Posted on 02/14/2025 4:01:42 PM PST by nickcarraway
There are no shortage of romantic songs for Valentine’s Day, but for those who aren’t in love, we have the Anti-Valentine’s Day Playlist.
Does the thought of Valentine’s Day just make you want to draw the blinds and sit in a darkened room, watching old repeats on TV while you eat your own body weight in ice cream? Does Cupid’s arrow look more like a poisoned dart than a potentially euphoric love injection? Did you scratch a former love’s initials in a tree one balmy summer’s evening, and now want to go back to the forest, cut the tree down, and… hell, why not burn the whole damn forest to the ground? Sounds like you’re in more of an Anti-Valentine’s Day mood.
That’s OK, though. You don’t have to resort to arson. We have just the thing for you…
Listen to the Anti-Valentine’s Day playlist on Spotify.
The love song arguably expresses the most universal of all emotions, but, come February 14, plenty of us can be found licking our wounds – or perhaps trying to avoid the advances of a woefully misguided suitor (as Shania Twain’s catchy put-down goes: “That Don’t Impress Me Much”).
And while the love song often expresses feelings that we all hope to experience at some point in our life, love itself can drive us to extremes. “She xx hates me!” Puddle Of Mudd scream in their tale of love gone sour, while Eminem’s “Kim” is a typically dark exploration of a toxic relationship that brings a couple to their lowest.
But the anti-love song doesn’t have to be a downer. “This ain’t a song for the broken-hearted,” sings Bon Jovi on “It’s My Life,” an uplifting anthem for anyone looking to reclaim their independence and fearlessly launch themselves back into the world.
For something a little less bombastic, try R.E.M.’s “Everybody Hurts.” It may sound downbeat, but Michael Stipe’s message is clear: you are not alone. Hang on. Take comfort in your friends. If you’re looking for universal truths, they’re right here.
Yes, it is indeed time to sing along – to songs that express a range of emotions, from anger to humor, fear to despair. The common thread might be love, but that is, as the old song goes, a many-splendored thing. And for some on Valentine’s Day, acknowledgment of these other feelings is exactly what’s needed.
I’m all out of love, I’m so lost without you
I know you were right believing for so long
I’m all out of love, what am I without you?
I can’t be too late to say that I was so wrong
The Silencers...razor blades of love
RE: I’m Not in Love is a love song.
That is a well written and heartbreaking song from the male point of view. Denial and the fictional technique of the unreliable narrator (as someone telling the story for the listener to discern the truth behind it).
“Separate Ways” by Journey
“You Give Love A Bad Name by Bon Jovi
“Love Bites” by Def Leppard
“I’ll Never Fall In Love Again by Dionne Warwich
“Love Is A Hurtin’ Thing” by Lou Rawls
The emotionally touching album Surfacing by Sarah McLachlan.
Interplay of love and then hoping the lost person will be carried in the arms of an angel to a place far from the pains of this life. Building a Mystery, Sweet Surrender, Angel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiLKTKd5pgs
Harry Nilsson...you’ve been warned.
Along those lines:
From “The Wedding Singer”
“Somebody Kill Me Please” (Language)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PudybhN0gmM
One of the saddest and greatest blues songs is So Many Roads.
I nearly wore out the John Hammond LP by that title. At age 18 I wondered what a future love and loss would be like.
But I was later moved by the genuine emotion in the live Joe Bonamassa version on Live From The Royal Albert Hall.
The narrator tried to distance himself by blaming the railroad engineer and brakeman who moved the train in the bleak, lonely night as the woman he loves is leaving him along in his house near the tracks. Helplessness and lost love. A magnificent song and version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB6fyR0BFp0
Not sure if this is a love song or not, but it is the most bizarre song lyric you may have ever sung along to.
Starz - Pull the Plug
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BZyW9rkoIXo&pp=ygUYc3RhcnogcHVsbCB0aGUgcGx1ZyBsaXZl
They left the room for a minute or two
Now, I know exactly what I’m going to do
It’s been so long since your vital signs went
And you don’t look the same in that oxygen tent
Now, if I get caught, I don’t care if I get hung
I can’t let my baby linger on in an iron-lung
Good-bye my sweet, understand what I’ve done
You can’t suffer no more if the motor won’t run
I pulled the plug, I pulled the plug
Yeah, I pulled the plug on my love
I pulled the plug, I pulled the plug
Yeah, I pulled the plug on my love
Yeah, something like that
You look so pale, you’ve lost so much weight
Well, six months ago was the last time you ate
If you would just smile, my tears would come like a flood
But, your heart ain’t even pumping, your body’s all done
Now, if I get caught, oh, they can give me the chair
At least I know I didn’t just leave you lying there
Good-bye my sweet, understand what I’ve done
You can’t suffer no more if the motor won’t run
I pulled the plug, I pulled the plug
Yeah, I pulled the plug on my love
Travis Tritt
*I am not getting married again.
I have made another commitment, I have brought daughter’s family in; we are now a household of eight.
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