 year old talked me into letting him pull his first graveyard shift at McDonald's and I can't sleep. My boyfriend who is visiting in order to accompany me through this maternal crisis is fast asleep on my couch looking sweet but rather useless for the task.  So I'm up surfing and listening to YouTube videos in the dark. The inimitable James Taylor and Carly Simon.  The first song isn't a love song at all.  It's actually about all manner of unrelated and crazy shit, but it feels like a love song.  And it's a great song, so I'm posting it.  The second one has to be the ultimate f-you to a crappy ex.  Carly has had people talking about this song for nearly 40 years, and when it's finally revealed who the song was about the whole freakin' world is going to be like "Oh!  YOU'RE the douchebag!" I'm not a revenge type person, but you've got to hand it to her. The last link is a self esteem exercise for anybody who has ever been divorced from their spouse with whom they have small children.  It's the first of a six part interview that can be watched in it's entirety of Carly SImon and her and James' son Ben Taylor.  The interview is conducted by Howard Stern, and nobody has the gift of wresting the most personal of  details from interview subjects like he does. The scope of the ongoing dysfunction of their 1982 divorce is pretty amazing and sad too. Everybody has a story.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBs-jY8S-lA&feature=related

Argh, I LOATHE THIS SONG: Lionel Richie is NOT ROMANTIC!!! I actually like Heart's Alone. Haha it's cheesy but Ann Wilson has some serious pipes!!! This song got me through my first break-up :] Pat Benatar is so awesome! And, this video will always be one of the best of all time x]

I've had horrible sneaking feelings of guilt about potentially skewering somebody's wedding song or something.  If this happens, it's totally not you, it's me.   We know about these songs because they were successful and meaningful to lots of people.  If I've ever done this, or do this in the future, I'm sorry and please forgive me.

That said, I'm completely aghast, which can be hard to maintain when you're howling.  'Hello' has my vote for the best worst love song/video on this thread yet.  Awesome pick. That is all.

Something I was listening to tonight that made me think of this thread.  A love song to a place and to the past, in it's way.  I'm including lyrics because I think it's beautiful poetry. There is a town in north Ontario, With dream comfort memory to spare, And in my mind I still need a place to go, All my changes were there. Blue, blue windows behind the stars, Yellow moon on the rise, Big birds flying across the sky, Throwing shadows on our eyes. Leave us Helpless, helpless, helpless Baby can you hear me now? The chains are locked and tied across the door, Baby, sing with me somehow. Blue, blue windows behind the stars, Yellow moon on the rise, Big birds flying across the sky, Throwing shadows on our eyes. Leave us Helpless, helpless, helpless.

pittrek wrote: 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

VERY VERY VERY TRUE :D I LOVE THEM BOTH!!! QUEEN WRITE THE BEST SONGS EVER!!!! THEY CAN ANY SORT OF SONGS UN LIKE SOME "BANDS" AND "SINGERS" THESE DAYS LIKE THE ANNOYING HANNAH MONTANA AND JUSTIN BIEBER. dont let me go on about them and i forgot i left the caps lock on XD oh well.

"Helpless" is one of my favorite songs Neil Young has ever made (and that's saying a lot, because I adore Neil). I felt I should post this one. This song is a love letter to the Ramones. Though not about a boy or girl, it is a love song nonetheless, and a damn good one at that.

^ Great song, and another new for me artist. Thanks! Plus, it sent me on a totally awesome 2:00 am Ramones romp. In honour of lifetimefanofqueen's picks and continuing with the non-traditional love song phase of this thread I present the awesome Roger Taylor and the even more awesome 'I'm in Love with my Car'.  Fantastic music, fantastic lyrics (except for the 'they're just four wheel friends now' which takes you out of that great intensity and flings you into PeeWee's Playouse or something momentarily, but other than that - truly perfect lyrics.)  Way to go Rog, and thanks for the music!

This one is one of my favorite love songs ever recorded. It's also one of the few covers I think trumps the original in every way.

Matthew Sweet - Magnet & Steel

Lindsey Buckingham is fucking magic as it is, but mix him in with Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs and you get something truly out of this world. I would love to hear them do a lot more work together!

^ No link, and I couldn't find it on YouTube.  Just as well, as every third one or so of your posts seems to cost me money. :)

That just won't do!

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/s/Magnet+And+Steel/t7kR3