SpeedStar wrote:
Thought it might be interesting.
What song is your favourite Romance/not sexy like Barry White, that gets your heart skipping?
Mine will always be
Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto #2 in Cmin (All 3 movements)
Especially as the 1st movement gives the feel of drama and passion and the 2nd movement goes to caring and gentle love.
I'm a bit allergic to love songs. I think it's hard to write a convincing happy song and harder still to write a convincing, unambivalent love-affirming song - though George Harrison's "Something" does pretty well.
There are some compositions that speak of love of something - not necessarily love of another person (or a dog) and some of those move me hugely. For me Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is romantic - though perhaps the object of love here is a higher power.
For a man with such a reputation for dark songs Richard Thompson has written some real good love songs, though I think there's usually an element of longing in them as well, a sense of distance between the lover and the object of the love and a sadness because of that distance. So I'd nominate "Traces Of My Love" and "Dimming Of The Day", both of which he originally recorded with Linda Thompson who turned in fantastic vocal performances on both songs.
Aargh.... what I am on about here? Nothing against any of the above, but there's been a great love song staring me in the face. "Who Knows Where The Time Goes" - written by the late, great Sandy Denny and a hit for Judy Collins (I think Nancy Griffiths also recorded that one).
