The Best 20 Love Songs

Compiling a list of the best 20 rock love songs was hard enough, but then I also decided to choose the best love songs, regardless of genre. Determined not to duplicate any entries from the first list, I set out to choose 20 more terrific love songs.

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The Top 20 Rock Love Songs

As a music lover, I panicked when I had to sit down and compile a list of the very best rock love songs. I finally came up with a solution and made my list. All twenty songs are rock, but in a variety of styles.

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Haiku Poetry

I wrote a few haiku-style poems for National Poetry Month 2009. '80s Sense of Style is a response to the challenge to write a haiku about the 1980s. Classic Journey shows the connection between the band and a more recent television show. Medicine Bottle is a haiku about a mundane object.

Later that same month, I wrote On the Bubble, a set of three haiku poems about the nerve-wracking wait for news about whether my favorite shows would be renewed. For the record, one of them was renewed and is still on the air, although not without a struggle. The other show was canceled but lives on in the memory of its fans.

Review of U2's The Joshua Tree

If you have ever listened to the radio, you're probably already familiar with several tracks from The Joshua Tree, U2's Grammy-winning album from 1987. "Where the Streets Have No Name," "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," and "With or Without You" seem to have received the most airplay, at least to my recollection.

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