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Apparently I'm the only one listening to love songs over the last several days, because here I am again!

I was listening to Cyndi Lauper tonight and realized that she sings "I Drove All Night," a love song I like because it expresses so well the impulsive, strong yearning to be with someone you love in a romantic way. Also, it has the sound of a cello in it, an instrument that should inspire a whole genre of love songs dedicated solely to the cello itself. Unfortunately, I found out by watching a performance other than the video below that the cello sound is just a synthesizer. I had been fooled.

Cyndi Lauper - "I Drove All Night"



Fun pictures of Cyndi Lauper and her unique, expressive style:

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fanlaure

I like "Love Warrior" by Laure Shang. It is unknown as it is by a Chinese singer. However, on youtube, it still get over ten thousands hits.

djchameleon

Funny thing about this song, I first heard it during the credits for a horror movie.

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Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.

tamiloswal

Some love song.

1.Jane tu ya Jane Na.
2.Tu hi haquiqat.
3.kaise muje tum milgai.

VEGANGELICA

I don't love the sound of this song (below), but I like its meaning very much.

I feel this love song expresses well the complicated and powerful feelings of a romance where you can't quite control or understand the emotions that pull you to someone...but you both want what you can't fully understand, and you don't want to let go of each other:

Pat Benatar - "Be Belong"




Edit: I said I don't love the sound of the song, but that isn't actually the full story. I do like some of the musical qualities of this song quite a bit.

For example, the repetition of quieter sections (the verses) building again and again to the powerful chorus could be thought of as reflecting the ebb and flow of emotions in a relationship where the love you share is like the ocean: sometimes, when the tide is high, the feelings of togetherness can be overwhelming (the chorus), but when the tide is low and the bare, lonely beach is exposed, you feel your aloneness, emptiness, and doubts.

The low tides aren't pointless or useless, however, because they let you pay closer attention to some of the beauties of the ocean and the beach (your life) over which it flows, such as the sea stars, sand dollars, and little bubbles rising up from buried crustaceans that you couldn't see during high tide.

Perhaps these low tide times of questioning and feeling separate help you have more to give when you are together. They also remind you that a relationship doesn't mean two people effortlessly become one, but rather they remain two people who maintain the relationship by striving again and again to build and honor the feeling they share. Being able to live with the ocean means being able to accept the tides.

Also, I love the guitar playing at one particular moment in the song, when the guitar is strummed four times sequentially and powerfully. Here, I'll find the moment . . . it is at 2:13, and just before. I feel this is a special moment in the song, a brief quiet section punctuated by strong sounds not repeated elsewhere in the song. This brief section could be viewed as a metaphor for the reality that the person whom you love, and your feelings for that person, are unique and precious.

^ See, these are the sorts of thoughts I have when I hear and think about music.

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Pixies

Reigning Blood by Slayer

cassidyfenty22

Now and Forever by Richard Marx

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I heard Foo Fighers' "Everlong" song for the first time on MusicBanter last year, and although I don't like the sound of the song very much, I do love these lyrics: "You've got to promise not to stop when I say when," and, "Breathe out so I can breathe you in, hold you in."

Those are lovely.

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I recently heard a cute cover of "Wishin' and Hopin'" that opens the semi-humorous comedy, "My Best Friend's Wedding," in which Julia Roberts ("Julianne") realizes she is in love with her (rather wooden and two dimensional) best friend right before his wedding.

I wouldn't recommend the movie, except for the very beginning (the song) and the very end, a delightful conversation between Julianne and her gay friend George, who describes her as "sniffing the wind like a dappled deer" and says to her,


But back to the start of the movie. It opens with this . . .

Ani Difranco - "Wishin' and Hopin'"
(Cover of the original song that was written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach and was a Top Ten hit in 1964.)
I like watching the dancing and lip syncing in this fluffy confection of pre-wedding hoping and scheming:

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VEGANGELICA

Lovesong hasn't returned so maybe I'll take her place!

Here's a cute love song I've always felt was very catchy ever since I first heard it . . . a while ago.

The Ronettes - "Be My Baby"
I really like the percussion's castanets and shakers. They make the song's background sound pleasantly fizzy, like tickly bubbles in soda pop.

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