Straight to the Heart

Love songs have been around since the beginning of time. Every musical genre has its very best of songs that pay tribute to our one and only love. Nevertheless, I would have to say that the Metal and Rock love ballads of the 1980s might beat them all when it comes to paying emotional longing and tribute to the one that we love.

When was the last time a song could rip deep at the heart, and make you cry when recalling the happiness felt with a newfound love, the longing for a love that has long since faded, or for a love that remains strong, over the years through the good times and the bad. There are so many of those 1980s love songs that it was hard for me to pare down my favorite picks, but I did manage to narrow it down to a few must haves for your musical playlists:

"Love Walks In" - Van Halen. For some reason I have always envisioned this as a wedding song, like the kind of song that could be a first dance. It speaks of love just coming to you out of nowhere...as it usually does.

"Still Loving You" - Scorpions. Makes you want to cry! All for a love that has slipped away but still worth fighting for! Pride. Trust. Change...and another chance.

"Save Your Love" - Great White. The lyrics to this song are like a love poem. A simple, beautiful love poem. "Deep in a dream, you'll always be..."

"LoveBites" - Def Leppard. Going through a break-up?...a divorce perhaps? Forget about a country song, this one will do the trick. This song speaks to every feeling and emotion one lives through during that moment in time.

"LoveSong" - Tesla. A song about hope and reassurance, and that we are destined, almost entitled, to find the one we love..."it's all around!"

Who would have thought that singers in a hair band could still make you well up with emotion, with such beautiful songs with lyrics that come from the soul? Those songs made it worth the wait to stand in the ticket line for...just to hear them sing it live, and in concert. Sensual and edgy, yet pure rock and roll.