alex maiolo wrote:Either "Maybe I'm Amazed" by Paul McCartney or "I Wanna Destroy You" by the Soft Boys. I can't decide.

Don't choose. This combination spans something that a single song could not. Is excellent.

The Nina Simone version of "Here Comes the Sun" is my choice. It's not a direct ode or ballad, but it's tender and tentative, an epic little olive branch.

embarrassingly soppy, but I love it anyway:

William Bell - I Forgot To Be Your Lover



Right, I'm off to bench-press some tigers now.

I Love How You Love Me by Bobby Vinton

I love how your eyes close whenever you kiss me
And when I'm away from you I love how you miss me
I love the way you always treat me tenderly
But, darling, most of all I love how you love me.(love how you love me)

I love how your heart beats whenever I hold you
I love how you think of me without being told to
I love the way your touch is always heavenly
But, darling, most of all I love how you love me (love how you love me)

I love how your eyes close whenever you kiss me
And when I'm away from you I love how you miss me
I love the way your touch is always heavenly
But, darling, most of all I love how you love me (love how you love me)

I love how you hug me (love how you hug me)
I love how you squeeze me, tease me, please me
Love how you love me
I love how you love me.

I've got a bunch of memories with the Jeff Mangum version of this song. Hmm.
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In My Life by The Beatles, or

Afterglow by The Small Faces, or

Been So Long by Nina Nastasia.

Love Letters is a good one, too. And God Only Knows.

I always sniffle a little at Sir Neil's "Harvest".

A boy once serenaded me with the Vaseline's "Slushy" and it was pretty cool.

run joe run wrote:Been So Long by Nina Nastasia.

that's a good one.

"Dry Lightening" by the Boss.

I like "Dues" by Ronee Blakely too, although it's more like a failed love love song.

I am very fond of Neil Young's "Wrecking Ball" and Van Morrison's "Sweet Thing", but I may have to go with the Zombies' "Friends of Mine".

DazeyDiver wrote:i realize i just used the phrase, "it fucking destroys" in reference to a paul mccartney ballad.

7 or 8 years ago I heard this chick, (in her mid-thirties I'd guess) call a radio station and request "I Want to Make it with You".
"I Want to Make it with You?" the obviously brain damaged disk jockey repeated.
"Yeah," she said, "because BREAD KICKS ASS!"

But I choose "Angel Eyes"
Anita O'Day version.

Tree wrote:Van Morrison's "Sweet Thing"

I vote for "You're My Woman" from Tupelo Honey? Or the title track. Or how 'bout the whole fucking record?