Lovesick Playlist: The Top 20 Rock Love Songs

"There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another." Frank Zappa

1. Only You - Yazoo
2. Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen (performed by kd lang)
3. Caramel - Suzanne Vega
4. Love Cats -The Cure
5. Nothing Compares to U - Prince
6. Just Another Silly Love Song - Paul McCartney
7. You Take My Breath Away - Rex Smith
8. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face by Ewan Maccoll (performed by Roberta Flack, Mary Travers, Alison Moyet, Lauryn Hill, George Micheals)
9. You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth - Meatloaf
10. Feeling Love - by Paula Cole
11. Between The Lines -Janis Ian
12. I Never Cry - Alice Cooper
13. Everything I Own - Bread
14. So Happy Together - The Turtles
15. If I Could Save Time In A Bottle - Jim Croce
16. Time After Time - Cyndi Lauper
17. You Can Leave Your Hat On -Joe Cocker
18. I Was Made For Loving You, Baby -Kiss
19. Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon
20. You're My Best Friend - Queen

Sitting down to write a top 20 musical favorites list, I was surprised by... well, what should have come as no surprise: my tastes run toward the darkly eclectic. I was born to write the 100 top anti-love songs. The love sucks songs. I had to get into that singularly gooey mind frame, you know the one you get in when you fall in love and it seems like every song was written for you.

Remember the tender deluded early months before the relationship imploded (and sucked all the innocence and goodness out of the universe like a black hole hoovering up all wishful little stars that filled your romantic sky); believe it or not, I can remember back that far.

Now I'm the sort of idiot that jewelers should really offer a bulk discount on wedding rings. I fall for that "forever" line every time. That and the other two best sweet talk for suckers lines 1) "But she meant nothing to me, honey" and 2) "We don't need a pre-nup."

While I may not remember my past marriages fondly, the music that seemed to be written for smitten, pitiful lovesick me -stays with me. Faithfully.