What's your favourite (non-romantic) song?

[35andThriving]

I have just got much more interested in listening to music. I am looking for songs I could ask Alexa to play .just wondered what people's thoughts were.

1. What's your favourite unromantic song? This is just because most songs are about love, so to get a bit of variety.

1. What's your favourite romantic song?

Inkanta

Let's Dance David Bowie
It Must Be Love Madness

Fed to Grey by Visage still love after 40 years
Small town boy the song of my teenage years. I was the misfit not gay but a 007 fan.

Vagina Anthem by Hungry Hearts.

Romantic - not really sure.

Ever fallen in love - the Buzzcocks (not romantic)
Living on a Prayer - Bon Jovi

Romantic: she's like the wind (Patrick Swayze- Dirty dancing),
Is this Love - Whitesnake

Non romantic songs.
Evanescence, Use My Voice and Better Without You.
Lacuna Coil, Nothing Stands In Our Way and Black Feathers.

Romantic songs.
Seether, Broken.
Slipknot, Vermillion. (Does that count? )

The Blue Nile - walk across the rooftops. Romanticish more blurbfest would be My Beloved Wife by Natalie Merchant

Zombie - The Cranberries
Original Sin - Pandora's Box
Holiday - The Ripps
We'll Live and Die in These Towns - The Enemy
Inside - Stiltskin

Romantic:

I Will (Take You Forever) - Christopher Cross and Frances Ruffelle
Take This Heart - Richard Marx
Prettiest Eyes - The Beautiful South
She's Every Woman - Garth Brooks

Non romantic would be firestarter

Romantic would be sweetest words by Simon Fowler x

Non romantic- hymm to her. Stunning
Romantic- everything I own Boy George

Non romantic; 'In these shoes' Kirsty MacColl (in fact most songs by KM!)

Romantic ; For your Babies ; Simply Red (I gave birth to my eldest to this song)

Queen - Under Pressure

Darren Hayes - Insatiable (filthy song )

Tiesto - Barbers adagio for strings

cough William Orbit....

They’ve all gone away
Style Council

When it rains it pours- Luke Combs.

Cover me up- the Morgan Wallen version.

These two must be played loudly:-

Guilty- Rag n Bone Man
Believer- Imagine Dragons

Non romantic:- "We will all go together when we go", Tom Leher.

Romantic:- "You are the best thing", Ray Lamontagne.

The Simple Things Joe Cocker

Sitting on the dock of the bay Otis Redding non romantic

I melt by Rascall Flats romantic its that one line that gets me everytime. "This burn in me is the coolest thing I've ever felt"

So many unromantic ones that I love that I can't pick a favourite.
Uncle Toms cabin by warrant
Turn the page Bob Segar or Metallica.
Theres nothing romantic about Do you want to play a game by Oxygen unless you like getting your skin sliced up!😂
I love the song Little Houdini about a jail breaker.
I've been playing The Trooper again recently.
As for romantic? Does heartbreak count as romantic
Black by Pearl Jam and Letting you in by Mid Ayr are on my most often played play list!

Currently:
All Fired Up - Pat Benatar
The Only Exception - Paramore

Subject to change!

Oh, this is fab!

Thanks for all the suggestions, everybody

@IamChipmunk

Or to widen your scope

Tiesto - Barbers adagio for strings
Ayla - Ayla (Dj Taucher mix)

Both amazing!

Dash Berlin - We Are Armin van Buuren ft Laura Jansen - Use Semebody (Armin van Buuren Rework) Gareth Emery - Concrete Angel Rank 1 - Airwave Mark Sixma ft Amba Shepherd - Run to my Rescue Dash Berlin ft Emma Hewitt - Waiting Amy Blueman - Neverland/Everlasting Paul Webster - Time Tiesto - Traffic Gareth Emery ft Roxanne Emery - Too Dark Tonight Armin van Buuren & Above and Beyond - Zocalo Johan Steur ft Jennifer Rene - Fall to Pieces Evanescence - Missing/Understanding Dash Berlin ft Roxanne Emery - Shelter Gareth Emery ft Roxanne Emery - Soldier Darren Hayes - Casey Sunlounger - Lost Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes (Gabriel & Dresden Sweeping Strings Mix)

Many of these need certain remixes to bring our their full emotional scope, PM me (on MN site) if interested.

Hi @IamChipmunk you might like some of these :)

WhipperSnapperSteve, thanks for all those suggestions. Really looking forward to finding lots of new music that I like. Thanks all