Now here's a thread guaranteed to make all of the single guys on the board want to hurl: what are your favorite love songs? Listening to the first song on my list this afternoon inspired me to post this thread.

Here's my list:
1) "Into the Night" by Benny Mardones (my favorite of this list)
2) "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton
3) "What If" by Coldplay (the 'first dance' song at my wedding)
4) "Amazed" by Lonestar
5) "Time In A Bottle" by Jim Croce
6) "Here With Me" by Dido
7) "I'll Still be Loving You" by Restless Heart
8) "Nights In White Satin" by The Moody Blues
9) "Kiss you All Over" by Exile (Ok, maybe it is more of a sex song than a love song, but I like it anyway)
10) "Everything I Do, I Do it for You" by Bryan Adams

My husband (who loathes love songs) likes "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You" by Dean Martin; he stood up in front of a bunch of strangers in a bar and sang that song to me at our wedding. Yes, he was very drunk at the time.

For those of you who think love, and love songs, suck, here's my list of favorite anti-love songs:

1) "Wicked Game" by Chris Isaak
2) "Love Stinks" by The J. Geils Band
3) "It's All Over But The Crying" by Garbage

Mind you, I'm not claiming these songs are the absolute best love songs ever written. They are just my personal favorites.

You may notice a heavy '80s-bias in the list, which is not surprising considering I grew up in the '80s.

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And I just ate too . . .

Yeah, well, you know what J. Geils had to say on this whole subject: http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/thewe...lovestinks.htm

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Seriously, I'll come up with one or two . . .

most Beatles songs.

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I don't typically go for love songs. At least, not the traditional sense. A song like "Resolve" by Foo Fighers (off the In Your Honor double-album) can be interpreted as a love song. But it's still more of a rock song. That, and I usually am not good at figuring out what the artists meaning was, rather what my own interpretation is.

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"You Should Be Mine (The Woo Woo Song)" by Jeffrey Osborne from his album Emotional. Seriously, one of my favorite songs - period. Heard it first in the mid-80s.

OK. Let the Woo Woo jokes begin . . .

Today by Jefferson Airplane (Starship, Wheelchair )

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I'm usually pretty indifferent to love songs, but after watching "Dan in Real Life" last night (good movie, btw), Pete Townsend's "Let My Love Open the Door" is now pretty high on my love song list.

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I have seen the morning burning golden on the mountains in the skies.
Achin' with the feelin' of the freedom of an eagle when she flies.
Turnin' on the world the way she smiled upon my soul as I lay dying.
Healin' as the colours in the sunshine and the shadows of her eyes.

Wakin' in the mornin' to the feelin' of her fingers on my skin.
Wipin' out the traces of the people and the places that I've been.
Teachin' me that yesterday was something that I never thought of trying.
Talkin' of tomorrow and the money, love and time we had to spend.

Lovin' her was easier than anything I'll ever do again.

Comin' close together with a feelin' that I've never known before, in my time.
She ain't ashamed to be a woman, or afraid to be a friend.
I don't know the answer to the easy way she opened every door in my mind.
But dreamin' was as easy as believin' it was never gonna end.

And lovin' her was easier than anything I'll ever do again.

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I'm not a lovey-dovey person, but here's some intrinsically great songs that happen to be love songs:
1) Strangers in the Night
2) Try and Remember from The Fantasticks
3) A Whole New World from Aladdin
4) Can You Feel the Love Tonight? from The Lion King
5) The one that goes: "I love you, always, forever, near and far, closer together everywhere."
6) My Heart Will Go On

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"Do You Love Me Now?", from the Breeders.

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Joy Division - Love will tear us apart

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Bob Seger's "Hollywood Nights"

Neil Diamond's "Stones"

Judy Collins' recording of "Song of Wandering Aengus"

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The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face [sung by Roberta Flack]

Generally I'm not a "love song" sort of person, but that one always gets me.

great movie huh? I saw it last week at a special screening - really good movie, followed Little Miss Sunshine.

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"Just Another Love Song" by Suicidal Tendencies.

just a short excerpt:

i need you like i need a hole in my head
i need someone to steal my money and wish i was dead
i need someone to always put me down
and everywhere i go she always seems to be around...
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..and even more...

well i could promise all my love to you
but that would only take me a second or two
and if you're waiting to be my one and only
you're gonna find out what it's like to be awfully lonely

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Until a few years ago, I would only have counted two: "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison, and "Tiny Dancer" by Elton John.

The former is probably largely because it might have been the first song like it that I'd ever heard so it really stood out from the crowd. (I was also roughly the age at which most people's lifelong "favorite kind" of music is set so they always remember whatever was out at that time the most fondly.)

The latter is simply because of the poetry, what the words say. Wikipedia's article about it claims that it's hard to undertsand, but I can't figure out how it could be. It's pretty simple & straightforward. The man who wrote it and the woman he wrote it about (and later married... but then divorced a few years later) met while working for Elton John's tour together, and it's about sitting back together in a seat on a bus after a long day of exhausting work, watching lights go by in the dark and thinking back on their experiences together putting on show after show. What makes it special is just the fact that it's specific to the people involved in it. Most "love songs" just recite the same old generic interchangible could-be-anybody catchphrases like a political speech, but this one has personal details that let you get to know these two individuals a bit, the kind of individualized stuff you'd include if you were really writing about a specific person yourself, because real feelings are often about little insignificant-sounding details.

In the last few years, though, I'd have to add several more to the top-tier list with those two. For the ones with lyrics, it's generally for similar reasons to "Tiny Dancer"; the words have a message which sounds like what someone who was actually in love might say, instead of just parroting back standard empty love-song gibberish we've all heard a thousand times. But sometimes the words have some help from the other aspects of the music, too...

"Sleep" by Melissa Etheridge
"Stay Now" by Jem (Jemma Griffiths)
"Flying High" by Jem
"Scared Of You" by Nelly Furtado
"Try" by Nelly Furtado
"Picture Perfect" by Nelly Furtado*
"Build You Up" by Nelly Furtado
"Childhood Dreams" by Nelly Furtado*

*These two stand out because they're a bit indirect, framing the "love" theme in terms of other feelings and aspirations in a metaphorical style that would be at home in un-sung poetry. "Childhood Dreams" dosen't even really tell you where it's going until the very last line, sorto like Metallica's "Sad But True".

If it seems weird for so many of those to be from Nelly Furtado, it's because they're by Original (First Two Albums) Nelly Furtado, a completely different person from the Nelly Furtado that everybody knows now. The one you've probably been hearing on the radio so much lately and seen getting one or more of those little trophy things is Third Album Nelly Furtado... known to fans of her first two albums as Sellout Nelly Furtado because she's so unlike the original, so blandly conventional and lacking in what had made Original Nelly Furtado's two albums so special, and of course so much more "successful"...

Anyway, here are several that have no lyrics (as a lot of my music collection doesn't) but still seem to say the same thing to me with instruments alone... although I must note that in several cases, I don't know what the creators intended and my interpretation might not be what they wanted!... (They are without doubt "relaxing" music, and maybe my idea of love is tied to relaxation, but sometimes relaxing music is just meant to be just that all by itself... or even about something else in particular, like death!)

"Fire Walk With Me" (theme from "Twin Peaks") by Angelo Badalamenti
"My Wife" by Mark Isham
"Watermark" by Enya
"Gymnopédie" by Erik Satie
"The Swan" by Camile Saint-Saëns
"Pavane" by Gabriel Fauré
"Our Winter Love" by Bill Pursell
the love theme from Dances with Wolves by John Barry

My favorite is My Life by Billy Joel.

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Well, all of the songs we hear over the radio are mostly inspired by Love , even if the Tune is Rock, Ballad, RnB, Pop, etc..