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Best "love" song of all time? (Original Post) True Dough Oct 2019 OP
Pride-In the Name of Love U2 iwillalwayswonderwhy Oct 2019 #1
Heavens.. No one has Righteous Bros, "Unchained Melody" yet? hlthe2b Oct 2019 #2
OH YES!!! elleng Oct 2019 #3
Yes Yes. Back in the day when they [radio stations, industry rags, ete.], 'rated' the best, empedocles Oct 2019 #5
Many a child has been born & many a fine night occured because of that song irisblue Oct 2019 #36
Too overdramatic Cartoonist Oct 2019 #6
Well then irisblue Oct 2019 #38
I loved this song from the first time I heard it. Lunabell Oct 2019 #4
This one: The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2019 #7
Another OH YES!!! elleng Oct 2019 #11
And I'll add another! Alliepoo Oct 2019 #57
"Darlin' Be Home Soon" by the Lovin' Spoonful rurallib Oct 2019 #8
I can't take that ranking very seriously if "whole lotta love" is #2.... unblock Oct 2019 #9
"Shake me for girl. I wanna be your backdoor man" LeftInTX Oct 2019 #17
Love in the Title... Mike Nelson Oct 2019 #10
A classic rock buddy and I were just saying Aerosmith is probably underrated in that brewens Oct 2019 #12
Simon and Garfunkel MuseRider Oct 2019 #13
Paul McCartney's fave was Beachboy's "God Only Knows." emmaverybo Oct 2019 #14
That one's on my list for sure... hlthe2b Oct 2019 #24
This one, too, though it seems to be about lust as well as love: The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2019 #15
Beautiful song, Corgigal Oct 2019 #16
Beautiful LeftInTX Oct 2019 #22
Freddie and the crowd singing to each other... nocoincidences Oct 2019 #42
Brings me to tears.... Ohiogal Oct 2019 #66
The word "Love" isn't in the title, but this one claims my heart Leith Oct 2019 #18
he was so amazing Skittles Oct 2019 #20
Yup a great one by a great singer. hlthe2b Oct 2019 #40
All of My Love (Led Zeppelin) if it has to have "love" in the title Skittles Oct 2019 #19
less old, but still old Piasladic Oct 2019 #21
Not love in the title, but bought tears to my eyes LeftInTX Oct 2019 #23
Jolene IcyPeas Oct 2019 #25
Amazed mainstreetonce Oct 2019 #26
For You mainstreetonce Oct 2019 #27
A Little Bit More mainstreetonce Oct 2019 #48
LOL! You LIGHT Up my life. Close to you. Wicked game.. JustFiveMoreMinutes Oct 2019 #28
To Make You Feel My Love.....Garth Brooks version AJT Oct 2019 #29
Leave it to the Ramones to craft something so earnest and sweet. John Fante Oct 2019 #30
I'd written something about that side of the band the other day... Miles Archer Oct 2019 #32
Give Me Love -George Harrison Cobalt Violet Oct 2019 #31
One More: Power of Love JustFiveMoreMinutes Oct 2019 #33
The very best love songs *of all time,* not just the last few decades, The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2019 #34
"You Don't Know Me" .... Van Morrison CatMor Oct 2019 #35
Muse - Endlessly IcyPeas Oct 2019 #37
Love and Happiness nocoincidences Oct 2019 #39
Book of Love- Peter Gabriel version irisblue Oct 2019 #41
I Will Always Love You--Whitney Houston pandr32 Oct 2019 #43
Killing Me Softly with His Song - Roberta Flack Marie Marie Oct 2019 #44
Love in the title.."Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have Fallen In Love With)" Tikki Oct 2019 #45
Maybe I'm amazed Sedona Oct 2019 #46
One of the hottest rock star Corgigal Oct 2019 #63
For some reason, when I hear the song "Into the Mystic" it reminds me of my wife. NNadir Oct 2019 #47
My favorite song with a variation of "love" is an old one by Irving Berlin... WePurrsevere Oct 2019 #49
My favorite Top Four Niagara Oct 2019 #50
I grew up listening to Skid Row and Tesla True Dough Oct 2019 #56
We must be around the same age Niagara Oct 2019 #60
I've Been Loving You Too Long - Otis Redding MaryMagdaline Oct 2019 #51
My Baby Does The Hanky Panky Beakybird Oct 2019 #52
"My Girl" Haggis for Breakfast Oct 2019 #53
Sweet Thing happybird Oct 2019 #54
Beatles "In my life" which has "love" in the lyrics milestogo Oct 2019 #55
I'll Still Be Lovin' You by Restless Heart Alliepoo Oct 2019 #58
LP - Lost On You [Live Session] OneBlueDotBama Oct 2019 #59
Love is Blue Doc_Technical Oct 2019 #61
Love is a rose Doc_Technical Oct 2019 #62
And for us who like a little bounce Corgigal Oct 2019 #64
man. what is wrong w you people? no stevie? mopinko Oct 2019 #65

hlthe2b

(102,292 posts)
2. Heavens.. No one has Righteous Bros, "Unchained Melody" yet?
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 04:23 PM
Oct 2019


or the "GHOST: movie scene if you preferL


Unchained melody
The Righteous Brothers
Oh, my love, my darling
I've hungered for your touch
A long, lonely time
Time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?
I need your love
I need your love
God speed your love to me
Lonely rivers flow
To the sea, to the sea
To the open arms of the sea
Lonely rivers sigh
"Wait for me, wait for me"
I'll be coming home, wait for me
Oh, my love, my darling
I've hungered, for your touch
A long, lonely time
Time goes by so slowly
And time can do so much
Are you still mine?
I need your love
I need your love
God speed your love to me

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
5. Yes Yes. Back in the day when they [radio stations, industry rags, ete.], 'rated' the best,
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 04:33 PM
Oct 2019

blue-eyed soul topped the charts.

[full disclosure, it gets my vote].

Alliepoo

(2,221 posts)
57. And I'll add another!
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 09:50 PM
Oct 2019

Oh yes!!!!!!! Might not have love in the title, but what a beautiful song!! Roberta Flacks cover is my favorite!

rurallib

(62,423 posts)
8. "Darlin' Be Home Soon" by the Lovin' Spoonful
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 04:35 PM
Oct 2019

Has always been to me what love really is - wanting to be with that person who is your best friend.


Mike Nelson

(9,959 posts)
10. Love in the Title...
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 04:43 PM
Oct 2019
Love Is All Around - Troggs
I Love How You Love Me - Paris Sisters
Silly Love Songs - Paul McCartney
Somebody to Love - Jefferson Airplane
Sunshine of Your Love - Cream
Love Will Keep Us Together - Captain & Tennille
Love Is the Drug - Roxy Music
What the World Needs Now Is Love...
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brewens

(13,596 posts)
12. A classic rock buddy and I were just saying Aerosmith is probably underrated in that
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 04:55 PM
Oct 2019

category. They have had quite a bit of success with those songs, so maybe not so much underrated, but I don't usually think of those guys.

MuseRider

(34,111 posts)
13. Simon and Garfunkel
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 05:02 PM
Oct 2019

FOR EMILY, WHENEVER I MAY FIND HER (LIVE) https://www.simonandgarfunkel.com/music/essential-simon-garfunkel/
Album:
The Essential Simon & Garfunkel

Track Number:
16

Lyrics:
What a dream I had
Pressed in organdy
Clothed in crinoline of smoky burgundy
Softer than the rain
I wandered empty streets
Down past the shop displays
I heard cathedral bells
Tripping down the alley ways
As I walked on

And when you ran to me
Your cheeks flushed with the night
We walked on frosted fields
Of juniper and lamplight
I held your hand

And when I awoke and felt you warm and near
I kissed your honey hair with my grateful tears
Oh, I love you, girl
Oh, I love you

Skittles

(153,169 posts)
19. All of My Love (Led Zeppelin) if it has to have "love" in the title
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 05:49 PM
Oct 2019

if not, You Were Always On My Mind - Willie Nelson

JustFiveMoreMinutes

(2,133 posts)
28. LOL! You LIGHT Up my life. Close to you. Wicked game..
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 06:23 PM
Oct 2019

Lady in Red

Love will keep us together.

LOVE.. L is for the way you look at me...

Cherish...

Sealed with a Kiss....

and unrequieted love. If I Could Reach You

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
32. I'd written something about that side of the band the other day...
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 06:29 PM
Oct 2019

...how The Searchers' 1964 hit "Needles And Pins," which they covered, was so central to their overall mojo...as well as other pop classics.



The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,735 posts)
34. The very best love songs *of all time,* not just the last few decades,
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 06:34 PM
Oct 2019

were written during the Italian Renaissance. That stuff was HOT, full of passion and lust and dying for love, totally emo, and a million times more erotic than any modern rock or pop music. You can break out in a sweat just reading the lyrics. One composer of the time, Carlo Gesualdo (whose music was startling in a lot of ways because he was both brilliant and as mad as a box of frogs), murdered his wife and her lover upon catching them in flagrante delicto. Elvis was pretty tame...

Tikki

(14,557 posts)
45. Love in the title.."Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have Fallen In Love With)"
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 07:36 PM
Oct 2019


Hopefully this hasn't happened to many too often.


Tikki

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
63. One of the hottest rock star
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 10:19 PM
Oct 2019

images ever.

Said this lady who saw him once. Love that photo, they sell it on teeshirts at his concerts.

NNadir

(33,525 posts)
47. For some reason, when I hear the song "Into the Mystic" it reminds me of my wife.
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 08:24 PM
Oct 2019

She had this dress that she wore when we were young which she called "my gypsy dress" and she was extraordinarily beautiful whenever she wore it, even before we were lovers. Of course, it was a primitive way of seeing beauty, but she has had decades to teach me the better side of beauty.

Still the lines in the song, "I want to rock your gypsy soul, just like back in the days of old," make me think of those times, the anticipation and the realization, whenever I hear it and its a very happy memory.

Thus it's my favorite love song.

WePurrsevere

(24,259 posts)
49. My favorite song with a variation of "love" is an old one by Irving Berlin...
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 08:40 PM
Oct 2019

called (I'll be loving you) Always.

I first heard it as a child in the 60s when watching an old black and white movie on TV called, Blithe Spirit and it's hauntingly lovely melody been a big favorite since.

There have been a lot of singers that have done it but of the ones I could quickly find that I thought were especially wonderful are...

This is a gorgeous newer rendition...



And...
Patsy Cline did a powerful rendition the year I was born...

Niagara

(7,627 posts)
50. My favorite Top Four
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 09:19 PM
Oct 2019

Linkin Park's Chester Bennington covered Adele's song, Rolling In the Deep.





Skid Row- I remember You. If you don't mind Sebastian talking and cussing for about 2 minutes, he has always shown his talent and still continues to perform. Yes, his brother Zac Bierk is a former NHL player.





Tesla- Love Song. I still enjoy this ballad to this day.



And my final, most admired ballad is Elvis Presley's Always On My Mind


True Dough

(17,306 posts)
56. I grew up listening to Skid Row and Tesla
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 09:49 PM
Oct 2019

in junior high/high school. Was a bigger fan of Bon Jovi and Def Leppard, but I liked those two bands as well.

Niagara

(7,627 posts)
60. We must be around the same age
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 10:08 PM
Oct 2019

I still have and listen to my Bon Jovi and Def Leppard CD's as well.

happybird

(4,608 posts)
54. Sweet Thing
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 09:39 PM
Oct 2019


Hard to pick a “best” (probably Unchained Melody), but this one always makes me feel good and hopeful and dreamy, and it hasn’t been mentioned yet.

milestogo

(16,829 posts)
55. Beatles "In my life" which has "love" in the lyrics
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 09:45 PM
Oct 2019

There are places I'll remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some forever, not for better
Some have gone, and some remain

All these places had their moments
With lovers and friends, I still can recall
Some are dead, and some are living
In my life, I've loved them all

But of all these friends and lovers
There is no one compares with you
And these memories lose their meaning
When I think of love as something new

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life, I'll love you more

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I'll love you more
In my life I'll love you more

Alliepoo

(2,221 posts)
58. I'll Still Be Lovin' You by Restless Heart
Sun Oct 13, 2019, 09:52 PM
Oct 2019

Although I’m not much of a country fan, this is a beautiful, romantic song!!

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