Nice Love Songs for Valentines Day

[Canard]

Serious, passionate, humorous, realistic, bitter, sweet, bitter-sweet, sad, happy, whatever ... who cares?

I have avoided tagging this thread with any superlatives. The subjective "Nice" is good enough.

Post away.

I will start with a Richard Thompson guitar tune, Persuasion, converted to a love ballad by Tim Finn who added the lyrics - here performed by Richard and his son, Teddy.

It is perhaps one of the most realistic love ballads going. All things require maintenance and care to survive. "Trusting in the fire while the cruel flame burns" isn't a good long term strategy. Thompson's haunting melody adds a bit of poignancy.




You and I
Tempted by the promise of a different life
Time has fled
There's a constant battle running through my head

And I don't know what to do
'Cause I still believe

After all the foolish things that we've been through
I could always make a start on something new
And I've always been a man who's open to
Persuasion

Blind romance
There'll be no half measures given half a chance
But we never learn
Trusting in the fire while the cruel flame burns

And we need to rebuild
What was never there
What got left behind

After all the foolish things you put me through
I could always make a start on something new
And I'll always be a man who's open to
Persuasion

And it's written in my heart
So that everybody can see it
And it's written in my soul
After all I still believe it
I still believe it, don't you know
I still believe it

And I don't know what to do
'Cause I still believe

After all the foolish things that we've been through
I could always make a start on something new
And I'll always be a man who's open to
Persuasion, persuasion

Ooh I still believe it
Oh yes I still believe it
Oh don't you know don't you know don't you know
Oh persuasion
Oh persuasion
I still believe it

 

[Brucebubs]

I spent all week-end composing a love song to my girlfriend - boy is my wife pissed!

 

[davismanLV]

One of my personal favorites. Written and sung by Chaka Khan with piano by Bruce Hornsby. It doesn't get any better than this!!

 

[spoox]

Back in 2018 one of Vicki's friends commented that my love for her was so true--so I wrote this:




SO TRUE!





MY LOVE IS SO TRUE


THERE'S NEVER BEEN ANYONE LIKE YOU


LIKE WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES


AND SEE MY FINGERS CRAWLING UP YOUR THIGHS


FIRST YOU GASP, AND THEN YOU SMILE


AND LET THEM LINGER THERE FOR A WHILE


AND THEN YOU COUGH, AND THEN YOU COO:


“THERE MUST BE SOMETHING ELSE YOU COULD DO...”


MY LOVE IS SO TRUE!





BRIDGE





MY LOVE IS SO TRUE


THERE'S NEVER BEEN ANYONE BUT YOU


AND WHEN I'M DEAD AND GONE


YOUR MEMORY WILL LIVE ON AND ON


AND WHEN I'M ROASTING IN THAT LAKE OF FIRE


AND THE DEVILS ASK “WHAT IS YOUR ONE DESIRE?


AN END OF THIS TORTURE FOR YOUR EARTHLY SIN?”


I'LL SAY I JUST WANT TO SEE YOUR SMILE AGAIN...


MY LOVE IS SO TRUE!


MY LOVE IS SO TRUE!


MY LOVE IS SO TRUE!

When we recorded it, it confused the rest of the band because the first part was kind of a folk rock thing, but the second part was a more intense hard rock sound in which our drummer was going into a Keith Moon thing--I explained how the two parts represented different aspects of my feelings.
It turned out just as I heard it in my head, so that's always a bonus. I wrote it using my Starfire XII, and played rhythm with it on the recording.

 

[Default]

 

[twocorgis]

How about some breakup songs? Always thought this band was hugely underrated.



I've done this one is a couple of bands, and it's a really fun song to cover.

 

[dreadnut]

One of the first songs I ever learned on my guitar: "Meet Me At Midnight Mary," by Joey Powers.

 

[Canard]

Patty Loveless ... what can I say?

This woman can do no wrong as far as I am concerned. That voice!

Her work is over-produced mainstream Country, yes, but she lifts it up out of and beyond the genre.

Her stuff has a watershed mark - that point being when her husband became her producer - before this point the music is session-player-perfect-flat - after this point her husband manages to sprinkle a bit of pixie dust around the studio to get the musicians flying - To perfection and beyond!

A saucy little number from her with a cool bass groove:

 

[Canard]

Had some tough relationships there?

 

[Midnight Toker]

 

[Canard]

Blackie and the Rodeo Kings with Serena Ryder do Stephen Fearing's tune, Black Sheep




When the shepherd's asleep
The black sheep leaves the fold
Gone looking for love

 

[dreadnut]

"Love Song," Lesley Duncan and Elton John

 

[Guildedagain]

 

[Guildedagain]

This is good too ;]

 

[Guildedagain]

And this is actually really good.

 

[Canard]

I wonder if Igor's estate has ever thought of suing Frank's estate over the album.

 

[dreadnut]

"Your Love Keeps Liftin' Me Higher and Higher," Jackie Wilson

 

[davismanLV]

 

[LeFinPepere]

I wonder if Igor's estate has ever thought of suing Frank's estate over the album.

Rimsky-Korsakoff ' estate is suing both of them!

 

[Canard]

Colours by Russian Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko (in translation)

Music composed and conducted by Peter Schickele (AKA PDQ Bach)

Spoken word by Joan Baez





The album Baptism, a collaboration between Baez (singer and reader) and Schickele (composer/conductor), from which the above selection is taken, has a 60s late night/wee hours, University District student garret, tie-dye, bead curtains, shadow candle, incense, social monosodium glutamate vibe to it - cool, perhaps, if you have any nostalgia or if you want some vicarious experience of a time and place.