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eustaciavye77) wrote2008-10-15 07:50 pm
eustaciavye77) wrote2008-10-15 07:50 pm
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Music Thingy: Audience Participation Edition
Most love songs are crap. I'm not being mean, its just true. I have a clear recollection of the moment I realized this fact. I was in some sort of store, supermarket or some such, and some generic lame pseudo-R&B track (it had neither rhythm nor blues) featuring an overwrought male vocalist (OMV) was playing. There was this HUGE swell in the music, tons of electronic string like noise and then the OMV blurted out the words that were intended to be the climax of his statement of devotion: "WoooOOOOOOOOOO BABYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!"
Right. So most love songs are crap but sometimes someone gets it right. I have a few nominees for best love song ever written, but I'm also curious what other people think on the subject. Incidentally love song includes "life sucks cause wonderful person and I are no longer together" songs. Here's some of my favorites:
"In Your Eyes" - Peter Gabriel - The classic. I woulda TOTALLY done John Cusack if he was outside MY window. Then again I'd do him under most circumstances. Still, great song.
"Sometime Around Midnight" - Airborne Toxic Event - Brand new band, heart wrenching breakup song. I cried. No really.
"What a Good Boy" - Barenaked Ladies - what I love about this one is that it makes room for the existence of fundamentally flawed people falling into imperfect love.
"When Ye Go Away" - The Waterboys - again I actually cried. almost every time I hear it even after a few hundred listens
"Still the Only One" and "Clare Island" - The Saw Doctors - they're really good at this so they get 2.
"Carousel" - S.J. Tucker -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
s00j captures the desperate need to beat back time that grows out of intense connection.
"1952 Vincent Black Lightening" - Richard Thompson - crying again. saddest song ever written.
"Bluebells" and "Get Lost" - Patrick Wolf - these are opposite ends of the spectrum, utter despair and NRE respectively
Nick Cave has a BUNCH. "Into My Arms", "Loverman", "Breathless", "The Ship Song"
So what are some of yours?
Right. So most love songs are crap but sometimes someone gets it right. I have a few nominees for best love song ever written, but I'm also curious what other people think on the subject. Incidentally love song includes "life sucks cause wonderful person and I are no longer together" songs. Here's some of my favorites:
"In Your Eyes" - Peter Gabriel - The classic. I woulda TOTALLY done John Cusack if he was outside MY window. Then again I'd do him under most circumstances. Still, great song.
"Sometime Around Midnight" - Airborne Toxic Event - Brand new band, heart wrenching breakup song. I cried. No really.
"What a Good Boy" - Barenaked Ladies - what I love about this one is that it makes room for the existence of fundamentally flawed people falling into imperfect love.
"When Ye Go Away" - The Waterboys - again I actually cried. almost every time I hear it even after a few hundred listens
"Still the Only One" and "Clare Island" - The Saw Doctors - they're really good at this so they get 2.
"Carousel" - S.J. Tucker -
s00j captures the desperate need to beat back time that grows out of intense connection."1952 Vincent Black Lightening" - Richard Thompson - crying again. saddest song ever written.
"Bluebells" and "Get Lost" - Patrick Wolf - these are opposite ends of the spectrum, utter despair and NRE respectively
Nick Cave has a BUNCH. "Into My Arms", "Loverman", "Breathless", "The Ship Song"
So what are some of yours?