Favourite Love Songs
Posted by: TOBYJUG on 14 February 2018
What's your favourite love songs ?
An impossible ask since everything ever recorded has something to do with " LOVE " but I'll ask it anyway.
Perhaps something more obscure or forgotten gems.
The Heartache. The joy. The Muse. The longing. The swagger. The bounder. The miscreant. The unrequited. The all too much to mention.
With You I'm Born Again - Billy Preston and Syreeta
The Smiths - There is a Light that Never Goes Out.
‘Silly love songs’ Paul Mcartney
Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly With His Song
King Harvest - Dancing in the Moonlight
So many! I have to mention “All you need is love” by the Beatles because it so invokes the love culture of the day, but if I were to have to pick a single stand-out one, it is ”Love Song” by Twelfth Night, a real anthemic song. Both of these are songs about love in its wider sense as well as between two people.
Bambi Lee Savage - Darlin'
Rose Royce "Wishing On A Star"
Billie Holiday: I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me.
Billy Bragg: Walk Away Renee
He has written several contenders but none as laugh out loud funny, nor yet as sharply observed about teenage love. The last two lines are just a killer if you cannot be bothered to read the lot!
And I said, "You mean figure?"
And she said, "No, figment"
Because she could never imagine it happening
But it did.
And when she spoke to me for the first time
My nose began to bleed
She guessed the rest
And when nobody came to collect our fares
Well, I knew then this was something special
I couldnâ??t stop thinking about her
And every time I switched on the radio
There was somebody else singing a song about the two of us
The sort you wanna get off because it??s scary
And then as soon as you're off
You wanna get straight back on again
And you have to take the crunchy with the smooth I s'pose
She began going out with Mr Potato Head
It was when I saw her in the car park
With his coat around her shoulders that I realized
I went home and thought about the two of them together
Until the bath water went cold around me
And about the point where their bodies met
I confronted her about it.
I said, "I'm the most illegible bachelor in town."
And she said, "Yea, that's why I can never understand
Any of those silly letters you send me."
She cut 'er hair and I stopped lovin' 'er
Johnny Cash and June Carter singing Darlin’ Companion.
Tears Tears Tears. Upbeat keep on keeping on from Ben E. King
Corry posted:Rose Royce "Wishing On A Star"
Good shout, that's on my list.
You and your friend; Dire Straits; In the shape of a heart by Jackson Browne; Only a woman's heart by Eleanor McEvoy with Mary Black (many versions made, can never find the first version I heard which has more intensity to it), Piano In The Dark by Brenda Russell.
And a couple of old standards - Charley Pride's The Most Beautiful Girl In The World, and Neil Sedaka Laughter In The Rain.
You & Your Friend prob wins.
love me tender/cant helpin love/
Rod Stewart (and Ronnie Wood) - Mandolin Wind
Death to everyone - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Nick from Suffolk posted:Death to everyone - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Oh yes. Although BpB's 'Missing One' is also a genuine contender for a brilliant and unconventional love song. A devastating depiction of love and loss in 2ms 48secs. Never fails to move us when we play it. A Desert Island track for me.
Bruce
Discovered the traditional Scarborough Fair recently.
Like the lyrics from wikipedia (with male and female parts).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_Fair_(ballad)
And this rendition is lovely:
Randy Newman - Marie
Todd Rundgren - A Dream Goes on Forever.
Short & Simple. Genius.