| GratefulFan 27.07.2010 23:29 |
Amazon mentioned Heart's 'Alone' in the listening thread and it got me thinking about love songs. What are your best and your cheesiest worst? Include a link or an embed if you'd like us to swoon or vomit along with you. This is one of my absolute favourites. I love the way it sounds, I love The __________ , and I love what it says. And then there's this horrible sounding hot mess of mozarella stuffed brie rolled in roquefort bits. |
| Dan C. 28.07.2010 00:50 |
Let's see... I'll have to say that this is my all-time favorite non-Queen love song. It's perfect in every way, as far as I'm concerned: And this is the cheesiest cheesefest I can think of at the moment. I can't listen to it all the way through... it makes me want to gag: |
| Dan C. 28.07.2010 00:51 |
Oops! Double post! Sorry. |
| GratefulFan 28.07.2010 10:35 |
See now I wish people would post videos all the time! I had never heard of Matthew Sweet and now I have. And I love that your best love song sounds nothing like what most people think of as love songs. Very cool. A serious poster from the comments on the Aerosmith above: "If love was a playlist, this song would be the first to play" Ah ha haahaha! Today's favourite, which actually makes it into my overall favourite songs of any genre is John Hiatt's 'Feels Like Rain'. Hiatt is an exceptional artist who like people like Warren Zevon manages to fly just under the radar for the most part. The song is set in New Orleans - a city the writers of love songs often seem to tap to evoke something particular about love and passion it seems to me.
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| Dan C. 28.07.2010 14:35 |
GratefulFan wrote: See now I wish people would post videos all the time! I had never heard of Matthew Sweet and now I have. And I love that your best love song sounds nothing like what most people think of as love songs. Very cool. A serious poster from the comments on the Aerosmith above: "If love was a playlist, this song would be the first to play" Ah ha haahaha! Today's favourite, which actually makes it into my overall favourite songs of any genre is John Hiatt's 'Feels Like Rain'. Hiatt is an exceptional artist who like people like Warren Zevon manages to fly just under the radar for the most part. The song is set in New Orleans - a city the writers of love songs often seem to tap to evoke something particular about love and passion it seems to me. This triumph of curd starts off so very bad that it actually gets good, and then he starts talking about seed and it's at that point that I just get pale and the illusion that it's actually so bad it's good crumbles completely. The abortion part has to be some of the funniest stuff ever cut to vinyl. ================================================ I love John Hiatt. It seems that most of the music I listen to is stuff by people that should be a household name, but for whatever fail to catch on. On my YouTube channel, I have an episode of an old VH1 show called "Duets" that features both Matthew Sweet and John Hiatt. It's totally awesome! Here's part one: Also; I wish people would pick up on Warren Zevon. In my opinion, he was one of the backbones of the California sound of the '70s. Just a phenomenal musician... |
| Holly2003 28.07.2010 15:06 |
Late For the Sky, by Jackson Brown. Beautiful. link No More I Love Yous, by Annie Lennox link Changes, by Black Sabbath link Barry Manilow - Could It Be Magic link |
| mike hunt 29.07.2010 01:13 |
Anything from the lovely Carole King....."will you still love me tomorrow" And the one and only "love of my life" are two that i love. Ones i hate?.....I would have to think about that. |
| GratefulFan 29.07.2010 01:16 |
Great posts, all of you guys. I watched all four parts of that Hiatt/Sweet show on your channel Dan C. Thanks so much for bringing it to my attention! It was super. Loved watching two excellent musicians just doing their thing, working it out backstage on the fly. Absolute pros. All the tunes sounded great, and the little surprise Ramones jam at the end was awesome. :) The people that have covered guys like John Hiatt and Warren Zevon show what epic songwriters they are/were. Hey, if you had to recommend one or possibly two Matthew Sweet albums, which would they be? I pulled up the lyrics while I listened to most of the songs on this thread, and that was a mistake as far as that Jackson Browne one went in that it literally made me cry. Which was a slightly disconcerting thing to do at the end of the day at work. That song stayed with me for a couple of hours. I noticed in the comments that it was in 'Taxi Driver', which I've seen at least 3 times, though it's been a long time. I don't remember it, and can't imagine not remembering it, because I love that movie and I Iove Jackson Browne. Huh. I thought of Peter Gabriel's 'Blood of Eden', which has the poetry of 'Late for the Sky'and the gloom of 'Changes', though it's darker than both. There's an interesting connection with Warren Zevon and Jackson Browne. In the early 70's Warren had become disillusioned with struggling fruitlessly in Hollywood trying to build a music career. He fled far away, and lived for a time in Spain with his wife where he played, in his words, "country and western music in an Irish bar". In his absence, Jackson Browne twisted a few arms and called in a few favours and secured financing for Warren's first album. He sent Warren a post card and told him to come home. He did, Jackson produced the album, and the rest is history. For some reason that clip of 'No More I Love Yous' is blocked in Canada. That's been happening with a bunch of Sony stuff lately. Annoying. |
| Rick 29.07.2010 03:24 |
I love it how many always mention Every Breath You Take by The Police as one of their favourite love songs. I guess it depends of how you interpret the word 'love'. |
| tcc 29.07.2010 03:33 |
Off-topic but the song "Every Breath You Take" by The Police reminds me of the ferry service between my country and an island in our neighbouring country. The ferry service always play this song when the vessel reaches the destination and the passengers are to disembark to clear immigration. The name of the band and the words "I'll be watching you" always make me laugh. |
| andreas_mercury 29.07.2010 04:17 |
i think for fast love song, "got my mind set on you" cover to george harrison. great |
| GratefulFan 29.07.2010 13:13 |
Rick wrote: I love it how many always mention Every Breath You Take by The Police as one of their favourite love songs. I guess it depends of how you interpret the word 'love'. ============================ This prompted a little bittersweet smile. I was one of those questionable people who shared this song with someone as 'our song', as our love song. I don't even remember why, or at what point along the way it happened. I was still a teenager over those years, and he was four years older than me; both of us too young or too in love at the time to appreciate the lyrics for what they were. I got him a pure white kitten one time after a fight, and we called her 'Syncronicity' or just Sync or Syncie for short after the album. Tragically, he was killed in a terrible car accident on Thanksgiving Day in 1984. As one might expect, the song and it's lyrics hit another level and I know in a way it prolonged letting go and prolonged the desperate psychological and emotional searching for him because it felt like he was still there, watching me. It prolonged it, but it was comfort too. I still think about him at least once a week or so, just a quick thought that acknowledges his life and his loss and that he was loved and important to many people. So, today, in memory of an old, good friend my favourite love song is that one that shouldn't even be a love song, but somehow, it was. |
| Mr Mercury 29.07.2010 18:04 |
I suppose this is a love song in its own way. Maybe about lost love. I like this anyway Heres one I dont like |
| KillerQueen840 29.07.2010 18:39 |
I'm personally a fan of Poison's "Talk Dirty to Me." I don't think that's a love song by most people's standards but it works for me, haha. link |
| Dan C. 29.07.2010 22:27 |
GratefulFan wrote: Great posts, all of you guys. I watched all four parts of that Hiatt/Sweet show on your channel Dan C. Thanks so much for bringing it to my attention! It was super. Loved watching two excellent musicians just doing their thing, working it out backstage on the fly. Absolute pros. All the tunes sounded great, and the little surprise Ramones jam at the end was awesome. :) The people that have covered guys like John Hiatt and Warren Zevon show what epic songwriters they are/were. Hey, if you had to recommend one or possibly two Matthew Sweet albums, which would they be? =================================================== Well, since you dug "Sick of Myself" I'd suggest "100%Fun" for sure. It's full of great stuff. However, 2008's "Sunshine Lies" is perhaps my favorite record he's done to date. And if you get it on iTunes, there are six bonus tracks! can't go wrong! On topic, here is another favorite of mine: I can listen to that song over and over and it never loses an ounce of it's charm. And here's one I absolutely detest: However, as a rule, I pretty much hate anything Diane Warren writes ("I Don't Want To Miss a Thing"? Totally hers). |
| Mr Mercury 30.07.2010 06:08 |
Dan, you dont half like some pretty cool stuff. From the Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs covers album (which I still play all thanks to you!!) to Tommy James and the Shondells. All good songs. That Celine Dion one does rather get on yer nerves from the start though...... :) |
| pittrek 30.07.2010 06:38 |
Best love songs ever : link link link |
| GratefulFan 30.07.2010 16:36 |
All these people I've never heard of. I look up Leon Russell and the guy has worked with everybody, has cut about 5000 albums and he wrote 'Superstar'. Cool. Due to the volume of useless music trivia I cart around in my head I can tell you that Poison's 'Talk Dirty to Me' was actually composed prior to the band forming, by C.C. Deville. I always found Bret Michaels to be unintentionally hilarious, but I've grown to kinda sorta grudgingly respect him for simply surviving in a tough business. Not surviving with a huge abundance of class mind you, but surviving nonetheless. Thanks for the recommendations Dan C. I'm definintely going to follow up on that. And yessssss to Crimson and Clover. Great pick. As well as being awesome all on it's own, that song was used to such perfect effect in the film 'The Zodiac'. It's not widely known, but the United States actually *had* to take Celine Dion and keep her as part of fine tuning the last Free Trade agreement with Canada. In exchange, we agreed to let the US pillage our oil fields and continue to think that Kiefer Sutherland is American. So worth it. This might be a little countrified for some, but I love the sound of this band, who sometimes sound like this and sometimes sounds different. Hope that helps. ;) This song is one of those that’s subtle enough to be about a lot of things to a lot of people. That’s part of the genius of good song writing. To me it is about unresolved, unspoken things that tie us to people even when they've drifted out of our lives, and about regret and trying to make things right.
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| pittrek 31.07.2010 03:40 |
OK, now serious, What about this one ? link And these are in my humble oppinion the 2 BEST love songs EVER |
| GratefulFan 31.07.2010 13:12 |
I'm so glad you thought of R.E.M. Pittrek. Michael Stipe is just so...cool. Weird, but cool. I have no bad song today, as yesterday's emotional violence set to romance music was bad enough for two days. But you made me think of this incomparable performance by R.E.M. Simple, beautiful lyrics which are so perfect for this message, when all you have at best is some vague intellectual sense that someday you'll be OK again, but the gap between here and there emotionally feels impossibly vast.
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| Holly2003 31.07.2010 13:59 |
Two by Mick and the Stones: Love in Vain link Angie link and of course the saddest of sad songs, Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton. link |
| GratefulFan 01.08.2010 10:55 |
What can you say about Angie? One of the best things ever put put down by anyone. I'd never heard that cover of Love in Vain, which was great. I've got the Clapton cover on Me and Mr. Johnson. There was something about the way it was set and performed, and I'm not even going to be able to articulate this right I don't think, where one immediately understands that these are two old souls who have been creating music together for most of their lives. I mean that's always true because it's just a fact, but it's not usually so immediately part of the feel of every corner of the room. Anyway, I liked it. I am seriously afraid I will never be able to hear Tears in Heaven again in my life without hearing Zebonka claim it was a hasty rework of a demo called 'My Friend Kevin'. So, uh, thanks for that, Zebonka. Hmmm...how do you top cold pizza for Sunday breakfast? Tough. You top it with this, I say. America did an earlier version of this song. It's not so much that it was horrifically bad in it's time, it's more that we have to remember it actually happened, twice, so that it can never happen again. She really should have smiled more. |
| Dan C. 01.08.2010 19:01 |
I love America. I was actually coming to post that exact song! So, now, I have to post this one-two punch of love instead: Todd Rundgren is an amazing musician. His brand of awesome is hardly ever recognized the way it should be. |
| pittrek 02.08.2010 03:22 |
And what do you say about this ? |
| GratefulFan 02.08.2010 20:11 |
Hey, Sweet! Uhh...sweet! I remember thinking that song sounded dangerous and cool when I was a kid. Still kinda does. @Dan C. Ha. That's funny. I wonder if it was the "I tried to make it Sunday" lyric on a Sunday that made you think of it. I think that's what happened to me. Though if you've got any kind of interest in that 70's vibe you can't get too far in a thread like this without thinking of Sister Golden Hair. Such a great song. Either way, I won. :) You're right about Todd Rundgren....that album and his sound were just as emblematic of that time as the work of anybody else, but history just hasn't assigned him quite the same stature. 'Hello It's Me' still gets lots of classic rock play. It's usually seen as an unrequited love type song, but those lyrics are not without their own complexity and I've never been sure. Okay, I see the pair of Rundgrens and raise with three Rob Thomases, and love over time. Thomas is probably my favourite contemporary musician, both with Matchbox Twenty and in his solo work. He married his wife Marisol in the late 1990's and within a short time she developed an intermittent but debilitating illness for which they didn't have a diagnosis for several years. Around 2005 or so it was determined to be an auto immune disease similar to lupus for which there is no cure, though some of the various symptoms can be sometimes be managed. I read an interview with the two of them around 2007 after she seemed to swinging into a positive and healthy period and more than anything they wanted to have a child, which the illness had deferred, and they anticipated then that that would be just around the corner. In 2010 that still hasn't happened for them. These three songs represent their relationship over more than 10 years. The first is a love letter of sorts from the late 1990's that he writes to her before they are married. The second one from around 2005 was written after she fell asleep in his lap crying with fear and pain and frustration. The last one was written last year and talks about the middle of one night when Marisol was again struggling. You can see in the middle one that his sense of his role is clear. His job is simply to love her, to assure her that they will stand and fall as one, no matter what, and that she has not let him down. The last one is tougher. You can sense the creeping cost, not in love, there's still lots of that, but in something. You see a man who has maybe had to learn that he's not going to be able to be the dragon slayer with love alone.
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| GratefulFan 03.08.2010 17:13 |
Bill Withers. Needs no further blather from me.
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| Holly2003 03.08.2010 19:09 |
The Tracks of My Tears - Smokey Robinson link Buddy Holly - True Love Ways link Both great. |
| tcc 03.08.2010 23:00 |
I had been waiting for someone to mention this: link link (the second one is the original version) |
| freddiefan91 04.08.2010 04:34 |
Best Foreigner - I want to know what love is Sinead of Connor - Nothing compares to you Queen - love of my life is beautfiul Cnat think of any bad ones i |
| GratefulFan 05.08.2010 01:03 |
I'm too sleepy for a proper reply right now, but wanted to post this last thing this evening. An absolute classic, beautiful, and exquisitely performed. Those half lit shots tight and in profile are amazing. Billy Joel - Just the Way You Are |
| Dan C. 05.08.2010 11:07 |
GreatfulFan. The more you post, the more I like you. My two favorite Bills! |
| Mr Mercury 05.08.2010 17:30 |
Heres my fave from Bill |
| GratefulFan 05.08.2010 19:26 |
Dan C. wrote: GreatfulFan. The more you post, the more I like you. My two favorite Bills! ============================= Yeah give me some time, I can probably mess that up. :) @everybody else: You'd have been waiting a long time for me to come up with either 'Love is all Around' or 'True Love Ways', that's for sure. Like probably forever long time. Excellent contributions both. And what a melody on 'Love is all Around'. I listened to it late just before going to sleep the evening it was posted, and the next morning I smiled when I caught myself singing it almost first thing. 'Tracks of My Tears' was on my list to get to, so you've saved me that. An unquestionable classic. Thanks for the second Billy Joel Mr. M., and for your songs as well freddiefan. Billy's voice has held up pretty well over 30+ years. He's still a consumate entertainer. This would be no more or less offensive than anything else if it weren't for the fact that Peter Cetera clearly needed a forcible shearing and to be taught some goddamn humility. Well not really, but it made me laugh to say so. Without further ado, I present Peter Cet - 'hair' - a and 'The Glory of
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| GratefulFan 06.08.2010 12:07 |
Anguished desire, searing and perfect. Radiohead - Creep |
| GratefulFan 09.08.2010 23:46 |
The beautiful 'Songbird' from Christine McVie, off an album so impossibly flush with amazing music that half of it could have probably easily made this thread. This bit of surreptitious evil from the 1970's is certainly the greatest corrupter of innocence of all time. Nine year old girls, ministers, rabbis and little old ladies alike all cluelessly singing at the top of our lungs about SEX. And not just any sex, but afternoon sex, which everybody knows is the most sneaky and hard to accomplish and therefore the naughtiest. Starland Vocal Band = SVB = Satan's Vortex (Band). |
| GratefulFan 13.08.2010 03:39 |
Sigh. It's 4:30 am-ish and I'm awake and suffering because my 15 year old talked me into letting him pull his first graveyard shift at McDonald's and I can't sleep. My boyfriend who is visiting in order to accompany me through this maternal crisis is fast asleep on my couch looking sweet but rather useless for the task. So I'm up surfing and listening to YouTube videos in the dark. The inimitable James Taylor and Carly Simon. The first song isn't a love song at all. It's actually about all manner of unrelated and crazy shit, but it feels like a love song. And it's a great song, so I'm posting it. The second one has to be the ultimate f-you to a crappy ex. Carly has had people talking about this song for nearly 40 years, and when it's finally revealed who the song was about the whole freakin' world is going to be like "Oh! YOU'RE the douchebag!" I'm not a revenge type person, but you've got to hand it to her. The last link is a self esteem exercise for anybody who has ever been divorced from their spouse with whom they have small children. It's the first of a six part interview that can be watched in it's entirety of Carly SImon and her and James' son Ben Taylor. The interview is conducted by Howard Stern, and nobody has the gift of wresting the most personal of details from interview subjects like he does. The scope of the ongoing dysfunction of their 1982 divorce is pretty amazing and sad too. Everybody has a story.
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| StoneColdClassicQueen 14.08.2010 18:41 |
Argh, I LOATHE THIS SONG: Lionel Richie is NOT ROMANTIC!!! I actually like Heart's Alone. Haha it's cheesy but Ann Wilson has some serious pipes!!! This song got me through my first break-up :] Pat Benatar is so awesome! And, this video will always be one of the best of all time x] |
| GratefulFan 14.08.2010 20:35 |
I've had horrible sneaking feelings of guilt about potentially skewering somebody's wedding song or something. If this happens, it's totally not you, it's me. We know about these songs because they were successful and meaningful to lots of people. If I've ever done this, or do this in the future, I'm sorry and please forgive me. That said, I'm completely aghast, which can be hard to maintain when you're howling. 'Hello' has my vote for the best worst love song/video on this thread yet. Awesome pick. That is all. |
| GratefulFan 21.08.2010 01:47 |
Something I was listening to tonight that made me think of this thread. A love song to a place and to the past, in it's way. I'm including lyrics because I think it's beautiful poetry. There is a town in north Ontario, With dream comfort memory to spare, And in my mind I still need a place to go, All my changes were there. Blue, blue windows behind the stars, Yellow moon on the rise, Big birds flying across the sky, Throwing shadows on our eyes. Leave us Helpless, helpless, helpless Baby can you hear me now? The chains are locked and tied across the door, Baby, sing with me somehow. Blue, blue windows behind the stars, Yellow moon on the rise, Big birds flying across the sky, Throwing shadows on our eyes. Leave us Helpless, helpless, helpless.
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| lifetimefanofqueen 21.08.2010 07:07 |
pittrek wrote: OK, now serious, What about this one ? link And these are in my humble oppinion the 2 BEST love songs EVER VERY VERY VERY TRUE :D I LOVE THEM BOTH!!! QUEEN WRITE THE BEST SONGS EVER!!!! THEY CAN ANY SORT OF SONGS UN LIKE SOME "BANDS" AND "SINGERS" THESE DAYS LIKE THE ANNOYING HANNAH MONTANA AND JUSTIN BIEBER. dont let me go on about them and i forgot i left the caps lock on XD oh well. |
| Dan C. 21.08.2010 18:03 |
"Helpless" is one of my favorite songs Neil Young has ever made (and that's saying a lot, because I adore Neil). I felt I should post this one. This song is a love letter to the Ramones. Though not about a boy or girl, it is a love song nonetheless, and a damn good one at that. |
| GratefulFan 22.08.2010 03:12 |
^ Great song, and another new for me artist. Thanks! Plus, it sent me on a totally awesome 2:00 am Ramones romp. In honour of lifetimefanofqueen's picks and continuing with the non-traditional love song phase of this thread I present the awesome Roger Taylor and the even more awesome 'I'm in Love with my Car'. Fantastic music, fantastic lyrics (except for the 'they're just four wheel friends now' which takes you out of that great intensity and flings you into PeeWee's Playouse or something momentarily, but other than that - truly perfect lyrics.) Way to go Rog, and thanks for the music!
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| Dan C. 23.08.2010 05:16 |
This one is one of my favorite love songs ever recorded. It's also one of the few covers I think trumps the original in every way. Matthew Sweet - Magnet & Steel Lindsey Buckingham is fucking magic as it is, but mix him in with Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs and you get something truly out of this world. I would love to hear them do a lot more work together! |
| GratefulFan 23.08.2010 14:04 |
^ No link, and I couldn't find it on YouTube. Just as well, as every third one or so of your posts seems to cost me money. :) |
| Dan C. 24.08.2010 04:17 |
That just won't do! link |
| ParisNair 25.08.2010 13:25 |
Best Love Songs thread runs into 3rd page and nobody's mentioned Journey yet? C'mon! I was a big fan of Journey's for a while in the 90s. My girl friend of the time and I would spend many evenings sitting on a park bench, listening to Journey and doing stuff. Funny thing is "our song" was "What would be life without you". It was only much much later that I realized that the actual lyrics are "I'll be alright without you". Anyeay, there were s many other love songs by the band, I somehow don't seem to rememebr the names anymore. Its been such a long time that I;ve given them a listen. |
| ParisNair 25.08.2010 13:43 |
Another song that I just love...I had heard it once and only once on TV in 1991 (I got the year by searching in google). In 1991 I was 10 years old, did not understand English apart from "what is your name", "hello, how are you: etc. But I loved that song so much - and frustratingly I had no idea who the singer was, and what the name of the song was. And I did not know how to get that song with this vital information missing. Anyway time went by and I grew up, learnt a little bit more of English, and would listen to a lot of western music on radio. I discovered Queen and many other bands this way, but I was always on the look out for this song but it never got played. Then I started working, and my company gifted me worldspace satellite radio with free one year subscription. I used to play it all day long, and once like a dream come true, this song came on. I stpped oing hat I was doing (which was, putting on a pair of jeans) till the song ended and the DJ anounced the name of the artist and the sing. i hurried to the computer, in 5 minutes the song was on my hard disk, and its been probably played a millions times by now. And here it is- link If you think its shite, please don't post. You'll be hurting my sentiments. |
| ParisNair 25.08.2010 13:56 |
Some of my other fav love songs- Prince - Take Me With You, I Would Die For You, Baby I'm A Star, Purple Rain, and the incomparable - The Beautiful Ones (big fan of the whole album, actually). Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U (Did you know that this is a Prince cover?) |
| GratefulFan 26.08.2010 01:11 |
Dan C. wrote: That just won't do! link ======================================= I've listened to that I'd say....six times.....and....I concur! Great cover. I was happy enough that you conjured up the original which was great on it's own, but this is even better. It's great when a cover outdoes the original because it's comparatively rare. Okay, "Magnet & Steel" was inspired by Stevie Nicks, so the logical progression in love songs in the form of "Object A & Object B" related to Stevie Nicks is her and Don Henley's "Leather & Lace". Is it a classic? I'm not sure, but I did love it back in the day and I'm still happy to hear it today. |
| GratefulFan 26.08.2010 02:15 |
ParisNair wrote:Best Love Songs thread runs into 3rd page and nobody's mentioned Journey yet? C'mon!I was a big fan of Journey's for a while in the 90s. My girl friend of the time and I would spend many evenings sitting on a park bench, listening to Journey and doing stuff.Funny thing is "our song" was "What would be life without you". It was only much much later that I realized that the actual lyrics are "I'll be alright without you".Anyeay, there were s many other love songs by the band, I somehow don't seem to rememebr the names anymore. Its been such a long time that I;ve given them a listen. ================================================ It's funny you've mentioned Journey as I've been thinking about them and this thread as well. They're not represented, you're right, and in fact the 1980's in general are underrepresented on this thread. I've been trying to figure out why. Is is because the 80's were considered to be a somewhat trite decade on many music fronts and there literally is less to harvest? Or is it me, because they were my teen years, and that means that what I loved back then must be the passions of a kid? I don't know, but for whatever reason I've been having a hard time coming up with 80's songs for this thread, and so it seems has most everybody else. The problem with Journey and love songs is that their best are so severely overplayed that it's hard to get excited about Don't Stop Beleivin' or Faithfully when you've just seen them on Glee and heard them three times on the radio since yesterday. I've picked a Journey song I think is worthy (ironically still not from the 80's) that isn't so firmly in the public consciousness. I love the play off the two voices, and when you have to wait for Perry sing it's even more rewarding when he does. So, by Paris Nair request, here is Journey: |
| GratefulFan 26.08.2010 02:25 |
PS. I loved your story about your lost and found song Paris Nair. :) |
| Dan C. 26.08.2010 07:39 |
Man, GratefulFan, "Bella Donna" was the first album I ever owned and I have loved it more and more the whole (nearly) 20 years since I got it. Great choice! |
| GratefulFan 30.08.2010 21:24 |
Dan C. wrote: Man, GratefulFan, "Bella Donna" was the first album I ever owned and I have loved it more and more the whole (nearly) 20 years since I got it. Great choice! ============================== And old friend of mine surprised me yesterday by posting and old picture of me from 1983 on my largely abandoned Facebook wall. It was so funny to see. I'd completely forgotten that it even existed, but when I saw it I flashed back to the evening it was taken in a moment, and what I remembered more than anything was that we were listening to Bella Donna over and over that night. I'm sure it was playing the moment the picture was snapped. I thought of this thread. :) |
| GratefulFan 30.08.2010 21:26 |
I like this song and yon Cassius who sings, with his lean and hungry look.
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| paulosham 03.09.2010 22:05 |
One of my favourites Guilty pleasure |
| Dan C. 04.09.2010 15:15 |
Though that song was originally recorded by the amazing Badfinger for their 1970 album "No Dice", I believe wholeheartedly that Harry Nilsson's version is the best. He did a wonderful job of taking every aspect of if beyond what his predecessors, who didn't think much of it, bothered. Especially in terms of vocals. The power and feeling in his voice in the choruses is just amazing to me. |
| GratefulFan 04.09.2010 20:35 |
That song from 'The Dudes' is one of those that has the mysterious property of never having heard it, listening to it, liking it, listening to it again later, and then feeling like you've already heard it a few dozen times on the radio. And apparently 'The Dudes' are Canadian, which I'm a little embarrassed not to have known. Or maybe I did know? Maybe the DJ said it one of those times I heard it on the radio in my imagination. Honestly, I'm not sure anymore. Anyway, good song. I particularly like the first lyric..."I'm so into you right now". 'I'm so into you' has always seemed more important, or more profound, or something than it's colloquial nature implies. It's even been somewhat trivialized through things like 'he/she's just not that into you' or the books by the same name. But to me it's always been the perfect distillation and the perfect expression of everything when love and passion is right, and the thing that's slipped away when things have begun to go wrong. So that lyric has inspired tonight's pick, which is firmly aimed at a demographic about 20 years my junior, but I really like it anyway. It's also by a 3rd place Canadian Idol also ran from a few years ago. Since I haven't picked a 'worst' love song for a while, I'll stick to this Canadian Idol theme and pick one from the last winner of Canadian Idol which is a perfect example of pointless and vapid Adult Contemporary music. Sincere kudos however for the inclusion of homosexual couples in the video. I did think that was classy.
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| GratefulFan 04.09.2010 20:47 |
@Dan C. - I didn't even know that song was Harry Nilsson. Much earlier in this thread I tried to figure out if 'Everybody's Talkin' could possibly be wrangled as a love song. I decided it couldn't, but thought of H.N. for precisely the reason you noted...he is one of those artists who delivers soul or passion or emotion or whatever is required with he most effortless and compelling subtlety. |
| Dan C. 05.09.2010 22:15 |
GratefulFan wrote: @Dan C. - I didn't even know that song was Harry Nilsson. Much earlier in this thread I tried to figure out if 'Everybody's Talkin' could possibly be wrangled as a love song. I decided it couldn't, but thought of H.N. for precisely the reason you noted...he is one of those artists who delivers soul or passion or emotion or whatever is required with he most effortless and compelling subtlety. ==================================== I love the Hell out of Nilsson. He's one of the far too many great musicians who died far too early. Fuck you, mortality. On topic: I am totally in love with "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" and it's soundtrack (which, coincidentally, features the Frank Black song I posted a while ago). Without giving too much away, the titular character is vying for the affection of a girl named Ramona Flowers, and he writes this song for her (though there's much less to it in the film). Beck wrote all of the songs for the fictional band (Sex Bob-omb), so basically half of the soundtrack is a mini Beck album. "Ramona" has a certain simple charm that really strikes a chord and means something to me. |
| paulosham 06.09.2010 16:31 |
@GratefulFan Here's another great one from The Dudes. My favourite band at the moment. you should really check out their albums Brain Heart Guitar and Blood Guts Bruises Cuts. '> |
| GratefulFan 07.09.2010 00:31 |
@PaulSmith: Missing 'Dudes' link. :( Would be great to check out more. :) |
| GratefulFan 07.09.2010 00:40 |
@DanC...Another great pick. You know, there's only 9 lines in that song other than 'Ramona' but boy do they communicate a story and evoke a mood. Really liked the music too. It kept trying to remind me of something, of some other piece of music, but it never quite came to me. |
| GratefulFan 07.09.2010 01:22 |
For me, Warren Zevon's 'Searchin' for a Heart' is one of his finest moments in a career quietly full of really fine moments. He captured I think how truly precious and rare it is to find a really exceptional connection with someone. You need a tremendous amount of luck, among other things. They say love conquers all You can't start it like a car You can't stop it with a gun One of my hands down favourite lyrics from anyone. F*ck mortality indeed.
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| Dan C. 07.09.2010 12:05 |
I can't even begin to agree with you vehemently enough. Warren Zevon is one of the best. Ever. Period. I've never heard a song by him that was anything less than awesome, and I've heard them all. As for "Ramona" it reminds me of Big Star's "Try Again" in some ways: And, to stay on topic, here is another favorite love song: Chris Isaak is completely amazing. He has such a Roy Orbison quality about him... and that is never a bad thing. |
| GratefulFan 08.09.2010 16:38 |
DanC just made me think of this with his post on 'What song are you listening to..."? Haven't thought about Shawn Mullins for a while, but I loved this song from the first time I heard it. 'Everything's gonna be alright' in some form or another shows up in a lot of great love/relationship songs. It's a great sentiment, and a great song.
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| Dan C. 08.09.2010 17:08 |
God, I love, love, love, love Shawn Mullins. Have you heard The Thorns? It's a harmony group made up of him, Matthew Sweet and Pete Droge. They're fucking amazing, but they only had one album. |
| Dan C. 12.09.2010 19:10 |
Another great one by Matthew Sweet. It rocks ultimate: |
| GratefulFan 12.09.2010 20:43 |
Dan C. wrote: God, I love, love, love, love Shawn Mullins. Have you heard The Thorns? It's a harmony group made up of him, Matthew Sweet and Pete Droge. They're fucking amazing, but they only had one album. ===================== It was love at first listen for me too with Shawn M. I dug around a bit at the time and got so far as to figure out he was from Georgia and had been at it for years under the radar like some of my other favourite people. Then I kind of lost the thread. The internet and access to music, even to purchase, wasn't the same then. My son was very small at the time and life was pretty consumed by that, so I missed a lot of music in the mid/late 90's. I'll definitely do some backtracking and check out The Thorns. Thanks for the tip! |
| GratefulFan 12.09.2010 20:52 |
Dan C. wrote: Another great one by Matthew Sweet. It rocks ultimate: ===================== More Sweet! Sweet! :) Jeff Healey performing John Hiatt's wonderful 'Angel Eyes'. I love that in singing about her, he's singing about himself as well. It makes me think of the many men out there who perhaps don't quite understand that they're pretty damn great themselves. Jeff owned a club in Toronto for years that he used to play at regularly. I had the pleasure of seeing him twice up close. Watching him play the guitar like that on his lap is even more incredible and inspiring than it looks on video. He played that way from the time he was five years old. Another great artist, gone way too soon. |
| GratefulFan 13.09.2010 12:02 |
Dear Rob Thomas: You totally rock. Sincerely, GreatfulFan
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| GratefulFan 13.09.2010 12:42 |
Ha ha. I misspelled my own nic! Rob Thomas' monster coolness will do that to a person. Still, a bit embarassing. |
| GratefulFan 17.09.2010 14:54 |
Bryan Adams being awesome. I love how this song sounds, and how it feels. |
| Dan C. 17.09.2010 22:23 |
That's pretty good! Had I heard that on the radio, I never would've pegged it as Bryan Adams... until the chorus. He sounds different on this track. Anyway, here's another great one. It's one of my all-time favorite love songs. Hell, it's one of my favorite songs period. Billy Joel, I love you. |
| GratefulFan 22.09.2010 00:24 |
Another great Billy Joel entry Dan C! I've listened to it at least 10 times since you posted it, and it's a fantastic song. Those lyrics are spot on. It is all about soul, now isn't it. Yeah, I really like that last Bryan Adams entry. The radio cut is actually subtly different somehow...it actually does sound much more like him than in that video. But I like the rawer and more imperfect sound on the video track. It suits the song. |
| GratefulFan 22.09.2010 00:35 |
This song is the unofficial anthem of my last break up, which was as brutal as I've experienced. The relationship was quite short - only about 18 months, but the ending was baaaaaad. One of those where it was hard and ambiguous and everybody had to walk away with lots of love still left on the table. Highly unrecommended. It took me about 3 years to get over that 18 month relationship. I'm clearly quite bad at math. LOL Anyway, none of it eroded my love of this most excellent song. Sorry about the commercial - I couldn't find this exact version on YouTube. http://www.singingfool.com/Title.aspx?publishedid=891766 |
| Dan C. 23.09.2010 01:08 |
This is one that has eaten a large chunk of my brain lately. It's full of Brian Wilson-esque melody and whimsy. Great, great tune! |
| Amazon 23.09.2010 02:57 |
GratefulFan wrote: "Amazon mentioned Heart's 'Alone' in the listening thread and it got me thinking about love songs." I'm flattered that I inspired you to come up with a new topic. :D Seeing as this is my first post on this thread, I thought I would start with the single greatest love song of all time. I don't care what anybody says; no love song comes close to this. The song is 'Ain't no Mountain High Enough' by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell. Gaye was brilliant, and although I'm not a massive fan of all of his work, his collaberations with Tammi (especially this sont) as well as 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine' are among my all-time absolute favourite songs. Tammi was this incredible singer who died at the age of 24 of a brain tumor, but who could have been among the greatest of all time if she had lived longer and recorded more work. As it was, I think she was definitely among the all-time greats. She has a really beautiful voice and the chemistry between her and Marvin was wonderful. I really love her; she had a great personality, and I don't think one can watch this clip without falling in love with her. My advice is to just watch her. Marvin is great, but Tammit's casual manner at the start, her beautiful smile and sexy body language, her hand rotations, her acting during the delightful 'no wind, no rain' part, and her gorgeous dancing during my favourite vocal part of the song (1:37-1:45). The song is an absolute masterpiece and is arguably the greatest love song of all time; the video is simply unsurpassed. :D :D :D (I'm double-posting as that's the only way I can download the video.) |
| Amazon 23.09.2010 02:58 |
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| GratefulFan 24.09.2010 23:43 |
I have to share this email I was CC'd on (i.e. I'm not Patti) today that made me think of the mighty Queenzone... Hi Patti, Unfortunately both Kent and I are in Toronto that day and are unavailable. Dan C Ha ha! Well, okay, um, Dan C. We'll definitely reschedule that meeting 'cause you're in charge of the cool tunes! ;) |
| GratefulFan 24.09.2010 23:59 |
Great addition Amazon! Marvin Gaye was amazing. What's Goin' On? is probably my favourite, but he was just great in general. I remember reading somewhere a long time ago that Tammi Terrell had a wickedly charming potty mouth. Her voice was so smooth and expressive. Well beyond her years, and that was true also in her showmanship (showwomanship?) as you pointed out. To me that song is about the love after the love...when you've broken up the romantic part of your relationship but retain all the best of the affection and regard for one another. Okay! I think half of the people who have participated on this thread have expressed a deep contempt for country music at some point or another on QZ. But a love song thread has to have some hurtin' music! So here's a countrified cover of a great classic love song sung by the man with the tightest pants in country music, and a veteran of having had Sharon Stone describe making love to him as being like eating a dirt sandwich. Zing!
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| GratefulFan 28.09.2010 23:12 |
Awesome cover....
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| Dan C. 29.09.2010 22:02 |
Nice! She did a damn good job! Tom Petty is one of my favorite humans ever and I'm always wary of covers of his stuff. She nailed it. |
| GratefulFan 01.10.2010 17:22 |
Ms. Etheridge rocks, literally and figuratively. You've got to love a purposeful and completely credible and worthwhile cover like that. Such a great song to begin with. Half her catalogue could probably be added to this thread. She's as talented a songwriter as anyone. She's particularly prolific in songs about the pain and lonliness of rejection, and of losing your person when you're still in love. She's got at least a half dozen of those, and they're all good. I could have chosen any one of them, but I picked 'I Want to Come Over' in part because a young Gwyneth Paltrow is incredible in the video. At the end I always want her to turn around so badly. She's so good you can feel what happens next in a story that should actually feel like a story, and end with the song. The talent of these two women make it all feel a little bit real.
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| john bodega 10.10.2010 00:58 |
I really love "You Take My Breath Away" by Queen, right - but God I hate the lyrics. It's stalking on a grand scale. |
| GratefulFan 10.10.2010 23:42 |
It's kind of stalky like that horrible 'I Don't Want to Miss a Thing' by Aerosmith where he's staring at a woman breathing and sleeping. Waking up and screaming "Jesus Christ!" and falling on your face in a frantic tangle of sheets two feet from the end of the bed doesn't sound that romantic. Okay, this may be roundly hated but I have a big soft spot for this bit of CanCon from 1974:
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| GratefulFan 11.10.2010 01:36 |
In case anybody really hated the last one, my pennance:
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| Dan C. 11.10.2010 04:27 |
"The Air That I Breathe" is such a great, great tune. I've loved it since I was a child. SO good! This one is more a longing kind of song, but a love song nonetheless. I wish these guys had made more than one record... Here is another great one, this time from Stone Temple Pilots. |
| Holly2003 11.10.2010 06:48 |
GratefulFan wrote: Ms. Etheridge rocks, literally and figuratively. =========================================================================== I saw her play in 1988. She was support to Huey lewis and the News. Strange days indeed... |
| GratefulFan 13.10.2010 16:07 |
Oh! I already found that Thorns song when I said I was going to check them out. :) Great retro harmonies reminiscent of a whole lot of amazing folks from the 70's. It was interesting to hear what would normally be a solo song delivered by a trio. Was nice to see and hear Shawn Mullins again after losing track of him. Okay, how does a guy this potentially irritating get this damn cool when you throw a guitar around his neck. Love this song. So much good stuff on the album as it was just as his marriage was breaking up and he was falling in love with his now wife. |
| Amazon 13.10.2010 23:44 |
GratefulFan wrote: "Great addition Amazon! Marvin Gaye was amazing. What's Goin' On? is probably my favourite, but he was just great in general." I love Marvin. He wasn't my favourite soul singer (that honour goes to Otis Redding), but he was truly wonderful. His stuff with Tammi (especially Ain't no Mountain High Enough) was magnificent, and I adored a particular song which I will mention a bit later. What's Going On? was great as well. "I remember reading somewhere a long time ago that Tammi Terrell had a wickedly charming potty mouth." Really? :D That's brilliant! :D :D "Her voice was so smooth and expressive. Well beyond her years, and that was true also in her showmanship (showwomanship?) as you pointed out." Absolutely. She was gorgeous, I think it's tragedy that she died so young. She's actually one of my two favourite female singers (along with Alanis Morissette.) "To me that song is about the love after the love...when you've broken up the romantic part of your relationship but retain all the best of the affection and regard for one another." I completely agree. :D |
| Amazon 13.10.2010 23:45 |
Here are another one from me: )Perhaps not a love song in the classical sense, this is IMO one of the finest love songs ever recorded by a hard rock band. I'm referring of course to Sweet Child O' Mine by the legendary Guns N' Roses! Axl, a freak of nature (of whom I've discovered that I'm one of the very few fans on this site) was amazing as usual, while Slash arguably delivered one of the greatest guitar solos of all time. His solo in the middle of the song was electrifying. Even if he had never done anything else, that solo would have immortalised Slash. Enjoy. :D (I'm doing multiple posts as it's the only way that I can upload the songs.) |
| Amazon 13.10.2010 23:47 |
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| GratefulFan 15.10.2010 16:04 |
Amazon wrote: She's actually one of my two favourite female singers (along with Alanis Morissette.) ========================= I love, love, love Alanis too. She's has had a really nice career arc. She was great as that angry chick in the 90's and she's mellowed beautifully now. If you didn't see her performance at the closing ceremony of the Vancouver Olympics it's worth checking out. She looked and sounded beautiful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPFohPQuxG8&feature=related Think it was probably lipsynced mind you...a number of the performances were for whatever reason. My favourite female singer is little known outside of Canada, which is nearly criminal. I'm not even sure what my favourite song from her is, but this one is one that has always felt really personal to me for reasons I can't quite describe. Anyway, love as a 'Dark Horse' is a great concept.
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| GratefulFan 15.10.2010 16:15 |
Amazon wrote: Perhaps not a love song in the classical sense, this is IMO one of the finest love songs ever recorded by a hard rock band. I'm referring of course to Sweet Child O' Mine by the legendary Guns N' Roses! Axl, a freak of nature (of whom I've discovered that I'm one of the very few fans on this site) was amazing as usual, while Slash arguably delivered one of the greatest guitar solos of all time. His solo in the middle of the song was electrifying. Even if he had never done anything else, that solo would have immortalised Slash. =================== G 'N R had a furious and short lived period of real creativity, but the fruits of that have aged nearly perfectly. They have a few that will sound good forever - 'Sweet Child' being one for sure. 'Patience' has got to be another. Axl is sincerely crazy, for better or for worse. Enjoy your lonely fandom. :) |
| GratefulFan 15.10.2010 16:29 |
Driving back to work late this afternoon (to post on Queenzone apparently! - that should get me caught up) a DJ on Sirius satellite talked about a recent survey done for PRS that listed the top 5 songs that "make men cry". Two of them are already on this thread for sure - the #1 position was posted by me and sung by an American, and the #2 position was posted by - not me. Holly posted it I think, and it was sung by someone from the UK. #3 was written by a Canadian and has been sung by many, #4 was written by an American and sung by a person or persons from Ireland. #5 was Ireland again. Anybody want to guess any or all of them? No googling! :) For the heck of it, here are positions 6 through 10, which I googled: 6. Drugs Don’t Work – The Verve 7. Candle In The Wind – Elton John 8. Streets of Philadelphia – Bruce Springsteen 9. Unchained Melody – Todd Duncan 10. Angels – Robbie Williams |
| john bodega 17.10.2010 16:42 |
I've always had high respect for love songs that don't actually use the word 'love'. There are a few out there. |
| GratefulFan 02.01.2011 16:32 |
I've been meaning to post this for a bit, for Dan C. and others who mentioned liking Billy Joel. It's a six part interview from mid November with Billy Joel on Howard Stern. Lots of interesting stuff and bits of live music from a few weeks ago. Part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxw1WV_qmVk |