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Staff Picks: 50 Best Rock Love Songs
The 50 best rock love songs of all time, decided by Billboard's editorial staff.
While it’s unclear whether this dream is sweet or haunted, vocalist Tunde Adembipe offers acts as a clear-eyed guide through it by gently reminding his unnamed object of affection — a person apparently in another, lesser relationship — that “I’ll be there to take care of you if ever you should decide, that you don’t want to waste your life in the middle of a lovesick lullaby,” which the song itself cleverly mimics with its childlike opening. Powered by Ann’s scorching soprano, Nancy’s galloping acoustic guitar and high-voltage riffs by Roger Fisher and Howard Leese, “Crazy on You” was bold and sexy in an era when guys such as Paul Anka were topping the Hot 100 with prim bonbons like “(You’re) Having My Baby.” By cranking the desire dial up to 11, they created a late-20th-century classic about keeping the home fires burning.— F.D. a truly sacred text for aspiring guitarists nearly 60 years later, the volume and tempo gets satisfyingly turned down about half way through for the gently crashing waterfalls of “May This Be Love.” It’s all the more knee-buckling for its unexpectedness — as brilliantly illustrated by its use in Cameron Crowe’s Seattle-set Singles, where Kyra Sedgwick’s and Campbell Scott’s characters are literally floored by it while playing records and quickly falling in love.
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