Tolerable love songs
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Tolerable love songs
A few days ago someone asked me to name a love song that I didn't find nauseating, and I couldn't think of any off the top of my head. I'm sure there are some, because I'm in a great relationship so my tolerance for sappiness is more than it used to be, but I can't think of any such songs. Can anyone recommend some songs whose lyrics are about how awesome the singer's object of affection is, but which don't make you want to throw up on the spot?
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A quic look through my iTunes 'top rated' yields the following (My taste in music knows no shame!), try them and dismiss at your discretion
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing - Aerosmith
Breakthru - Queen
Inside Out - Bryan Adams
Heaven - Bryan Adams
Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden
It's All Coming Back to Me Now - Meat loaf (Celine Dion version is too sappy)
Lots of other songs by Meat loaf
I'm Going to Love You A Little Bit More - Dr Hook
Dragostea din tei - O-zone (It's in Romanian but it's still a love song and it's catchy)
She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
How Deep is Your Love - The Bee Gees (accept no substitutes)
Wonderful Tonite - Eric Clapton
Save all Your Kisses for Me - Brotherhood of Man
Can You Feel the Love Tonight - Elton John
Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing - Aerosmith
Breakthru - Queen
Inside Out - Bryan Adams
Heaven - Bryan Adams
Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden
It's All Coming Back to Me Now - Meat loaf (Celine Dion version is too sappy)
Lots of other songs by Meat loaf
I'm Going to Love You A Little Bit More - Dr Hook
Dragostea din tei - O-zone (It's in Romanian but it's still a love song and it's catchy)
She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
How Deep is Your Love - The Bee Gees (accept no substitutes)
Wonderful Tonite - Eric Clapton
Save all Your Kisses for Me - Brotherhood of Man
Can You Feel the Love Tonight - Elton John
Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
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1. She Moved through the Fair (hey if O'Conner, Enya, and others can all cover it, then a ballad from the 1700s counts)
2. Share the Shelter-Bob Marley
3. Keep me in your heart for a while, Tenderness on the block, La Amore (something) -Warren Zevon
4. Not Fade Away- Buddy Holly
5. Into Her Arms-Nick Cave and the bad Seeds
others I just can't think of right now.
2. Share the Shelter-Bob Marley
3. Keep me in your heart for a while, Tenderness on the block, La Amore (something) -Warren Zevon
4. Not Fade Away- Buddy Holly
5. Into Her Arms-Nick Cave and the bad Seeds
others I just can't think of right now.
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Awesomely enough, The Darkness are reforming.Bounty wrote:Hazel Eyes, by The Darkness. Lovely.
If you can stand tem, the Pipettes' I Love You is good, too.
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Re: Tolerable love songs
Type O Negative - Be My Druidess (my all time favourite make out song, fyi).Discombobulated wrote:A few days ago someone asked me to name a love song that I didn't find nauseating, and I couldn't think of any off the top of my head. I'm sure there are some, because I'm in a great relationship so my tolerance for sappiness is more than it used to be, but I can't think of any such songs. Can anyone recommend some songs whose lyrics are about how awesome the singer's object of affection is, but which don't make you want to throw up on the spot?
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"She Loves You" by the Beatles. More a song about love and relationships, but it's a good one.
"Dulcinea" from Man Of La Mancha. Knightly romance at it's finest.
I'll always have a soft spot for the Blues Brothers so "Everbody Needs Sombody to Love"
And I'll second or third every Meatloaf song already on the list, as well as adding Paradise by the Dashboard Light even if the ending isn't very loving.
"Dulcinea" from Man Of La Mancha. Knightly romance at it's finest.
I'll always have a soft spot for the Blues Brothers so "Everbody Needs Sombody to Love"
And I'll second or third every Meatloaf song already on the list, as well as adding Paradise by the Dashboard Light even if the ending isn't very loving.
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Here's a few, off the top of my head.
"I Walk The Line", by Johnny Cash
"In The Midnight Hour", Wilson Pickett
"Storybook Love (from 'The Princess Bride'), Mark Knopfler
"Sweet Child o'Mine", Guns 'n Roses
"FNT", Semisonic
"Angel of Harlem", U2 (maybe not a LOVE song, technically, but still good)
"I Walk The Line", by Johnny Cash
"In The Midnight Hour", Wilson Pickett
"Storybook Love (from 'The Princess Bride'), Mark Knopfler
"Sweet Child o'Mine", Guns 'n Roses
"FNT", Semisonic
"Angel of Harlem", U2 (maybe not a LOVE song, technically, but still good)
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Did you just suggest the Numa Numa song?2000AD wrote:Dragostea din tei - O-zone (It's in Romanian but it's still a love song and it's catchy)
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"Amazed" by Lonestar (they have a lot of beautiful love songs)
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