The Weekly DiScussion: the most romantic songs, ever...?
It’s St Valentine’s Day! Do you have a card yet? I don’t, and I’ve a girlfriend. What’s up with that?
Digressing: love is in the air, and what better way is there to enhance the whole lip-locking experience than with some mighty fine music? Many an artist has tried, and failed, to convey their innermost feelings for a loved one via song, so why not allow their emoting to make your meal for two (microwaved in five minutes? Good one, son) that little bit more special. If they’re happy, you’re happy, right? Mostly.
See, while contemporary musicians are forever indebted to their internal organs for inspiration – love is quite the pop song-writer’s favourite muse – their work’s not always appreciated by the public en masse. Blunt, Major James, may have sold upwards of a lot of records, but ‘You’re Beautiful’ hardly has lasting appeal; after all, you don’t want an evening’s candle-lit love-in ruined by a vocalist eerily akin to a rat being stepped on by an elephant.
Easy target? Fair enough, so with that in mind, how’s about a run-through of some of the most inverted-commas romantic songs that come immediately to DiS’s admittedly lovelorn mind? Yes? Smashing!
Shellac
‘Prayer To God’
Whaaaat? It’s simple: Steve might want his missus dead, but he wants God to kill her gently. Which is sort of sweet, considering she’s an evil cheating bitch that deserves to burn. Are there any prettier lyrics in the world about letting a loved one go, all the way to The Other Side, than these:
“Her - she can go quietly, by disease or a blow
to the base of her neck,
where her necklaces close,
where her garments come together,
where I used to lay my face...
That's where you oughta kill her,
in that particular place.”
No. There are not. The dude’s fucked, though, of course.
Chaka Demus & Pliers
‘Tease Me’
C’mon, it compares kissing a sexy lady with catching a fish! “I will never forget the first time we kissed, it’s like striking goal or catching a big fish.” Or striking gold, we can’t be sure. Either way: brilliant.
The Postal Service
‘Such Great Heights’
Is this the most emo line ever? “I am thinking it's a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned.” Give it a fucking rest, Gibbard, you massive EEEEEMOOOOO.
Smashing Pumpkins
‘Ava Adore’
“It’s you that I adore, you’ll always be my whore.” Oh, Billy: you’re a poet of utmost beauty, a bald-headed lothario of lustful loins. Or. Something.
Bloc Party
‘Two More Years’
Taking pet names to a whole new level: “You've cried enough this lifetime, my beloved polar bear”. Unless, of course, Kele does have some sort of sexual fixation with Ursus maritimus, as dead Roman people have been known to call the aforementioned arctic beast.
Akon (featuring Eminem)
‘Smack That’
You’ve got to admire a man who doesn’t mess the fuck around with flowers:
“I feel you creepin', I can see you from my shadow.
Wanna jump up in my Lamborghini Gallardo.
Maybe go to my place and just kick it, like Taebo.
And possibly bend you over.”
That man: one-track mind.
The Outhere Brothers
‘Boom Boom Boom’
Another slice of brilliance from the straight-to-the-point school of romance, albeit with added WTF factor:
“Bend you over, grab your shoulder,
Slip my Peter inside your folder.”
Your Peter? Brothers, please: we’re all for naming our penises, but ‘Peter’?
Sugababes
‘Easy’
Taller in more ways you may be, girls, but these lines make us think you’re a lot looser than you used to be when Mutya was around:
“Got such a pretty kitty, boy I know you want to pet it.
The weather's nice and wet just south of the border,
I can cook up anything that you have to order.”
They’re not lying, though: Heidi fries a mean ham and cheese omelette.
Jamie Foxx
‘Storm (forecass)’
There’s something about the man’s name that just spells S-E-X, and lines like these sure as hell aren’t to be taken literally:
“It’s cloudy skies, right there between your thighs,
I'm lookin' for scattered showers, for about an hour.
Rain on me tonight… Now let me love you.”
Well, if you insist. Just don’t go sticking that Oscar where we can’t see it…
DiScuss: What are your favourite songs of a romantic nature? Any of the above tickle your tender bits like a feather on an exposed bit of wee-willy-winkie? Isn’t Valentine’s Day a load of rubbish… I mean, really, where is my card?
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by the Smiths. I can't get any better than that.
If you disagree, you have no soul.
hehe, ace article
but really, it's Into My Arms by Nick Cave.
"I don't believe in an interventionalist God/but I know darling that you do/And if I did, I would kneel down and ask him/not to intervene when it came to you"
anything by
Berch Bacharach.
dEUS
The Real Sugar.
I love that song.
Don't forget
(I'll love you) Till the end of the world by Nick Cave.
First and probably only love song to feature a bomb blast and a blind man crying for his dead dog.
In the vein of a Prayer To God
The lyrics to "I Know Where The Canaries And Crows Go" by The Blood Brothers is quite romantic.
"Why can't we let our mouths devour each other? Why can't we turn those miles into inches, letters into breath, years into seconds?"
Hey, he just wants to make the most of their time together to turn it into something unique and beautiful.
Stacy's Mom -
Fountains of Wayne. The cornerstone of love's deep and tender presence in all of us.
It's gotta be.....
...Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell for me every time. Time to sob at the strings again.
Into My Arms
First song at my wedding.
Probably.
This, I have said before.
Lovedrive
by Scorpions:
"A girl to drive a car to love
The music rocks me down the motorway
My whore's got wings we're taking off
And I can't stop this flight of speed today
It's a lovedrive on wheels of fire
A lovedrive just one desire love
You drive me crazy babe"
In Germany, these are the nicest things you can say to the woman you love.
for me . . . .
Maps by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
though not particularly happy
when I was younger
I thought suzanne by weezer was th most romantic song ever (although in a very nerdy boy way)now I think exaltation on a coll kitchen floor by bright eyes is the sweetest song in the world
Seconded.
God I love that song.
Owen - One of these days
more so for personal reasons. but anything with Mike Kinsella involved always makes for good makeout music
I'm suprised
no-one has mentioned the amazing romantic overtones of Closer by Nine Inch Nails.
fairytale of new york
the bit about "i built my dreams around you" or something is just immensely beautiful.
or ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space:
I cant help falling
Falling in love with you
I will love you till I die
And I will love you all the time
So please put your sweet hand in mine
And float in space and drift in time
All my time until I die,
Well float in space just you and i
And I will love you till I die
And I will love you all the time
So please put your sweet hand in mine
Well float in space just you and i
it might be about drugs, but who cares? it's the most touchingly simple and elegant and beautiful song i've ever heard.
At My Most Beautiful
by REM surely deserves a mention, if only for the line, "I count your eyelashes, secretly."
But yeah, agree with the Nick Cave fans - 'Into My Arms' is unbelievable.
more romantic than that
"Don't you try to call the cops little girl, before you pick up the phone you'll be dead"
"By the way you smell I can tell that you're fifteen"
I feel a little bit dirty......
But so is
Pretty much everything on that album.
Oh my god, I'm putting it on now.
sex with animals
by Fuck Face
the only moment
we were alone - EITS
and in terms of proper songs 'babe' by sonny and cher
I will follow you into the dark..
by DCFC is up there.
Van Morrison - Sweet Thing.
I don't think any other song I've ever heard has expressed the feeling so well. I get goosebumps listening to it.
'And I shall drive my chariot
Down your streets and cry
'Hey, it's me, I'm dynamite
And I don't know why'
And you shall take me strongly
In your arms again
And I will not remember
That I even felt the pain.
We shall walk and talk
In gardens all misty and wet with rain
And I will never, never, never
Grow so old again.'
It puts most love songs completely to shame. It sounds so sincere.
Comforting Sounds
by Mew. I love the way it bulids up, it's just a beautiful song. Lyrically it isn't too romantic, but the melody is baby making music!
it should be!
I admire you.
Valentines Top 5
1. Such a small love - Scott Walker
2. Songbird - Eva Cassidy
3. Love Song - The Cure
4. Valentine - Get up kids
5. You will?... - Bright Eyes
yes
but that especially!
i will love you til i die!
you can't get more romantic than that!!!
I'd say
Smiths - There is a light that never goes out
Joy Division - Love will tear us apart
Jeff Buckley - Lover, you should have come over
Ok, perhaps they're not the most romantic, ever...?
Fairytale of new york
thats proper romance
Yup.
First song on a valentines CD for my gf this year.
Heroes.
The original version, not any of the gash covers.
I reckon it's Here, There and Everywhere
To lead a better life I need my love to be here...
Here, making each day of the year
Changing my life with a wave of her hand
Nobody can deny that there's something there
There, running my hands through her hair
Both of us thinking how good it can be
Someone is speaking but she doesn't know he's there
I want her everywhere and if she's beside me
I know I need never care
But to love her is to need her everywhere
Knowing that love is to share
Each one believing that love never dies
Watching her eyes and hoping I'm always there
I want her everywhere and if she's beside me
I know I need never care
But to love her is to need her everywhere
Knowing that love is to share
Each one believing that love never dies
Watching her eyes and hoping I'm always there
To be there and everywhere
Here, there and everywhere
el-p is mr. romance...
What the deal Nasa? Touching yourself
Uh, 1-2, what
Def Jukies, stabbing bitches in the nookie like, what
Don't make me bite ya face (come on)
'Cuz it ain't like I like the taste
It's more of a psychological thing
My heart pace'll never change
But your cabbage'll get rearranged
Don't make me bite ya face (your face)
'Cuz it ain't like I like the taste (the taste)
It's more of a psychological thing
My heart pace'll never change
But your cabbage'll get rearranged
And I don't even pack no gat
I'd rather run up on you and your crew with a Great Adventure bat
(oh my God)
And when the deed's done it goes up the sleeve
And when the one time comes I'll be in the breeze
You may be different, but you a poetic front
The difference between us is that we say what we want (suckers)
Especially after we light the blunt
Some of us like to pull cards, I pull stunts
I broke up with my ex on some bachelor shit (why?)
Now I'm killin two birds with the same dick
And isn't it ironic? Don't ya think?
The same cat that left the mic smokin, left the man of steel's
back broken
Chillin with Lois Lane, and she's open
Cause I could suck a cookie out a pussy when it's soaking
[El-P]
Chick bit my head off, but the ass was magic
Should've seen the tattoo on her back of a praying mantis
Clutched my chest like Fred Sanford
And splashed her crack on some man shit
Now baby girl's amped, trying to walk on both hands backwards
Moaning fantastic damage with her grill sunk in the mattress
(that's my language)
Rode at insane angles, all tangled up and damaged
Star spangled mangler fuckbot add a money shot
Hit her in the shitter i'm in it with, K-Y liquid and
Double kitchen gloves, love's lovin it
Comfortable naked and takes it like a patriot
I'm wearin a dookie rope and some oven mitts!
Suck clits like Vast Aire Vs. mother reminder
And that's my b-boy alpha numeric vagina diner amalgam
Chick screamed so loud I could hear it on my last album!
(on info kill)
And smell her in the shower
While we fucked to Chill Rob G's version of 'I've got the Power'
It's getting kinda hectic
The house pets seem alert and confused,
And the neighbors leaving messages
Get on your stomach and I'll plug you in all your entrances
And one exit
Whispering quotes from The Tempest
Dr. Hell No, (oh yes I did)
With a surgical scrub on a baby arm inserted from fist to elbow
I drank her bath water in a shot glass
Then ran my tongue up the crack of her ass
Til our future children hatched
The mushrooms had me seeing some sort of deep organic math
On some primal altered state sex, I felt connected to the past
Collapse, nasty, wet, wept into her neck
Suckling on her swollen nipples
Then I drifted into R.E.M.
Where I dreamt of little bouncing cherubs
With clit rings and sexy woodnips
And crotchless liederhosen begging to get bent
[Vast Aire]
Don't make me bite ya face
'Cuz it ain't like I like the taste
It's more of a psychological thing
My heart pace'll never change
But your cabbage'll get rearranged
Don't make me bite ya face (your face)
'Cuz it ain't like I like the taste (the taste)
It's more of a psychological thing
My heart pace'll never change (suckerrrrrrs)
But your cabbage'll get rearranged
I usually, bust raps for fun
And if six was nine, I'd probably bust a machine gun (he's got a gun!)
Niggas hate me
Cause I scribbled the Cold Vein, ice grilled Medusa and I'm stone free
Well actually I was purple hazed, chew on the lasers
Froze in a Hendrix maze
Look at these sloppy cats
With they copied raps
Our shit is too hard to study
Ox is brilliant, our ying is colorful, but our yang is muddy
And if you ever thought you had one up on me, that had to be a projection
from R2D2
Cause I am not see through
I'm more like, you cross the line and I'll see you
In intensive...
You think I care if your titties are sensitive?
Niggas beware!
Don't make me bite ya face (face)
'Cuz it ain't like I like the taste (the taste)
It's more of a psychological thing
My heart pace'll never change
But your cabbage'll get rearranged
Rearranged, ranged, ranged ranged
Rearranged, ranged ranged ranged
Motherfuckers look strange
Yeah.. Cannibal O, will, handle you slow
What, Def Jux
[El-P]
Once again
File that in your "This must be underground!" Category
Hey, why don't you write a review, of my ass?
*to her future children hatch
obviously...
Denver Max.
What a charmer.
What about:
The Get Away - Pretty Girls Make Graves:
'Just as long as its us, that's all that matters. You're all that matters'
They Don't Know - Kirsty MacColl:
'I don't mind if they don't understand, when i look at you and you hold my hand, 'cos they don't know about us, they've never heard of love'
Tulips - Bloc Party:
'This could be an opportunity, if you promise to let it grow, 'cos you're the one i love'
This is Love - PJ Harvey
'I can't believe life's so complex, when i just want to sit here and watch you undress'
Also, 'poison cup' by M. Ward, 'reel around the fountain' by the smiths (though probably notas much as there is light)
Robbie Fulks!!!
Robbie Fulks's "I just want to meet the man" is my favourite love song EVER! Actually, I also think it's produced by Steve Albini. These are the amazing lyrics:
--------------------------------
Well, good morning, little angel
I've been waiting all night long
It's no secret what's kept me here
In your driveway until dawn
I didn't come to cause you trouble
Or avenge my wounded pride
I just came to meet your new friend
So won't you have him step outside?
I just want to see his face
So that I can see who's in my place
I just want to know the stranger who
Has put his poison inside of you
I just want to look into the eyes
My own baby's learned to recognize
The one that tore down everything I'd planned
I just want to meet the man.
Don't tell me it's just the two of you
I see his shadow on the blind
He can't hide in there forever
And darling, I've got so much time
No, that's nothing in my pocket
Just a toy I brought for Jane
I couldn't stand to see her hurting
Now Daddy's here to kill the pain.
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You must check it out!
Robbie Fulks - I just want to meet the man
looks like you can find it there....
and they say romance is dead..
do actually love that song though. and the album. and el-p in general.
however, this probably wouldn't make an appearance on any valentine's mixtape i ever made
the information you have all supplied in erroneous
It is in fact "Broad Majestic Shannon" by The Pogues.
I'd shout that out while standing on Scott Walker's coffee table.
Lover you should've come over...
Obviously. By Jeff Buckley.
"My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
It's never over,
all my riches for her smiles when I slept so soft against her...
It's never over,
All my blood for the sweetness of her laughter...
It's never over,
She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever..."
Or Morning Theft.
Who's ya daddy?
Yo its necro the sexorcist, the porn king, show me your breasteses, im the best there is the foul shit, bounce with me, degrading, depraving, debouchery, your naked on the couch with me. Bitch getting fucked in your ass thru your fishnets. cutting queefs, your bound to eat shit next. A tit fest, I’m fucking dumb blondes til my dick is numb hoe lick the scum sticking a gun in your cunt for fun. Fakin making believe Im raping you choking you makes you cum. Its edge play, be careful, fuck around and murder you by mistake and leave you dead in the bed slayed. Not my intentions. You’ll lick prick til your lips rip the hips split in your cryptic. Explicit, sadistic, innuendos sluts in the windows bimbos dipped in timbos. Short black leather skirts, stomach tattoo, glitter panties sexy belt had to have you. Ridiculous pussy lips I predicted you be addicted to my dick once you lick it. Bent you over backwards upside down reverse is more perverse fucked on the floor first. To a raw verse rippin your clothes off blow my nose off on your hair then I doze off.
(Chorus x2)
What's Your name (Whats Your Name)(The Sexorcist)
Who's Ya Daddy? (Who's Ya Daddy?)(Necro)
Be real, is He Rich Like me?
Has he Taken, Anytime (Anytime),To Show, To Show You what You Need
The raunchiest, flaunt your tits. Im the horniest fornicating, torturing clits a porn genius. With a long penis diggin' up your organs jiggin you, stabbing you, friggin you, Im to big for you. You got a tight sphincter, you need one in the pink and one in the stink, till liquid magentas Drippin’ outta your ass ill cum in your drink. piss in your face spit in your mouth fuck what you think. Shit on your blouse, then kick you outta my house naked and slut take it that’s what initiations about. An official occasion to go all out, fuck a bitch in the ass ‘til her colon falls out. Rubbin’ oil all over you fat round ass, smack it, abuse it, lick it,then pound it fast. Stick it continuously when I get in you I strenuously pin you to the floor and generously fuck your G spot rapidly, happily, dapily to the boombapity beat. the sexorcist, the next to blitz and blow up some bitch go get your hair fixed prepare your lips. for fellatio you spacey hoe, the ratio of your brain to if usable is way too low your made to blow you’re a delicious nutritious dish of fish an official bitch.
(Chorus)
patrick swayze
SHE'S LIKE THE WIND
I agree with Jook
There Is A Light... is the most beautiful, romantic song ever written.
Foreigner
with 'I wanna know what love is'
and anything
Van Morrison
sweet thing
is one of my favourite songs ever, but i haven't heard it in years
van morrison = amazing
seconded
or Nothing Matters When We're Dancing by the Magnetic Fields.
I tried to play 69 Love Songs at work today, but no one else was having it.
My two penneth...
I'd say:
Morrissey - I'd Love To
The Decemberists - Red Right Ankle
Pulp - Something Changed
Bright Eyes - First Day Of My Life
And...
... as others have quite rightly mentioned, There Is A Light... by The Smiths
Bruce Springsteen!
I'm On Fire - putting this on the jukebox for a girl you like is the most romantic thing ever.
dress
looks nice on you -sufjan stevens, yes sir its a beauty
welcome home - coheed and cambria sci fi love mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :)
lover lover lover
leonard cohen
yes
i love you in the mo-orning, your kisses deep and wa-a-arm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden sto-o-orm, yes many loved befo-ore us, i know we are not ne-e-ew... etc.
The truth is
you could slit my throat, and with my last gasping breath, I'd apologise for bleeding on your shirt.
Haha.
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