Your Favorite Love Songs

[Adam]

With Valentines Day coming up in a mere five or six months, I thought maybe we could talk about our favorite love songs? Just through a quick glance down the ol' itunes I've come up with what I think is a fairly comprehensive list for my stone-cold favorites. I would've done youtube links, but there are just too dang many songs here and I am a lazy, lazy, lazy man. Anyway, here they are in a completely random order

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"More Than This" Roxy Music
"Eye Know" De La Soul
"This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)" Talking Heads
"If You're Into It" Flight of the Conchords
"And I Was A Boy From School" Hot Chip
"Anthrax" Gang of Four
"Oh Yoko" John Lennon
"Thirteen" Big Star
"God Only Knows" The Beach Boys
"Lover's Day" TV On The Radio
"Uncertain Smile" The The
"Portions For Foxes" Rilo Kiley
"Ruby Tuesday" The Stones
"The Modern Leper" Frightened Rabbit
"Fresh Feeling" Eels
"I Second That Emotion" Smokey Robinson
"One Long Pair of Eyes" Robyn Hitchcock
"It Must Be Love" The Madness
"Autumn Sweater" Yo La Tengo
"The Ghost In You" Psychedelic Furs
"La La Love You" Pixies
"Temptation" New Order
"The Twist" Frightened Rabbit
"The Luckiest Guy On the Lower East Side" The Magnetic Fields

So what are yours?

[Acapelli]

This Modern Love - Bloc Party
This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You) - The Isley Brothers
This Will Be Our Year - The Zombies
Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space - Spiritualized
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
I Want To Hold Your Hand - The Beatles
I'm A Cuckoo - Belle & Sebastian
Tonight You Belong To Me - The Honeys
Throw Aggi Off The Bridge - Black Tambourine
Forever - Chris Brown
Rockin' That Shit - The-Dream
You Make My Dreams - Hall & Oates
The Start Of Something - Voxtrot
She Is Beautiful - Andrew W.K.
Sometimes - My Bloody Valentine
El Scorcho - Weezer
The Other Side Of Mt. Attack - Liars
Melt With You - Modern English
Our Last Night Together - Arthur Russell

[Boner M]

Arthur Russell - "Lucky Cloud" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oba3Lji6dpI)

[dreamdead]

Tom Waits - "Take it With Me"
Yo La Tengo - "You Can Have It All"
Regina Spektor - "Us"
Portishead - "Only You"
Nina Simone - "My Baby Just Cares for Me"
Dead Can Dance - "American Dreaming"

[Saya]

Bob Dylan - A Simple Twist of Fate (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYybKGp1ycQ)

[ledfloyd]

it doesn't get better than naive melody.

[Adam]

No, it doesn't

More specifically, it really doesn't get better than Byrne dancing with a lamp (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQWbaT5uHDE)

[transmogrifier]

Fuck Her Gently, Tenacious D

[MadMan]

"Love Will Tear Us Apart"-Joy Division
"Love Song"-311
"Shelter From The Storm"-Bob Dylan
"Tangerine"-Led Zeppelin
"Ruby Tuesday"-The Rolling Stones

[Eleven]

George Harrison's "Something."

[Derek]

"Love Song"-311

Ugh, awful cover. Like your other picks though.

[Dead & Messed Up]

"Ellen and Ben" - The Dismemberment Plan
"Everlong" - The Foo Fighters
"Go to Hell" - David Ford
"I've Seen a Face" - The Beatles
"Lover's Day" - TV on the Radio
"Maybellene" - Chuck Berry
"Mercy Mercy Me" - Marvin Gaye
"The River" - Bruce Springsteen
"We're in This Together" - Nine Inch Nails
"With or Without You" - U2

Half of these are more songs about love than love songs, but what the heck. The top one's bolded cause it's just that awesome.

[megladon8]

I've always wanted to have sex to the Deftones song "Change (In the House of Flies)".

[bac0n]

Heart - Pet Shop Boys
Love Comes Quickly - Pet Shop Boys
I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind of Thing - Pet Shop Boys
Liberation - Pet Shop Boys
Home and Dry - Pet Shop Boys
The Night I Fell In Love - Pet Shop Boys
Did You See Me Coming? - Pet Shop Boys
Rent - Pet Shop Boys
Always On My Mind - Pet Shop Boys
Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off of You) - Pet Shop Boys
Was It Worth It? - Pet Shop Boys

[megladon8]

OK, I guess I'm a bit of a cheeseball...

"Close To You" - The Carpenters
"Angels" - Wax Poetic
"I Can't Make You Love Me" - Bonnie Raitt
"Sour Suite" - The Guess Who
"Someone Like You" - Van Morrison
"Pictures of You" - The Cure
"Pandora" - Cocteau Twins

[Lucky]

"The Luckiest" - Ben Folds
"Everlong" - The Foo Fighters
"Take Me Home" - Tom Waits
"Dig" - Incubus
"Ain't No Sunshine" - Bill Withers
"When the Stars Go Blue" - Ryan Adams
"Something" - The Beatles
"Linger" - The Cranberries
"God Only Knows" - The Beach Boys
"Fade Into You" - Mazzy Star
"Warning Sign" - Coldplay
"Wonderwall" - Oasis

[Silencio]

"The Origin of Love" - Hedwig and the Angry Inch

[MadMan]

Ugh, awful cover. Like your other picks though.Really? I love both versions. I have no idea who sings the other one, though. And thanks.

DaMU I can't believe I forgot about Everlong, which is my favorite Foo Fighters song. And Without Or Without You is great, but its a stalker song-although less stalkeish than The Police's creepy classic "Every Breath You Take."

Speaking of The Police, I love "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic," and "King of Pain." Even though the latter is about breaking up.

[B-side]

I've always thought Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight" was an incredibly romantic song.

[dreamdead]

Really? I love both versions. I have no idea who sings the other one, though. And thanks.


:| There are time when I wonder whether you know how little effort it takes to do a Google search.

Regardless, the original version of the song comes from The Cure, and it's aces over 311's version. Respekt.

[Kurosawa Fan]

"These Arms of Mine" - Otis Redding

[MadMan]

:| There are time when I wonder whether you know how little effort it takes to do a Google search.First off, I'm rather lazy. Second off, your here and you know the answer :P


Regardless, the original version of the song comes from The Cure, and it's aces over 311's version. Respekt.Eh, it is probably better. I just like both versions equally.

Another great love song: "Love Hurts" by Nazarath ;)

[Sycophant]

Here are two of my favorites:

"I'll Be Your Mirror (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHmAUODVaLY)" by the Velvet Underground & Nico
"Happy 2 B w/ U (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIjG8Vnpl8Y)" by Hawaiian Style Band

[lovejuice]

"The Origin of Love" - Hedwig and the Angry Inch

I've always thought Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight" was an incredibly romantic song.
second both of these.

[lovejuice]

also, i think eyes on me is a terrific love song.