Best Love Songs (and "your" songs)

[Torm]

The songs I associate strongly with the first girl I ever fell in love with are "Summer Rain" by Belinda Carlisle, "Roam" by the B-52s, and "Heaven" by Warrant.

My wife and I have two songs that we consider "ours" - "Faithfully" by Journey, and "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin. They sang "Everything I Do (I Do It For You)" by Bryan Adams at our wedding, but that's because the church my mother forced us to marry in wouldn't allow either of the other two, so feh.

We also have two songs that we associate strongly with an ex-girlfriend of ours - "Silver Spring" by Fleetwood Mac, and "I Can't Make You Love Me" by Bonnie Raitt.

The first song my son ever showed any interest in was "Pop Goes The World" by Men Without Hats, and the first song he ever sang along with was "Stay" by Lisa Loeb and the Nine Stories. (My daughter showed interest in too many songs all at once to pick one that stands out.)

 

[Rel]

The first song my son ever showed any interest in was "Pop Goes The World" by Men Without Hats, and the first song he ever sang along with was "Stay" by Lisa Loeb and the Nine Stories. (My daughter showed interest in too many songs all at once to pick one that stands out.)

My daughter often insists that I sing her "The Barntender Song" (note the extra n she adds), which is The Bartender Blues by George Jones (and James Taylor). I used to sing her to sleep with this song because it isn't too demanding on the range of my voice (I have a pretty bad singing voice).

I am a bartender
and I don't like my work
But I don't mind the money at all

I see lots of sad faces
and lots of bad cases
of people with their backs against the wall

And I need four walls around me to hold my life
and keep me from goin' astray.
And I need a honky-tonk angel to hold me tight
to keep me from driftin' away...

Wildly inappropriate lullaby but she insists on it.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Right, but just the fact that it is installed at all is clutter on your system, were you to choose not to do so. Not to mention that the AOL client software is some of the poorest written and most cluttered software in wide release.

Give me a clean TCP/IP connection to the Net, and plain old IE (post XP SP2) any day.

And it isn't like it keeps me from any cool smilies, either, if I were really into that sort of thing:

That's why I remove the "coach" program. I don't know why it's there other than to have their reps to all say to get rid of it.

And it's installed with the aol software. It's not a separate piece of software.


And that last sentence goes to prove other people's comments about Torm having a rod shoved up his backside.....

Note, that's NOT my opinion!

 

[Desdichado]

The first song my son ever showed any interest in was "Pop Goes The World" by Men Without Hats, and the first song he ever sang along with was "Stay" by Lisa Loeb and the Nine Stories. (My daughter showed interest in too many songs all at once to pick one that stands out.)

Nice! When my oldest was picking his very first favorite song, it ended up being "Whip It" by DEVO, a fact that makes me kinda proud in a weird sorta way.

Of course, now he's old enough to have developed his own taste in music away from mine, for the most part, but I still associate "Whip It" with his 4-year old self.

 

[UniversalMonster]

Man, I'm jealous. I don't have a song, and I've become kinda (well, more than a little) cynical about romance in the last few years.

 

[glass]

Did anyone besides me just picture Rel and nakia necking to see which love song was the best?

Well, I don't know what the look like, so I just had to picture Christie Hayes and me...


glass.

 

[glass]

Van Morrison is, well, the bomb. No white man has more soul. "Tupelo Honey" -- classic. "Moondance" -- classic.

Ooh, I love Moondance. I thought of that when I was composing my first post, but somehow forgot to include it. I'll edit my post.


glass.

 

[JoeBlank]

My daughter often insists that I sing her "The Barntender Song" (note the extra n she adds), which is The Bartender Blues by George Jones (and James Taylor). I used to sing her to sleep with this song because it isn't too demanding on the range of my voice (I have a pretty bad singing voice).

Funny. I used to sing my boys to sleep to my slightly misremembered/altered version of Joy to the World:

Jeremiah was a bullfrog
he was a good friend of mine
I never understood a single word he said
but I helped him drink his wine.
He always had some mighty fine wine.

Joy to the world
all the boys and girls
joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
joy to you and me
joy to you and me.

Joy to the world
all the boys and girls
joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
joy to [insert kid's name] and me
joy to [insert kid's name] and me

I'll have to try that again to get them to sleep one night.

 

[diaglo]

our song is James Taylor's Shower the People

 

[nakia]

Funny. I used to sing my boys to sleep to my slightly misremembered/altered version of Joy to the World:

My dad used to sing that song to my brother and I as well.

Wait a minute. . .