Happy Valentine's Day! If you're lucky in love, or still longing to find the one, today is still a good day to get sentimental and play some of the prettiest rock songs around.
We would usually throw together some power ballads at this point, but we all know it's just a charade. Why not trawl through our teenage iTunes collections and pick out some truly beautiful music?This is subjective, of course. And the lyrics won't always be on topic, but the sound of the songs ought to suit your mood today.Consider it post as a prompt for sharing your own bedroom-worthy tracks with YouTube links in the comments.
Deftones "Teenager"
Amid cutting edge metal on "White Pony", Deftones dropped this surprisingly tender treat right in the middle. It's beautiful.
Jeff Buckley "Everybody Here Wants You"
A more suitable choice might have been "Lover, You Should Have Come Over" because it has the most heartfelt lyrics on the planet. Seriously, that line about giving all his blood... never mind. This song is from his second (unfinished) album. It might be RnB, but don't ignore it - you might learn something from the delicate guitar work here.
John Lennon "Love"
This is from his fantastic "Plastic Ono Band" album. Pretend the song isn't about Yoko Ono and it sounds even better.
Queens Of The Stone Age "In The Fade"
A live version with the soulful sounds of Mark Lanegan on vocals.
A Perfect Circle "The Nurse Who Loved Me"
Tool singer Maynard James Keenan sings about a nurse who gives him special treatment.
Radiohead "All I Need"
A highlight from "In Rainbows", which could be Radiohead's most warming album yet. Analog bass FTW.
Smashing Pumpkins "Disarm"
Some songs are too beautiful to put into words - unless you're Billy Corgan. It sounds glorious, and hasn't aged a day.Can you share your favourite underrated rock love songs? Share a YouTube link in the comments.
So much love for this post and band. Happened to be listening to them today n'all! Seriously underrated, great witty lyrics and noodly polyrhythmic guitar licks
The Nurse Who Loved Me is a cover version, originally by the band Failure in which Troy Van Leeuwen started playing after the release of the album Fantastic Plantet on which this song originally appeared. It was released in 1994...
Yes, Thom is most certainly not making a tremendously obvious metaphor for anything that could be put in correlation with "love", nope, definatly not...
With the sarcasm dropped however, you're on to something, though you are still wrong - The lyrics are not dealing with love between two people, in fact, it's all about a person who loves another one, but she/he chooses to ignore him/her, which drives the main caracter crazy, because "You're all I need", and later becomes obsessed with the uninterrested individual ("I only stick with you, because there are no others...". In other words, "All I need" is basicly a classic "unrequited love" song...
Thank You by Led Zeppelin is a beautiful love song and the live version from the BBC sessions album is mind blowing. Bonham hits like a beast and Jimmy's solo is absolutely ripping- lots of cool licks there to check out.
I love all of these songs, but none of them strike me as having anything to do with valentines day. Nurse Who Loved Me is about drugs, Disarm is about abuse, In the Fade is about mortality... and All I Need always struck me as more of a stalker song than a love song.
Still Loving You - Scorpions
Loved to Deth - Megadeth
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica
Sabbra Caddabra/Planet Caravan - Black Sabbath
Since I've Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin
Closer - Nine Inch Nails
Melissa/Blue Sky - Allman Brothers Band
How can you include a song with a line like '...And leave you like you left me here to wither in denial, the bitterness of one who's left alone...' in a love song list?!!! Billy Corgan has like a million love songs and you pick that? How about Cupid de Locke? And I think 'The Nurse Who Loved Me' is about painkiller addiction, yeah?
Anyway I pick Marilyn Manson's Valentine's Day which is also not a love song but **** Valentine's Day.
Nothing Else Matters should have been mentioned, although I guess it's kind of obvious. That is me and my girlfriend's song, and I always sing it to her.
Lists Seven Songs