What has love got to do with it?

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give me the best love song that is not lame...

I vote Beauty of the ride by Sebadoh

Steve, I want to see one from you

― Sonicred, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This Guy/Girl's In Love With You, by Bacharach and David, leaps to mind. I like the Herb Alpert version best.

― Tom, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And! "To Know Him Is To Love Him" by the Teddy Bears, or at least that heartbreakingly devoted "walk alongside of him, oh!" bit. And "Give Him A Great Big Kiss" by the Shangri-Las which captures the irrational swaggers and lusts of being in love.

― Tom, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I planned on getting married to 'A Lover's Concerto' by The Toys, but for two things: i)I am never getting married, and ii)it's just started being used on some shitty advert. Grr.

― emil.y, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Some Catch Flies" by Kristin Hersh

― Curt, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There's so many, but I'll try to name a few I like: Suicide - Cheree, Spiritualized - You Know it's True, Bowie - Heroes, OMD - Joan of Arc, Mercury Rev - Your My Queen

― A Nairn, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

make that: You're My Queen

― A Nairn, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fourteen-beat happenning

― ddd, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Love songs in general are not lame. Steve Albini's contention that they are lame just bolsters their case. Love songs rule. I'll take "For the Love of Ivy" by the Gun Club for 500, Alex.

― John Darnielle, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Surely Albini's entire career has been a love song to his amps?

Alias Grace's "Talk Simple." Just *wonderful.*

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Someone once said that Lolita was the only convincing love story of the century. In a similar frame of mind I like to say (even if I don't entirely mean it) that Elvis Costello's "I Want You" is the only convincing love song of the century.

― Justyn Dillingham, Sunday, 3 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I'm in You" by Peter Frampton.

― Joe, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If I Were With Her Now - Spiritualized.

― Mr Noodles, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fat bottom girls by queen....

― goeff, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Not Given Lightly" by Chris Knox

And "Love Is All Around" by the Troggs. I've never heard the Wet Wet Wet version, thankfully.

― Arthur, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thirteen by Big Star

― helenfordsdale, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Tell Me Now" by Daniel Johnston (but technically its about stalking)
"Joed Out" by the Verlaines
"Mamouth" by the Skeptics
"Alafib" by Robert Wyatt

― hamish, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wonder if people would like to expand on what they look for in a love song, or what they think makes a good one?

― Tom, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Because I Told You So," by Jonatha Brooke. It's just the most beautifully bittersweet song: 'If you told me you lied/ but I stayed true and tried/ would you believe me then?' I've listened to it upwards of 2000 times, and it still just stabs me in the heart every t

― laurie, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my bloody valentine - to here knows when
skeptics - mamouth
skeptics - any any
tim buckley - song to the siren
snapper - snapper & the ocean; the gentle hour
julee cruise - falling; mysteries of love (maybe, though i think i find it a bit disturbing)
"splash 1" by 13th floor elevators

"i am sailing" by rod stewart is my parents' love song so i have weird feeling about it (it creeps me out, but i like it, and i hate it, and i had to try not to cry when i heard it in a shop today)

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nick Drake - "Northern Sky" Hank Williams - "Lovesick Blues" Whiskeytown - "Excuse Me If I Break My Own Heart Tonight" Madge Bishop's Shellsuit - "Marriage Ain't A Word, It's A Sentence"

― David, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Well, it's funny 'coz I thought that it could have turned out quite romantic
But it isn't like that, which is fine, 'coz it means I can stand it "

-Girlfriend, the Jazz Butcher

― Dave225, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"If I Were With Her Now" by Spiritualized is a brilliant one, Mr.Noodles.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Hospital" by the Modern Lovers.

actually that's the best love song that is lame, i guess.

― duane, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What has love got to do with it?
As Ike said: Not a god damn thing. hahahah

― helenfordsdale, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Not Given Lightly" by Chris Knox

Ah...good call, Arthur.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just don't get the Jonatha Brookes song. Bogdan Raczynski's "Samurai Math Beats" takes the prize here I'm afraid.

― Keiko, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A Little Something - Slapp Happy

Breed - Nirvana

Our Love is Here to Stay - Gershwin

― Nate-o, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Cocoa Brown - Sundress.

If you've never heard this, hear it. Your dead great-uncles will somehow get laid via association, that's how pimp this song is.

― Ramosi, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sp: 'Coco'

― Ramosi, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fear of Dying by Jack Off Jill - you could easily forget that it's a love song. Best one of all time, too.

― Maria, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Talking Heads' "This Must Be The Place" (though I, cough, prefer the Ida version...). I mean, "sing into my mouth"? Wow.

― Douglas, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One thing that makes a good love song is a sense of fragility, almost like a breakdown, but with restraint.

More Bacharach/David...
The Look of Love - Dusty Springfield
Close To You - Carpenters

& more standards...
The Way You Look Tonight (Kern) - Fred Astaire
You Do Something to Me (Porter) - Ella Fitzgerald
My Funny Valentine (Rogers/Hart) - Chet Baker

― Curt, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"43C", Kind of Like Spitting.

Although that Chris Knox song is damn good.

― doug, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

jouissance:

* "Alright, Okay, You Win" - Peggy Lee
* "Love is Strange" - Mickey and Sylvia (there's a bluegrass version that's even better (=faster))

songs about how much it sucks:

* Everything by Hank Williams Sr.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 5 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Martha" by Tom Waits.

― Ashley Andel, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

this morning on my md walkman i found myself paying a lot of attention to the words to Lamb's Gorecki, and tho it gets a lot of Unfinished-Sympathy-knock-off criticism, i can't think of a more beautiful and affective love song.

― Alan Trewartha, Thursday, 7 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Big Black - "Precious Thing."

― adam, Saturday, 9 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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