Unrequited love again

The theme of unrequited love continues to provide a goldmine. We have dealt with it here and here and here (though the last of these has only dead links). And we’re not even close to even scratching the surface! It’s a universal thing, of course; most people have had a bout of unrequited love. If [...]

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More unrequited love songs

Unrequited love provides us with a rich mine of heartbreaking songs. So following from the first part on love that is unreciprocated, here are eight more takes of chances missed, emotions deferred, affections unexpressed and love rejected. And, fans of nagging pains in the guts rejoice, there’ll be a third instalment soon.
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Songs by the dumped

Women have I Will Survive to articulate for them how all men are bastards. Nottingham’s Mr Sex of the brilliant Todger Talk blog, which dispenses superb sex and relationship advice to men, pointed out to me at the star-studded gala for the Any Major Blogs Awards earlier this year that men have few equivalent karaoke [...]

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More somebody done somebody wrong songs

After the break-up comes the longing for a love lost or forfeited. Or so it seems with this bunch of singers.
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B.J. Thomas – Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song (1975).mp3
When one wallows in misery, it is good to know that others are feeling just as badly. B.J. Thomas wants his sorrow over a break-up validated [...]

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Any Major Love Mix 2009 Vol.2

I posted a mix of songs about being in love last year, for Valentine’s Day, with a view to facilitating loads of romantic seductions (or something). That mix got deleted by ZShare. Responding to a request, I have revised the tracklisting, dropping a few songs, adding a few new, changing the track order. The Jonatha [...]

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Songs about impossible love

Love that cannot be is a vicious thing. Love is reciprocated, happiness is within one’s grasp (the song Pachelbel makes a beautiful reference to that), but something – marital obligation, family or class politics, sexual orientation, age gap, distance, wrong time and place – obstructs the path to bliss. Here’s then to songs (a couple [...]

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Songs of love and death

Let’s bring everybody down a bit with love songs about death (though the final song should resurrect some mirth). To me the song of death will always be Julie Covington’s Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, the last record my mother and father listened to together before his sudden death in 1977. My mother would play [...]

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Songs of Adultery

The theme song for infidelity, Your Cheating Heart, will feature in another instalment, so we will have to do with this bunch of adulterers (all but one men) and the people they’ve hurt (all but one of them women).

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Hello Saferide – Last Bitter Song.mp3
Annika Norlin has been cheated on with a thin blonde [...]

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Sea of heartbreak

Finding songs about broken hearts is like shooting whales in a barrel of treacle. So, naturally, those represented here are not necessarily the best or brightest in the genre (though the two Motown songs probably are). But I hope they provide a decent round-up. The series of songs about love will run for a while [...]

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Longing for love

Is it better to have love and lost than never to have loved? There aren’t many songs about yearning for love. So, as decided by a staw-poll on my Facebook page (become my friend here), for Valentine’s Day here is a collection of songs for those who have nobody to share the commercial feast with, [...]

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