posted November 19, 2002 08:53 PM              

I'm trying to think of good softrock-style love songs to learn

anyone got any good ideas?

Don't mention Richard Marx - i know all his stuff already (well..the stuff my meagre guitar&singing skills will let me play anyway!)

As Mercy knows i recently ran into someone amazing and that explains my new-found terrible taste in music! hehe.

posted November 19, 2002 09:03 PM              

(sorry if im offending anyone here, but...*takes a deep breath*)

posted November 20, 2002 04:00 PM              

I mean, do you want this to be a message of sorts? Because I can give you a LIST of good love songs.

posted November 20, 2002 04:18 PM              

Power of love by Frankie goes to Hollywood! Definitely! Gosh there are too many! Never tear us apart by INXS, Angie by the Rolling Stones or..Stereophonics. Though that one is quite corny it is still excellent.
One I really adore (at the moment) is how does it make you feel by Air. It is a realy easy one to play. If I understand the lyrics correctly it is a song about someone singing from somewhere in space.
How does it make you feel This song makes me have goosebumps because it feels he is singing it directly to me. Romantically as I am, I am flying off with my alien . Yet it is a male voice so you won't have that same feeling I guess . The end of the song though is kind of a turn off. Aargh, maybe I just didn't really listen to the lyrics well enough (as always). The chords are very sensitive and that's what's important to me in love songs or any kind of song. They need to hit you right in the core of your being.

posted November 20, 2002 07:46 PM              

I'll have a look at all of them

my nickname, complicated?

the N stands for "nemesis", a quake2 clan i used to run back in the old days..

posted November 20, 2002 09:34 PM              

Celine Dion - Falling Into You
Paul Young - Every Time You Go away
The Verve- Sonnet
The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
Richard Marx - Angelia
Richard Marx - Take This Heart
Manic St. Preachers - Tsunami
Bryan Adams - Heaven
Third Eye Blind - Good For You
Lionel Richie - Hello
Mint Royale - Dont' Falter

And thats about it...
well, my odd aquarian taste might leave you wondering what the hell most of these songs have to do with love...but just maybe listen to them again...alone, over a drink or two...and really feel them, then you may understand.

posted November 21, 2002 08:50 AM              

quote:

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"Lady in Red" by...what's his name?

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Chris De Burgh, the mono-browed purveyor of ultimate filth (to quote Bill Bailey) ;P

posted November 22, 2002 05:15 PM              

I carry the dust of a journey
That cannot be shaken away
It lives deep within me
For I breathed it every day
You and I are yesterday's answers
The earth of the past turned to flesh
Eroded by time's rivers
To the shapes we now possess

Come share of my breath and my substance
And mingle our streams and our times
In that infinite moment
Our reasons are lost in our eyes

(If u play the guitar download the TABs!)

If u feel sorry: "Regret" by Anathema

If u love awaking beside HER/HIM: "Do you dream of me?" by Tiamat

If HE/SHE is so far away: "How does this make u feel" by Air

If u are not so sure about HER/HIS fire: "when the sun hits" by the Gathering (Anneke van Giersbergen has one of the most beatiful voices!!!) and if u prefer to speak in metaphors: "Analog Park" (...u r the sign of my unbelief...)

Oh dear the greatest testimony u can give: "Rescue me" by the Gathering (join me and see them live in Paris in December!!!)

A facetous JiM says it openly: "Touch Me" by the Doors; the same more fragile: "The Crystal Ship" by the Doors

So, how does it make u feel...

posted November 22, 2002 05:31 PM              

touched
you say that i am too
so much of what you say is true
i'll never find someone quite like you again
i'll never find someone quite like you like you
the razors and the dying roses plead
i don't leave you alone
the demigods and hungry ghosts
god god knows i'm not at home
i'll never find someone quite like you again
i'll never find someone quite like you again
i looked into your eyes and saw
a world that does not exist
i looked into your eyes and saw
a world i wish i was in
i'll never find someone quite as touched as you
i'll never love someone quite the way that i loved you

And this one for all Knowflakes who became crazy little dreamers by the force of....

Mistral Wind

No wind when I took the watch
My ship was still and waitin'
I lay on that mirrored sky
A restless sailor waitin'
I closed my eyes said the
Words of will for the gentle
Breathin' that moves the seas
Make my sails fill

Whisper waves cloud the glass
Awake at last like a lover
It rushed around the talkin' sweet
Roll over, roll over, roll over
And in my ear he blew his name
It sound so strange but I heard it plain
Mistral Mistral wind

I have always held the wheel but
I let the wind steal my power
Spin me 'round lose my course
Nights run be like hours
Well, it would show me the way
To the deepest mountains
Too high and beautiful to be
Mistral, mistral wind

All the hours on the watch
I wait for that breeze to move me
And blow me back to that place
Magic space all through me
And I sigh your name
Across the empty water
You made a crazy dreamer out of me
Mistral, mistral, mistral, mistral,
Mistral, mistral

By Heart (also: "Nada One", if u are sure about HIM/HER try "Straight On").

Oh I am sorry, but I have to add this (promise the last one) by Heart:

Lighter Touch

Look at me, the answer is so clear
Lying close by the fire place
I wish that you could see yourself this way
My love, with the firelight upon your face.

Ain't it strange how love put things together?
One like you, someone like me.
But no one ever moved me like the way you do
And held against you, love I am weak, oh yeah

Before us now, the dream of love is playin'
A butterfly risin' from the flame
You and me don't need no chain
Since this feeling came to us
A touch of love, a lighter touch