Love songs that are actually good songs

[Spaced]

A lot of love songs, especially if they're ballads, are really bad songs. Which love songs don't suck?

[Celluloid Love]

Madonna - Cherish
Ben Folds Five - Emaline
Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting
Madonna - Crazy For You
Weezer - Only In Dreams
Iron & Wine - Naked As We Came
The Arcade Fire - Crown Of Love

[vaya con dios]

Burt Bacharach - This Guy's In Love With You

[Celluloid Love]

Rufus Wainwright/Sean Lennon - This Boy

[Kinbote]

Rolling Stones - "Wild Horses," "Angie"
Brian Jonestown Massacre - "Those Memories"
Bryan Adams - "Hearts on Fire"
Game Theory - "The Real Sheila"

[vaya con dios]

Wild Horses. Hell yes.

[Intern Kate]

indeed-y!

um, ... Built to Spill - The Weather

[Static Split Screen]

Pearl Jam - Wishlist
An Pierle - Kiss Me
Metric - Love is a Place
Eisley - Brightly Wound
Most Keren Ann Songs

[Atomsk Iscariot]

The Cure - Lovesong

THE END.

[Tabris]

there are a lot of great songs that use love to illustrate a greater concept that isnt necessarily a message of "I Love You" but rather some deeper commentary or a different aspect of love beside the topic of the typical ballad... I can think of hundreds off the top of my head for the loose standard, but great songs that you can honestly say have romantic relationships as th emain them are less abundant... here are some great ones

Arcade Fire - Une Anna Sans Lumiere Headlights look like Diamonds,
Beatles - in my life
Bob Dylan - (he has a shit load) I want you, one of us must know (sooner or later), Tangled up in blue, shelter from the storm,
The Cure - most of Disintegration
John Lennon - Oh Yoko!
Metric - Calculation Theme
Modest Mouse - Sleep Walkin'
Murder by Death - intergalactic menopause, canyon inn room 16
Neutral Milk Hotel - Naomi
Okkervil River - (the yhave a bunch of great love songs) Black, get big, a stone, so come back i am waiting, song for our so called friend, seas to far to reach, a favor
Pink Floyd - Vera
Pixies - Letter to Memphis,
REM - at my most beautiful
Radiohead - Black Star, True Love Waits
Robot Ate Me - Apricot Tea
Rogue Wave - You, publish my love
Smashing Pumpkins - to Sheila, Perfect, set the ray to jerry, medellia of gray skies, etc etc etc
The Smiths - there is a light that never goes out
Talking Heads - this must be the place (naive melody)
Wolf Parade/Sunet Rubdown - I'll Believe in anything, you'll believe in anything,
Violent femmes - good feeling
Yeah yeah yeahs - maps, y control


others...

[TheImplodingVoice]

Almost everything Tom Waits, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Leonard Cohen have done is about love and it's wonderful.

There are thousands of others too

[Mary Alice]

a few Beatles songs not mentioned - "And I Love Her", "Here, There and Everywhere", and my very favorite "I Will"

[Mark E. De Sade]

Originally posted by TheImplodingVoice
Almost everything Tom Waits, David Bowie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Leonard Cohen have done is about love and it's wonderful. Word. Plus Nick Cave, I'd say

[TheImplodingVoice]

Originally posted by Mark E. De Sade
Word. Plus Nick Cave, I'd say

yeah I forgot to mention good ol nick

[Intern Kate]

Originally posted by Mary Alice
a few Beatles songs not mentioned - "And I Love Her", "Here, There and Everywhere", and my very favorite "I Will"

and of course Georgie's "Something"

[Fab]

Originally posted by Intern Kate
and of course Georgie's "Something" x7

[Daysleeper]

Originally posted by Atomsk Iscariot
The Cure - Lovesong

THE END.

With ya there...Robert Smith sums it all up perfectly in that one song....

Written on the QE2 as a present for his wife.

[Tago Mago]

Spiritualized - the whole of Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space + their space-rock take on "Any Way That You Want Me" from the Complete Works vol. 1
Jane's Addiction - Classic Girl
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
My Bloody Valentine - anything!
Syd Barrett - Terrapin

(Thumbs up to Nick Cave, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, Leonard Cohen and Lou Reed too.)

[Nak Nak]

Soylent Gringo - the World is Melting

the world is melting so let's be friends there is nothing might as well nuke france
she said my s-drive makes me like you cause you're not like them your my favorite human
a robot girlfriend never thought it would be me its unnatural the government agrees
its banished human/robot carnal love but no ones watching and she looks so real

the future world with robot girls i'd love to try so damn the vice lawthe robot is mine

for our first date we flew to mars i did flips in the low gravity she blew fire at the stars
it was forbidden i knew we crossed the line they'll try to stop us and erase her hard drive
we were spotted at checkpoint 3 she said don't fret i've got plan b she had a brain chip to blank my memory
be a robot like her never have to sleep

the future world with robot girls wish i could join my love but i'd rather be dead than have a chip in my head

[Tago Mago]

Oh, and BLONDIE.

[TheImplodingVoice]

Originally posted by Tago Mago
Oh, and BLONDIE.

I was going to say

[Spaced]

Most of these songs are pretty melancholic. How about some more upbeat ones? eg, The Boy by the Pumpkins.

[Herr Lipp]

Wonderful Tonight is a classic song, and I don;t even really like Clappers.

[Fab]

Originally posted by Spaced
How about some more upbeat ones?
The Wildhearts - The Miles Away Girl, Someone That Won't Let Me Go
Ash - Shining Light
Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me, If You Want My Love
Clam Abuse - I Think I Love You
The Concretes - You Can't Hurry Love
Modern English - I Melt With You, the cover by Nouvelle Vague is great, too.
Silver Ginger 5 - Divine Imperfection
Weezer - Buddy Holly

[Tabris]

Originally posted by Spaced
more upbeat they do that with music now? I like my music to be made by pretentious white 20 somethings letting off some existential steam... in the "faggiest" way possible please

[Atomsk Iscariot]

Originally posted by rainofthehours
Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply This song makes me want to kick babies!

[mr. dynamite]

Originally posted by Spaced
A lot of love songs, especially if they're ballads, are really bad songs. Which love songs don't suck?

youre a fucking moron

like 50% of all rock songs are love songs,
in one way or another

oh god the question you gave infuriates me!!!

go listen to some Godsmack, hoser,

maybe a little KoRn.

[Celluloid Love]

Originally posted by krut!!!!
like 50% of all rock songs are love songs,
in one way or another

[Nak Nak]

Originally posted by Tabris
they do that with music now? I like my music to be made by pretentious white 20 somethings letting off some existential steam... in the "faggiest" way possible please

Originally posted by rainofthehours
Savage Garden - Truly Madly Deeply

Speaking of fagginess...

[Under Burning Stars]

José González - Heartbeats
Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire

[Spaced]

Originally posted by krut!!!!
youre a fucking moron

like 50% of all rock songs are love songs,
in one way or another

oh god the question you gave infuriates me!!!

go listen to some Godsmack, hoser,

maybe a little KoRn.

If one question can infuriate you so much you need counselling. I didn't mention "rock songs" in particular, and whatever percentage are love songs doesn't even matter to the question.

And I don't even know who Godsmack are :lol:

[TheImplodingVoice]

Haha lol wtf :lol: roflo

[ramblingrose]

THE BOSS

[Atomsk Iscariot]

Originally posted by rainofthehours
I'm not sure if this is either good or bad. Bad. That song is the fucking bane of my existence.

[Under Burning Stars]

Originally posted by ramblingrose
THE BOSS

:yes: He's a legend.

[ramblingrose]

Thunder Road makes me cry. I've got "TRAMPS LIKE US BABY WE WERE BORN TO RUN" engraved on my ipod and I'm considering getting it as a tattoo.

[Telegram Sam]

Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow

[Under Burning Stars]

Originally posted by ramblingrose
Thunder Road makes me cry. I've got "TRAMPS LIKE US BABY WE WERE BORN TO RUN" engraved on my ipod and I'm considering getting it as a tattoo.

Nice one, what a great line, so euphoric!
I really love some of the old live stuff, The River, I'm On Fire, Cover Me.

Been listening to alot of Downbound Train alot too.

Alot of Bruce's songs remind me of Radiohead in some ways, the way something that is quite sad can be amazingly uplifting :yes:

[Nak Nak]

Lots of Yo La Tengo songs.

[Joliet's Green Onions]

Blur: Out of Time

Gorillaz: El Manana

tSP: To Shiela,33, Perfect,ByStarlight,This Time,ect

Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here (i asume it is Love-songish)

[Atomsk Iscariot]

Originally posted by Nak Nak
Lots of Yo La Tengo songs. Quoted for tooth.

[Nak Nak]

There's a sweet sincerity to many of their songs.

[kendra]

Shit, I'd say 75% of songs worth second listen are love songs . . . at least in one line. Everytime I hear a trite one on the radio that I still can't help but enjoy I think of the part in 1984 where Winston is listening to the woman sing some prefabricated piece of crap, but she's LOVING it. Everybody seems to connect so easily to love songs. Sure, we all love a "fuck off and die in a fire" song every now and then but. Yeah I dunno where I'm going with this. Music is about love.

Some of my favorite love songs are . . .

The Cure - Lovesong (hur)
Ivy - Back In Our Town
The Smashing Pumpkins - Believe
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again
Annie Lennox - Why
Andrea Bocelli - Time To Say Goodbye
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
Art of Fighting - Reasons Are All I Have Left
Fleetwood Mac - Songbird
Hedwig & The Angry Inch - The Origin of Love
New Order - Run Wild
New Order - Vicious Streak
James - Just Like Fred Astaire
Tori Amos - Northern Lad

etcetcetc.

[Herr Lipp]

Bee Gees - To Love Somebody

[Fab]

Originally posted by kendra
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again I'm pretty sure this song is about drugs.

[TheImplodingVoice]

Originally posted by Fab
I'm pretty sure this song is about drugs.

[Celluloid Love]

Originally posted by Citizen Snips

Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here (i asume it is Love-songish)
How about no.

[Joliet's Green Onions]

yeah, i guess it isn't...but it reminds me of one so i used it

[Atomsk Iscariot]

Originally posted by RosegardenMercury
Isn't it about Syd Barrett? Yes.

[vaya con dios]

Originally posted by Herr Lipp
Bee Gees - To Love Somebody

OH FUCK YES, I LOVE THE BEEGEES

[kendra]

Originally posted by Fab
I'm pretty sure this song is about drugs.

ah well. It had overtones of romance. Can't it be a love/hate relationship?

[ramblingrose]

I wouldn't think many other people would think it was actually good, but Rest Of My Life by Rilo Kiley.

[motorcyclemptiness]

Super Furries--Fire in My Heart
A-Ha--Take on Me
David Cassidy--I Think I Love You
The Monkees--Daydream Believer
The Beach Boys--God Only Knows
The Delays--Long Time Coming
Serge Gainsbourg--Je T'aime
Donovan--Colours

[TheImplodingVoice]

Originally posted by motorcyclemptiness

Serge Gainsbourg--Je T'aime

[Nak Nak]

Vangelis - Bladerunner love theme
Toadies - Pressed Against the Sky (also my favourite solo)
An Pierle - Kiss Me

[xangeleso]

Ben Folds - The Luckiest
Tori Amos - Snow Cherries from France