BEST LOVE SONGS!!!!

This is a list of what i consider to be the best love songs. This list isn't exclusively about promises of love...breakup songs are love songs or at least songs related to love...the end of it!

So in no particular order.......DRUM ROLES PLEASE..........

NAT KING COLE-ORANGE COLOURED SKY (appears on the album The World of Nat King Cole. Nat "King" Cole)

This is a brillant song, first time i heard it i was listening to music (that my best pal had given me) in TEA SPOT (a tea house in nairobi CBD) n i couldnt stop smilling. It took me to the old type of cartoons, you kbnow the cartoons that were actually cartoons....TOM AND JERRY,TOP CAT etc. Those scenes where  they were in the nightclub or when one of the men feel for the hot Marlyn Monroe inspired feline. Thsi song has a happy-go-lucky feel to it. Its a fusion of show tune, broadway and jazz served HOOOTT! you can tell hes fallen n fallen hard n he has no control of it.....like we ever do.The song actually end swith him saying......"WOW I THOUGHT LOVE WAS MUCH SOFTER THAN THAT, WHAT A MOST DISTURBING SOUND." 


AMEL LARRIEUX- IF I WERE A BELL (in the album LOVELY STANDARDS 2007) oriiginally by MILES DAVIS IN the  album Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet.

This is a very soulful jazz piece. Very relaxed, very simple...as we all want love to be. Don't know y but this track feels very Disney to me some scene where the girls daydreaming about her "knight and shining amour" I love the similes....it just taps into ones imagination and brings the song to life. You can just picture her DING DONG DINGING














MACY GRAY- SWEET BABY (from the ALBUM THE ID featuring LAURYN HILL)

The video for this song is what got me hooked all those many years ago. Check it out on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJdh3oNa0bc

The message in the song is another factor that puts this song on my list. Its dreamy ( I love you now and ever) but still factual (sweet baby life is crazy) i also like the dramatic scene in the video when she grabs her kid from him....so KENYAN. The icing on the cake is her raspy voice....raw, real and in your face just like love.

LUCY PEARL- YOU (album LUCY PEARL featuring SNOOP DOGG and Q-TIP)

I'm not the kind of person who loves a song for the beats but these beats, as simple and monotonous as they seem are beautiful and flow beautifully with RAPHAEL'S voice and how ingenious they are because they've incorporated clapping. The lyrics are sweet (he wrote a new commandment/After he was through). But the chorus is what makes this song its just the whole package and as i mentioned before....simple. Snoop and Q do a brilliant job shocked they, especially snoop, didn't curse after every two words.

AMY WINEHOUSE- LOVE IS A LOSING GAME (album LOVE IS A LOSING GAME)

Its 3:43 mins long and its 3:43 mins too short. A strumming guitar,a soulful voice and realistic words. This song has so much weight in it. you can tell that she was once hurt, that love hurt her.

 She doesn't seem bitter, its like reality hit her, hard, and she's accept it (Though I'm rather blind/Love is a fate resigned), shes accepted that if she ever falls in love again she'l lose. This song reminds me of LAURYN HILL'S MTV UNPLUGGED ALBUM the acoustic feel is close especially with the song IT'S JUST LIKE THE WATER.

FERGIE-FINALLY (album THE DUTCHESS)

It also has a very disney feel toit. very fairytale. One gets the feeling that she's found him and shes content. The song is a story from when her life was imperfect before him to when she screwed up things when he came along and now shes FINALLY has accepted him...them...even Though we will have a different set. Its about the imperfection we all have and how a lover gives you the tools to heal yourself...to be content. Check out this american idol 2008 performance with JOHN LEGEND(perfect combination) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Eglp2hYYU

KANYE WEST- ALL FALLS DOWN (album COLLEGE DROPOUT featuring SYLEENA JOHNSON)

This is one of my favourite songs. If i could walk down the aisle to this song i would.....come to think of it i just might. Its the 16th track in this album, the best album ever. LAURYN HILL passed the chance to chance to feature in this song, too bad for her because SYLEENA did a brilliant job. Ive heard lauryn's version and it ain't good at all...its off MTV UNPLUGGED.
Have a listen to it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axFIoWPVoL0

This songs video is also my favourite videos of all times...its just BRILLIANT and the dress the chic is wearing will be mine ONE DAY.....ONE DAY SOON! i adore it.
Check out the greatest video of all time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kyWDhB_QeI

ANDRE 300 (album SPEAKERBOX/THE LOVE BELOW)

(andre 3000) the moring after
(girl) what time is it, 7:48
where where where are my panties?
oh my god where are my panties
damn what i don't, he gon think im a hoe
fuck that i liked it
i was drunk and it was my birthday anyway
maybe i should just lay here and let him touch my booty
but he don't even know my name.

(andre 3000)i know she think i think she just some kinda hoe
i don't give a sh!t about giving it up on the first night
that just let me know, she know what she want outta life
what a hell of a god damn way to wake up
ooh that sh!t was good
maybe she'll get me some breakfast
she so goddamn sweet,sweet as she wanna be
ooh i just wanna lay in her hair
you can't fall for her, don't fall for it you can't fall for it ice cold
(voice)ice cold
(andre 3000)maybe i'll just roll over and lay on her booty
yeah naw naw naw now just lay here and be cool ice cold
(voice)ice cold
(andre 3000)what what what if she's the one

This song, if you'd call it that, is on the list because of its originallity, honesty, rawness and the c that he says what what what if she's the one.  this is not a line you except to here from a dude. 
Have a listen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuOPN83cwr4&p=56FE1A76531B6D0F&playnext=1&index=31


ANTHONY HAMILTON-COOL (album THE POINT OF IT ALL)

I love this song because its my idea of a perfect relationship......for most of us id guess.....STRESSFREE. a COOL relationship,you are just how you are.

The video is simple other than the really ridiculous part when they decide to jump start the car in a thunderstorm....really!!!!!!!

ATEMI-SOMEDAY (album-HATIMAYE)

BEAUTIFUL!! BEAUTIFUL!! BEAUTIFUL!!

The African vibe, simplicity, romance and similes in this song make me melancholic. 

The mix of Swahili and English AND of the male and female voices are perfect.

Theres this feel of possible impossibility. a fairytale in real life!

BABYFACE-WHEN CAN I SEE YOU AGAIN (album-FACE TO FACE)

This song has the classic 90s feel. the snapping fingers and guitar feel. I LOOOOVE IT!

The lyrics are soo sad and this is emphasized by his voice, You just feel like he really needs to SEE HER AGAIN, like it isnt really a request but a demand...a desparate demand. 

I guess this song is in this list due to its desparation because to me thats a part of any form of love. The desparation to be with someone, to have company, to feel needed.....to get him/her back.

BEYONCE-FLAWS AND ALL (album-B-DAY)

THIS SONG AND THIS VIDEO ARE WHO I AM IN EVERY WAY!!! i am my FLAWS AND ALL........nd arent these flaws a handful.

listen and watch the video and i hope you'll get it:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1l4l7_flaws-and-all-beyonce_music

BOB MARLEY-WAITING IN VAIN (album-LEGE)