If anyone doubts Neko Case's abilities...
... they obviously have never heard South Tacoma Way. I recommend to anyone who has come to understand the intricacies of of love and loss (or wants to) take a listen to this song. You don't really have to stop and really listen, because before long it will make you.
Some notable lines: I put on that sweater you gave me I woke up in the kitchen a few minutes later I didn't know how I had gotten there Did you guide me ... So lost I was asleep in the palms of your hand In dreams we were happy and safe I can't comprehend the ways I miss you They come to light in my mistakes ... |  |
Some sites rightly include this is as one of the top ten love songs ever, alongside Leonard Cohen's Chelsea Hotel #2.
Of course, such top-ten lists are always biased, and usually controversial. We see this on CBC's National Playlist, where kd lang's rendition of Hallelujah somehow gets the nod in front of Rufus Wainwright's.
So, here's an open call to all, for your top-ten love songs ever.
posted by camarooned at 12:11 PM
17 Comments:
Okay, so this question is TOTALLY up my alley. I don't know if I have 10 songs, but here are the ones I could think of right now. And these are in no particular order.
1. "Luna," Smashing Pumpkins
2. "Let's Get It On," Marvin Gaye
3. "Nightswimming," REM
4. "I Believe (When I Fall in Love it Will Be Forever)," Stevie Wonder
5. "Orange Sky," Alexi Murdoch
6. "In My Life," Beatles
7. "California Stars," Wilco/Billy Bragg
8. "Protection," Massive Attack
9. "Hallelujah," Jeff Buckley
Okay, I have to stop this is too much fun.
And I LOVE Neko! Do you listen to the New Pornographers?
And what's YOUR list?
10:00 PM
I like choices 6 and 7, and I am definitely into 2. I will have to revisit my own (ever-evolving) list, which is:
South Tacoma Way - Neko Case
Chelsea Hotel #2 - Leonard Cohen
Shaved Head - Rheostatics
Neighbourhood # 1 - Arcade Fire
Lonely Day - Ben Harper
Over Time - Lucinda Williams
Hallelujah - Rufus Wainwright
Beast of Burden - Rolling Stones
Untouchable Face - Ani DiFranco
Lover's Spit - Broken Social Scene
I am seriously into the New Pornographers, and caught their show the last time they were through. The sound wasn't great, so Neko's voice wasn't as clear as the shows balanced for her Boyfriends.
12:44 AM
Oh, "Untouchable Face" is a good choice! (I could do a whole other category of angry/sad love songs...)
I just thought of my #10: "God Only Knows," the Beach Boys.
I saw the NPs about 2 years ago in Boston, at this tiny place. They played for about 3 hours and it was AWESOME.
7:49 AM
Hmm... off the top of my head, let's see what I can come up with (in no particular order):
1. At My Most Beautiful - R.E.M.
2. Famous Blue Raincoat - Leonard Cohen
3. Further to Fall - Trembling Blue Stars
4. I Don't Want to Get Over You - The Magnetic Fields
5. I Have The Moon - Lush
6. Sonnets/Unrealities XI - Björk
7. Tinseltown in the Rain - The Blue Nile
8. Apart - The Cure
9. I Didn't Understand - Elliott Smith
10. Don't Let Me Go - Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter
11. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
12. The Night - Morphine
13. Seasick, Yet Still Docked - Morrissey
14. I Put A Spell On You - Nina Simone
15. Black - Pearl Jam
16. Nothing Better - The Postal Service
17. Nightswimming - R.E.M.
18. More Than This - Roxy Music
19. Driven Like The Snow - The Sisters of Mercy
20. Still Ill - The Smiths
OK, that's a top 20 not top 10. I suck at this game.
10:48 AM
It's not that you're not good at the game, it's that you have no discipline =). Today, mine are:
Both Hands - Ani DiFranco
In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
Love Me Still - Chaka Khan
I'll Find a Way - Rachel Yamagata
Overlap - Ani
I'm on Fire - Tori Amos covering Springsteen
Best of You - Foo Fighters
Next Lifetime - Erykah Badu
Miss You - Rolling Stones
Falling is Like This - Ani
Lovers in a Dangerous Time - Bruce Cockburn
I Can't Remember - The Thorns
And, of course, Nightswimming (REM) and Beast of Burden (Stones) for my encore.
See, I'm only slightly undisciplined (go ahead, you know you want to), and overly Ani-influenced. Marooned initially noted that more than 10 songs can fit on a CD, so perhaps there's some leeway?
11:51 AM
Is it just me, or are we competing for longest list, boys? Am also concerned that the definition of /love/ is getting a little skewed ...
2:23 PM
Thanks Ram,
Even though the CD length is now arbitrary in the digital domain, we need some limit.
If we are going to extend both the list length and the definition of love, I am going to add:
Not In Love - Platinum Blonde
I Want You - Elvis Costello
(on my original list)
Famous Blue Raincoat is beautiful, but I felt I only had room for one Cohen song.
I am also going to replace Beast of Burden with Miss You.
But that's it - no more room at the Inn.
Okay, okay, one more:
Reel Around the Fountain - Smiths
2:43 PM
Yeah, being single and writing about love songs rules. GOSH!
Amen brother. This helps explain some of my song choices though. Most of them, actually.
"Wish I knew the way to reach the one I love
There is no way...
Wish I had the charm to attract the one I love
But you see, I've got no charm..."
11:22 PM
I Want You - Elvis Costello
Excellent choice. I considered it for my list too...
Famous Blue Raincoat is beautiful, but I felt I only had room for one Cohen song.
Yeah, I gave myself a limit of one song per artist. I could pick several Smiths & Morrissey songs that would sum up my feelings on love quite well. :)
11:24 PM
You mean such Morrissey gems as:
You have never been in love
Until you've seen the sunlight thrown
Over smashed human bones
I have the album, but uh, it didn't pop immediately to mind for the top 10...
9:02 AM
That would be a good example, yes. Also:
I know I'm unloveable
You don't have to tell me
I don't have much in my life
But take it - it's yours
or
You shut your mouth
How can you say
I go about things the wrong way?
I am Human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does
There's a club, if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go, and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home, and you cry
And you want to die
or
Last night I dreamt
That somebody loved me
No hope, no harm
Just another false alarm
Last night I felt
Real arms around me
No hope, no harm
Just another false alarm
Good stuff...
10:22 AM
Oh, I agree, it's definitely good stuff!
But now I have "Unloveable" stuck in my head!!! Must listen to techno to get it out...
11:19 AM
And the list is ...
1. "Speedy Marie" - Frank Black
2. "You are my Sunshine" - various artists
3. "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" - The Smiths
4. "Indoor Fireworks" - Elvis Costello
5. "February Stars" - Foo Fighters
6. "St. Francis Dam Disaster" - Frank Black
7. a bunch of other ones
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.
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8:23 PM
1. Bells On - Sloan
2. I Know It's Over? -Smiths
3. Every Time We Say Goodbye - Nina Simone.
4. Cool Change - Little River Band
5. We Belong - Pat Benatar (-:
6. Pictures of You - The Cure
7. Time after Time - Cyndi Lauper
8. Cold Water - Damien Rice
9. What Have They Done to the Rain? - The Searchers (Malvina Reynolds).
10. Boxer - Mi & L'au
These are in order as they came into my head, not in order of rank.
Though I like "In Your Eyes" I mainly do so because of John Cusack in "Say Anything " holding up the stereo while rain pours down.
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