All You Want Is Love (Songs): Our 2025 Valentine’s Day Soundtrack!

Love is within the air – and in our audio system! This Valentine’s Day, Atwood Journal’s workers is popping up the romance with a handpicked playlist of our all-time favourite love songs. Be a part of us as we have a good time the music that makes our hearts beat somewhat sooner!

Playlist: Our Favourite Love Songs of All Time!

Our Favourite Love Songs

Valentine’s Day 2025

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The 1975 actually locked in with Being Humorous in a Overseas Language, and nowhere was that extra obvious than on their on the spot traditional love track, “I’m in Love With You” – a observe that really says all of it, proper there within the title. By way of buoyant beats and a radiant, celebratory ambiance, the indie pop band created an irresistible ode to that humorous feeling – reminding us how particular, how stunning, and the way thrilling it’s to be in love. – Mitch Mosk

How have you learnt you’re in love? Perhaps it’s when actuality is healthier than your goals. Aerosmith positive thinks so. “I don’t wanna shut my eyes/ I don’t wanna to go to sleep/ ‘Trigger I’d miss you child/ And I don’t wanna miss a factor,” are the lyrics to this touching but rock ‘n’ roll love ballad that fantastically captures the extreme emotion – when valuable moments develop into one thing you by no means wish to miss out on. – Lauren Turner

“When the rain is pouring down, and my coronary heart is hurting – you’ll at all times be round, this I do know for sure.” That capability to be there for us at our darkest hour; what higher phrases may actually encapsulate love, whether or not romantic, platonic, familial, or something in between? It’s a quintessential Keys track, easy and forthright but stuffed with ardour and authenticity. And that beat – you simply gotta nod your head. – Christine Buckley

Tright here is one thing so inherently stunning about Alex Turner’s voice. As he croons and pleads with such devotion to a lover he’ll be the whole lot they may ever need or want – he merely simply needs to be theirs. Certainly a personification of the love some could really feel on a day like as we speak. – Jada Moore

I can’t take heed to “God Solely Is aware of” with out getting emotional, and I wouldn’t have it some other method. As romantic as it’s bittersweet, The Seaside Boys’ love track aches with the load, the heat, and the surprise of affection. However above all else, it’s the vulnerability that shines by means of: “I’ll not at all times love you, however lengthy as there are stars above you, you by no means have to doubt it, I’ll make you so positive about it; God solely is aware of what I’d be with out you.” Whereas it was groundbreaking for its time, what makes “God Solely Is aware of” proceed to resonate 60 years on is its uncooked, unfiltered, unabridged humanity. It’s a reminder that, no matter occurs and nevertheless lengthy the journey, love is price each second. – Mitch Mosk

The Beatles actually began their monumental profession with a track titled “Love Me Do,” have a compilation known as Love, wrote a common anthem known as “All You Want is Love,” conquered the world with a military of affection songs, and recorded their final session as a unit by singing how the love one offers is the same as the love one takes. And but, it’s a single launched after their break-up has me unhealthily obsessed. “Actual Love” is a John Lennon composition, accomplished by the remainder of the band with Jeff Lynne after his demise for the The Beatles Anthology, and proves that the band had not misplaced a single step. After these magical opening chords, piano sourced from Lennon’s house demo, the track carries on with the chiming guitars, hovering harmonies, and melodic journeys that recall the perfect of each period of the band. Lennon sings about love in such a heartfelt, easy method that speaks volumes about its universality. He sings about life’s plans, childhood innocence, and romantic dissatisfaction simply to succeed in the identical reply; in the long run, it was actual love he was ready for. It’s such a quintessentially Beatles conclusion, however from harmless boy-girl pop tales to psychedelic meditations, they’ve been telling us that each one we wanted was love from the very starting. – David Diame

Even within the pantheon of Beatles love songs – a very lengthy and winding (and great) highway – no love track is as pure, as tender, as stunning, or as heartbreaking as “In My Life.” Lennon’s wistful stroll down reminiscence lane is an intimate ode to individuals and locations previous and current – to the moments in our lives that fill the world with that means. It’s mild, it’s sentimental, it’s nostalgic, and it aches with the load of life itself. “Although I do know I’ll by no means lose affection for individuals and issues that went earlier than. I do know I’ll usually cease and take into consideration them; in my life, I like you extra.” – Mitch Mosk

I‘ve at all times felt a particular connection to Billy Joel’s Piano Man album – it’s one of many first data I actually fell in love with as a child – and that bond has solely grown deeper through the years, particularly as I ‘went out into the world’ and made a life for myself in New York. Already one among my favourite love songs, “You’re My Dwelling” will ceaselessly be the final track I listened to earlier than I walked down the aisle at my wedding ceremony. It’s a heartfelt reminder that ‘house’ isn’t a spot – it’s an individual, and whenever you’re in love, you’re at all times proper the place you belong – alongside the one you’re keen on: “Effectively, I’ll by no means be a stranger and I’ll by no means be alone. Wherever we’re collectively, that’s my house.” Timeless phrases, capturing a timeless fact. – Mitch Mosk

I know I’m not alone after I say “this was our track,” however it actually is – I walked down the aisle to Blind Pilot’s timeless love track, and I’ll ceaselessly cherish this stunning track as an ode to togetherness, to expressions of intimacy, and to the heat and surprise of being in love with somebody who is aware of the actual you, the total you, all of you – in and out, proper aspect up and the wrong way up.

“So Far Away” isn’t the standard love track. It’s about a side of affection we don’t assume we’ll really feel after falling: loneliness. Carole King describes time away and miles between as an vacancy having nothing to do with feeling insecure. She describes a vulnerability we might by no means learn about if we weren’t already feeling so beloved within the first place. – Josh Bloom

My spouse’s favourite love track; she says it reminds her of me (I’ve inexperienced eyes) and the way she feels once we’re collectively. Coldplay actually nailed the straightforward magnificence and luxury of affection with this track, channeling all these advanced, large, daring, feelings into candy traces “Honey, you’re a rock upon which I stand” and “I got here right here with a load and it feels a lot lighter now I met you” – two issues I can intimately relate to, and cherish about my very own love story.

Nashville-based Crys Matthews is a surprising folks artist recognized for being a champion of social justice. Matthews has simply collaborated with fiancé Heather Mae on the track “The Good Stuff” off of her newest album Reclamation. The piece is a heartfelt dedication to one another and ode to all the good things their partnership brings. Mae is a social justice warrior as properly and collectively they’re so highly effective, courageously baring their soul. The intimate vulnerability the observe exudes is deeply fascinating. – Chloe Robinson

“However distant/ I’ll at all times love you/ Nonetheless lengthy I keep/ I’ll at all times love you/ No matter phrases I say/ I’ll at all times love you/ I’ll at all times love you,” The Treatment sing of their traditional “Lovesong.” The long-lasting guitar riff blended with a mind altering bassline, captures love at its most uncooked and purest kind – timeless. When it doesn’t matter what you say, what you do, irrespective of a lot time you spend aside or the place life takes you, you recognize you’ll at all times be in love with that particular person. What makes it much more romantic? It was initially written by member Robert Smith as a marriage current for his spouse. – Lauren Turner 

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This love track is as nonsensical as it’s profound. The devices interact in dialogue: strings going forwards and backwards, horns butting in, acoustic guitars murmuring amongst themselves. Tillman sings, “I wish to take you within the kitchen/raise up the marriage gown somebody was most likely murdered in.” Reverence and irreverence flip to one another and ask, “What are you doing together with your complete life? How about ceaselessly?” – Nasim Elyasi

This track gave me language for falling in love lengthy earlier than it ever occurred to me. I bear in mind searching of the window within the backseat of my mother’s automobile on roadtrips, staring longingly, enjoying this track on repeat from the household iPod. “I simply need you to know who I’m,” will at all times resonate. – Hannah Burns

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Falling in love feels just like the apocalypse. It’s the calm earlier than the storm, leaping into the void ignoring the way it feels to be in ache. Ignoring all of the evil on the earth, in an effort to get pleasure from even a sliver of happiness. “Wasteland, Child!” describes simply this sense, the innocence of falling in love with out excited about the attainable adverse penalties. Quoting one of the vital well-known monologues in TV sequence historical past, “Love is terrible. It’s terrible. It’s painful. It’s scary. […] Makes you say and do stuff you by no means thought you’ll do. It’s all any of us need, and it’s hell once we get there. So, no surprise it’s one thing we don’t wish to do on our personal.” (Sure, it’s the Scorching Priest’s monologue from “Fleabag”). That is precisely “Wasteland, Child!” is about, by the way in which. Love is all any of us need, and it’s all of the concern and the hearth of the top of the world once we get there, however we wouldn’t give it up for something. – Dimitra Gurduiala

Perhaps the digital style isn’t recognized for love songs, however Illenium’s album Ascend comprises one that’s placing and dreamy. The lyrics present an individual’s love for his or her associate, claiming that dying in that individual’s arms is precisely the place they’re purported to be. Feeling protected, being comfortable, and embracing life with that somebody are the stunning issues on this observe. Full of guitar, as it’s a attribute of Illenium’s work, it certainly is an uncommon, but great, love track, additionally made particular for its collaboration alongside X Ambassadors. – Bárbara Martínez Campuzano

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“This is How You Fall in Love” captures the essence of a heartfelt, slow-dance second, making it excellent for a marriage. Its bittersweet lyrics and evocative melodies create a fantastically weak ambiance, embodying each love and heartbreak. The track’s emotional depth and ease make it an unforgettable soundtrack to a cherished reminiscence. – Danielle Holian

For all of his explosive guitar wizardry and technical prowess, most wouldn’t affiliate with Jimi Hendrix with the tender, considerate, and meditative; in actuality, a lot of his being was spent in that mindset. “Could This Be Love” is really one among his earliest explorations of his delicate, romantic aspect, with the track being a candy declaration of affection to any individual else. They’re the “waterfall” within the track; an eternally dashing, infinite supply of vitamins, which provides the track its central metaphor. In a haze of R&B-like guitar stylings blended with Mitch Mitchell’s percussive saunter and Noel Redding’s insistent bedrock bass, Hendrix disregards everybody else who dares to tease him, content material with the love that he has and the way in which their relationship’s blossomed. The loveliest factor? Hendrix’s vocals, cooing for his lover to fall with him for one million days, earlier than bursting right into a flow-like guitar solo that rushes as elegantly and fantastically because the waterfalls he depends on. The outro of this track is magnificent, and cements the track’s easy grandeur in a method that communicates the facility of affection. – David Diame

Hmmmm, I’m not so positive what my absolute all-time favourite love track is, however Kendrick Lamar has been on my thoughts quite a bit these days, having simply caught his latest efficiency on the Tremendous Bowl and listening to an extra of his music in preparation for stated occasion– together with relistening to the DAMN. album right through once more for the primary time in ages. So I’ll give one among my favourite tracks from that 2017 traditional a shout-out on this column: “LOVE.,” a duet with a singer named Zacari who fully fell off the map after this track got here out, however undoubtedly made his mark together with his ode to “sippin’ bubbly, feelin’ pretty, livin’ pretty,” all whereas the Primary Man borrows a bit from 50 Cent & Nate Dogg on “21 Questions” whereas asking “If I didn’t experience blade on curb, would you continue to love me? If I minimized my internet price, would you continue to love me?” Kendrick Lamar is thought for being aggressive and outspoken in a lot of his music, however giving him the area of three minutes and 33 seconds to let his extra weak and delicate aspect come by means of proves to be a rewarding transfer as properly. Plus, the top result’s one among my private favourite hip-hop love songs. – Josh Weiner

Laufey’s voice itself personifies the sensation of heat and luxury. The lyrics a poetic expression to the one that has fully enamored Laufey. This track is an exquisite and romantic pay attention excellent to set the temper of the day! – Jada Moore

A romp by means of the extreme and jarring but beautiful feelings of latest love: thrills, trembling, anticipation, craving, doubt, despair, and most of all utter foolishness. It’s as near a pop track as Zeppelin ever received, but nonetheless smashes collectively completely different kinds, with a half-time shuffle and a samba overlayed playfully on their signature blues-rock. You possibly can’t not smile at this one when the lovesick hero realizes his love hasn’t left him, he’s only a “idiot ready on the fallacious block.” – Christine Buckley

Tright here’s good motive The Nationwide have graced the pages of this Valentine’s Day playlist twice — the band (and poetic lead singer Matt Berninger) craft a few of the best songs of this century in terms of the anxieties, fleeting joys and even pressures of affection. “Sluggish Present” spells issues out plainly and sweetly, but by no means strays from the fragile steadiness, the tightrope that must be walked in love — a steadiness between determined longing and permitting your associate to develop into who they’re. All of the whereas, on a regular basis anxieties and doubts creep in (when Berninger sings “I leaned on the wall, the wall leaned away,” you are feeling it viscerally. And the everlasting line “You already know I dreamed about you/for 29 years earlier than I noticed you,” is positively crushing and certainly, life-affirming. – Beau Hayhoe

Matt Berninger is without doubt one of the finest in terms of transporting the listener into a selected second, and all through “New Order T-Shirt,” he delivers a montage of of many occasions that he fell in love together with his spouse Carin. It’s not possible to carry onto each single second that you just felt in love, however Berninger implores, “I maintain what I can of you.” Whether or not it’s your associate rubbing the small of your again or ingesting a beer and holding a pet, you’ll bear in mind sure moments ceaselessly. – James Crowley

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“Cigarettes and Espresso” could be one of the vital timeless love songs ever, with Redding’s uncooked, soulful voice speaking longing in a method I discover nearly not possible to copy. Its simplicity is what makes it so excellent, as if eternal love is so simple as a cup of espresso, as if selecting pleasure is sufficient. He lays it out so plainly that you haven’t any selection however to imagine him. – Juls Patterson

What do you do when your complete world is torn asunder? Confronted with the collapse of a band he’d recognized since he was 15, a bearded, bedraggled Paul McCartney was on the verge of a breakdown. Solely by means of his love for Linda Eastman (quickly Linda McCartney), ensconced on this searing, plaintive ballad, may the brand new musical duo unfold their Wings. – Aidan Moyer

For somebody as partizan as I’m to his music, to see Peter Gabriel seem right here twice is exhilarating (his cowl of The Magnetic Fields’ “The Guide of Love” stunning, the unique one of many best love songs ever conceived). “In Your Eyes” isn’t one other ’80s love track – it would simply be the best track of all time. It’s lyrically resplendent, and glows with the inventive depth that solely Peter Gabriel displayed across the launch of So. Add Youssou N’Dour’s glowing backing vocals into the outro, and you’ve got a track as hallowed as ‘a thousand church buildings’, as fulfilled as vanquished ‘fruitless searches’, as proud as romance ever was. – Frederick Bloy

This track seemingly has somewhat magic to it, as it’s as emotionally consuming as the perfect type of love may be. The orchestral backdrop and repetition of each music and lyrics creates the distinctive juxtaposition of a wealthy melody with a fragile message: love has existed because the starting of time, and as illogical and tacky as it’s typically, how fortunate are we to have discovered it. – Melanie Lustig

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Love songs can run the entire gamut of feelings—from anguished pleas to infuriated betrayals—however there’s one thing so comfy and carefree about “I Need You (Fall 2010)” off of Ratboys’ The Window. Ratboys take the monumentally massive feeling and shrinks it into essentially the most particular and private of vignettes, enlarging its influence. Burning clean CDs, nerding out about favourite bands, happening journeys with no vacation spot; being captured in on a regular basis moments illustrate the expertise of falling in love so intimately. Its nearly pet love-like disposition is completely mixed with the jaunt of their energy pop melodies, often punctuated by their exploding drums and guitars earlier than blowing up solely, which make the entire thing so effortlessly informal. It nearly appears like Julia Steiner winks when she politely and forwardly asks to “hang around ceaselessly, beginning now”, combining the incomprehensibly massive with the comfortably cheerful in a single cozy request. If somebody stated that to you, it’d be exhausting to not settle for. – David Diame

Tright here’s such levity on this track, and a tenderness that instantly grabs and hooks you in. It’s the epitome of a “going regular” track, if that phrase was nonetheless in our basic lexicon. Sam Cooke makes romance look (and sound) easy right here, getting launched into the stratosphere with the energy and fervor of affection. And people traditional doo-wop harmonies actually make the guts flutter. – Kendall Graham

They say the one you’re keen on must be extra than simply your lover, but additionally your finest pal. That’s why I actually get pleasure from Sarah Banker’s single “FRIENDS”. Her heat, flirtatious vocals sing, “Let’s be mates/ Let’s be lovers/ Let’s be the whole lot /Between the streets/To below the covers.” She is searching for a romance that’s all encompassing and I believe that’s the kind of partnership we must always all attempt for. – Chloe Robinson

“Turning Web page” is an exquisite ode to like and the way delicate but highly effective it may be. Full of utter devotion, this track is a confession that captures simply how valuable love is. By way of a gentle piano and soul transferring violins, Sleeping At Final mimics craving and the essence of time transferring slowly because the storyteller reminisces on a time earlier than they met their vital different, “Nothing ready me for/ What the privilege of being yours would do.” However as quickly as their worlds collide, the track picks up its tempo and the melody captures the whirlwind of uncooked emotion effortlessly, “Your love is my turning web page/ The place solely the sweetest phrases stay/ Each kiss is a cursive line/ Each contact is a redefining phrase.” In brief, “Turning Web page” makes it really feel as in case you may maintain the fragileness of affection within the palm of your hand. – Lauren Turner

The timeless track ‘There Is A Mild That By no means Goes Out’ by The Smiths and written by Morrissey and Marr, captures the valuable existential feeling of falling in love for the primary time. This track is immersed within the need of eager to transcend the ordinariness of life with one other individual and the promise this would possibly maintain by means of ‘a light-weight that by no means goes out.’ The palpable tremor of ‘There Is A Mild That By no means Goes Out’ revolves round risking one’s emotional self for the attainable affirmation of affection amidst an evening which may rework life and actuality itself. – David Buyze

Though Stevie Marvel by no means explicitly says the phrase ‘love’ in his track “If It’s Magic,” it’s nonetheless for my part of essentially the most highly effective love songs of all time. Stevie’s capability to seize the very essence of affection, whether or not romantically, platonically or in any other case, is really magnificent. This track is price a pay attention this Valentine’s Day. – Noa Jamir

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The already stunning ballad grew to become reimagined as a Blind B-side – cementing itself as a traditional in its personal proper. With out realization, you’ll be craving for a previous lover, singing, “Wild, wild horses / Couldn’t drag me away.” (After all, The Rolling Stones’ authentic continues to be a traditional over a half-century later.) – Marissa DeLeon

Gracing the top credit of their 1988 dwell/studio album Rattle and Hum, “All I Need Is You” was the final followers heard from U2 earlier than they chopped down The Joshua Tree with 1991’s Achtung Child. It’s additionally their most simple love track – whereas tracks like “Drowning Man” and “Sweetest Factor” are sometimes awarded the title, this is without doubt one of the solely occasions of their discography when love isn’t bracing itself in opposition to previous or impending heartbreak. It’s no surprise it typically segues into “The place The Streets Have No Title” in dwell variations — each songs are damaged free by their defenselessness. – Emma Schoors

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