Best & Worst Love Songs

@PaulSmith: Missing 'Dudes' link. :(   Would be great to check out more.  :)

@DanC...Another great pick.  You know, there's only 9 lines in that song other than 'Ramona' but boy do they communicate a story and evoke a mood. Really liked the music too.  It kept trying to remind me of something, of some other piece of music, but it never quite came to me.

For me, Warren Zevon's 'Searchin' for a Heart' is one of his finest moments in a career quietly full of really fine moments. He captured I think how truly precious and rare it is to find a really exceptional connection with someone.  You need a tremendous amount of luck, among other things. They say love conquers all You can't start it like a car You can't stop it with a gun One of my hands down favourite lyrics from anyone.  F*ck mortality indeed.

I can't even begin to agree with you vehemently enough. Warren Zevon is one of the best. Ever. Period. I've never heard a song by him that was anything less than awesome, and I've heard them all. As for "Ramona" it reminds me of Big Star's "Try Again" in some ways: And, to stay on topic, here is another favorite love song: Chris Isaak is completely amazing. He has such a Roy Orbison quality about him... and that is never a bad thing.

DanC just made me think of this with his post on 'What song are you listening to..."?  Haven't thought about Shawn Mullins for a while, but I loved this song from the first time I heard it.  'Everything's gonna be alright' in some form or another shows up in a lot of great love/relationship songs.  It's a great sentiment, and a great song.

God, I love, love, love, love Shawn Mullins. Have you heard The Thorns? It's a harmony group made up of him, Matthew Sweet and Pete Droge. They're fucking amazing, but they only had one album.

Another great one by Matthew Sweet. It rocks ultimate:

Dan C. wrote: God, I love, love, love, love Shawn Mullins. Have you heard The Thorns? It's a harmony group made up of him, Matthew Sweet and Pete Droge. They're fucking amazing, but they only had one album.
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It was love at first listen for me too with Shawn M.  I dug around a bit at the time and got so far as to figure out he was from Georgia and had been at it for years under the radar like some of my other favourite people. Then I kind of lost the thread.  The internet and access to music, even to purchase,  wasn't the same then.  My son was very small at the time and life was pretty consumed by that, so I missed a lot of music in the mid/late 90's. I'll definitely do some backtracking and check out The Thorns.  Thanks for the tip!

Dan C. wrote: Another great one by Matthew Sweet. It rocks ultimate: ===================== More Sweet! Sweet! :) Jeff Healey performing John Hiatt's wonderful 'Angel Eyes'.  I love that in singing about her, he's singing about himself as well. It makes me think of the many men out there who perhaps don't quite understand that they're pretty damn great themselves.  Jeff owned a club in Toronto for years that he used to play at regularly.  I had the pleasure of seeing him twice up close.  Watching him play the guitar like that on his lap is even more incredible and inspiring than it looks on video.  He played that way from the time he was five years old.  Another great artist, gone way too soon.

Dear Rob Thomas: You totally rock. Sincerely, GreatfulFan

Ha ha.  I misspelled my own nic!

Rob Thomas'  monster coolness will do that to a person.

Still, a bit embarassing.

Bryan Adams being awesome.  I love how this song sounds, and how it feels.

That's pretty good! Had I heard that on the radio, I never would've pegged it as Bryan Adams... until the chorus. He sounds different on this track. Anyway, here's another great one. It's one of my all-time favorite love songs. Hell, it's one of my favorite songs period. Billy Joel, I love you.

Another great Billy Joel entry Dan C!  I've listened to it at least 10 times since you posted it, and it's a fantastic song.  Those lyrics are spot on.  It is all about soul, now isn't it.

Yeah, I really like that last Bryan Adams entry.  The radio cut is actually subtly different somehow...it actually does sound much more like him than in that video.  But I like the rawer and more imperfect sound on the video track.  It suits the song.

This song is the unofficial anthem of my last break up, which was as brutal as I've experienced. The relationship was quite short - only about 18 months, but the ending was baaaaaad.  One of those where it was hard and ambiguous and everybody had to walk away with lots of love still left on the table.  Highly unrecommended.  It took me about 3 years to get over that 18 month relationship.  I'm clearly quite bad at math.  LOL Anyway, none of it eroded my love of this most excellent song.  Sorry about the commercial  - I couldn't find this exact version on YouTube. http://www.singingfool.com/Title.aspx?publishedid=891766