LADIES!

[seventhe]

Ladies! And, uh, Gentlemen, I suppose...

I need suggestions for romantic songs for slow-dancing to.

My band is trying to come up with a couple slow songs to play at shows for couples to dance to. I'm not very romantic, and I hate slow-dancing, so I can't come up with shit, and also I hate everything else that's been suggested. (I'm actually countering all their suggestions with old blues standards, like My Funny Valentine and Please Send Me Someone To Love, because that's my background.)

So! Please give me some suggestions. A good example: we're currently playing "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton. Cheesy as hell, but you KNOW all the girls in the audience are going to drag their boyfriends up to slowdance to it.

(Which proves, again, that girls are stupid. Have you even listened to the lyrics?!! Verse I: YOU TAKE TOO FUCKING LONG TO GET READY, BUT I GUESS IT'S WORTH IT CAUSE YOU'RE HOT Verse II: I ONLY LIKE YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE HOT AND YOU MAKE ME LOOK GOOD Verse III: I'M DRUNK, TAKE ME HOME AND GIVE ME A BLOW JOB. It's not romantic at all!)

But I digress! Please, please, recommend all the cheesiest, lamest songs you can remember from high school prom! Hit me with the romantic!

Comments

[jennyclarinet.livejournal.com]

I like your rendition of the Clapton song...that is awesome. I'm not too good at this, but I'll give it a shot.

Ok, here goes.

Um, ok.

Let's seeeeee.

How about...

I've got nothing.

Maybe one of the girlier girls can help you more than I can.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping they'll let me sing something like that version on stage:

"and then she turns and asks me
do i look like a slut?
and i say yes
i want to do you in the butt"

[jennyclarinet.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahaaaaa

songs

[xahra99.livejournal.com]

well, I searched all my hard drive, but no luck:( Am currently listening to he Amateur Transplants 'London Underground' which while very good music, just so isn't for slow-dancing.
current strategy for surviving dances: sit out the slow ones and jump up and down to all the fast songs like epileptic hobbit.
also, your PLEASE SHOOT ME icon? BEST EVER.
kate
(hey, you wrote Rinoa/Quistis smut.....:o
..........you know, I can see that.)

Re: songs

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

*grins* wish i could remember where the icon was from, truly. It just fits everything, though.

I think my new fondness for Quistis/Rinoa is the main reason I can't finish SLG. ...well probably not but it's a good excuse anyway.

[fireholly.livejournal.com]

WHYYYY DO BIRRDS SUDDENLY APPEAAR?! EVERY TIIIME!!! YOU ARE NEEEAR!!! IT'S BECAUSE you stink of bird food THEY WANT TO BE - CLOOOSE TO YOU!!!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Isn't that from a commercial for something?!

[ovo-lexa.livejournal.com]

"Eyes on Me"? :x

I'm not really up on my subjectively lame and cheesy, but.... Uuummmmmmmmmm.... How slow? How dance? "Old Fashioned Love Song"? DMB's "Crush"? *Thinks*

There's a fine selection of Sting that's slow... *Pokes around* That is, if you're not too picky about song meaning... ^^;;

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

MY BASS PLAYER LOVES STING. That's not a bad idea...

[deadshrimpblues.livejournal.com]

Does horribly melancholy stuff count? I'd say raid the stores of Yoko Kanno. Adieu is pretty wonderful, for example ...

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I worship Yoko Kanno and the entire Cowboy Bebop soundtrack. (And Ein.)

Plus, I'm all for melancholy ...the band just has this THING about only playing songs people will recognize. (I had to push to get them to play Karma Police.)