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Favorite love songs on Valentine’s Day
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This list wouldn’t be complete without Any Other Day. Still Valentines where I am, and this is perfection. The most beautiful love song, it’s amazing the rich diversity in the album WHY? Reminds me of the magic that will always exist in the world.
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There were also some good german-language love songs in the 80s that reached our charts (for those who are interested…😀)
Yours Is My Heart Alone
We made love like hell
Then he came and we didn't know what to do
You didn't do well as a dying swan
I failed as a dark rider
Instead of pitch and brimstone, suddenly just glaciers and rubble
We have so much luck on our conscience
I need your night smell every morning
And no false eyelashes on the pillows
(Refrain)
Yours Is My Heart Alone
You're my rhyme for pain
We'll be like giants, the world will be too small for us
What kind of people are this
who have relationships as if they were states?
They don't seduce each other they only kidnap each other
They end up like diplomats
I can't be where you are not
I don't want to try anything else
We're like everyone else because we want to go home
It's almost never too late to realize
Refrain
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https://youtu.be/2BzGsPnhEKc?si=fazUAXefMVJCre2C -
And Nena’s first big hit that made her famous overnight.
(Verse 1)
I am so alone
I want to be with you
I see your hand
I recognized it straight away
My head is aching, closing my eyes
I lie in the green grass and I'm telling myself something
(Refrain)
I didn't miss anything today
Because I only dreamed about you
We haven't seen each other for a long time
I'll go over to you
Everything I like about you
I mean it the way I say it
I am completely confused
I'll go crazy if it happens today
(Verse 2)
I'm already on fire
I'm walking towards you
Your looks annoy me
Always think only of mePS: sorry, both translations aren’t really nice, but I’m too lazy to worry about linguistic details now.
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That’s a catchy song Jurgen, captures the 80s feel really nicely. Nena and Falco made a big splash in the 80s in North America I remember.
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Thanks Jung and Tim. Nena may not have the prettiest voice, but she always exuded a lot of joy of life and energy. I think that was her secret. Later she also appeared together with Kim Wilde. The song lyrics were then presented half in English and half in German. That was a nice idea. It’s interesting to see how much the music world revolves around this one theme that moves us all: love.
I know that the Norwegian band a-ha also had success in the US. I really like the following song. Actually more of a song about farewell, but that’s also part of love sometimes.
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Jurgen,
I’ve never heard these before, thanks for posting them. I knew that I remembered Nena from somewhere and it was her song 99 Luftbalons. I remember that song and video was played many times on MTV back in the 80’s when they actually played music on that channel.
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Tim, I know that I sometimes seem a bit exotic here with my choice of music. Personally, I always find it interesting to get to know music that I didn’t know before. That’s my idea to post such pieces of music here in the forum. And you’re right that the topic of love shouldn’t just be important one day a year, but actually 365 days a year. „After Valentine’s Day is before Valentine’s Day“ 😀 (quoted loosely from Sepp Herberger, a german soccer legend. The original quote is: „After the game is before the game“)
The following beautiful love song classic from the 80s should not be missing here. I know, well known, but always very nice.
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Eternal Flame is one of my favorite songs from the 80’s, Juergen, although granted that’s a very low bar to clear.
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It’s a pity that the band broke up, David. They have produced some very nice songs like „Manic Monday“ and cover songs like „If she knew what she wants“ and „A hazy shade of winter“. As far as I know, they had a complete falling out during the production of the song „Walk like an Egyptian“ and they later separated. That was probably the mummy’s curse…
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I didn’t know that If She Knew What She Wants was a cover, Juergen. Among the Bangles songs that I’m familiar with, that’s my second favorite.
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That’s a great one David. I never paid much attention to the Bangles when they were popular, I was into heavier rock music but I like listening to them now. They were a talented band and recorded some really great tunes. They did a lot of cover songs but were mostly songs that weren’t hits by the original artists like Hazy Shade of Winter. Manic Monday was a song Prince wrote for them.
Susanna Hoffs is the real, not just a pretty face but a great artist. I do believe she/they are still making music. I’m not sure if all the originals are still playing though but I think they healed their wounds.
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Tim, apparently three of the four are back together. The bassist has been replaced by her own pre-fame predecessor, so it’s now technically the original lineup.
I didn’t know before MLT played it recently that Hazy Shade of Winter wasn’t considered a hit for Simon and Garfunkel. It was before my time, but it reached #13 on Billboard and was in the regular rotation on the oldies station I listened to in the 80’s before the Bangles’ version came out.
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Thanks David for the info. I’m glad they are still playing music together. I’m surprised that Hazy Shade reached #13 on the charts for S&G. I didn’t even know it was a single. I’ve heard their version of course but not a lot. I have Bridge Over Troubled Water cd and I think I still have their greatest hits cd but that’s about it. I listened to them a lot when I was a kid mainly because my older brothers and sisters loved them but I did like a lot of their music.
Another of the girl groups I liked even though I wasn’t a big fan of that genre was the Pointer Sisters. They could sing everything from soul to rock and when they sang about love they could make it hot and steamy. I didn’t seek out their music but I always enjoyed it when I heard it. Here’s a live video of them doing the song Fire written by Bruce Springsteen. They have they audience in the palm of their hands, really cool.
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Apparently Hazy Shade was surprisingly obscure. Here’s a revealing quote from Susanna Hoffs that I just found on Wikipedia:
I’m listening to K-EARTH 101, an oldies station. I’m alone in this dark room and all I had was the radio. “Hazy Shade of Winter” came on one day. I thought I was a Simon & Garfunkel aficionado but I, somehow, had missed that badass folk-rock song of theirs. I ran to our band rehearsal that night and was like, “We have to cover this song”.
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David, what always irritated me about the song “If she knew want she wants” was that the lyrics were sung by a woman. It sounded more like a man and woman relationship thing. And indeed: the song was first composed and sung by musician Jules Shear and The Bangles then varied the text a bit to make it fit again. But I like the bangles version better. Also one of my favorite Bangles hits. Jules Shear has also composed songs for other musicians. For example, the following song for Cyndi Lauper. Cyndi Lauper was always a bit weird, but I liked her style and many of her songs.
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One that immediately pops into my head from the late, great Jim Croce:
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Thanks Thomas, Jim Croce had so many great songs. I love this one, it’s so true, sometimes we men can never find the words to express our feelings but you can always find the right words in a song.
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