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Post by twilightheart on Apr 11, 2008 12:34:10 GMT 2
Lately I heared the song "Wolfsballade" of the German medieval band "Cultus Ferox" for the first time (although it is an old song) and thought, this is the most touching love-song from the medieval/folk scene I ever heared (mostly for the lyrics).
So I wonder what's YOUR favourite love-song (and I don't mean ballads about feelings, but LOVE) from the Metal, Pagan or Folk scene (Pop not included)? I think there are not many, unfortunately. Or maybe I just don't know them (yet), that's why I started this thread, asking for YOUR fave from this genre.
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Post by Humppaporo on Apr 11, 2008 15:22:00 GMT 2
For me the greatest metal love song is very close to home It is Under the sun by Korpiklaani It may be an uncommon love song, but for me it gives the essence of love and trust... with a little plea also in it.
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Post by Veliveikko on Apr 11, 2008 18:44:24 GMT 2
wow. Under the sun was the first "love-song" which came to my mind. Finnish metal band Stam1na has a song called Erillaisen rakkauden todistaja (witness of different love). It's a bit aggressive and different love-song. I like also Timo Rautiainen's Sinulle (for you). Everyone doesn't think that song is metal but I don't care.
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Post by frostheim on Apr 11, 2008 20:39:29 GMT 2
I'm not a fan of love songs that much in general, but however one that I could mention is a good ol' hit from the 80's, namely Carrie by Europe. I admit that it's somewhat juicy, "over-sweet" and more or less corny at times, but still something that I find very nostalgic in it's own way. The album The Final Countdown came out in '86 and I heard both the title song + this for the first time in my life back at those times as well. To those who possibly don't know it (shame on you in that case!), here's the video from Youtube: > www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj1JXL-zvyw;D
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Post by Tyulusse on Apr 11, 2008 22:58:24 GMT 2
Yes, Carrie is a good love-song, but when I saw this thread I thought in "I remember you" by Skid Row, I remember now some love-songs in spanish, my fav is "La leyenda del Hada y el Mago" (the legend of the fairy and the wizard) by Rata Blanca, from the album "Magos, Espadas y Rosas", 1990, you can see the video too www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXVTmBqKV4o
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Post by janneke on Apr 11, 2008 23:33:28 GMT 2
Hmmm, I'll choose for our one and only Rapalje with the song "Caledonia - Inis Oirr"
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Post by DaveTheRake on Apr 12, 2008 12:47:33 GMT 2
You have chosen so far great love songs; for example "I Remember You" is such a beautiful song! And "Caledonia" is also sooooo beauty! One of this songs I'd like to know how to play and sing and do it for someone special while drinking a glass of wine... is a beautiful scene, don't you think? The greatest love song for me... well, I've always thought that the best love song ever is "Still Loving You" by Scorpions. It has the perfect mixture of softness and strength; softness on the expression of what the guy is feelling and then the strength on the chorus, expressing the necessity to start again and how much he'd like to do that. But lately I've heard a song that is even more touchy than this one, and it is "For Yasgur's Farm" by Mountain. I saw in a local rock bar this song played in a DVD called Sea Of Fire, and fell in love instantly with it. It's a reflexion about the end of a relationship, the typical feelling of "could I had done something else to save it?" but lyrics are full of beautiful images: "Who am I but you and the sun?". Moreover music has also that mixture of softness and strength, since intensity on chorus is like a burning flame. A good debtor of blues tradition. These songs aren't metal but Rock, I hope it doesn't matter and that they're close enough to Twi's intention when opening this thread; a great one, Twi !!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by drinkingtea on Apr 13, 2008 7:07:23 GMT 2
Sentenced's You Are the One strikes me as the ultimate love song. There is also a certain Cannibal Corpse song that makes me think of a happy relationship, but that has more to do with the circumstances when hearing the song for the first time than the actual subject matter of the song!
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Post by spider on Apr 13, 2008 16:10:15 GMT 2
It's not folk or pagan metal, but mine is "Speed of Pain" by Marilyn Manson. I'm not a huge fan of his apart from Mechanical Animals, but there's something about that song I've always loved. It's desolate and bleak but somehow beautiful and incredibly powerful. I've always seen it as illustrating the pain and beauty of love, and being about holding onto the beauty while keeping the pain at bay for one more day at a time.
I've been in some difficult relationships in my time, and I always seem to come back to that song when it all goes wrong.
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Post by Lionheart on Apr 14, 2008 9:18:02 GMT 2
the ultimate love song... hrm... Shy by Sonata Arctica is a nice one... it contains all the cheesyness and cornyness you want in a love song and also ofcuorse the melancholic touch...
Not too fond of love songs but this one fits very well...
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Post by Salamandra on Apr 14, 2008 16:20:47 GMT 2
Jethro Tull - Wond'ring Aloud for good solid relationships.
and for passing flings: Dead Can Dance - Don't Fade Away.
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Post by DaveTheRake on Apr 14, 2008 23:25:06 GMT 2
Jethro Tull - Wond'ring Aloud for good solid relationships. Let me take my hat off to you, Salamandra. I should be ashamed that being such a Tull fan I didn't mention this one, though maybe it was because I don't consider it a rock song, even though it is on one of the best rock albums in history. Definitely a delicious song, such a sweet melody, such a bittersweetness in the lyrics... because the voice really has some doubt about what's going to happen with this relationship... he doesn't like her "spilling crumbs on the bed" and so he shakes his head in reproval. I think in fact this is something everybody has felt in the begining of a relationship, these doubts, the "what's going to happen, will it last forever? will it be good? I'm sure it never go wrong"... of course then it goes wrong, it always go wrong sometimes before even it has started. Well, definitely a MUST to everybody who wants a sweet melody to have forever at heart.
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Post by Sara on Apr 16, 2008 8:50:34 GMT 2
Rammstein - Ohne Dich
I just love it. Mr Lindemann has such a wonderful voice and the lyrics are somewhat melancholic, but beautiful. Funny to compare songs like Ohne Dich and the "old Rammstein" like Du Hast/Links 2 3 4. Shows that even those guys can slow down for a while, and do it properly (a bit off topic, but nowadays they seem to do it even a bit too much, I miss the old "killing-mentality" a bit)-
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Post by Humppaporo on Apr 16, 2008 12:37:38 GMT 2
@sara: do you know the videoclip of this song? When i listened this song a few years ago i wondered what is was about... www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pkLDEEs20UI agree, a beautiful song.
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Post by Sara on Apr 17, 2008 9:58:56 GMT 2
@sara: do you know the videoclip of this song? When i listened this song a few years ago i wondered what is was about... www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pkLDEEs20UI agree, a beautiful song. Yeah I know that. It's propably the most beautiful video they've made. The scenes, wonderful.
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