Tuesday, February 13, 2007

The 100 Greatest Love Songs

Thanks to the ever vigilant Jeff Meyerson for the link.

New York Daily News - Home - The 100 Greatest Love Songs: "Some may find them smug, or sappy, or overplayed. But the songs here have probably made more lovers misty than any music in memory. So how did we go about compiling this list of all-time hand-holding odes? Eligible songs had to have endured at least a decade in the public consciousness, if not two or three. And they had to have been popular enough to have ranked among the top 20 pop songs in whatever year they were released.

These aren't necessarily the sexiest songs. If they had been, you'd see cuts by James Brown and Prince. But they are all classic serenades to a love achieved, the kind of songs meant to make listeners swoon."

8 comments:

Graham Powell said...

Oh God there are some wretched songs on that list. I'm as big a fan of The Beatles as anyone, but "The Long and Winding Road"? "P.S. I Love You"?

And Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" is a love song?

pattinase (abbott) said...

I'm sorry but Unchained Melody need to be a lot higher on the list.
I know a lot of girls who lost their virginity to that song.

Anonymous said...

Whew! For a second there I thought they'd left out Barry White.

FizzWater said...

Intersting... half a dozen of those songs are not love songs.

Graham Powell said...

Oh - and somebody really likes RUBBER SOUL. Three of the songs on the list were from that one album.

At least they got "Happy Together". I would add "Day After Day" by Badfinger and "The Air That I Breath" by the Hollies.

Unknown said...

Those might be too good for the list, Graham.

Cap'n Bob said...

Agreed, some aren't remotely love songs. I'd put "For All We Know," by the Carpenters on there and dump the one they used. Since most of these lists seem to be produced by runny-nosed punks I suppose we should be glad they have oldies in there. But look how low "Crazy" is. Pfui!

Anonymous said...

Strangers in the Night? C'mon now. And Last Dance by Donna Summer is a classic serenade?

No Elton John, no James Taylor? At least there's no Michael Bolton...

Chris Aldrich