The Best Love Songs of the Past 50 Years

Our love quotes of the week are so popular, we decided to introduce a new regular feature: In addition to the love quote of the week, we will introduce the love song of the week. But not any old love song, but the best love song of the year for each of the past 50 years. We’ll start in 1960 and work our way forward from there, introducing one song per year each week. We will list all 50 love songs here, as they are published, until we have the complete list by the beginning of next year.

The Best Love Song of 1960: Roy Orbison – Only The Lonely
The Best Love Song of 1961: Elvis Presley – Are You Lonesome Tonight
The Best Love Song of 1962: Ray Charles – I Can’t Stop Loving You
The Best Love Song of 1963: Cliff Richared – Rote Lippen (Lucky Lips)
The Best Love Song of 1964: Dean Martin – Everybody Loves Somebody Sometimes
The Best Love Song of 1965: Tom Jones – It’s Not Unusual
The Best Love Song of 1966: The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations
The Best Love Song of 1967: The Beatles – All you need is Love
The Best Love Song of 1968: Love Affair – Everlasting Love
The Best Love Song of 1969: Peter Sarstedt – Where do you go to my Lovely?
The Best Love Song of 1970: Smokey Robinson – The Tears of a Clown
The Best Love Song of 1971: Slade – Coz I Luv You
The Best Love Song of 1972: Harry Nilsson – Without You
The Best Love Song of 1973: Roberta Flack – Killing Me Softly
The Best Love Song of 1974: Barry White – Can’t Get Enough of Your Love Baby
The Best Love Song of 1975: Minnie Ripperton – Loving You
The Best Love Song of 1976: Stevie Wonder – Isn’t She Lovely
The Best Love Song of 1977: Bee Gees – How Deep Is Your Love
The Best Love Song of 1978: John Travolta + Olivia Newton-John – You’re the One That I Want
The Best Love Song of 1979: Gloria Gaynor – I will Survive
The Best Love Song of 1980: Queen -Crazy Little Thing Called Love
The Best Love Song of 1981: Diana Ross+ Lionel Ritchie: Endless Love
The Best Love Song of 1982: Human League – Don’t You Want Me
The Best Love Song of 1983: The Police – Every Breath You Take
The Best Love Song of 1984: Frankie Goes to Hollywood – The Power of Love
The Best Love Song of 1985: Lionel Richie – Say You, Say Me
The Best Love Song of 1986: Berlin – Take My Breath Away
The Best Love Song of 1987: U2 – With or Without You
The Best Love Song of 1988: Phil Collins – Groovy Kind of Love
The Best Love Song of 1989: Madonna – Like a Prayer
The Best Love Song of 1990: Sinead O’Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U
The Best Love Song of 1991: Bryan Adams – Everything I do I do it for You
The Best Love Song of 1992: Shakespears Sister – Stay
The Best Love Song of 1993: Whitney Houston – I Will Always Love You
The Best Love Song of 1994: Bon Jovi – Always
The Best Love Song of 1995: Take That – Back for Good
The Best Love Song of 1996: Toni Braxton – Un-break My Heart
The Best Love Song of 1997: No Doubt – Don’t Speak
The Best Love Song of 1998: Aerosmith – I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing
The Best Love Song of 1999: Whitney Houston – My Love is Your Love
The Best Love Song of 2000: Creed – With Arms Wide Open/
The Best Love Song of 2001: Alicia Keys – Fallin
The Best Love Song of 2002: Ronan Keating – If Tomorrow Never Comes/
The Best Love Song of 2003: Beyonce Knowles – Crazy in Love
The Best Love Song of 2004: The Streets – Dry Your Eyes
The Best Love Song of 2005: Akon – Lonely
The Best Love Song of 2006: James Blunt – Goodbye my Lover
The Best Love Song of 2007: One Republic – Apologize
The Best Love Song of 2008: Duffy – Mercy
The Best Love Song of 2009: Emiliana Torrini – Jungle Drum

If your favourite love song is not on the list, tell us in the comments which love song you consider the best love song of the past 50 years.

New Year’s Love Quote

This is the first love quote of the new year. Hope fully you, like the optimist in this new year’s love quote, are happy with the new year so far!

“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”

- Bill Vaughan

Test your Success in Online Matchmaking

We know and keep telling our readers that the key to online matchmaking success is honesty. Be honest when answering the questions in the personality test. Add a picture to your profile that shows you in a typical situation where you feel at ease. Always be yourself when answering messages…

But imagine if someone actually put that to the test. We’re pretty sure we know what would happen, but we would just love it if someone did the following:

Set up several different profiles, each emphasising different aspects of your personality, without actually lying – so one profile that shows your fun-loving, easy-going side, one profile that shows your mature, successful persona, one profile that shows your adventurous, sexy alter ego, and one profile with your romantic, sensitive side – and finally, one „real“ profile. Obviously, you would have to think about adapting your replies in the personality test and choose profile pictures that suit the persona of the profile best. What would happen?

I bet: Read more

Twilight – A Quick Guide for Adults

We haven‘t written about Twilight before. That is because we are not teenage girls. At least that‘s what I thought until friends, adults I know to be perfectly reasonable human beings, began to confess to being Twilight fans. And some adults who aren‘t Twilight fans at least take an interest because they have kids who are Twilight fans.

Between the huge hype about the Twilight novels, and more recently, about the films based on those books, it‘s time for an adult‘s quick guide to Twilight: Read more

Happy New Year – All the Best from be2 for 2010

“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”

- Hamilton Wright Mabi

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