0019: "And love, love will tear us apart...again" The Best Love Songs of the Past 100 Years

Submitted by AAA on Mon, 04/26/2004 - 10:26
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  1. Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
  2. The Velvet Underground - "Pale Blue Eyes"
  3. Wilco - "Reservations"
  4. The Beach Boys - "God Only Knows"
  5. Joni Mitchell - "My Old Man"
  6. Bob Dylan - "Visions of Johanna"
  7. U2 - "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?"
  8. Oasis - "Wonderwall"
  9. The Cowboy Junkies - "Sweet Jane"
  10. The Beatles - "In My Life"
  11. Dusty Springfield - "Son of a Preacher Man"
  12. Hedwig and the Angry Inch - "Wicked Little Town"
  13. Lou Reed - "Perfect Day"
  14. Billy Bragg - "New England"
  15. The Kinks - "Lola"
  16. The Foundation - "Baby, Now That I've Found You"
  17. The Pretenders - "Lovers of Today"
  18. Roxy Music - "More Than This"
  19. The Cars - "Just What I Needed"
  20. David Bowie - "Heroes"
  21. Pavement - "Here"
  22. Dexy's Midnight Runners - "Come on Eileen"
  23. The Apples in Stereo - "Ruby"
  24. Bob Dylan - "Girl from the North Country"
  25. The Ramones - "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend"
  26. A-Ha - "Take on Me"
  27. The Rolling Stones - "Let's Spend the Night Together"
  28. Wilco - "I am Trying to Break Your Heart"
  29. The Cure - "Just Like Heaven"
  30. Damien Rice - "Cannonball"
  31. The Four Tops - "It's the Same Old Song"
  32. The Beatles - "Julia"
  33. Blondie - "Sunday Girl"
  34. The Tom Tom Club - "Genius of Love"
  35. Moby - "Porcelain"
  36. The Beach Boys - "I'm Waiting for the Day"
  37. Joni Mitchell - "Rainy Night House"
  38. The Beatles - "Something"
  39. Elliott Smith - "Everything Reminds Me of Her"
  40. The Pogues - "A Pair of Brown Eyes"
  41. Fleetwood Mac - "Landslide"
  42. The Rapture - "Open Up Your Heart"
  43. Van Morrison - "These Dreams of You"
  44. The Talking Heads - "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)"
  45. Led Zeppelin - "Fool in the Rain"
  46. Blondie - "The Tide is High"
  47. ABBA - "Fernando"
  48. Stars - "Heart"
  49. The Nervous Eaters - "Loretta"
  50. Weezer - "Jamie"
stumpy04/26/2004

Proof that "love" songs don’t always have to be soft and slow. Hard and fast can be fun too. ~;^)

AAA04/27/2004

Exactly.

AJDaGreat04/27/2004

Good, solid list. You've got some nice variety here with a lot of great songs. A few suggestions of mine would be the Smiths' "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out", the Beatles' "Here, There, and Everywhere", the White Stripes' "Fell in Love With a Girl", and some Todd Rundgren song (maybe "Marlene" or "Couldn't I Just Tell You").

dcstar04/27/2004

I second "There is a Light That Never Goes Out". It's wickedly beautiful.

AAA04/27/2004

I'm gonna be adding 50 songs to the list for an even 100. "Here, There, and Everywhere" came this close to making it last night. But I'm gonna reorder it a bit tonight, so who knows?

Becca08/22/2004

As much as I love "Pale Blue Eyes", I think "Venus in Furs" is the best love song by The Velvet Underground. Alternative love, granted, but still...

Seriously, though, I've always thought "Heroes" a touch overrated and actually prefer some of his earlier love songs, such as "The Prettiest Star".

And maybe "Love Song" by the Cure or "Gimme Danger" by The Stooges than that, great job!