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Here you'll find classic love song lyrics like "I will always love you " by Whitney Houston featured alongside the Shrek 2 movie "Accidentally in Love" lyrics by the counting crows. In other words, a real mixed bag of Love Song lyrics.
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A review of Love Song Lyrics from 1970 to present
The early years of the 1970's continued the eclectic mix of love song styles begun in the 1960's. love song lyrics review contd. The top songs
between 1970 and 1974 included such standard-style ballads as Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water,"
Elton John and Bernie Taupin's "Your Song," and Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight." Rod Stewart complained
about "Maggie May" and Jim Croce wished he could keep "Time In A Bottle." love song lyrics review contd.It seemed that teen love songs were
growing up, getting a little comfortable, along with their listeners. By the time Barry White charted with
"Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe" in 1974, you could almost mistake the audience for adults, with a
sophisticated, sensual appreciation of romance that would have done Sinatra fans proud! But then along came...,love song lyrics review contd.
DISCO!!! Yes, indeed. Just when senior citizens thought it was safe to turn on the radio, the bumptious,
irreverent, sexy, in-your-face, over-the-top dance craze took the air waves and night clubs by storm. It
was everywhere. love song lyrics review contd. Although disco had existed in the dance clubs prior to 1975, it was The Bee Gees recording
of their song "Jive Talkin'" which turned the four-on-the-floor, pounding drum beat into a global phenomenon.
By the following year, The Bee Gees had charted again with "You Should Be Dancing" and KC & the Sunshine Band
had released the ubiquitous, genre-defining "Shake Your Booty." love song lyrics review contd. For the next three years, the charts were
awash in disco hits. Songs like Alicia Bridges "I Love The Night Life," Rod Stewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy,"
Donna Summer's "Last Dance" and Anita Ward's "Ring My Bell" celebrated sex with barely a nod to romance. Like
a porn movie, there was little plot and lots of action in these love songs. love song lyrics review contd. The hypnotic drum beat and
suggestive lyrics, invited everyone to party down with no thought of the consequences. For the first time,
gay relationships were openly celebrated, as in the Village People's hit "Macho Man." Of course, many people
didn't get the gay references in these songs and corn-fed kids across the land happily sang along to the
cheerful lyrics of "Y.M.C.A."love song lyrics review contd.
But even as the shallow, happy-go-lucky disco craze was peaking, along came a band with love songs and a love story
that reached out and spoke to listeners as few had done before. The band was Fleetwood Mac and the album was "Rumours."love song lyrics review contd.
Although Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and Chistine McVie had been performing together as Fleetwood Mac since the
1960's, they were not known for their love songs, but rather as a hard-driving blues band that featured stellar
musicians like guitarist Peter Greene. love song lyrics review contd. But when they added two new members in 1974, Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie
Nicks, the band became something else entirely. The first album with the new lineup, called simply "Fleetwood Mac,"
produced Chris McVie's beautiful pop standards, "Over My Head." and "Say You Love Me." But it was the enormous
success of the dark, mystical "Rhiannon" that surprised everyone. love song lyrics review contd. It fueled a powerful audience response which
swept the band to success. But along with success came emotional turmoil; the band's next album, "Rumours" would
record the passions and betrayals stirred up by their new rock star status. Buckingham and Nicks' rapidly
deteriorating relationship inspired such songs as "Secondhand News," "Go Your Own Way," and "Dreams." love song lyrics review contd. But it
is the entire group that is credited with writing "Chain," the song that sums up those turbulent emotional times.
love song lyrics review contd. The passionate vocals and focused lyric communicate the pain of loss, betrayal, and yearning with a directness and
intensity that has seldom been equalled. The group's songs touched a nerve, expressing the heartache and longing
experienced by everyone who has ever lost someone they loved deeply. The album soared to number one and stayed there, becoming the biggest selling album of all time. It is still one of the finest collections of love songs and lost-in-love songs ever gathered in one place.
Tainted Love (1980's).love song lyrics review contd.
If the disco era left us dazed and confused and Fleetwood Mac's valiant attempts to push passionate romance to
new heights in the late 1970's were as doomed as their personal relationships, then what was left? The love songs
of the 1980's settled for an exploration of the Unusual. love song lyrics review contd. In 1981, Soft Cell's remake of an obscure 1964 soul song,
"Tainted Love," started the ball rolling. 1983 was a watershed year for the quirky-of-heart with hit songs like
Culture Club's "Do you Really Want To Hurt Me," love song lyrics review contd. the Eurythmics hypnotic "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)," and
Duran Duran's "Hungry Like A Wolf" all climbing the charts. In the following years, "Drive" (The Cars), "Karma Chameleon"
(Culture Club), and "West End Girls" (Pet Shop Boys) explored similar territory. David Bowie, never one to shrink
from the exotic, chimed in with "Let's Dance" and Prince (when he was still the artist known as Prince) gave us the
beautiful and mournful, "When Doves Cry." love song lyrics review contd. Even the Police got in on the act with Sting's paean to obsession,
"Every Breath You Take." If the Eighties added anything new to the genre of love songs, it was a disturbing yet
alluring image of love in which relationships crashed and burned with erotic elegance, and spurned partners clung
to their pain almost as tightly as they had to their lovers.love song lyrics review contd.
That's not to say that there weren't a few monster, middle-of-the-road love ballads being written during the
Eighties; songs that were on a par with some of the best of earlier eras. Lionel Richie created a string of matchless
love ballads in the late 1980's. Richie's hits - "Endless Love," "Hello," "All Night Long," "Say You, Say Me" - are
rooted not only in the work of Motown great Smokey Robinson, but also in the tradition of standards by Rodgers and Hart,
Jerome Kern, and the Gershwins. love song lyrics review contd. Richie's lyrics capture moments in a relationship with almost photographic accuracy
while his understated but memorable tunes work like film underscore to add emotional nuance. Lending more support to
the idea that great love ballads never go out of style, Phil Collins made an impressive showing throughout the Eighties
with "In The Air Tonight," "Against All Odds," "Separate lives," and "One More Night."love song lyrics review contd.
The Eighties also produced a couple of pop/rock charmers. Robert Palmer's "Addicted To Love" (with its memorable video)
depicted a happy loss of emotional control and Huey Lewis along with his band, The News, celebrated "The Power Of Love"
with a drive and energy that renewed your faith in the goodness of human nature.love song lyrics review contd.
But it was a pair of songwriters, ones whose names are not well known outside the music industry, who contributed two
of the most beautiful love songs of the 1980's and one of the most outrageous. Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg created
the gorgeous "Eternal Flame" with Susanna Hoffs for the Bangles and, for Cyndi Lauper, they wrote "True Colors"; love song lyrics review contd. two
peerless love songs that have become standards of the genre. Meanwhile, just across the radio dial, Madonna was
writhing in her wedding dress, singing the Kelly/Steinberg composition written just for her: "Like A Virgin"! love song lyrics review contd.
The 1990's, like every other decade, had its share of great love songs. It started out strong with Sinead O'Connor's
heart-stopping "Nothing Compares 2 U" in 1990. Bryan Adams "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" was released a year
later, followed by Whitney Houston's soaring "I Will Always Love You." Meatloaf assured us he would "Do Anything
For Love (But I Won't Do That)" in 1993 and Seal gave us a "Kiss From A Rose" in 1995. love song lyrics review contd.That same year Whitney Houston
sang "Exhale (The Shoop Shoop Song)" and Annie Lennox told us there would be "No More I Love You's." Songwriter Diane
Warren had an outstanding run in the 1990's with Toni Braxton's "Unbreak My Heart" (1996) and Aerosmith's "I Don't Want
To Miss A Thing." (1998) love song lyrics review contd. (She didn't do too badly in the 1980's either!) The Goo Goo Dolls blew everyone away with
the great (but strangely titled) "Iris," better remembered by its signature line: "I just want you to know who I am."
love song lyrics review contd.
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This Love - This Love lyrics by Maroon 5 ..."This love has taken its toll on me, she said goodbye too many times before and her heart is breaking in front of me, I have no choice 'cause I won't say goodbye anymore ..." This Love lyrics.
Accidentally in Love - Accidentally in Love lyrics by Counting Crows from Shrek 2 movie ... "Come on, come on jump a little higher, come on, come on if you feel a little lighter ..." Accidentally in Love lyrics.
I Believe in a Thing Called Love - I Believe in a Thing Called Love lyrics by Darkness ... "I believe in a thing called love, just listen to the rhythm of my heart, there's a chance we could make it now, we'll be rocking 'til the sun goes down. I believe in a thing called love .. Ooh! ..." I believe in a thing called love lyrics.
I Will Always Love You - I Will Always Love You lyrics by Whitney Houston ... "Bittersweet memories, that is all I'm taking with me. So good bye, please don't cry, we both know I'm not what you, you need ..." I Will Always Love You lyrics.
311 - 311 Love Song lyrics ... " Whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am home again. Whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am whole again ..." 311 Love Song lyrics.
All of my Love - Led Zeppelin lyrics All of my Love ... "Should I fall out of love, my fire in the light, to chase a feather in the wind, within the glow that weaves a cloak of delight, there moves a thread that has no end ..." Led Zeppelin lyrics All of my Love.
Love Hurts - Love Hurts lyrics by Nazareth ... "Up there's a heaven, down there's a town, blackness everywhere any little lights shine, blackness, blackness draggin' me down, come on light a candle in this heart of mine ..." Love Hurts lyrics.
Can You Feel the Love Tonight - Can You Feel the Love Tonight lyrics by Elton John ... "And can you feel the love tonight, how it's laid to rest? it's enough to make kings and vagabonds believe the very best ..." Can You Feel the Love Tonight lyrics.
Tainted Love - Tainted Love lyrics by Soft Cell ... "Sometimes I feel I've got torun away, I've got to get away, from the pain that you drive into the heart of me ..." Tainted Love lyrics.
Love Shack - Love Shack lyrics by The B-52's ... "Love shack, baby love shack! love baby, love shack, huggin' and a kissin', dancin' and a lovin' at the love shack ..." Love Shack lyrics.
Review contd.
Some of the biggest-selling love songs of the 1990's came from Walt Disney's unparalleled series of animated musical
films - Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, and The Lion King. But with the exception of The Lion King with
its pop music score, the films delivered a string of hits reminiscent of - but not as good as - the songs of the
classic movie musicals of the 1930's. love song lyrics review contd. Nice but nothing new. Nevertheless, "A Whole New World," the love theme from
Aladdin,has probably been played at more weddings than any song since The Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun."
The nineties gave us two great ballads inspired by the loss of a loved one - Eric Clapton's timeless, achingly
beautiful lament for his dead son, "Tears In Heaven" and the blockbuster hit from the movie Titanic, "My Heart Will
Go On." love song lyrics review contd. It is the latter, beautiful as it is, that brings us to the underlying problem with many of the love songs
of the 1990's. Towards the very end of that song there is a key modulation (musician-speak for a rapid shift in the
home key of the song). In this case the entire song is raised to a higher key. This kind of simple modulation is
guaranteed to evoke a strong emotion in the listener, usually one of yearning or hope. love song lyrics review contd. It was once a common device
but isn't used much anymore, at least not in its simplest form, as it is here; it's just too obvious, too manipulative.
The song itself is already highly emotional. The key modulation was not needed. But you can almost hear the movie
execs telling James Horner, the composer, to max out the emotional impact, really sock it to 'em. love song lyrics review contd. I wish they had
let that beautiful song speak for itself. This may seem like a small thing to most listeners, but as a songwriter
I am very aware of the line that is crossed when songs that evoke emotions become songs that manipulate emotions.love song lyrics review contd.
The 1990's saw the rise of huge mega-multi-conglomerates that gobbled up any business that looked like it might
turn a profit. What does this have to do with love songs, you ask? Well, nowadays the label that records and
markets your favorite artist is most likely owned by an oil company, an appliance manufacturer,a liquor brand, or
a company that is all three. love song lyrics review contd. Whoever they are, they don't understand (or care about) making music. However, they
DO understand how to sell 'widgets'. And so, during the 1990's the process of recording, marketing, and selling
was the same whether you were pushing Boyz II Men or Coca Cola. love song lyrics review contd. Not since the bland teen idol clones of the late
fifties and early sixties (Frankie, Fabian, et al.) have we been treated to such a slick package with so little
inside. Thus we had singers who were not emotionally connected to their material (Mariah Carey) and manufactured
vocal groups groomed to a perfect sheen but lacking any substance (Boyz II Men and All 4 One). The talent was
there; the emotional depth was not.love song lyrics review contd.
As we have moved into the first years of the new millenium, there appears to be a growing backlash. Although
listeners continue to buy the slick dance tracks and big ballads with pristine, auto-tuned lead vocals, many
people are discovering the music of singer-songwriters with a strong, individual approach to love songs such as
Ron Sexsmith, Jason Mraz, Norah Jones, Aimee Mann, Duncan Sheik, and Elliot Smith, among others. love song lyrics review contd. It's too soon
to tell who will write the songs that will become tomorrow's standards, I mean for goodness sake what is happening
with us buying into a green cartoon creature called Shrek and his style of love song!! Give us hope !!
love song lyrics review end
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