With matter-of-fact majesty, she restores the love song, in a sense, to its own values. The National is a band best known for its alternately stately and ravaged examinations of existential dread and anxiety—in short, they're far from lovey-dovey. But this track from their breakout album, 's Boxer proves that they're aware of love's curative powers. Harry Connick Jr. Ray Charles knows the feeling. Grand Ole Opry decided to pursue a solo career, became quite the sensation in While the lyrics to this early aughts classic are fairly repetitive, they become almost like a mantra.
We all have those moments when our lives play out like the last five minutes of a CW season finale before the shocking cliff-hanger, natch. Time slows down, all other noises fade. You exchange glances. Your heart flutters. The synthesized strings kick in it was , after all. Though we could have put many a Mimi love song on this list, her smash single made the cut for its classically Carey assurance that come what may, love will triumph.
Otis, you slay us. And the tune, the arrangement, is complex, mercurial, fluttering and diving, able to create a rush from routine. This is the one that will make Senator Blue Ivy weep ages from now. Before she was coming out and wanting the world to know, Diana first staked a claim on disco by virtue of this supreme Motown cut. Just how many times did this song appear on mix CDs made for dorm-room crushes in the aughts? Plus, who doesn't love Friday? Love is a sweet and splendid thing, but boy, oh boy, can it get dramatic—the rush of endorphins washing through your body when you fall in love, the pangs of pain and fear and longing that can follow.
There is a biblical aspect to its spirituality and passion; the fact that love is the only thing that matters in the end. This song gets the job done in something like eight lines, a quarter of which are also the title. Short and sweet. When Frankie Knuckles gave it a piano house remix in , a new generation went crazy for the song: now artists ranging from Mary J.
Blige to KT Tunstall have recorded versions, but none of them reach the thrilling heights of Chaka as she hits the final chorus. Oh, you thought chillwave was some blogger invention of ? McVie stacks and stacks her blissful sighs atop darting, shimmering Buckingham arpeggios and a breezy drum gallop. Eat your heart out, Beach House. For two singers who reached the peaks of musical achievement through astounding ambition and innovation, this restrained and simple love song shows just how talented each was beneath it all.
They sing to each other like Johnny Cash and June Carter, with a whole crowd and a horn section behind them.
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