# What's your favorite song called "I Want You"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 14, 2005, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-called-i-want-you/331071 "2005-11-14T23:21:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-called-i-want-you/331071/21 "2005-11-15T17:03:03Z")
The Beatles and Costello’s tie in my book. (Though the Costello song is pretty scary when you pay attention to how obssessive it is.) ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-called-i-want-you/331071/22 "2005-11-15T18:16:04Z")
The one by Savage Garden. No foolin’. ---
**Author:** ![MilTan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MilTan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MilTan)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-called-i-want-you/331071/23 "2005-11-15T18:54:37Z")
> [@SmackFu](#): > > The one by Savage Garden. No foolin’. I’m ashamed (ok, not really) to say that this is the one I think of, too. I like the Cheap Trick “I want you” as well (especially the cover by, I believe, Save Ferris). ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-called-i-want-you/331071/24 "2005-11-15T22:31:14Z")
Costello’s definitely wins. It’s so deliciously twisted and masochistic. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-called-i-want-you/331071/25 "2005-11-15T23:47:47Z")
> [@max yasgur](#): > > 🙂 \*\*Rachel Yamagata’s I Want You off the Happenstance album. \*\* Great song, fantastic album. Yeah, I dig this too. (I think Happenstance is inconsistent, but this part’s good.) –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-called-i-want-you/331071/26 "2005-11-16T00:50:31Z")
> [@SmackFu](#): > > The one by Savage Garden. No foolin’. Yep. Only thing I have against it is that it goes too fast for me to properly sing along. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-called-i-want-you/331071/27 "2005-11-16T03:33:28Z")
#1 - Elvis Costello #2 - Bob Dylan I love The Beatles, but “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” isn’t one of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-called-i-want-you/331071/28 "2005-11-16T10:23:19Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally Posted by SmackFu_ > The one by Savage Garden. No foolin’. I was hoping I wasn’t going to be the only one in this thread 😃 ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-called-i-want-you/331071/29 "2005-11-16T14:04:50Z")
I’d have to pick “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” by the German thrash metal band Coroner. Mostly by default, since I’m not at all familiar with the other “I Want You”'s mentioned in this thread (except Cheap Trick.) ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-called-i-want-you/331071/30 "2005-11-16T14:07:19Z")
Wumpscut’s Das Will Ich. ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-called-i-want-you/331071/31 "2005-11-16T18:42:16Z")
For me, it’s Costello and Etheridge at the top of the list; they’re both great songs of obsessive love. ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-called-i-want-you/331071/32 "2005-11-17T11:23:16Z")
> [@Lisa-go-Blind](#): > > I love The Beatles, but “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” isn’t one of my favorites. I agree. It’s basically a 90 second song idea padded out to eight minutes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-called-i-want-you/331071.md?page=1)