GREATEST LOVE SONGS EVER

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Posted on 29th January 2013 by Zarathustra in Economy

P0st yours, here’s mine.

45 Comments

  1. SSS says:

    Admin is having problems with his computer and sent me an email asking that I post a link to his favorite love song. Here it is.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEsjo8gt2VY

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    29th January 2013 at 10:46 am

  2. napari says:

    to many to pick from….

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGoWtY_h4xo

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    29th January 2013 at 10:51 am

  3. Eddie says:

    Absolutely impossible question.

    How about:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia-eFxfU1hs

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    29th January 2013 at 10:54 am

  4. Eddie says:

    Some love songs just take you back to a time and place. This one does that for me.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utc09QGs-3c

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    29th January 2013 at 11:05 am

  5. Bostonbob says:

    Squeeze tmy lemon until the juice runs down my leg, you have to love Zepplin.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3tvHBawoDA&feature=player_detailpage

    Bob.

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    29th January 2013 at 11:06 am

  6. Eddie says:

    SSS might remember this one.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OVtpnpCOKM

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    29th January 2013 at 11:07 am

  7. SSS says:

    Eddie

    I love Patsy Cline. She left us way too soon. Here’s one of my all-time favorites.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWCUh6tf7PA

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    29th January 2013 at 11:16 am

  8. sangell says:

    Oh come on its got to be the Carole King, Phil Spector and Crystals romantic tune

    He Hit Me ( and it felt like a kiss)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f20Oz9Yr_So&feature=player_embedded

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    29th January 2013 at 11:29 am

  9. John A says:

    The late Eva Cassidy at her best.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1031Y6yM1c

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    29th January 2013 at 11:32 am

  10. Administrator says:

    J. Geils Band – Love Stinks

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0LAs7X5ybE

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    29th January 2013 at 1:12 pm

  11. backwardsevolution says:

    John A – Eva Cassidy, what a loss for the world! Zarathrustra – Flack, the finest!

    There are so many good love songs, but for now I’m going to go with a Canadian one (with two Canadian actors in the background).

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjky7v7JIow

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    29th January 2013 at 1:33 pm

  12. Clownbucks says:

    torn between Righteous Brothers – Unchained Melody http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiiyq2xrSI0

    and

    Moody Blues – Nights in White Satin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muzyOd4Lh8

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    29th January 2013 at 2:49 pm

  13. IndenturedServant says:

    I’m not sure if it’s considered a love song but Thank You by Led Zeppelin counts in my book. The song has some pretty special meaning for myself and a lovely girl that got away.

    This version is a recent one by Page and Plant.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72Vo1voa4Fc

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    29th January 2013 at 5:06 pm

  14. Llpoh says:

    Jimmy Buffet’s “Why Don’t We Get drunk and Screw?”

    He was so sentimental. What a tear-jerker.

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    29th January 2013 at 5:30 pm

  15. John A says:

    backwardsevolution,

    “The Notebook” is a quality film. I had never heard “Feels Like Home” by Chantal Kreviazuk until a few minutes ago. Great song. Thanks for the link.

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    29th January 2013 at 5:37 pm

  16. avalon says:

    Love this thread, 2 of my favorite love songs:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXsIwM2Bymo

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQCgfxtBRlM

    another oldie but goodie…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alvEUFJtMw8

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    29th January 2013 at 5:46 pm

  17. Thinker says:

    Partial to older stuff, myself… like Sinatra’s take on Irving Berlin’s classic:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WICzHNSiG6o

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    29th January 2013 at 6:19 pm

  18. Thinker says:

    Adding two others, more recent:

    Clapton: Wonderful Tonight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUSzL2leaFM

    Billy Joel: Just the Way You Are http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPiK_yGG8ag

    Zara, thanks for this post. Roberta Flack was a good choice, too.

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    29th January 2013 at 6:25 pm

  19. napari says:

    IS I’m not sure if it’s considered a love song but Thank You by Led Zeppelin counts in my book. The song has some pretty special meaning for myself and a lovely girl that got away

    Excellent choice!

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    29th January 2013 at 6:26 pm

  20. SSS says:

    Holy shit!!!! Thinker, one of the truly bright guys on this site, just suffered from the most massive brain fart ever exhibited on the Internet. He picks Frank Fucking Sinatra, Billy Blowjob Joel, and Eric The Cunt Clapton as the delivery boys for his favorite love songs.

    Thinker hits the dumbass trifecta. Zara, tell Thinker what he’s won.

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    29th January 2013 at 6:40 pm

  21. Eddie says:

    This song once came to me in a dream, and I went crazy for days trying to remember who sang it. Funny thing, it wasn’t even a song I’d ever listened to much. Tish Hinajosa does my favorite version but I can’t find it on the net. :(

    I think it’s one of the greats. This singer (Mocedades) is the original. She is fantastic, but I don’t like the arrangement.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMomB_39o40

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    29th January 2013 at 7:07 pm

  22. backwardsevolution says:

    You’re in My Heart by Rod Stewart (good live performance).

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTFKPdWw1Gc

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    29th January 2013 at 7:15 pm

  23. Eddie says:

    Maybe not one of the very greats, but this artist sure was dead sexy in her day. And if I’m not mistaken, she is SSS’s type.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAK5Ids7l5g

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    29th January 2013 at 7:16 pm

  24. SSS says:

    Eddie

    I have several albums of Linda Rondstadt, whose family is among the well-connected, ancestral “old guard” here in Tucson. Her brother Peter was a former Tucson Chief of Police, for example. She had a good run with the Stone Ponys and as a solo artist, but her politics are so far out there that she got thown out of a Las Vegas casino for berating Christians while on the casino’s stage during a performance for which she was being paid. Talk about fucking stupid. She’s also gained a lot of weight and might make AWD’s fat fuck list.

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    29th January 2013 at 7:34 pm

  25. Eddie says:

    Avalon…you might remember this.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QAqkGHD4Q8

    Jim and Avalon deliver watermelons to the employee house party.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x43vK0k6A2I

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    29th January 2013 at 7:53 pm

  26. llpoh says:

    SSS – I had her album covers – she was hot when she was young. Now…. not so much.

    82398049.jpg?w=385&h=240

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    29th January 2013 at 8:48 pm

  27. avalon says:

    Eddie, yes, love Chances Are, he has such a beautiful voice.

    The Dirty Dancing video is great! I love that movie, must’ve seen it a million times, lol.
    “Nobody puts Baby in a corner”

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    29th January 2013 at 9:30 pm

  28. crazyivan says:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdNmgNu86xA&feature=player_detailpage

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    29th January 2013 at 10:02 pm

  29. SSS says:

    People, people, people

    I’ve waited patiently for months to insult Thinker. I finally get the chance to jump in his shit over something really, really important like his taste in music (something which is s-o-o-o-o easy to do with Admin), and what reward do I get? A bunch of thumbs down. Sheesh.

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    29th January 2013 at 10:35 pm

  30. SSS says:

    Avalon

    Did Thinker pick those songs for you?

    Actual photo of me listening to Avalon’s love songs

    smell-bad-holding-nose-copy.jpg

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    29th January 2013 at 10:43 pm

  31. Kill Bill says:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6azSHCHwPc

    I think of this when I read the posts above

    Sue me.

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    29th January 2013 at 10:50 pm

  32. Thinker says:

    ROTFLMAO, SSS… and here I would have thought you’d be a fan of Frank, if not the other two.

    As for the others, what can I say? Ladies like Clapton and Joel. At least it wasn’t Bruno Mars (sorry, Avalon!).

    Still, had to give you a thumbs up for trying to stir up shit with another Xer here (other than Admin). It’s just too bad it’s targeted to a generation whose motto is, “whatever.”

    I feel a Billy Joe / Green Day thread coming on…

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    29th January 2013 at 10:53 pm

  33. sangell says:

    Linda Ronstadt’s politics may have been extreme that didn’t prevent her from buying a gorgeous brick mansion in Pacific Heights when she was better known as Linda ‘remake’ Ronstadt doing covers of old R&B songs and demonstrating that no one could sing Roy Orbison songs better than he. I looked it up to see if I could find a picture because I used to sit in the park across the street as my mom’s house was on poorer side of the hill. I found this shot on Trulia but you have to drag the view to the left until the redbrick house on the corner comes into view. That’s the side entrance. The house actually faced the park on Jackson St. not Pierce which was the side street. For some reason the view down the street doesn’t do justice to how steep the hill going down to the bay was. You can only realize just how steep it really is by noting that the cars park perpendicular to the curb. Some of the sidewalks on this side of Pacific Heights actually were stepwalks. Linda’s house sold for $15.500,000 in 2010 but she was long gone by this time. Here
    it is if you car to see how a few minor hit records can improve your standard of living.

    http://www.trulia.com/homes/California/San_Francisco/sold/7042654-2600-Jackson-St-San-Francisco-CA-94115

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    29th January 2013 at 11:09 pm

  34. sangell says:

    BTW, while I’m going down memory lane from my salad days in San Francisco in the late 1960′s and early 70′s here was my mom’s house. I lived in the basement and down a few doors ( maybe two or three, I forget) lived Bozz Skaggs. He hadn’t done ‘Fooled Around and Lost in Love’ or whatever
    his big hit was yet but I could hear him and his band practicing but that’s not the story. His old lady had a dog and she let it shit on the sidewalk right at the bottom of the steps in front of my house. I stood there and watched her just leave it there and walk back to her house. I didn’t know who she was but I knew I wasn’t going to stand for that so I went back inside and got a spatula and a paper bag, scooped it up and marched my 17 year old ass up to Bozz Skaggs house and rang the bell. She opened the door and I calmly said ‘you dropped something in front of my house’ then dumped the contents of the bag into the entry of her house. She started yelling as I turned and walked away.
    Not long afterwards Mr. Skaggs came over to apologize.

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    29th January 2013 at 11:35 pm

  35. sangell says:

    Forgot to show the scene of the ‘crime’. Mom’s house is the one with the garbage cans in front.

    http://www.trulia.com/homes/California/San_Francisco/sold/7050161-2814-Clay-St-San-Francisco-CA-94115

    I’ve got one more tale too. My stepfather was selling a house he owned out on Lake St. A friend and I are coming out of the kitchen on the way to go get stoned and he has this hippie dude in the living room discussing the property. He introduces us and say this is Mr. Owsley. who was interested in the house so this band he was sponsoring called Blue Cheer could have a place to practice. That would have been Augustus Owsley Stanley the LSD king of the world though, for some reason I recall him being introduced as Stan Owsley. My stepdad mentions that I had lived in D.C and that is where Owsley was from so I mumble something about how much cooler San Francisco is and leave. My stepfather who was pretty hip asked me why I didn’t hang around since this guy was a major figure in the counter culture but what was I do. Ask him if he had any spare LSD I could have?

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    29th January 2013 at 11:48 pm

  36. howard in nyc says:

    boz was and is always a gentleman. his music and his band were so much better in those pre-hit days. us 20yo hipsters thought he ‘sold out’ with that silk degrees album in 1976.

    near you, boz, 1971 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz1yNU0L2-Y

    i’ll be long gone, boz, 1971 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ggajhBs38A

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    29th January 2013 at 12:26 am

  37. AKAnon says:

    For sangell-The best rendition of Summertime Blues eva’:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5uDozoSSM

    A love song it ain’t.

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    29th January 2013 at 12:27 am

  38. SAH says:

    So In Love by Cole Porter (greatest American Songwriter, besides Stephen Foster)

    Strange dear, but true dear,
    When I’m close to you, dear,
    The stars fill the sky,
    So in love with you am I.
    Even without you,
    My arms fold about you,
    You know darling why,
    So in love with you am I.
    In love with the night mysterious,
    The night when you first were there,
    In love with my joy delirious,
    When I knew that you could care,
    So taunt me, and hurt me,
    Deceive me, desert me,
    I’m yours, till I die…..
    So in love…. So in love….
    So in love with you, my love… am I….

    Nice version by Eleanor Steber from America’s heyday:
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=DYvQd0lroIk

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    29th January 2013 at 12:38 am

  39. SAH says:

    For anyone under age 40 – you know this is the best Gen X love songs. Biggie gets 2nd place for me after the Cole Porter ditty.

    http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=rueScMSnRP4&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DrueScMSnRP4

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    29th January 2013 at 12:53 am

  40. Zarathustra says:

    SSS and Thinker, as far as Sinatra goes, I prefer his darker side, expressed in his LP, ” No One Cares.” Sinatra himself said it should have included a pistol to be used to blow your brains out. For those who have experienced divorce, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2KedBDQW3k

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    29th January 2013 at 2:31 am

  41. Zarathustra says:

    One moar thing. I just knew you fucks would take a dump on this thread.

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    29th January 2013 at 5:00 am

  42. Eddie says:

    Dump?

    Well, there’s no accounting for tastes, as they say. Lots of good songs posted, imho. Even from the Gen Xer’s.

    I was feeling pretty good. This thread made me realize I know at least a hundred great love songs, maybe more. I didn’t even drop down into my country and western repertoire.

    But then, I’ve given up hope of ever finding a recording of Milton Carroll doing ” Falling in Love is Like a .45 Slug in the Head.” It appears to be lost in antiquity now. Shame.

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    29th January 2013 at 10:20 am

  43. Eddie says:

    And I didn’t post anything by the Burrito Brothers.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnHSVj7saRU

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    29th January 2013 at 10:26 am

  44. Eddie says:

    A lot of love songs share slight similarities.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I

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    29th January 2013 at 10:28 am

  45. Eddie says:

    How did I forget this one?D
    (I know John Cusack is in the video. It’s just a song. don’t be a hater.)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzl_l5gC5is

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    29th January 2013 at 5:40 pm

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