VH1's "100 Greatest Love Songs"

[Guest FeArHaVoC]

This List is going to be shown all next week on VH1, so if you want to wait for it, Get the Hell Out!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

100

 

Every Rose Has Its Thorn

 

Poison

 

99

 

Hero

 

Enrique Iglesias

 

98

 

I Need Love

 

LL Cool J

 

97

 

Think Of Laura

 

Christopher Cross

 

96

 

I Just Want To Be Your Everything

 

Andy Gibb

 

95

 

It Must Have Been Love

 

Roxette

 

94

 

This I Promise You

 

*NSYNC

 

93

 

We Belong

 

Pat Benatar

 

92

 

All Out Of Love

 

Air Supply

 

91

 

Alison

 

Elvis Costello

 

90

 

Back At One

 

Brian McKnight

 

89

 

I Want You To Want Me

 

Cheap Trick

 

88

 

Thankyou

 

Dido

 

87

 

Is This Love

 

Whitesnake

 

86

 

Secret Garden

 

Bruce Springsteen

 

85

 

Careless Whisper

 

Wham!

 

84

 

Time After Time

 

Cyndi Lauper

 

83

 

I'll Make Love To You

 

Boyz II Men

 

82

 

Wicked Game

 

Chris Isaak

 

81

 

Total Eclipse Of The Heart

 

Bonnie Tyler

 

 

80

 

Islands In The Stream - (with Dolly Parton)

 

Kenny Rogers

 

79

 

Sweet Child O' Mine

 

Guns N' Roses

 

78

 

I'll Be

 

Edwin McCain

 

77

 

All Cried Out

 

Lisa Lisa

 

76

 

Love To Love You Baby

 

Donna Summer

 

75

 

Baby, I Love Your Way

 

Peter Frampton

 

74

 

I Feel For You

 

Chaka Khan

 

73

 

Save The Best For Last

 

Vanessa Williams

 

72

 

Love Will Keep Us Together

 

Captain & Tennille

 

71

 

Whole Lotta Love

 

Led Zeppelin

 

70

 

I Think I Love You

 

David Cassidy

 

69

 

Never Tear Us Apart

 

INXS

 

68

 

More Than A Feeling - Boston

 

Various Artists

 

67

 

Eternal Flame

 

The Bangles

 

66

 

Iris

 

Goo Goo Dolls

 

65

 

Nobody Wants To Be Lonely

 

Ricky Martin

 

64

 

I Melt With You

 

Modern English

 

63

 

How Do I Live - (Extended Mix)

 

LeAnn Rimes

 

62

 

To Be With You

 

Mr. Big (Metal)

 

61

 

Alone

 

Heart

 

60

 

Three Times A Lady

 

The Commodores

 

59

 

Faithfully

 

Journey

 

58

 

Best Of My Love

 

The Emotions

 

57

 

I Want To Know What Love Is

 

Foreigner

 

56

 

First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

 

Roberta Flack

 

55

 

I'll Stand By You

 

The Pretenders

 

54

 

Fallin'

 

Alicia Keys

 

53

 

Mandy

 

Barry Manilow

 

52

 

Love Bites

 

Def Leppard

 

51

 

That's The Way Love Goes

 

Janet Jackson

 

50

 

Always

 

Atlantic Starr

 

49

 

I Can't Make You Love Me

 

Bonnie Raitt

 

48

 

By Your Side

 

Sade

 

47

 

I Would Die 4 U

 

Prince

 

46

 

Let's Stay Together

 

Al Green

 

45

 

Un-Break My Heart

 

Toni Braxton

 

44

 

Time Of My Life (I've Had) (with Jennifer Warnes)

 

Bill Medley

 

43

 

More Than Words

 

Extreme

 

42

 

I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

 

Meat Loaf

 

41

 

Beth

 

Kiss

 

40

 

You're Still The One

 

Shania Twain

 

39

 

I'll Be There For You

 

Bon Jovi

 

38

 

Crazy For You

 

Madonna

 

37

 

Don't Speak

 

No Doubt

 

36

 

You're The First, The Last, My Everything

 

Barry White

 

35

 

Superstar

 

The Carpenters

 

34

 

Keep On Loving You

 

REO Speedwagon

 

33

 

I Do It For You, (Everything I Do)

 

Bryan Adams

 

32

 

Woman

 

John Lennon

 

31

 

You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

 

Stevie Wonder

 

30

 

Because You Loved Me (Theme From "Up Close & Personal")

 

Celine Dion

 

29

 

Always On My Mind

 

Willie Nelson

 

28

 

Let's Get It On

 

Marvin Gaye

 

27

 

You're In My Heart (The Final Acclaim)

 

Rod Stewart

 

26

 

Babe

 

Styx

 

25

 

You Are So Beautiful

 

Joe Cocker

 

24

 

Wonderful Tonight

 

Eric Clapton

 

23

 

Unforgettable - (with Nat "King" Cole)

 

Natalie Cole

 

22

 

You Don't Bring Me Flowers - (with Barbra Streisand)

 

Neil Diamond

 

21

 

You're The One That I Want - (with John Travolta)

 

Olivia Newton-John

 

20

 

I Got You Babe

 

Sonny & Cher

 

19

 

If You Leave Me Now

 

Chicago

 

18

 

In Your Eyes

 

Peter Gabriel

 

17

 

Breathe

 

Faith Hill

 

16

 

Fly Me To The Moon

 

Frank Sinatra

 

15

 

She's Got A Way

 

Billy Joel

 

14

 

I Honestly Love You

 

Olivia Newton-John

 

13

 

Nothing Compares 2 U

 

Sinéad O'Connor

 

12

 

How Deep Is Your Love

 

The Bee Gees

 

11

 

At Last

 

Etta James

 

10

 

I Don't Want To Miss A Thing

 

Aerosmith

 

9

 

I'll Be There

 

The Jackson 5

 

8

 

Your Song

 

Elton John

 

7

 

Endless Love - (with Diana Ross)

 

Lionel Richie

 

6

 

Unchained Melody

 

The Righteous Brothers

 

5

 

Maybe I'm Amazed

 

Paul McCartney

 

4

 

Open Arms

 

Journey

 

3

 

My Heart Will Go On (from "Titanic")

 

Celine Dion

 

2

 

Love Me Tender

 

Elvis Presley

 

1

 

I Will Always Love You

 

Whitney Houston

[Guest FeArHaVoC]

There was some Serious "Hair Band" robbery on this list.

[Guest The Amazing Rando]

why did Guns N Roses beat out Boyz II Men...

 

why didn't "I'll Make Love To You" get into the top 15 or so....

 

that's THE definitive baby factory song...

[Guest Smark Hammill]

I'm indifferent about this list other than "Wonderful Tonight" is way underrated, and that HORRID Aerosmith song from Armageddon should not be on there.

[Guest benoitrulz4life]

"Wonderful Tonight" and "Everything I Do (I Do It for You)" are way lower than they should be. I also like "Always" more than "I'll Be There for You." "Bed of Roses" is better as well. "Whole Lotta Love"? That's for like a sweaty fuckin' a roadie song than a "love" song.

[Guest FeArHaVoC]

that HORRID Aerosmith song from Armageddon should not be on there.

Why? That song was #1 on the charts for something like 6 weeks. It more then deserves to be there!

[Guest hardyz1]

Aerosmith's "Angel" is better than the Armageddon song.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Chirst, must VH1 have a top 100 list for everything.

 

I Don't Want to Miss a Thing completly sucks.

 

I think Houstin's should be #1 simply cause she didn't write it...and for a love song doesn't it really mean less when the writer who first expressed the words, and wrote them isn't singing it.

 

Alison at #91...I see we're not voting on how good the song really is

 

THough I'm a little suprised they didn't fill the 10 up with Madonna songs, since they're so far up her ass.

[Guest ant_7000]

What no Temptations songs or "Still in love" by Al Green? thats bullshit.

[Guest Smark Hammill]

What no Temptations songs or "Still in love" by Al Green? thats bullshit.

There should DEFINITELY be more Motown on this list. Oh, well.

[Guest Choken One]

Let's Get it on is always #1 in my book...

[Guest Smark Hammill]

I looked back over this list, and found a couple more that should not be on the list, let alone be rated as high as they are.

 

Believe me when I say "Woman" by John Lennon is one of my five least favorite songs in the whole world. Ugghh.....

 

I love Led Zeppelin, but "Whole Lotta Love" just doesn't say "love song" to me.

[Guest Choken One]

I think they were struggling to think of "LOVE" songs...Why not just tap into Country area....gotta be shitloads of Love songs about their Dogs and pickups.

[Guest redbaron51]

seeing Whitesnake, Def Leppard, Meatloaf on there was nice.

 

 

and Beth was way too fuckin high....its Kiss best song.

[Guest Phr33k]

It's good to see "How Deep Is Your Love" on the list, as the Bee Gees are often way overlooked on these things. I'd consider them to be only second to Lennon/McCartney in songwriting skills. Also, there are probably 4 songs on "Still Waters" alone that could blow anything on that list out of the water in terms of pure sap.

[Guest converge241]

nurse, need Afghan wigs STAT!

 

I would like to say that faithfully owns (in a cheesy kinda way)

[Guest Lord of The Curry]

Journey shoulda been #1........fuckin Whitney Houston crackhead ho'.....

[Guest DrTom]

I can't believe that Whitney Houston's most blatant example of horrific oversinging made it to #1 on this list.

 

Actually, I can believe it, and I think that sickens me more.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Man, there's something I'm gonna skip.

 

There's exactly three songs on that entire countdown that I don't utterly despise.

 

I'm shocked; nay, shocked and APPALLED, that Fishfuck by GWAR was not included in this. Not to mention half of Anal Cunt's work. If that doesn't say love, I don't know what does.

[Guest redbaron51]

For the love of god by Steve Vai didn't make it on their.....

 

 

bastards....

 

 

well at least its more resonable, imagine what MTV would be like.

[Guest spiny norman]

Where on Earth was Something? Frank Sinatra proclaimed that as the greatest love song of all time, and it's not on the list!?

 

Actually, is any Beatles on the list? Oh, btw, Youth N Asia, lay off Madonna, or die a horrible death, painful

[Guest Dmann2000]

They probably couldn't get rights to play Beatles songs, so they excluded them

 

BASTARDS

[Guest godthedog]

no, that can't be it. they did a '100 greatest rock songs' list & the beatles had the most tracks on the list.

[Guest Incandenza]

What about Tom Waits' "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis?" What about that, huh?

[Guest Kinetic]

I was shaking my head at the exclusion of "Something" as well. Then again, it's a fucking VH1 list and they're notorious for knowing absolutely nothing about anything. I mean, "I Will Always Love You"? Come on. I'm a sucker for a good love song, too, and this list is just misguided and ridiculous.

 

However, they did put the unbelievably awesome "Nothing Compares 2 U" in the top 20, so it's not all wrong.

[Guest Incandenza]

And what about the Magnetic Fields? They wrote 69 of the goddamn things! Surely one of them should've made the list!

 

EDIT: Nice title, Kinetic.

[Guest Kinetic]

That's a great enough line that I felt compelled to steal it. I'd imagine that the Magnetic Fields' exclusion is just a result of no one who's affiliated with VH1 having ever heard of them. Some of the best love songs of the last twenty years have come out of indie rock and they'll all be ignored by these corporate lists. I should really compile lists to counteract those of VH1. I might actually contribute something to the site in that way.

[Guest Incandenza]

I prefer "a pretty girl is like a minstrel show," myself, but I could go on all night about great lines off of 69 Love Songs.

[Guest spiny norman]

The more I think about it, the more confused I am. They exclude Beatles stuff, yet Maybe I'm Amazed is five (not complaining about it being there, but why is McCartney constituted but not Beatles)?

 

Also, Unchained Melody is almost always considered the greatest love song ever. It's not even on the list!

 

This list is stuffed!!!!!!!!!! Except Nothing Compares 2 U

[Guest Kinetic]

Exactly. I don't give a fuck about anything else Sinead O'Connor ever recorded, but that's a truly fantastic song. I'd say it's probably the best-written love song single of the 90s, off the top of my head.