# Need some "cool" love songs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-cool-love-songs/280549>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 18, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-cool-love-songs/280549 "2004-12-18T19:00:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![EmeraldGrue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dc4da7/32.png) [@EmeraldGrue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmeraldGrue)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-cool-love-songs/280549/21 "2004-12-19T14:12:13Z")

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> [@Freejooky](#):
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> The entriety of the Magnetic Fields’ “69 Love Songs.”

Second! You can’t get much cooler than that. And…  
“Ahead by a Century” - the Tragically Hip  
“Lovers in a Dangerous Time” - BNL cover  
“All I Want Is You” - U2  
“Underwater” - Tegan & Sara

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**Author:** ![Lambo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lambo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lambo)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-cool-love-songs/280549/22 "2004-12-19T14:24:01Z")

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“U Stink but I Love You” by [Billy and the Boingers](http://jalandoak.its-official.com/bb/). Oh, how I wish I knew where my flexidisk of that is.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-cool-love-songs/280549/23 "2004-12-19T14:35:49Z")

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“Heard It in a Love Song” - The Marshall Tucker Band

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-cool-love-songs/280549/24 "2004-12-19T14:49:38Z")

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_Into My Arms_, Nick Cave  
_By The Sea_, Suede  
_The Ship Song_, Nick Cave  
_Just Like Heaven_, The Cure  
_Something Changed_, Pulp  
_Just Like Fred Astaire_, James  
_Don’t Look Back_, Teenage Fanclub

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**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-cool-love-songs/280549/25 "2004-12-19T17:30:53Z")

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Here are some, with varying degrees of love sentiment, ranging from in love to out love but love regardless:

Camper Van Beethoven - I Love Her All The Time, She Divines Water, Sweethearts  
Sparklehorse - Hundreds of Sparrows  
Matt the Electrician - Kathie’s Song  
Don McLean - Winterwood, Empty Chairs  
Moby Grape - 8:05  
They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse in your soul, She’s an angel, Ana Ng, First Kiss  
Ben Kweller - Falling  
Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945, Oh Comely, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea  
for Stars - Lend Out Your Love  
Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet  
The Robot Ate Me (with Elliot Smith?) - Angel in the Snow  
Ralph McTell - Streets of London  
Rod McKuen - You Even Taste Like The Sun, Growing Old Together  
Tilly and the Wall - Let It Rain  
Poco - Crazy Love (This one is to counter balance any and all Eagles suggestions in the thread)

I’ll stop there.

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**Author:** ![Randolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Randolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randolph)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2004, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-some-cool-love-songs/280549/26 "2004-12-19T19:42:28Z")

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**Simply Beautiful** , by Al Green. Via headphones if possible.

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