What's your 'couple' song

[Miss 1929]

Youkali

by Kurt Weill.

 

[plain old dave]

Two words: At Last.

Artist: Etta James (Sorry, Glenn Miller fans....)

 

[cooncatbob]

The Journey
by Brandi Carlile

 

[MrNewportCustom]

I've only had one "couple song," and it was with Lisa. Moon Dance.


Lee

 

[dostacos]

ah, Three Fanfares.... this is the ABC Olympic music, now it sounds a WHOLE lot different when it is a big pipe organ playing the music

this was played at our wedding and is really the only thing that would work as "our song"

 

[GeniusInTheLamp]

When I worked in western Maryland, I dated a gal for a few months. Our song was "Drift Off To Dream" by Travis Tritt. Hey, I was working at a C&W radio station at the time.

 

[Nashoba]

Our first dance at our wedding was to 'You Move Me' by Garth Brooks.

 

[Kishtu]

There are lots that remind me of him - but "our song" has to be Fairport Convention, "Hexhamshire Lass".

Oh - and "Dizzy" by Vic Reeves and the Wonderstuff, and "Mmmmm Bop" by Hanson (there is a story to this I might add.... we're neither of us closet Hanson fans!)

 

[~*Red*~]

"Sleepwalk" by Santo and Johnny
"Stay" is second in line. hee hee!

 

[Edward]

2- 'Fairytale Of New York' - Pogues

Two old alcoholics who hate each other but are actually too far gone to leave? Heh. Nice. Actually, it's probably my favourite Christmas song - it's certainly the only Christmas song I can think of that has ever made me cry. Definitely took on something of a melancholic air after Kirsty Macoll's sad and untimely death - can't listen to it now without remembering how she died, I think that accident wasn't far off Christmas either? It's a great number live - I just wish I'd been able to hear it performed live by both Shane and Kirsty.

I don't think I have ever had a couple song. If I did, I'd want ot to be something obscure, possible a Pogues, or a Dylan number... or some obscure psychobilly stomp would be great. Ha.... or possibly the White Stripes' Fell in Love with a Girl.

There is a song which reminds me of an ex - tragic at the time, I now think of it as a narrow escape. One day, a couple of months after I'd gotten over it all and moved on, I happened to put on a Dylan disk I'd not had on in some time. Positively Fourth Street leapt right out at me. I don't know what Dylan was thinknig when he wrote it, but it was about my ex. Word for word.

 

[Samsa]

There is a song which reminds me of an ex - tragic at the time, I now think of it as a narrow escape. One day, a couple of months after I'd gotten over it all and moved on, I happened to put on a Dylan disk I'd not had on in some time. Positively Fourth Street leapt right out at me. I don't know what Dylan was thinknig when he wrote it, but it was about my ex. Word for word.

That is a GREAT song, and perfect for certain exes. Bob Dylan has quite a few good "breakup" songs. I'm also fond of "I Don't Believe You," "Idiot Wind," and "Dirge".....I could go on and on.

 

[jgilbert]

Gershwin - Our Love is Here to stay.

 

[Edward]

That is a GREAT song, and perfect for certain exes. Bob Dylan has quite a few good "breakup" songs. I'm also fond of "I Don't Believe You," "Idiot Wind," and "Dirge".....I could go on and on.

Dylan is the master of the sweet-pop-song on the surface / corrosive bile underneath once you listen to the lyrics format. Definitely few people have captured the downside of relationships so well as he over the years.... in that case, though, Positively... was just so spot on it was unnerving.

 

[griffer]

My wife and I have a couple....

1- 'Interlude' - Morrissey & Siouxsie
2- 'Fairytale Of New York' - Pogues
3- 'Just Like Heaven' - Cure (and actually many, many cure songs...)

Not to be taken out of context, so I am quoting my list entirely since Edward resurrected it in part.

Fairytale is so bitter sweet- it isn't just about alcoholics, which is not my wife and I, but it's about how easy it is to fail and take soemon with you on the way if you aren't careful.

A couple lyrics yank us everytime, as I 'dragged' her from Portland so I could work in NY...

"It was christmas eve babe...
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you"

"I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true"

"When you first took my hand
On a cold christmas eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me"

"We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night"

"I could have been someone"

"You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Cant make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you"

Sorry, it gets me.

 

[Edward]

Fairytale always seemed to me to beautifully reflect the very different attitudes (to generalise) of men and women in my experience. Always seemed to me that men are the ones who can't give up the impossible dreams, whereas women are more likely to be realistic about it - not that that means they have to like it. Frau Schneider-like - "It'll all go on if we're here or not, so who cares?, so what."

 

[CdnDandy]

My wife and I have two.

We're both big Casablanca fans, so our first dance at our wedding was our live band doing a very good cover of "As Time Goes By." Funnily enough, as we checked in for our honeymoon in Varadero, that same song was being played at the piano bar next to the lobby!

The second? A song by local band Captain Tractor called "Frozen Puck to the Head" about a goalie so taken with a local waitress that he lets in five goals in the first three minutes of the game, and gets pulled. Must be a Canadian thing.

 

[thebadmamajama]

We just decided 2 days ago, officially, what "our song" is, "Dance Me To The End of Love" by Madeleine Peyroux. Fitting considering we met dancing and our first conversation was about Madeleine.

 

[retrogirl1941]

Mine and my husband-to-be's song is "I'll be seeing you". A week after we met both of us started writing lines from song on the signature of our emails. And we found out we both loved that song. So he got it engraved on a sweetheart dog tag from WWII for my enagagment "ring".

Samantha

 

[RetroBabydoll]

"More" by Bobby Darin

 

[missmelly]

We have four:
You Are So Beautiful :: Joe Cocker
True :: Spandau Ballet
Never, My Love :: The Association
Happy Together :: The Turtles
All songs were played at our wedding