It was after I made you a list. =(
EDIT: Just so you know, this is a list compiled by me AND my girlfriend (who would listen to every genre of music that there ever was, even some that shouldn’t exist, we could give less than half a shit what you think about our tastes).
Romantic:
Aaron Lines - “You Can’t Hide Beautiful”
Barenaked Ladies - “If I Had a Million Dollars”
Rolling Stones - “Wild Horses”
Beach Boys - “Wouldn’t It Be Nice?”
Ben Folds - “The Luckiest”
Big O - “And Forever”
Billy Joel - “For the Longest Time”
Blessed Union of Souls - “Let Me Be the One”
Bon Jovi - “I’ll Be the One for You”
Bon Jovi - “Thank You for Loving Me”
Brad Paisly - “Two People Fell in Love”
Bryan Adams - “Everything I Do I Do For You”
Bryan Adams - “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman”
Bryan Adams - “Heaven”
Bryan Adams - “Tree of Hearts”
Chantal Kreviazuk - “Feels Like Home”
Cheap Trick - “I Want You to Want Me”
Chris Deburgh - “Lady in Red”
Collin Raye - “On the Verge”
The Doors - “Crystal Ship”
The Eagles - “Love Will Keep Us Alive”
Edwin McCain - “I Could Not Ask for More”
Elton John - “Your Song”
Eric Carmen - “Hungry Eyes”
Fine Young Cannibals - “She Drives Me Crazy”
Firehouse - “Love of a Lifetime”
Firehouse - “When I Look Into Your Eyes”
Foreigner - “Waiting for a Girl Like You”
Gary Allen - “Right Where I Need To Be”
George Harrison - “Got My Mind Set On You”
Guns N’ Roses - “Sweet Child of Mine”
Gus - “Don’t Fear the Reaper” (slower, sweeter sounding version of the original)
Heather Nova - “London Rain (Nothing Else Heals Me Like You Do)”
Hello Dolly (musical) - “It Only Takes a Moment”
Huey Louis and the News - “Happy to be Stuck on You”
Huey Louis and the News - “Power of Love”
The Cure - “Lovesong”
The Cure - “Love cats”
Jamie Waters - “How Do You Talk To an Angel”
Jeff Healy Band - “Angel Eyes”
Jo Dee Messina - “Heads Carolina Tails California”
Journey - “Faithfully”
Jouney - “Open Arms”
July for Kings - “Normal Life”
Kelly Clarkson - “A Moment Like This”
Kenny Chesney - “The Good Stuff”
Led Zeppelin - “All My Love”
Led Zeppelin - “D’yer M’ker”
Led Zeppelin - “Fool in the Rain”
Linda Rondstead w/ Aaron Neville - “All My Life”
Liz Phair - “Why Can’t I”
Macy Gray w/ Erykah Badu - “Sweet Baby”
The Cure - “Hot Hot Hot”
The Cure - “Why Can’t I Be You?”
Meat Loaf - “Anything for Love”
Michael Bolton - “When a Man Loves a Woman”
Michael Penn - “No Myth (Romeo in Black Jeans)”
Moody Blues - “In Our Wildest Dreams”
Pantera - “This Love” (if she likes that kinda stuff)
Moulin Rouge - “Come What May”
Moulin Rouge - “Elephant Love Medley”
Mr. Bigg - “To Be With You”
My Fair Lady (musical) - “On the Street Where You Live”
My Fair Lady - “I Could Have Danced All Night”
Nine Days - “Absolutely (Story of a Girl)”
Norah Jones - “Come Away With Me”
OMD - “If You Leave”
Our Lady Peace - “Somewhere Out There”
Pat Benetar - “We Belong”
Patrick Swayze - “She’s Like the Wind”
Patsy Cline - “Walkin’ After Midnight”
New Order - “Bizarre Love Triangle”
Peter Gabrial - “In Your Eyes”
Phil Vasser - “Just Another Day in Paridise”
PM Dawn - “I’ll Die Without You”
The Pretenders - “I’ll Stand By You”
Queen - “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
Queen - “Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy”
Queen - “Love of My Life”
Queen - “These are the Days of Our Lives”
Queen - “Who Wants to Live Forever”
Pink Floyd - “Wish You Were Here”
REO Speedwagon - “I Can’t Fight This Feelin’ Anymore”
Saigon Kick - “Love is On the Way”
Sammy Kershaw - “She Don’t Know She’s Beautiful”
Tim McGraw - “My Best Friend”
Savage Garden - “I Knew I Loved You”
Savage Garden - “Truely Madly Deeply”
Savage Garden - “I Want You”
Shaggy - “Angel”
Sexy:
Marvin Gaye - “Let’s Get It On”
Joe Cocker - “You Can Leave Your Hat On”
Aerosmith - “Pink”
Bloodhound Gang - “Bad Touch” (only if she has a good sense of humour)
Amy Irving - “Why Don’t You Do Right” (another good version is by Rasputina)
Steppenwolf - “Magic Carpet Ride”
Chris Isaac - “Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing”
Custom - “Hey Mister” (“Hey mister, i really like your daughter, i’d like to eat her like ice cream maybe dip her in chocolate.”)
Crazytown - “Butterfly”
En Vogue - “Giving Him Something He Can Feel” (especially good stripping song)
Faith Hill w/ Tim McGraw - “Let’s Make Love”
Fiona Apple - “Criminal”
Angelo Badalamente - “The Pink Room”
Groove Theory - “Tell Me”
INXS - “Need You Tonight”
Incubus - “Antigravity Love Song”
John Mayer - “Your Body is a Wonderland”
Joss Stone - “Fell in Love With a Boy”
KoRn - “A.D.I.D.A.S.”
Kylie Minogue - “Can’t Get You Out of My Head”
Tool - “Parabol/Parabola”
Lil Kim - “How Many Licks”
Liz Phair - “Flower”
Love and Rockets - “So Alive”
Moby - “Flower”
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - “Do You Love Me”
Nine Inch Nails - “Deep”
Nine Inch Nails - “Closer”
Paula Cole - “Feelin’ Love” (you make me feel like a sticky pistil, leanin’ into her stamen…you make me feel like the amazon’s running between my thighs…)
Peggy Lee - “Fever”
Puddle of Mudd - “Control”
Queen - “Body Language”
Robert Palmer - “Addicted to Love”
And it’s off the subject, but you have to download “Too High for the Supermarket” by The Uninvited. It’s hilarious and you’d love it, I’m sure.
This is the rest of them, I was going to arrange them all neatly, but I got tired. I’m sure that you’ll like some of it. There.
romance: sophie b. hawkins - lose your way; starship - stop us now; stephen bishop - it might be you; color me badd - all for love; the ataris - i wont spend another night alone; the cardigans - lovefool; the corrs - breathless; the cure - friday i’m in love; the darkness - i believe in a thing called love; tim mcgraw - where the green grass grows; tom jones - she’s a lady; train - meet virginia; travis tritt - love of a woman; trisha yearwood - she’s in love with the boy; vanessa carlton - a thousand miles, ordinary day; weezer - el scorcho, island in the sun; west side story musical - somewhere; whitesnake - is this love
sex: stone temple pilots - sex type thing; stroke 9 - do it again; the cramps - i wanna get in your pants, like a bad girl should; the cruxshadows - helen (nothing left but me); tim mcgraw - real good man; warrant - cherry pie;
its too bad this thread came back from devolving to a rant on the comically over-systematized world of techno genre nomenclature. theres nothing funnier in the world.
Ah! That’s the name of it! I just couldn’t remember the name of it!