PLAYLIST. On this Monday, February 14, Valentine’s Day, whether you are in a relationship or single, love songs are essential on this day!
A day placed under the sign of love. Like every year, February 14 is Valentine’s Day! Whether you are a couple or single, it is always an opportunity to declare your love, to your loved ones or to your crush. If it’s not easy for everyone, music can be a great way to confess your feelings. Or have a good time. So what are the best Valentine’s Day songs? Linternaute.com has tried to answer this question. Check out our playlist:
- Still Loving You – Scorpios
- Do not leave me – Jacques Brel
- Hallelujah -Jeff Buckley
- Ode to love – Edith Piaf
- I Will Always Love You -Whitney Houston
1. Still Loving You – Scorpios
Still loving You is the success that reveals the German hard rock band Scorpions to the general public. Released in 1984 on the album Love at First Sting, this ballad, declaration of love from a man to the woman who has just left him, is ranked 43 weeks in the French charts and 56 weeks in the American charts. An essential title in the middle of the eighties.
Words : Time, it needs time To win back your love again I will be there I will be there Love, only love Can bring back your love someday I will be there I will be there Fight, babe, I’ll fight To win back your love again I will be there I will be there Love Only love Can break down the wall someday I will be there I will be there.
2. Do not leave me – Jacques Brel
Do not leave me is the title that really launched the career of Jacques Brel in 1959. In the form of a plea, the song evokes the loss of dignity of a man for the love of a woman. If Brel’s interpretation has a lot to do with it, other versions, such as that of Nina Simone, will come to magnify on the international scene this work which has remained cult and sung in more than 15 languages throughout the world.
Words : Don’t leave me / You have to forget / Everything can be forgotten / Who is already fleeing / Forgetting time / Misunderstandings / And lost time / Knowing how / Forgetting those hours / Which sometimes killed / Suddenly why / The heart of happiness / Don’t leave me…
3. Hallelujah -Jeff Buckley
Written and first performed by Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah released in 1984 on the album Various Positions. Using the metaphor of gendered love, the song has been the subject of many covers but became cult in 1994 with the ultra-sensitive interpretation of Jeff Buckley on his album Grace. When Cohen died in 2016, Hallelujah reignited the charts and ranked at number 59 on the Billborard Hot 100 in the United States and at number 12 in digital sales.
Words : I heard there was a secret chord / That David played and it pleased the lord / But you don’t really care for music, do you / Well it goes like this / The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift / The baffled king composing hallelujah / Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah…
4. Ode to love – Edith Piaf
It was released in 1950 and has never looked so good! Written and performed by Edith Piaf, Ode to love is dedicated to his current passion, boxer Marcel Cerdan. A woman’s affair, since the music is by Marguerite Monnot. In addition to the memorable interpretation of Piaf, the title is repeated many times on the international scene. In 2016, the BVA polling institute appointed Ode to love favorite “francophone love song” of the French.
Words : The blue sky on us may crumble / And the earth may well crumble / I don’t care if you love me / I don’t care about the whole world / As long as love floods my mornings / As long as my body will quiver under your hands / I don’t care about problems / My love, since you love me…
5. I Will Always Love You -Whitney Houston
If there is one must-have hit of the 10 most beautiful love songs, it is I Will Always Love You, brilliantly interpreted by Whitney Houston in 1992 for the film “Bodyguard”, where the star gives the reply to Kevin Costner. Flagship title of the 1990s, this heartbreaking declaration of an impossible love is actually the cover of a great name in country, Dolly Parton, who created it in 1974 in a very different version. No matter, in 1992 the single spent 14 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. In the hearts of Americans, I Will Always Love You forever remains a cult.
Words : If I should stay / I would only be in your way / So I’ll go, but I know / I’ll think of you every step of the way / And I will always love you / I will always love you / You, my darling you / Bittersweet memories / That is all I’m taking with me.
6. Your Song -Elton John
Your Song is composed by the duo Elton John and Bernie Taupin. When it was released in 1970, the ballad propelled Elton John, then almost unknown in Great Britain, to international star status. The title challenges some big names, like John Lennon, and knows many times. In 2003, Your Song is ranked 136th by Rolling Stone magazine among the 500 greatest songs of all time.
Words : It’s a little bit funny, this feelin’ inside / I’m not one of those who can easily hide / I don’t have much money, but boy, if I did / I’d buy a big house where we both could live / If I was a sculptor, but then again, no / Or a man who makes potions in a travelin’ show.
7. when we only have love – Jacques Brel
Among the first compositions of Jacques Brel, when we only have love is his very first success. The strength of the text lies in the Brazilian crescendo which underlines its dramatic progression. Released in 1956, the song won the Grand Prix du Disque Charles Cros and was a triumph at the Alhambra. Its many covers, especially by the younger generation in the 2010s, definitively anchor when we only have love among the leading love songs.
Words : When we only have love / To offer ourselves in sharing / On the day of the big trip / What is our great love / When we only have love / My love you and me / So that they burst with joy / Every hour and every day…
8. Love me tender -Elvis Presley
We could not miss the sentimental song par excellence: Love Me Tender, from the title of the eponymous film, is of course interpreted by Elvis Presley. The lyrics of this languorous ballad are by Ken Darby. First broadcast on the radio in 1956 without being published, the song received more than a million pre-orders, which ranked it number 1 on the charts even before its publication. Love Me Tender toured the world several times, we note the remarkable interpretation of Johnny Cash.
Words : Love me tender / Love me sweet / Never let me go / You have made my life complete / And I love you so / Love me tender / Love me true / All my dreams fulfilled / For my darlin’ I love you / And I always will.
9. With or Without You – U2
With or Without You is signed and performed by Irish rock band U2. Released in 1987 on the album The Joshua Treethe title immediately ignited the United States and Canada, where it appeared for 3 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Since then, the song has been regularly ranked by polling institutes, as in 2010 when Rolling Stone magazine l ranked 132nd among the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Words : See the stone set in your eyes / See the thorn twist in your side / I’ll wait for you / Sleight of hand and twist of fate / On a bed of nails she makes me wait / And I wait, without you / With or without you / With or without you.
10. For you to love me again – Celine Dion
Written and composed by Jean-Jacques Goldman in 1995, For you to love me again and the album that carries it, Two, represent a turning point in the career of Canadian singer Celine Dion. For once, the interpreter of the flagship song of “Titanic” leaves the qualifier of singer with voice to slip while restraint in a series of exclusively confidential titles, on most often painful themes. With this introspection against a backdrop of intimate emotions, Goldman offers Dion the most touching of his albums. For you to love me again culminates for weeks at the top of all hits, including in non-French-speaking countries. In France, the song won the “Victoire de la chanson 1996”.
Words : I got all the words, I got it, thank you / Reasonable and new, that’s how it is around here / That things have changed, that the flowers have faded / That the time before was the time before / That if everything zaps and wearies, loves also pass.
If France has always been prolific in terms of love songs, the French-speaking charts are even more so! Odes, supplications, fiery declarations, Molière’s language teems with expressions chosen to proclaim his attachment in all tones.
- Do not leave me – Jacques Brel
- Ode to love – Edith Piaf
- in love – Veronique Sanson
- I love her to death – Francis Cabrel
- That I love you – Johnny Hallyday
With its direct expressions that sound like no other language in the world, English is often chosen by artists of all nationalities to express their flame. What could be more effective than “Love me”?
- Still Loving You – Scorpios
- I Will Alwarys Love You -Whitney Houston
- Hallelujah -Jeff Buckley
- Angie – The Rolling Stones
- Love me tender -Elvis Presley
Among the most memorable movie love songs of all time are I Will Always Love You and the sublime voice of Whitney Houston (Bodyguard1992), my heart Will Go On performed by Celine Dion (titanic1997), She whispered by Elvis Costello (Love at first sight in Notting Hill1999), all the songs whose melodies are signed Leonard Bernstein (West Side Story1961), or All I Want For Christmas Is You performed by Olivia Olson (Love Actually2003).
The best declarations of love in song often express attachments that are inaccessible or difficult to confess. With Personal message, written for Françoise Hardy in 1974, Michel Berger addresses Véronique Sanson who has just left him. With woman in love (written by Barry and Robin Gibb), Barbra Streisand makes a heartbreaking appeal to an unreachable man.