Songs about Love Triangles?

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Can you think of any good ones besides "My Best Friend's Girl"? (I ain't talkin' bout menage a trois.)

― Melissa Maerz (Melissa Maerz), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

um, 'bizarre love triangle' by new order (i think)

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

bizarre love triangle

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Fishbone's "Lyin' Ass Bitch". FuckinAY.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

How bout "Jesse's Girl?" Although he never really gets with her (Rick with Jesse's girl, that is). But any song with "You know I feel so dirty when they start talkin’ cute / I wanna tell her that I love her, but the point is probably moot" is pretty classic.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil" - Jefferson Airplane
"Triad" - The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane
"Time Will Show the Wiser" - Emitt Rhodes, Fairport Convention

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, Nickalicious' "3 Pairs of Panties". Not like any of you have ever heard it (or probably ever will) though.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"Layla"

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Those songs with R. Kelly and that Isley brother. There were a few of them.

― NA. (Nick A.), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

whoops you said no menage a trois so remove "Triad" from my first post.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Tiffany -- "We're Both Thinking Of Her Tonight"

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Does "When You Were Mine" count? (I know it's a blasphemous thing for a Minnesotan to say, but I like the Cyndi Lauper version better than the Prince.)

― Melissa Maerz (Melissa Maerz), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Fleetwood Mac - The Chain.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Dean And I" 10CC

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

SM & Jicks -- "Craw Song"

― Will (will), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Sweet, "ACDC"
Autograph, "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend Isn't Me"
Olivia Newton-John, "Culture Shock"

― dave q, Friday, 6 June 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"I'm Stickin' It to My Buddy's Wife" by Cooter Lipschitz and the Hounds of Honolulu

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The Me'Shell Ndbgcllwdsghllpwbvdo song about "if that's your boyfriend, he wasn't last night"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

speaking of Meshell, she covered Bill Withers' "Who Is He (and What Is He to You?)"--both versions are excellent

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

N'Degeocello, btw. I thought that song was funny, cuz I thought she was a muff-luvver.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Reel Big Fish - "I Want Your Girlfriend To Be My Girlfriend Too"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 6 June 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

complication#9-swamp dogg

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"It Tears Me Up" by various people
"Freemason Love Triangle" by New Bad Things
"Silver Spring" by Fleetwood Mac
"Belle" by Al Green (well, the third party is God, but it's clearly a triangle...)

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Shame on you all for forgetting Mary MacGregor's classic "Torn Between Two Lovers", the sad tale of what happens when a woman who married too young discovers buttsex.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Nearly every Cinerama/Wedding Present song.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"Can't Stop" JSBX: "Here's the part of the record where I'd like everybody to stand up, throw your arms in the air...and kiss my ass, cuz yer girlfriend still loves me!"
or something like that

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 June 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Shirley Brown--"Woman to Woman"
Millie Jackson--the entire "Caught Up" record

― Keith Harris (kharris1128), Friday, 6 June 2003 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck all this "ooh Bob Dylan aaah" nonsense, Jon Spencer is the best lyricist of ALL FUCKING TIME.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 6 June 2003 19:21 (twenty-two years ago)

except half his best lines are stolen either from Flava Flav or Jerry Lee Lewis Live at the Star Club.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 6 June 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

more like all of his good lines (all five of 'em)

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 6 June 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"Tryin' to Love Two"-William Bell
"We Three"-Patti Smith
"I Saw Her Again Last Night"-Mamas & Papas

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 6 June 2003 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I-Saucy-leaz indeed!

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 6 June 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Lesley Gore - "It's My Party" and its sequel "it's Jenny's(?) turn to cry now"

― H (Heruy), Friday, 6 June 2003 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

cannibal ox - the f word
magnetic fields - you & me & the moon

― nick b (Nick Bramble), Saturday, 7 June 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Left Banke -- She May Call You Up Tonight

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 7 June 2003 04:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Red House Painters - "Blinfold". Well, kind of anyway.

what possessed you not to include me
how have you failed to invite me
how could you laugh with her in that theatre
when you're off and i'm alone

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 7 June 2003 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Stan Ridgway - "Peg And Pete And Me"

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 7 June 2003 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Stranger Cole and Ken Boothe--'Artibella'
Prince Alla--'Lady Deceiver'

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 7 June 2003 06:00 (twenty-two years ago)

perhaps the most brutal--Ghostface Killah, "Wildflower," in which GK believes his woman has cuckolded him and subjects her to perhaps the nastiest, most misogynistic rant in all of hip-hop, which is saying plenty

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 7 June 2003 06:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"White Girl" by X, although technically that may be a love quadrilateral.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Saturday, 7 June 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The Field Mice - "Canada"

He doesn't love you
I'm the one who loves you
I'm the one who loves you

You don't love me
He's the one you love
He's the one you love

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Saturday, 7 June 2003 17:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"She's Not You" - Elvis

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 7 June 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The Impressions, "He Will Break Your Heart"--God, why didn't I think of this earlier?

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 7 June 2003 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh My Lover - PJ Harvey

― Andrew Harsant, Saturday, 7 June 2003 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Dilemma - Nelly & Kelly

― bnw (bnw), Sunday, 8 June 2003 04:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"Break You Off" by The Roots

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 8 June 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

The entire first Suede album, natch.

― kate (kate), Monday, 9 June 2003 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)

(Re "Can't Stop") - the stage rap on Iggy's 'Metallic KO' - "Ha ha, you paid five bucks to get in here and I'm walkin' out with 10,000, so throw all the shit you want, your girlfriend still wants to fuck me"

― dave q, Monday, 9 June 2003 07:31 (twenty-two years ago)

well done colin. *how* good is 'torn betwen two lovers' ?

― piscesboy, Monday, 9 June 2003 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Does (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame count?

Paul in Santa Cruz: most Field Mice songs were about Love Triangles in one way or another.

― harveyw (harveyw), Monday, 9 June 2003 11:12 (twenty-two years ago)

On the subject of Elvis, how about "The Girl Of My Best Friend"?

Also "Me And You And A Dog Named Boo" by Lobo (which also tackles, very sensitively in fact, the additional complications that can arise when a member of another species becomes involved in the proceedings).

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 9 June 2003 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I consider all veiled references to buttsex in classic MOR songs to be a very good thing.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 9 June 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"She's Got You" - Patsy Cline or Timi Yuro
"This Boy" - The Beatles
"You're Going To Lose That Girl" - The Beatles
"Jolene" - Dolly Parton
"Riptide" - whoever

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 9 June 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Hats Off to Larry

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

harper lee - i could be there for you

("...but he could too")

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 10 June 2003 01:22 (twenty-two years ago)

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