Tolerable love songs

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2007-03-14 04:11pm

"One Word" - Conjure One
"Your Love Will Kill Me" - Daniel Lavoie (for HoND)
"Fairy Tale" - Shaaman

There are more I like, but these are truly good.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2007-03-14 04:41pm

Bounty wrote:
RedImperator wrote:
2000AD wrote:Dragostea din tei - O-zone (It's in Romanian but it's still a love song and it's catchy)
Did you just suggest the Numa Numa song?
The song is great. How it was butchered by MySpace kiddies is irrelevant.

Unfortunately, it is relevant. The song is kinda catchy and otherwise not too objectionable, but I just can't make out to a song that's going to make me see that fat kid dancing every time I close my eyes.

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2007-03-14 06:09pm

I have a thing for love songs with a tragic or sad element, so don't expect anything you can make-out to, or be the theme for a relationship.

Maná - En el Muelle de San Blas (about a woman who spends most of her natural life at the docks, waiting for her lover to come back)

The Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me '86 (a schoolgirl falls in love with her teacher, and he with her)

The Police - Every Little Thing She Does is Magic (boy has crush on chick, doesn't have the nerve to tell her)

Bare Naked Ladies - I'll Be That Girl (I have no fucking clue)

Bare Naked Ladies - In the Car (a couple's last time together)

Mecano - Cruz de Navajas (the main character meets a grisly death at the end)

Carlos Vives - Alicia Adorada (about a dead lover)

Stabbing Westward - What Do I Have to Do? (unrequited love, awesome last lines)

The Cranberries - Promises (about a failed relationship)
Note: the song's actual video has about as much to do with the lyrics as Naruto does. It's pretty good, except for the cheesy sound effects that get old after a couple of viewings.

Phantom of the Opera (do I really need to explain this?)
Sarah Brightman and Steve Harley version (classic)
Techno version (my favourite, video contains spoilers for Magnetic Rose)
Nightwish version (second favourite)

Honourable mention to a couple cool non-tragic love songs that I've been listening to recently:

Belanova - Hoy the Amo

Gym Class Heroes - Cupid's Chokehold (it's a cheesy song, but it's also has a certain quirkiness that I like about it)
Note: the video version sucks

And some honourable mentions to all (most?) love songs, tragic or not (most of them not), by the following bands/singers:
Sentimiento Muerto, Shakira, Carlos Vives, The Police, The Beatles, Bare Naked Ladies, Mecano, Aerosmith, Queen, and others.

BTW - Spanish is better at love songs than English. It's also better at songs about women, whether they be beautiful, virtuous, someone's love, or just pure evil.

Flagg · Post by **Flagg** » 2007-03-14 06:28pm

Nine Inch Nails - Closer

Seriously.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2007-03-14 06:33pm

"Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns n' Roses comes to mind along with "Walking on the Moon" by The Police. "November Rain" by GnR works is pretty good too even though it doesn't exactly have a happy ending. Then there's "Ice Cream" by Sarah McLachlan, but I think that's pushing it a bit.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2007-03-14 09:59pm

"One Hot Mama" by Trace Adkins

And the video is just as funny.

Dennis Toy · Post by **Dennis Toy** » 2007-03-15 12:20am

Anything by:

Marvin Gaye
Earth Wind and Fire
Jeffrey Osborne
Luther Vandross
Michael Jackson
Prince

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2007-03-15 06:36am

RedImperator wrote:
2000AD wrote:Dragostea din tei - O-zone (It's in Romanian but it's still a love song and it's catchy)
Did you just suggest the Numa Numa song?

I was waiting for someone to pick that up

It's still a good song and it is (IIRC the lyrical translation) a love song. If the girlfriend hasn't seen the Numa Numa video then it's good to go, especially if she doesn't understand Romanian as then you can just make some bullshit up about the lyrics.

Metatwaddle · Post by **Metatwaddle** » 2007-03-15 01:05pm

Thanks everyone for your suggestions.

2000AD wrote:
RedImperator wrote:
2000AD wrote:Dragostea din tei - O-zone (It's in Romanian but it's still a love song and it's catchy)
Did you just suggest the Numa Numa song?
I was waiting for someone to pick that up

It's still a good song and it is (IIRC the lyrical translation) a love song. If the girlfriend hasn't seen the Numa Numa video then it's good to go, especially if she doesn't understand Romanian as then you can just make some bullshit up about the lyrics.

As a matter of fact, "the girlfriend" has seen the Numa Numa video because she does not live under a rock. She would have a tough time not picturing the spectacularly unattractive Gary Brolsma while hearing that song.

Also, it's catchy and insidious, and she would get it stuck in her head for weeks and probably annoy all her friends by singing it and getting it stuck in their heads as well.

She Got A Way - Billy Joel
Lullabye - Billy Joel
All About Soul - Billy Joel

Augh! How could I have forgotten Billy Joel? I should be punished for that.

Into Her Arms-Nick Cave and the bad Seeds

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have sung love songs? Huh. I definitely didn't know that. I've always thought of them as a little bit twisted, lyrically speaking.

I can't figure out why I forgot Van Morrison

as "Gloria" and "Brown Eyed Girl" have always been favorites of mine.

Brown Eyed Girl is another one I forgot. That's an excellent song.

"Storybook Love (from 'The Princess Bride'), Mark Knopfler

You know, I love the movie but I don't know the song. I'll look it up sometime when I'm on my own computer.

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2007-03-15 01:25pm

aerius wrote:"Walking on the Moon" by The Police

That's a love song? Isn't it about how the moon's low gravity allows you to jump really far?

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2007-03-15 03:28pm

Blink 182 - I Miss You

Any thing by LL Cool J

Snow patrol - Chasing Cars

Crazy Town - Butterfly

Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight

Garbage - You Look So Fine & The World Is Not Enough

Crowded House - Fall At Your Feet

The Beloved - Deliver Me

Melissa Auf der Maur - Taste You

Foo Fighters - Everlong

Jem - Closer

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2007-03-15 03:55pm

Adrian Laguna wrote:
aerius wrote:"Walking on the Moon" by The Police
That's a love song? Isn't it about how the moon's low gravity allows you to jump really far?

Yes, it's a song about the giddy walking on air, or in this case, walking on the moon feeling of being in love.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2007-03-16 06:19am

Discombobulated wrote:As a matter of fact, "the girlfriend" has seen the Numa Numa video because she does not live under a rock. She would have a tough time not picturing the spectacularly unattractive Gary Brolsma while hearing that song.

Also, it's catchy and insidious, and she would get it stuck in her head for weeks and probably annoy all her friends by singing it and getting it stuck in their heads as well.

Frankly Brolsma dancing is a vast improvement on the origional video.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-03-16 06:58am

Frankly Brolsma dancing is a vast improvement on the origional video.

How can you not like this? It's pure Moldavian genius.

And I piss on the idiots who butchered this song in their shitty Youtube videos. Piss on them from great height, with anger in my...aim...or something.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2007-03-17 06:35am

Bounty wrote:
Frankly Brolsma dancing is a vast improvement on the origional video.
How can you not like this? It's pure Moldavian genius.

I rest my case

The Spartan · Post by **The Spartan** » 2007-03-17 07:56am

I'm not sure if this fits your criteria but for something more up tempo with a rock feel to it: "Addicted to Love" and "Simply Irresistable" by Robert Palmer.

Huey Lewis and the News have a couple ones that would work like that as well, though I can't remember the titles offhand.

Manus Celer Dei · Post by **Manus Celer Dei** » 2007-03-17 01:00pm

How can it be that nobody has mentioned Everybody Needs Somebody To Love by the Blues Brothers yet? I mean, come on. Honestly. I frown on your song mentioning punctuality.

Also:

Lift by Poets of the Fall
All For You by Motorhead
May The Living Be Dead (In Our Wake) by Flogging Molly. This is probably my favourite.

Qwerty 42 · Post by **Qwerty 42** » 2007-03-17 01:20pm

In My Life- The Beatles

Brown Eyed Girl- Van Morrison and Jimmy Buffet- Come Monday are pretty good as well.

If you want to stretch "love song," you could also go with Yesterday- The Beatles or Tangerine- Led Zeppelin.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2007-03-17 01:37pm

I think I already mentioned Van Morrison.

Qwerty 42 · Post by **Qwerty 42** » 2007-03-17 09:47pm

You did, I was just throwing out another voice for it.

KhyronTheBackstabber · Post by **KhyronTheBackstabber** » 2007-03-17 10:37pm

Faith No More:

Edge Of The World
Easy
Just A Man

The Doors:

The Crystal Ship
End Of The Night
Moonlight Drive
You're Lost Little Girl
I Can't See Your Face In My Mind
Wintertime Love
Yes, The River Knows
Wishful Sinful
Blue Sunday
The Spy

Tenacious D

Fuck Her Gently

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2007-03-18 04:39am

moonlight drive?

when did murder ballads count as love songs?

KhyronTheBackstabber · Post by **KhyronTheBackstabber** » 2007-03-18 05:32am

The Yosemite Bear wrote:moonlight drive?

when did murder ballads count as love songs?

That's only one interpretation of the song.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2007-03-18 05:39am

I thought that the last verse with "baby's gonna drown tonight" made it pretty clear....

atg · Post by **atg** » 2007-03-18 06:04pm

Led Zeppelin
- Whole Lotta Love
- All of my Love