Tolerable love songs
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"Your Love Will Kill Me" - Daniel Lavoie (for HoND)
"Fairy Tale" - Shaaman
There are more I like, but these are truly good.
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"Fairy Tale" - Shaaman
There are more I like, but these are truly good.
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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.Bounty wrote:The song is great. How it was butchered by MySpace kiddies is irrelevant.RedImperator wrote: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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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.
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.
"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.
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And the video is just as funny.
And the video is just as funny.
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I was waiting for someone to pick that upRedImperator wrote: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)
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.
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Thanks everyone for your suggestions.
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.
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.2000AD wrote:I was waiting for someone to pick that upRedImperator wrote: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)
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.
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.
Augh! How could I have forgotten Billy Joel? I should be punished for that.She Got A Way - Billy Joel
Lullabye - Billy Joel
All About Soul - Billy Joel
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.Into Her Arms-Nick Cave and the bad Seeds
Brown Eyed Girl is another one I forgot. That's an excellent song.I can't figure out why I forgot Van Morrison
as "Gloria" and "Brown Eyed Girl" have always been favorites of mine.
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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
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
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Yes, it's a song about the giddy walking on air, or in this case, walking on the moon feeling of being in love.Adrian Laguna wrote:That's a love song? Isn't it about how the moon's low gravity allows you to jump really far?aerius wrote:"Walking on the Moon" by The Police
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Lusankya: Deal!
Say, do you want it to be a threesome with your wife? Or a foursome with your wife and sister-in-law? I'm up for either.
Lusankya: Deal!
Say, do you want it to be a threesome with your wife? Or a foursome with your wife and sister-in-law? I'm up for either.
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Frankly Brolsma dancing is a vast improvement on the origional video.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.
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How can you not like this? It's pure Moldavian genius.Frankly Brolsma dancing is a vast improvement on the origional video.
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.
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I rest my caseBounty wrote:How can you not like this? It's pure Moldavian genius.Frankly Brolsma dancing is a vast improvement on the origional video.
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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.
Huey Lewis and the News have a couple ones that would work like that as well, though I can't remember the titles offhand.
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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:
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.
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[/size][/i]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.
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.
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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
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
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Led Zeppelin
- Whole Lotta Love
- All of my Love
- Whole Lotta Love
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