![]() ![]() This track lays its feelings bare and sounds like the actual sound of gut-wrenching, yearning love itself. If there’s ever a voice you want serenading you at a pivotal moment, then surely it’s Lennon’s. Grizzly Bear’s multi-part harmonies and way with a tear-jerking melody are enough to bring out the romantic in you on an average day, but take their sweetest tune and your biggest day and watch the weeping commence. If you want a little more pep in your step for your first dance, however, then you could do a lot worse than this jubilant effort from Florence. “Where would I be now if we’d never met? Would I be singing this song to someone else instead?”įor when you’ve finally found the one that wild horses couldn’t drag you away from.įlorence & The Machine, ‘Dog Days Are Over’ Where else does this logic apply? Weddings!ĭocumenting that miracle chance of fate that brings two people together, ‘Something Changed’ perfectly sums up the moment your life changes forever (and the weird co-ordinates that lead to it happening). The song that sent Lana stratospheric, ‘Video Games’ exists in a perpetual world of nostalgic romance where love is the drug and it reigns over all. The Smiths, ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’ĭoes anything sum up the all-consuming power of love more than the line “If a double-decker bus crashes into us/ To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die?” Didn’t think so. ![]() Take a sugar-coated Carpenters classic, douse it with some Sonic Youth atmospherics and Thurston Moore’s intimate, whispering delivery and you’ve got one of the best leftfield love songs around “I’m not the kind of fool who’s gonna sit and sing to you about stars, girl/ But last night I looked up into the dark half of the blue and they’d gone backwards/ Something in your magnetism must have pissed them off, forcing them to get an early night.” Swoon.Ī gorgeously low-key love song from Mac, ‘Still Together’ is nothing more complex than an acoustic guitar and some plain and simple lyrics about loving someone completely and entirely. Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot, ‘Bonnie & Clyde’Ī little slice of Gallic charm, this 1968 duet makes full use of the language of love to provide an effortlessly sensual end result (even though they’re singing about two robbers). ![]()
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