Give Me Romantic Songs

Tini

I'm looking for some romantic songs, they don't have to be too over the top. Looking for newer "hip" material thats catchy and good. Help?

ex:

"Brighter than Sunshine"- Aqualung
"Comfortable"- John Mayer
"Wrap Your Arms Around Me" and "Falling For The First Time" - Barenaked Ladies

Oldies are always welcome as well. Like Moondance for example. What a great song.

cooljammer00

Let's Get It On?

Tini

meh, i'm looking for songs that aren't necessarily overused and well... cliche

tech_hunter

Hey There Delilah by the plain white tees is pretty romantic and catchy youtube

zhen_rogue

Ray LaMontagne

"hold you in my arms"

Chop Logic

My Romance is the most romantic song ever.

deadonthestreet

Baby Goes to Eleven by Superdrag
I'm not sure if it is really "romantic"...but Jenny by The Mountain Goats is pretty fantastic.
And Lover, You Should Have Come Over by Jeff Buckley.

Fellhand

Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes

holycrapawalrus

Minus The Bear - Pachuca Sunrise youtube
Straylight Run - Your Name Here (Sunrise Highway)
The Good Life - Album of the Year
Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow You Into The Dark

Rabid_Llama

Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight

One my girlfriend loves is Elton John's "Your Song". She really likes the Moulin Rouge version but I play an acoustic guitar version and she likes it a lot too.

Tini

Very nice, I'm loving Hey There Delilah and I'm also a fan of Minus the Bear so I know of that song, it's great as well as the Death Cab for Cutie song.

I'm doing all this in order to make a mix CD for my girlfriend. Here's the list so far:

01. Aqualung - Brighter Than Sunshine.mp3
02. Wolf Parade - I'll Believe in Anything
03. Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah.mp3
04. Minus The Bear - [Menos el Oso #06] Pachuca Sunrise
05. Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow You Into The Dark.mp3
06. John Mayer - [? #08] Comfortable
07. Barenaked Ladies - [Gordon #06] Wrap Your Arms Around Me
08. Barenaked Ladies - [Maroon #05] Falling for the First Time
09. Muse - Bliss.mp3
10. Bill Withers -Ain't No Sunshine.mp3
11. Morrison - Morrison - Moondance.mp3
12. Sublime - [Sublime] Caress Me Down

Last one by Sublime is just hilarious so I had to add it.

Akilae729

MY GOD YES FOR THIS SONG
Forever Night Shade Mary - The Latin Playboys
(Just make sure that she fucking has a stereo where youll be able to hear the bass)



Rosalita - Bruce Springsteen
Bold As Love - Jimi Henrix
Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan
Beautiful Girl - INXS
Jackie Wilson Said - Van Morrison
Against the World - A Tribe Called Quest
In My Life - The Beatles
Two Step - DMB
Caught Up In You - .38 Special
No One Like You - The Scorpions (It takes a special kind)
Your All I Need to Get By - Marvin Gaye
Twisted - Keith Sweat
This Magic Moment - Lou Reed version
Gimmie Some Lovin - Spencer David Group
Sweet Thing - Chaka Khan (Fucking get this song)
The Background - Third Eye Blind

tony_important

Owen - Put your hands on me, my love
The Weakerthans - Benediction

Calebros

this is the thread you use to lead up to using my thread

that said, Iris by Goo Goo Dolls is pretty much the best ever

Grey Ghost

Fellhand wrote: »

Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes

Most definitely yes. Also, "Question" by the Old 97's.

planters

Yes, hey there delilah is an excellent song, listening to it right now as a matter of fact,
The Afters- Beautiful love
The whole A walk to remember soundtrack
The Scene Aesthetic- Beauty in the Breakdown

Bryse Eayo

Five Days in May and Lost Together by Blue Rodeo

Sexiest songs ever. Easily. Seriously listen to them. That measn all of you.

And then:

Stellar - Incubus(or any of their loves songs Brandon Boyd = win)
Fair - Remy Zero
All of the Garden State album
Shiver - Coldplay
Nightengale - Norah Jones (well any Norah Jones)
Wishful Thinking, I'm The Man Who Loves You - Wilco
Somewhere Out There - Our Lady Peace
Wet Sand - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Do You Remember - Jack Johnson
Your ROcky Spine - Great Lake Swimmers
When I'm Up, Barque in the Harbour, Boston and St. Johns - Great Big Sea
All of the Postal Service
Moondance - Van Morrison

contraband

if you would like to stay classy i'd recommend you marking off "caress me down." i don't know really, but around here sublime is trashy music.

Mitsuhide

tech_hunter wrote: »

Hey There Delilah by the plain white tees is pretty romantic and catchy youtube

That song is my guilty pleasure. Especially because I'm known to be a pretty big metal-head.:P

Gunstar

Here's a "these songs remind me i'm in love with you" mixtape i made for my girlfriend

Beatles - Here There and Everywhere
Beach Boys - God Only Know
Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Air - Playground Love
Broken Social Scene - Anthems For a Seventeen Year-Old Girl
(I can't suggest this song enough.)
Bright Eyes - First Day Of My Life
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Murder By Death - Intergalatic Menopause
Death Cab For Cutie - A Movie Script Ending
(good for I miss you, along with Tunnels)
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago (we live here though)
Wilco - Far, Far Away (chicago theme again)

buckarf

Gregory and the Hawk - Boats and Birds

CangoFett

The Postal Service - Such Great Heights

Casual Eddy

There are so many jazz classics! Just make sure you get vocal versions.

The Look of Love as sung by Diana Krall
Embraceable You by George and Ira Gershwin (make sure you find a non-cheesy version)
Our Love is Here to Stay
Girl from Ipanema
Corcovado

A lot of romantic jazz songs are hella cheesy but sound classy nontheless.

twmjr

Nina Simone - If You Knew

or the Jeff Buckley version is also excellent if you are unable to find a good copy by Miss Simone.

also David Gray - Sail Away

ddahcmai

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Hard to Concentrate

or at least I think it's a good romantic song, never heard anybody else say so though...

precisionk

Endless Love - Diana Ross and Lionel Richie

Taximes

Oldies:

"Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison, x100 if she has brown eyes
"Happy Together" by the Turtles
"My Girl" by the Temptations
"Close to You" by the Carpenters

Slow & Romantic:

"Best I Ever Had" by Vertical Horizon
"Nights in White Satin" by the Moody Blues
"Somewhere Only We Know" by Keane

Newer:

"This Will Be Our Year", either the original by The Zombies or the remake by Ok Go.
"C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips" by OK Go
"You're So Damn Hot" by OK Go
"Wonderwall" by Oasis
"You and Me" by Lifehouse
"Falling For You" by Weezer
"For You" by the Barenaked Ladies

Also, almost anything by fucking Michael Buble. The man's voice is made of romance. He could be singing Satanic chants and it'd be romantic.

TheRealBadger

another oldies suggestion
Earth Angel (the buddy holly version rather than the 50's original)

Works especially well for girls who catch the back to the future reference

t0ast!

one that's working for me lately (and that i'll be saving for the next woman in my life) is:
Hooverphonic - This Strange Effect

You could also try:
REM - Be Mine
Chantal Kreviazuk - Feels Like Home (one of my exes "songs for us")
Kaskade - Steppin Out (Late Night Alumni Slow Dance Remix)
Daft Punk - Something About Us (may or may not be appropriate, but good slow dance track)
Ulrich Schnauss - Crazy For You (mostly instrumental, but nice 'n relaxing)
Air - You Make It Easy
Esthero - Superheroes

mully

I got a mixed CD from an ex a while ago. (When he wasn't an ex.)
Here's what was on it:

Every Time You Go Away
Paul Young

Open Arms
Journey

You Look Wonderful Tonight
Eric Clapton

And I Love Her
The Beatles

I Can't Stop Loving You
Ray Charles

Fools Rush In
Elvis Presley

Kiss Is On My List
Hall And Oates

Unchained Melody
Righteous Brothers

Wherever You Go
Richard Marx

Everything I Do
Bryan Adams

---

This went over with me well because I am a huge 80s/early 90s fan.
Now, most of them make me laugh. !
But it's still a good CD. I'll give him that.

mully

Whoever said Falling For You by Weezer, up there, that's also a good'un.

Spectral Swallow

Guardian Angel by Red Jumpsuit apparatus.

Here's a crappy youtube video with song playing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsNw0Bk_oLk

DiscGrace

I totally second "God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys. I have to ask, though - isn't "You Wrap Your Arms Around Me" about an abusive relationship? Just, uh, a thought.

Other thoughts, as I scroll through my iTunes:
You Belong to Me - Jason Wade
Love You Madly - Cake
Stick Shifts and Safety Belts - Cake
The Luckiest - Ben Folds
Fever - Peggy Lee
Leavin' on a Jet Plane - whoever
The Longest Time - Billy Joel
Beautiful - Gordon Lightfoot
Song for a Winter's Night - Gordon Lightfoot (one of my all time favorites)
Silver Road - Sarah Harmer
If I Ever Leave This World Alive - Flogging Molly
Sunshine of Your Love - Cream
You're My Best Friend - Queen
Oh Honey - Tragically Hip
The Sand - The Hippos
Next 100 Years - Bon Jovi
Violent Love - Indigo Swing
Another First Kiss - They Might Be Giants
Heroes - David Bowie
Complainte de la Butte - Rufus Wainwright

Akilae729

Sara Smile - Hall & Oates

Gunstar

someone likes moulin rouge

Calebros

I will also throw in my votes for

Broken Social Scene - Anthems For a Seventeen Year-Old Girl

and

RHCP - Hard to Concentrate

Soviet Waffle

The Luckiest by Ben Folds (May be Ben Folds Five)
Lost and Found by The Kinks (Not the best actually, I just love this song)
Love Has Come to Town by Talking Heads
Touch Me by The Doors (Or one of their many other songs)
If you feel like being super cheesey, It's More than a Feeling by Boston

Dublo7

Nat King Cole - Unforgettable

Probably has the greatest love song lyric ever;
"That's why, darling, it's incredible that someone so unforgettable, thinks I am unforgettable too".

Oh, and Jeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants You.

Fibretip

bright eyes - first day of my life

JPArbiter

Tini wrote: »

meh, i'm looking for songs that aren't necessarily overused and well... cliche

all romantic songs are overused and cliche, and there really has not been a good "New" Romantic song since Peter Gabriels In Your Eyes

one must also look at the context of why the song is played. is it just for a dinner? do you need to apologise? or is this some sort of "say anything" moment with you in a leather jackeet and a boombox standing outside her window

JPArbiter

I feel I should point out three songs that are often mistaken for romantic songs but are not

Sting/Police I'll be watching you: Listen to the Lyrics, you will realize it is about a stalker

Genisis Invisible Touch: a man talking to another man about a woman that did bad things to him in a relationship

Rod Stewart: Maggie Mae, a high school boy having an affair with an older married woman

now speaking of Rod Stewart here ARE some good ones, hell the man is a master of good love songs
Rythm of My Heart, Downtown Train, of course Have I Told you Lately, My Heart can't tell you no, and Reason To Believe