Valentine`s Day - Valentinstag 2014: 

Matthew’s Valentine’s Day List of “Love Songs”

            After reading Katerina Sedy’s list (which was quite a feat since I do not know German), I’ve decided to come out with my own list of my favorite Valentine’s day tracks that I’m sure someone will either get a kick out of, like, dislike, or downright send me hate mail telling me how much of a buffoon I am for liking that type of music. I deserve all of it! So, here we are in no particular order:

-         “This Love” – Pantera. Truth be told it’s not a love song as much as it is a song about obsession of someone and what that someone thinks what love is. To put it simply, person A: thought they loved this person, but it was a lie and is trying to figure out what love is in the song, whilst person B: gets hurt. The song portrays the pain of the realization of love in such a twisted way. Still a bad ass song.

-         “Safe Home” – Anthrax. People can interpret this song anyway they want, but I interpret it as someone finally finding the person they are supposed to be with after a lot of heartbreak and that person they finally find becomes their savior and soul mate.

-         “Love” – Delirium. Spoiler alert: It isn’t a metal song. I hand picked this track for my wedding I loved it so much. It’s a softer song with a good beat to it about a person professing their undying love for someone. Still gives me goose bumps listening to it.

-         “Black No. 1” – Type O Negative. I’m not sure if this is a Valentine’s Day song or a Halloween song, I’ll let you be the judge. However, with that combination in mind as the ultimate gothic love anthem of my generation, it had to be included. But then again, half of October Rust should be on this list but I had to pick one song from TON.

-         “Magdalene” – Moonspell. This song is a very sick and twisted love song with an infectious beat to it. The lyrics are so good they’re comical, “Have you ever loved a woman, who instead of give or trade would seduce you with a trade.” Download this song now!

-         “Only For The Stars In Your Eyes” – Xandria. The duet with the singer of Entwine made this song sound so awesome. I’ve reviewed this album for gryphonmetal.ch when it came out and back then I thought this was a good track and it has lasted the test of time.

-         “Live In You” – To/Die/For – It’s kind of a shame the band pretty much fell by the wayside over the years and “Live In You” came out on their first album. But it’s another good gothic-emo cheesy love song with the backdrop of great sounding guitars and a great singer singing great lyrics.

-          "Frühling in Paris" – Rammstein. It sounds like a love song to me. Now, I don’t know all of the lyrics to the track, but I get the just that it’s about two people that were in love with each other, but they didn’t have a common language, the relationship ended and he didn’t have any regrets. The track always ranked in my top 10 Rammstein songs, it’s not as controversial as the other songs they’ve made, but then again, maybe that’s the appeal to me because it’s unlike anything Rammstein as ever done.

-         “Fly Me To The Moon” written by Bart Howard but could only truly be performed by Mr. Frank Sinatra. I’m not even listening to the song and I get goose bumps. I prefer the live version at the Sands over the album recording. This song was the feature song at my wedding about a man’s love for his woman sung is such a classical manner. There are over a hundred versions of this song out there, but Frank Sinatra Live At the Sands is the best one. If there’s someone you love in your life right now, whether they know it or not, download this song too, play for them, and dance with them!

I’m sure there are other great songs out there and these made my list. Moonspell, Type O Negative, To/Die/For, and Rammstein have several other songs that are great and I might be missing a few so make up your own list, make a mix for your mp3 device, and rock out to it all day today! Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!

by Matthew Haumschild