Can you feel it?
Storm Dennis Love is in the air.
To celebrate Valentine’s Day I’m giving away a smoochy Golden Discs voucher worth €25.
Simply tell me below your favourite love song.
Here’s one of mine.
The winner will be chosen by Cupid.
Lines close at 2am!
Please include video links if possible and a dedication to a loved one should it suit
Nick says: Good luck!
UPDATE: Heartfelt stragglers will be mushily accepted until 6.30am Monday morning. I’m a romantic fool.
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Ah yes. A sweet little love song. You can’t beat them.
Mine is the song we had played as our first dance at my wedding 17 years ago or so.
It’s ‘I Will’ from The Beatles White Album.
A sweet lovely little melody from Paul McCartney and was meant just as that. A lovely little love song. Lyrics are perfect and not complicated as love can indeed be. Or get. So for the day that’s in it, have a listen and enjoy!
https://youtu.be/p-abNGP1BK4
Has to be ‘Wedding in Cherokee County’ by Randy Newman, a true romantic.
If I Was Your Girlfriend by Prince. Creepy, obsessive and sinister – just like Valentine’s Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsenigSkkC8
I got to choose the song for the first dance at our wedding in 2016.
I chose Earth Angel (Marvin Berry & The Starlighters version). The wife had never heard the song before.
A great band called The Converse Allstars learnt it for the occasion. She loved it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41GsS3jldOI
Did she never see Back to The Future . wasnt that the song when Lorraine Baines and George Mcfly have their first kiss.
Marvin Berry was a character from Back to the Future if I’m not mistaken (fictitious cousin of Chuck Berry)
Zero 7 & Sia – Destiny
A modern take on the love song. Sia longs for her lover while watching porn in a hotel. It’s sensual and heartfelt with just the right amount of sleaziness.
“When I’m weak, I draw strength from you
And when you’re lost I know how to change your mood
And when I’m down you breathe life over me
Even though we’re miles apart we are each other’s destiny”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INn1C6ImJKg
Tom Waits, I hope that don’t fall in love with you,
No dedication, but always tugs my little heartstings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtLVXBqfqBY
Excellent choice, thats a great song and album.
The Look Of Love – Dusty Springfield singing the ultimate love song by the incomparable Bacharach and David.
“Let’s take a lovers vow and seal it with a kiss.
I can hardly wait to hold you feel my arms around you, how long I have waited
Waited just to love you now that I have found you, don’t ever go.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbaySb6HXqs
It could easily be Juice Newton’s Angel of the morning
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=Angel+of+the+Morning+Juice#id=1&vid=5f65db337ab5b839831f1979be50b4f2&action=view
But really, when it comes to the slow set and the clingers, its all about Laura Branigan for this 80’s girl, I had the hair, the big shouldered belaro jacket, the leggings – the lot, except the voice of course,
and the man
Ti Amo live btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOYDxxwHF5Q
Although her version of Will you still love me tomorrow is still my favourite
Enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAUBisTqlxg
RIP
Jackie Wilson – Higher and Higher
https://youtu.be/8AXkfhqvO44
fistbumps eamonn
This has become my anthem
Love is Mystical by the Cold War Kids
https://youtu.be/Qbe3oSfUG00
Hear the organ, listen to the drums
“And when my heart won’t break
An empty space between my lungs
And when my knees won’t shake
I’ll drink to find inspiration
‘Cause I’m a red blooded man
But I can’t see behind the sun (I can’t see behind the sun)
A supernatural plan
Is coming to meet me now”
And its dedicated to Simon…you are a free spirit pal and I’ve learnt to accept it, brought me some wisdom too x
Neil E – you feel the same, distance
Who says we cannot love multiple people..!
Hope you’re doing well Fluffy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNBj4EV_hAo
George Michael – Jesus to a child
George’s tribute to his boyfriend Anselmo Feleppa who died two years after they met.
“Loveless and cold,
With your last breath,
You saved my soul,
You smiled at me,
Like Jesus to a child.
And what have I learned
From all these tears
I’ve waited for you all those years
And just when it began
He took you away….”
Just beautiful & heartbreaking all at once
george michael was gay?
Don’t Google Philip Schofield, BB.
Or Matthew McGreevy cos there’s a superinjunction there.
When he sang that in Dublin a few years back, I cried. I’ve never cried before or since at a gig and I didn’t cry when he died, but that song… devastating.
First dance I had with my crush was the theme from Hill Street Blues. As an avowed ABBA fan, my favourite song of theirs is The Day Before you Came.
But despite everything life has thrown at me, I remain a committed hopeful romantic. For reasons I cannot explain, ever since I heard it as a child and despite an evolving understanding of music, my favourite song is, was, and remains The Real Thing and You To Me Are Everything. I sang it to my best friend, who was a girl, in the year it came out, just before we moved home and came to the town I now live in and call home. Everytime I hear it I still think of her, even if it was puppy love.
For you, Jennifer Horgan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT1iDKkZNYU&ab_channel=SuperChannel
https://youtu.be/VkVy2FeqIyc
Ooh! Great song, but it does beg this one:
The Ting Tings, Great DJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH6wpO66J4k
Kristina Train
Saturdays are the Greatest
A woman yearns for the perfect day with her imagined lover or the one just lost.
Sublime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRFWcKcWhEI
And the finest ‘Real Love’ song as written by Bob Zimmerman…
Is Your Love In Vain
Unfortunately not available on YT, so…
Verse III
All right, I’ll take a chance, I will fall in love with you
If I’m a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too
Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow?
Do you understand my pain?
Are you willing to risk it all?
Or is your love in vain?
Kristina Train
Saturdays are the Greatest
A woman yearns for the perfect day with her imagined lover or one just lost.
Sublime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRFWcKcWhEI
And the finest ‘Real Love’ song as written by Bob Zimmerman…
Is Your Love In Vain
Unfortunately not available on YT, so…
Verse III
All right, I’ll take a chance, I will fall in love with you
If I’m a fool you can have the night, you can have the morning too
Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow?
Do you understand my pain?
Are you willing to risk it all?
Or is your love in vain?
Train in Vain, the Clash. Still get that tingly feeling after all these years…
‘Track #5 is Train in Vain’
Whoever had the LP will know what I’m talking about…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IKQHLNN7Hg
As a young fella I was a big Kris Kristofferson fan and although the love song wasn’t his most common theme, this one was hard not to like:
When I Loved Her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlwP2jFBKgw
I’d like to dedicate it to a couple of lads and lassies who shared a loyalty to K.K. and his music; back in those innocent, less-critical days. We swore we’d always be pals…and more…and would gather whenever he toured Ireland to try and relieve those earlier days.
It would have been hard to imagine then; but we’re not even acquaintances anymore.
https://youtu.be/NGorjBVag0I
Dance Me To The End of Love by the great Mr Cohen.
Dedicated to the husband, who can’t dance, but will still twirl me round the living room to this later. For all the he comes home with no flowers, chocolates or card for me, but always with a something special for our little lady.
*For all the times he comes home with no flowers, chocolates or card for me… Etc.
Damn the lack of an edit function on the app.
Damn the lack of edit function on the husband!
But sounds like he is doing right. Enjoy the evening, millie :)
sounds like you’re doing alright for yourself anyway Mill
Cheers folks. He’s not a bad aul skin.
ah millz, how could you?
Ah sorry Brother. Here’s one for you.
https://youtu.be/KNIZofPB8ZM
That was a harrowing read.
That’s a great choice milly, a fabulous singer and songwriter and much underrated poet. The first concert I ever attended was Leonard Cohen at the Stadium in 1976 and I’ve loved him ever since.
For Anne.
With Annie gone,
whose eyes to compare
With the morning sun?
Not that I did compare,
But I do compare
Now that she’s gone.
Nick Cave – Into My Arms
That is all…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnHoqHscTKE
The old classic. woman by John Lennon. a simple beautiful love song
Dylan – ‘To Fall in Love With You’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr10xoxUj1w
INXS- ‘Never Tear us Apart’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VU9DjQpvMQ
https://youtu.be/9ADcFE-si4s
For Bertie, the steadfast and utterly wonderful Juliet to my feckless Romeo. Happy Valentines, my dear x
Boom!
Never doubted ya x
:D
For crying out loud, we need some Meat Loaf!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6Cik61A6lM
Kings of Leon – Beautiful War.
https://youtu.be/3aLsgzOkJ10
Dedicated to himself , 26 years of wedded bliss.!
Easy Living by Billie Holiday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX7TA3ezjHc
When we first started going out, the car only had an aul tape-deck and we only had one tape. The Best of Billie Holiday came with us everywhere. Times have moved on, the tape-deck is long gone, the tape is lost. But this is still our song <3
Boldog Valentin-Napot szerelmem <3
Lara Fabian – Je t'aime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-roGMGyFu0
It was a couple of wonderful years, and I still love him, despite him.
Still get the tingles.
https://youtu.be/T8GUGdMw9JM
Janet, you might know this.
Elle dit parfois des grosses conneries ? or am I remembering that wrong ?
It Must Have Been Love – Roxette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2C5TjS2sh4
————
Or if you got no chocolates today:
This Is Not A Love Song – PIL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az_GCJnXAI0
Roxette – Dedicated to loved ones no longer with us.
PIL – Dedicated to Nancy Spungen.
I loved that song
George Michael mentioned earlier so I thought I’d Chuck this in the mix. Good song about unrequited love, but Jesus the version George Michael did on MTV unplugged is simply stunning
https://youtu.be/QbWJO8RMg1A
Wintersleep – listen
https://youtu.be/otxvL4t3atY
Here’s a blast from the past for the much underrated Clifford T. Ward.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uK5YOWUHF4
I Feel Love: Donna Summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0h8Pjf4vNM
Dedicated to putting anoraks in a better moog today (I’ll get me coat).
Gentlemen, love is not for the faint of heart and if you lack confidence you end up like Billy Bragg, The Saturday Boy
In the end it took me a dictionary
To find out the meaning of ‘unrequited ‘
https://youtu.be/2CBWDp71UPM
Whereas Bruce teaches us that:
It’s a long, long road
And a thin, thin line
But I want you to know
I’ll walk it for you any time :
Tougher Than The Rest
https://youtu.be/_91hNV6vuBY
Pulp – Disco 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJS3xnD7Mus
Maybe not a lovesong in the truest meaning, a lament maybe?
“We were friends, that was as far as it went”
I had (too) many Deborahs
Metallica
Ace of Spades
There is only one song and it’s If I should fall behind by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. This song is so beautiful l.
https://youtu.be/RmUG1ffgKFw
Have 3 favourites;
https://youtu.be/r3Ui8_oqc9Q
https://youtu.be/Esy9l3MJ32U
https://youtu.be/vGJTaP6anOU
https://youtu.be/KSRrjcxjko0
I’ve a fire in my heart for you
I’ve got pins and needles for you
I’ve got a butterfly stomach for you
Super Furry Animals – Fire in My Heart
“For you
For me…”
The Cinematic Orchestra – To Build a Home
https://youtu.be/QB0ordd2nOI
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=adHzF7EmmJI&feature=share
reminds me of my last lost love in Paris, all the promises you make, the hope, the big brown eyes, the it can never end well charisma…the nervous first Valentine’s dinner.
Happy Valentine’s to all the lovers out there.
The Smiths,
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
Heartbreakingly sad and romantic
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=__PblMAprcA
Close your eyes, breathe deeply, and come with me to a world where Maria Carey’s MTV-saturated, vocal gymnastic rendition of “Without You” doesn’t exist and one’s free to appreciate Harry Nilsson’s untainted, original heartfelt 70s classic, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_7oIHn5iYQ
:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5hcvAfK00s
HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUE NOTES. “Don’t Leave Me This Way”. 1975 – classic disco love song
What a tune,well done !
Another version – can’t ever decide if one tops the other
Thelma Houston – Don’t leave me this way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s0-tbR-nzs
A personal favourite : Nino Ferrer – Looking For You (1974)
Simplistic love song on one hand, but with a sophisticated funky groove. The LP cover is very much of its time!
I embrace you all
69 entries so far.
I sniggered.
Stop that!
Not until I do this…
https://youtu.be/1_urvud-Oi0
I always come late in these competitions.
Thanks.
I’ll stop now.
My mind is at ease.
I have rubbed it out.
I will forget about it until the next time.
Love is all around – Wet Wet Wet
Leonard Cohen’s Famous Blue Raincoat; an exquisitely painful song about love, friendship & betrayal where a husband learns a poignant lesson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNM2YE2OE70
What was the name of that song by Wayne County and The Electric Chairs?
Oh yeah…
Now I remember…
https://youtu.be/LJYnSMk9seE
(Valentine’s Day is different in my house. It’s worse than Christmas. )
Dreadzone – LOVE
From the album 360 degrees
What is not to love
LOVE – a mystic force that binds
To Flawless….
What a tune,well done !
Another version – can’t ever decide if one tops the other
Thelma Houston – Don’t leave me this way.
https://youtu.be/svcbu-fv-GA
For me, it’s got to be Adrian Gurvitz – Classic.
https://youtu.be/FBlLyLrQH7k
Alex Turner – Stuck on the puzzle
https://youtu.be/K0YEVNacmtw
The Ramones -‘Baby I Love You.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqZmJ7RGAP4