10 Great (est?) Love Songs

This post is inspired by one of the thread in Kaskus. I then start to think that it would be nice if I do the similar thing in my blog...and, as my blog title suggested...it would be very relevant. It's not an easy task for me to list down my favorite tracks because I simply could not make them ranked. Each of them rules my heart and mind in very different ways...and I may make some kind of this post several times in the future. So, as the beginning of World Cup 2010, ups...as the beginning of my top-listed-songs posts...let me let you know about 10 songs that I consider as the best love songs. Here we go.

10. Rainy Day - The CorrsYes, you're right. I have The Corrs at 10th position. I'm currently really enjoying their songs and having theirs on my everyday playlist, although they had been my favorite since I was in Junior High School. This song represent me so well these days, I just feel so. It makes this song so much "terngiang-ngiang" in my head recently, alongside many other of The Corrs'. Moreover, I really feel that my voice recites Andrea's very well in this song,hahaha. Here's the "terngiang-ngiang" line:

Seated, with a man she knows she shouldn't be with
but in his eyes, the lies surprised, something she's been needing
a certain touch within her voice can tell you what she's feeling
I want you, need you, yeah, I want you, I need you
and I'll be lying here waiting, hoping the love will come my way
but if the sun's still shining I'll save it for another day (save it for the rainy day)

9. Here with me - Dido

Love this song for giving one of the best reason to stay :)

Oh, I am what I amI do what I want, but I can't hide
I won't go, I won't sleep, I can't breathe, until you're resting here with me

8. Ring - Lobo

I'm not a country music fan, but Lobo is indeed my favorite artist. And...among all of his melancholic country songs, this one that I love the most. It tells you the story of how the two hearts meeting from the very beginning. It starts with the telephone ring, then move into the door bell ring, and then ends with the wedding bell ring. That's how this song got its name, I guess, which is kind of genius yet remain sweet.

7. Layla - Eric Clapton (Unplugged)


One of the finest song in one of the finest unplugged album ever. That's all.

6. At My Most Beautiful - REM

Every time I hear this song, I just start to daydream,hehe...the melody, the heartfelt lyric...one of the sweetest...but the heartbreaking thing about it was that it's still doubtful whether this song is dedicated to a woman or a man (hyaaa)...but surely Michael has written one of the most romantic love song ever.

I found the way to make you, I found the way....a way to make you smile
At my most beautiful, I count your eyelashes, secretly with everyone whisper I love you

5. You and I - Queen

Yeeyy...it's top 5, and it begins with one of my top favorite artists of all time, Queen. However, among all of their greatest love hits like "Love of My Life" or "Somebody to Love", I picked "You and I" as one of my top-listed-love song from their second album, "A Day at the Races". That's my fav album of Queen. About this band, I used to be some kinda non-mainstream fan because my favorite track of Queen includes this one as well as "You Take My Breath Away", "Lazying on the Sunday Afternoon", "The Millionaire Waltz", and their other classics which you may not familiar with, not like "We are the Champion" or maybe "We Will Rock You" that resound all over the world for the taste of time.

Why I picked up this song is because I secretly really hope that this will be my soundtrack someday, just exactly as it said on this song, of course with my significant others. I'm serious :D. Here's the "magical" line:

We'll go walking in....in the mooooonnnnlight
walking in the mooooonnnnlight :D

4. Baby What a Big Surprise - Chicago

If my top five was nothing but a wishful thinking, maybe it's just the way it is..at least that's what happened until this fourth position. Hope it could be true for me one day...and yeah, Chicago has one of the best musical arrangement, in my opinion. Hoist David Foster!

Yesterday it seemed to me, my life was nothing more than wasting time
but here you softly slowly change my mind.........
Baby what a big surprise, right before my very eyes......
then you came to stay
Now, it mend just like before
I think about the love I've thrown awaybut now it doesn't matter anyway

3. Behind the Lines - Genesis

Genesis is certainly my most favorite progressive rock band ever and this live album is really great, but this love song was even more special for me. This song says it all. I merely could not say much about it. It's written in the book, just like it said :)

The sunny's hotter than I have felt before, but I feel so cold, and I don't know why
If the fire within your heart can beat the storm, then I really believe, oh, you're gonna make it right
Time has come now, we got to show our feeling
but I'm looking my tune, your heart is empty
but whatever happen to you, it's too late to change now
coz' there is nowhere you can run to, no place to hide, ah, you let me down...
but I can only stay if you've the will to keep me here....Oh, Lord...
Oh, it's written in the book!

2. Till there was you - The Beatles

This simple love song has a very deep meaning, in my opinion. It tells you that you are simply nothing and not able to feel anything without the one you love the most. It's from "With The Beatles" album.

1. Still.....You Turn Me On - Emerson, Lake and Palmer

Here is the champion! I really love the way Greg wrote, arrange and sang it. It even tears me up while smiling when I listen to this piece of great art. It's not about ordinary love. It's about unconditional love. I hope someday I will love a man like this and being loved in return just like this. If I found someone like that, I think that must be the one :)

Let me tell you something, you just couldn't be wrong
You see I really have to tell you, that it all get so intense
From my experience, it just doesn't seem to make sense
but still.....you turn me on

Well, you can have your own top-listed love songs since more than 80% of the ever-been-created songs talked about love, I guess. For me, me myself could not even decide whether these songs are really as great as I put them on my list, since there are many more great love songs out there. The 311's "Love Song" is simply my favorite too with its simple yet honest lyric...many of The Corr's song will also do (maybe I should write another post specially dedicated for this band)...and don't forget about many many other Queen's or Beatles' that I have no further opinion about just because they're just simply unspeakably beautiful love songs.