The love songs that predominate, as they usually do with Oberst, are long on social context.
Not all of the songs on Other People's Love Songs are about romantic love.
He wrote 69 love songs, all of them gems, for the appropriately-titled collection 69 Love Songs.
"What other people might call 'love songs, ' I think of as homages, " she says.
He sits a while in lonely taverns where some love songs are sung in Spanish ("Maria Elena").
On "Love Songs, " for instance, the line, "I'll drag you down with me, " is sung on repeat.
The politicians are among a host of famous couples who outlined their favourite love songs for Valentine's Day.
Jimmie Dale resonates when he sings about writing love songs when he should have just strummed his guitar.
She likes his broken-hearted love songs -- or maybe she just wants to get her Hoover fixed cheap.
His style is rooted in the Gypsy Lautari tradition of slowly paced melancholy love songs, laments and drinking songs.
But just as predictably, the love songs have a sweetness to them.
In the '90s, Stephin Merritt's primary band, The Magnetic Fields, released six albums, climaxing with the three-CD 69 Love Songs.
But as it turns out, such frailty is well suited for bittersweet love songs about missed connections and doomed romances.
Mr. Barry is responsible for the words to some of the most influential teenage love songs of the early '60s sung from the female perspective.
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But black men don't even bother to romance women in love songs anymore, says Kimberly Hines, editor-in-chief of SoulBounce, an online progressive urban music site.
For his new album, Other People's Love Songs, Corey Dargel wrote 13 personalized songs on commission for couples of all configurations: Husbands and wives, siblings, and friends.
When Neko Case toured in support of 2006's Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, she claimed that she didn't like love songs, and that she was incapable of writing one.
The sensitive-guy love songs are exactly what his fans expect.
But on her sixth studio album, due out March 3, Case offers up what she calls "a bunch of love songs, " which are heartbreakingly beautiful and, at times, comical.
"My Voice Is in Your Head" opens Other People's Love Songs, an album that relates the real-life love stories of regular people, in this case the accident-prone Katie and Teresa.
The love songs on Middle Cyclone are also unconventional: The opening track, "This Tornado Loves You, " imagines what it would be like to have an affair with a funnel cloud.
With track titles like "29 Acts of Love, " "Lovers In The Bathroom, " and "Love Songs, " it's clear the Los Angeles-based trio Gliss concerns itself largely with matters of the heart.
Huge metallic claws resting on uplit pedestals compete for attention against giant inflatable rats singing love songs to each other and a boardwalk twisted into rollercoaster-like hoops by a pallet truck.
And now, in time for Valentine's Day, Jones has released a new 25-song double-CD entitled "From Q, With Love, " a collection of his favorite love songs that he has produced since 1966.
This disc falls into the latter category, but Lawson expresses his spirituality here via old-fashioned love songs, not honky-tonk love songs, mind you, which usually involve drinking and cheating and possibly firearms.
"We're looking at music from the divine liturgy, labor songs and love songs, " said Mr. Tritle, adding that he hopes to present music from around the world as a way of matching the church's international outreach.
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