What are some really great love songs?
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November 17th, 2008
I need some good love songs with good lyrics.
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Let’s Stay Together / Al Green
My First, my last… / Barry White ( how can you not love a song that mentions garlic salt?) LOL
“Faithfully,” Journey
“I Can’t Fight This Feeling Anymore,” REO Speedwagon
“I Will Always Love You,” Whitney Houston
The Luckiest Ben Folds
Chasing Cars Snow Patrol
From No Where to Now Here The Kin
Perfect Moment Tinderbox
Your Moon 4:2:Five
Come rain or come shinexsung by Frank Sinatra. My son and daughter in law had this song as they walked down the aisle. Wasn’t a dry eye in the house.
Another good one is ‘do you wanna dance’ sung by betts middler. The way she sings it, she’s not just singing about wanting to dance.
truly madly deply by savage garden :)
Insatiable by darren hayes
I Touch Myself – The Divinyls
pretty much anything by Otis Redding
Jim Croce- I’ll Have to Say I love You in a Song
After watching ‘Hellboy II’ last night, I’m gonna’ have to go with Can’t Live Without You by (gasp!) Barry Manilow!
Here, There, and Everywhere by The Beatles
Sea of Love (I like the newer Cat Power version)
Give Me One Reason by Tracy Chapman
All of Me (jazz standard)
True Companion by Mark Cohn
Your Song and Love Song by Elton John
Another uncommon choice, but it’s truly beautiful:
You Fill Up My Senses by John Denver
@auggie-
That’s called Annie’s Song.
Father And Daughter – Paul Simon
Here Comes My Baby
Come A Little Bit Closer
Sherry
Burnin’ For You
Beast of Burden
Woman’s Face
Maps
Those aren’t typical love songs, except Woman’s Face by Colin Hay but they’re all about love or romance. I don’t like straight Ode to Hot Chick love songs. Bleh. I like ‘em with a bit more angst.
Love Will Find A Way – Pablo Cruise
Love the One You’re With – Stephen Stills
Love Takes Time – Orleans
Love So Right – The Bee Gees
Love On a Two Way Street – Stacy Lattisaw
Love is the Answer – England Dan & John Ford Coley
The Love I Lost – Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes
Love’s Theme – Love Unlimited Orchestra
Lotta Love – Nicollete Larson
My Love – Paul McCartney & Wings
You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away – The Beatles
Fallin’ In Love – Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
I Love You For All Seasons – The Fuzz
How Deep Is Your Love – The Bee Gees
Silly Love Songs – Wings
And I Love Her – The Beatles
I’ll Never Fall in Love Again – Dionne Warwick
Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe – Barry White
A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do) – Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio
Never Knew Love Like This Before – Stephanie Mills
Let My Love Open the Door – Pete Townshend
Feel Like Making Love – Roberta Flack
I’ll Never Love This Way Again – Dionne Warwick
Your Love is King – Sade
The Game of Love – Santana (featuring Michelle Branch)
Here To Love You – The Doobie Brothers
What the World Needs Now is Love – Jackie DeShannon
I’d Really Love to See You Tonight – England Dan & John Ford Coley
You Make Loving Fun – Fleetwood Mac
Just Remember I Love You – Firefall
I Do Love You – GQ
Runnin’ For Your Lovin’ – The Brothers Johnson
La, La Means I Love You – The Delfonics
I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know – Blood, Sweat & Tears
You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine – Lou Rawls
Real Love – The Doobie Brothers
Saving All My Love For You – Whitney Houston
Who Loves You – Frankie Valli
(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher – Rita Coolidge
I Only Have Eyes For You – The Flamingos
Suavecito – Malo
We’ll Never Have To Say Goodbye Again – England Dan & John Ford Coley
Wow Blue…that’s a whole lotta love!!
@Blue, I am really surprised that Stone in Love by The Stylistics is not on your list!
I probably could have come up with more but my brain got fuzzy after listing that many songs. I’ve never heard of Stone in Love but it sounds good and I’m going to check in out on Itunes when I get a chance.
@jonny: Did you mean Oh Girl? Perhaps being in the fluther has you thinking of gils? :)
Hope it makes up for screwing up the name of John Denver’s song up there ^^
Moondance – Van Morrison
I Will Always Love You – Dolly Parton
Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours – Stevie Wonder
They Loved Each Other – Grateful Dead
Wouldn’t It Be Nice – The Beach Boys
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes – Crosby, Stills and Nash
Baby its You – JoJo
I’ve got a Woman – Ray Charles
At Last – Etta James
I Will Love You – Fisher (I cry every time.)
Beautiful Freak – The Eels
Strange and Beautiful – Aqualung
The Shining – Badly Drawn Boy
Fields of Gold – Eva Cassidy
I can’t even think right now because I have so many songs running through my head…
I Knew I Loved You – Savage Garden classic.
Girl in the War – Josh Ritter sad.
Wasted – Angus and Julia Stone happy
Fidelity – Regina Spektor happy
Samson – Regina Spektor sad
That Time – Regina Spektor happy but kinda weird
I Miss You – Blink 182 sad
Roxanne – The Police classic
Every Little Thing She Does is Magic – The Police classic
Stay With Me Tomorrow – Patrick Park sad
Signal Fire – Snow Patrol happy
Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol happy
Skinny Love – Bon Iver not too sure, lovely song though
My Love – Justin Timberlake happy?
You and I – Ingrid Michaelson awesome/happy
The Way I Am – Ingrid Michaelson happy
Mango Tree – Angus and Julia Stone happy
All of Me – Angus and Julia Stone sad
Babylon – Angus and Julia Stone happy-ish
Heart Full of Wine – Angus and Julia Stone happy
I’m Yours – Angus and Julia Stone happy-ish
Casimir Pulaski Day – Sufjan Stevens sad
Happy Ending – Mika sad
Romeo and Juliet – Dire Straits classic
I Believe in a Thing Called Love – The Darkness happy/rock n roll :P
I Will Follow You Into the Dark – Death Cab for Cutie sad
Hallelujah – Rufus Wainwright /whoever else sad
If You Would Come Back Home – William Fitzsimmons sad
Fondness Makes the Heart Grow Absent – The Whitlams sad
The Fear You Won’t Fall – Joshua Radin sad-ish
Loves in Japan / Reign of Love – Coldplay happy-ish?
Violet Hill – Coldplay sad-ish?
Til Kingdom Come – Coldplay happy
Dela – The Beautiful Girls happy-ish
Here (In Your Arms) – Hellogoodbye happy
by happy I mean lovey dovey in love now telling you I love you etc etc and by sad I mean break ups or deaths or what not…
@shrub: I love you for that list. Based on the songs I know from your list (and already love), I plan to check the rest out. YAY! for new music! ;)
Hey There Delilah – Plain White Tees
I just came back here to say no one should post that damn Delilah song.
Damn it.
Too late! I know it was played to death, but the lyrics still make it a great love song!
“Ohhh it’s what you do to me-e-e-e it’s what you do to me.” I LOVE that song.
I’m with asmonet on this one. I can’t stand that song. I mean, it doesn’t sound bad or anything, but once I found out the song had nothing to do with anything or anyone… I was like… Why write it?
WAIT! I thought Delilah was a real person! You mean she’s not? Next your going to tell me that Rosanna isn’t a real person either!
Delilah was a real person, she lives in NY and said once that she didn’t know what to think when the song came on while she was at the gym or in a bar
She was someone he had a crush on in college, or high school (don’t know that much), but she never went out with him and he wrote the song years later about her
Kind of creepy in some ways
@fireside: I swear I read somewhere or heard him say that it wasn’t really about anyone, but I guess I could be wrong. Or it was one of those things where it was loosely based on someone, I think.
@fireside: That’s an awesome site! Thanks for posting! :)
@Fireside you are my hero, you restored my faith in man, or at least my faith in songwriters.
hey, i’m all about restoring faith in men. we get a bad rap.
don’t push your luck, fireside… :)
One of my all time favorites is Young Love by Sonny James. Old old song but so good.
Personally, any of these would work for me. I thought I could think of some more but this list is quite good.
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