Here are another one from me:
)Perhaps not a love song in the classical sense, this is IMO one of the finest love songs ever recorded by a hard rock band. I'm referring of course to Sweet Child O' Mine by the legendary Guns N' Roses! Axl, a freak of nature (of whom I've discovered that I'm one of the very few fans on this site) was amazing as usual, while Slash arguably delivered one of the greatest guitar solos of all time. His solo in the middle of the song was electrifying. Even if he had never done anything else, that solo would have immortalised Slash.
Enjoy. :D (I'm doing multiple posts as it's the only way that I can upload the songs.)
Amazon wrote: She's actually one of my two favourite female singers (along with Alanis Morissette.)
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I love, love, love Alanis too. She's has had a really nice career arc. She was great as that angry chick in the 90's and she's mellowed beautifully now. If you didn't see her performance at the closing ceremony of the Vancouver Olympics it's worth checking out. She looked and sounded beautiful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPFohPQuxG8&feature=related Think it was probably lipsynced mind you...a number of the performances were for whatever reason.
My favourite female singer is little known outside of Canada, which is nearly criminal. I'm not even sure what my favourite song from her is, but this one is one that has always felt really personal to me for reasons I can't quite describe. Anyway, love as a 'Dark Horse' is a great concept.
Amazon wrote:
Perhaps not a love song in the classical sense, this is IMO one of the finest love songs ever recorded by a hard rock band. I'm referring of course to Sweet Child O' Mine by the legendary Guns N' Roses! Axl, a freak of nature (of whom I've discovered that I'm one of the very few fans on this site) was amazing as usual, while Slash arguably delivered one of the greatest guitar solos of all time. His solo in the middle of the song was electrifying. Even if he had never done anything else, that solo would have immortalised Slash.
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G 'N R had a furious and short lived period of real creativity, but the fruits of that have aged nearly perfectly. They have a few that will sound good forever - 'Sweet Child' being one for sure. 'Patience' has got to be another. Axl is sincerely crazy, for better or for worse. Enjoy your lonely fandom. :)
Driving back to work late this afternoon (to post on Queenzone apparently! - that should get me caught up) a DJ on Sirius satellite talked about a recent survey done for PRS that listed the top 5 songs that "make men cry". Two of them are already on this thread for sure - the #1 position was posted by me and sung by an American, and the #2 position was posted by - not me. Holly posted it I think, and it was sung by someone from the UK. #3 was written by a Canadian and has been sung by many, #4 was written by an American and sung by a person or persons from Ireland. #5 was Ireland again. Anybody want to guess any or all of them? No googling! :)
For the heck of it, here are positions 6 through 10, which I googled:
6. Drugs Don’t Work – The Verve
7. Candle In The Wind – Elton John
8. Streets of Philadelphia – Bruce Springsteen
9. Unchained Melody – Todd Duncan
10. Angels – Robbie Williams
I've always had high respect for love songs that don't actually use the word 'love'. There are a few out there.
I've been meaning to post this for a bit, for Dan C. and others who mentioned liking Billy Joel. It's a six part interview from mid November with Billy Joel on Howard Stern. Lots of interesting stuff and bits of live music from a few weeks ago. Part one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxw1WV_qmVk