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 1 FRANCE GALL "On se ressemble toi et moi" If love exists, it has to be like this history. The protagonists end in an absolute mimetism. |
 2 CHARLES AZNAZVOUR "L'amour c'est comme un jour" Insisting on fleetingness, Aznavour gets the eternal romantic song:"... if there's no longer future, at least the memory remains..." |
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 3 JACQUES BREL "La tendresse" "What many people interpret as love is only tenderness; for me it's the same thing"... Brel had this opinion and he expresses it jolly well. |
 4 LIO "J'aime un fantome" "... I love a ghost, my end is near... ". A strange song in a morbid ambient... a masochistic relationship?. |
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 5 GEORGE BRASSENS "Les passantes" The essence of love is fletingness. One thinks, basically, that the woman of his live is the one that one day ran away. |
 6 MINA "Il cielo in una stanza" I always thought that this inmortal song from Gino Paoli was sublime, composed for the Cremona's tigress. |
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 7 LUIGI TENCO "Mi sono innamorato di te" "...I've fallen in love with you because I haven't got anything better to do, because I don't want to be alone..." All is tinged with melancholy. |
 8 MARTHA & THE VANDELLAS "Love (makes me do foolish things)" Naive song about the effects, sometimes devastating, of love, in the voice of Martha Reeves. |
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 9 SERGE GAINSBOURG "La chanson de pervert" A song about another song (his lover's favorite one) that improves the original one. Suffering indiference in an elegant mood. |
 10 VAINICA DOBLE "Coplas del iconoclasta enamorado" A beautiful love declaration, and at time, in a latinized style; it may be just because of this that I like it so much. |
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 11 THE BEACH BOYS "Please let me wonder" It's impossible to imagine a more beautiful melody... Adoration ends up by making you equal to the beloved. Wilson achieves the miracle. |
 12 TITO MORA "Volver a verte" "... looking in your eyes, kissing your face, seeing you again and nothing else..." A spanish song with plenty of touching humbleness. |
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 13 LUCHO GATICA "Entrega total" A torrid boler from Mexic that Lucho Gatica introduced me. A histrionic cover forced by such a strong declaration. |
 14 ABRACADABRA "Te lo pago con mi muerte" I don't think that a love oath can be expressed with more intensity. Its performance makes the hair stand on end. |
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 15 MICHEL POLNAREFF "Ame caline" Polnareff reached the top with "Love me, please love me", but this song goes beyond the stratosphere. |
 16 RICK NELSON "Sweeter than you" "...I never will be loved by another one sweeter than you..." Elegant Rick never got a love declaration with so much intensity. |
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 17 THE SHIRELLES "Will you love me tomorrow?" Written by the pop song queen, Carole King, the Shirelles' cover is the best among all other ones. |
 18 BOB DYLAN "I threw it all away" An advice from a full experienced friend: "... if you find someone that give you all his/her love, embrace him/her against your heart...". |
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 19 RODRIGO "¿A donde vas Pilar?" My favorite song- he chooses the right words better than anybody else- about platonic love. Or how a distant presence can fill a life. |
 20 PINO DONAGGIO "Io che non vivo senza di te" A classical romantic song. This Venetian musician's cover has a helplessness resemble and is the only credible one. |
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