Non-traditional/weird love songs

[fredericks]

I'm sitting here struggling through my homework with my PC wired through my stereo and the last two songs that have played strike me as ? non-traditional songs about love. The first song was Kelly Price's take on Shirley Murdock's classic "As We Lay", a song about the morning after an adulterous liasion. Lovely stuff about messing up a marriage. Next was Anita Baker's "Fairy Tales", about a relationship that was anything but. Going through my playlist the only other song I find that sort of fits the criteria is The Toadies "Possum Kingdom", because that's just really screwed up. Oh, and AFI's "Silver and Cold" - vampire love song!

Anyone know any interesting non-traditional love songs they want to share? And no, Weird Al's "You Don't Love Me Anymore" does not count.

Hmm...I think Radiohead's "Exit Music for a Film" might fit. It is about two lovers attempting to run from robots and getting killed, after all.

Comments

[theoban.livejournal.com]

Originally 'Exit Music for a Film' was going to be on the Romeo and Juliet soundtrack...but they said it was 'too dark'. Shame really.

erm, non-traditional love music? How about 'Manchild' by the Eels? Sorta a traditional love song, but it seems to me to be a man going 'I love you' to a woman who just ain't interested....like he's too nice and too loving, just not fun.

Bleh, that's all I gots.

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

*grin* "Exit Music" IS dark! It's part of the reason why I like it. I can see it working on the end credits, but I guess they wanted the audience to leave happy - "oh, they've both died but it's okay! let's blast happy rock music!"

Manchild is interesting. I hadn't heard of the band or the song before.

And every time you crave for me i'm here
And anything you hunger for i'll share
And i will be quietly standing by
While slowly i am dying inside

Hold me in your arms
And let me be the one
Who can feel like i am a child in love

Every time i talk to you you're down
And every time you need a laugh i'm around
And when you forget i'm here i'm not
It isn't really me that you forgot

Hold me in your arms
And let me be the one
Who can feel like i am a child in love

Whisper now and tell me how
You'll watch me and tell me
Somehow i'm gonna be alright

That's it, right? Unrequited love, huh? Sucks.

[theoban.livejournal.com]

Ech, it's not that non-traditional (the lyrics don't have the voice over of the women complaining about being bored and 'over this'), but it's what I was listening to and I'm lazy. So lazy.