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The 100 Greatest Romantic Albums of All Time
by Alan Wiley on January 30, 2009

Do you love gettin' down with your significant other to hot, sensuous, romantic, sexy music? We sure hope so, because hot on the heels of our 100 Greatest Debut Albums of All Time list, and just in time for Valentine's Day, comes the 100 Greatest Romantic Albums of All Time. Does our list of tunes make you swoon, or is the heat you feel coming out your ears with anger? Let us know what you think of our choices in the comments.

1. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get it On
2. Nat King Cole - Sings For Two In Love
3. Al Green - Still in Love with You
4. Portishead - Dummy
5. Barry White - Plays for Someone You Love
6. Sade - Lovers Rock
7. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
8. Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
9. The Carpenters - Close To You
10. Serge Gainsbourg - L'Historie De Melody Nelson
11. Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You
12. Joshua Bell - Romance of the Violin
13. Otis Redding - Soul Album
14. Jeff Buckley - Grace
15. Sigur Ros - ()
16. D'Angelo - Voodoo
17. Slowdive - Souvlaki
18. Anita Baker - Rapture
19. Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
20. Andrea Bocelli - Romanza
21. k.d. lang - Ingenue
22. Blossom Dearie - Blossom Dearie
23. Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love
24. John Coltrane - Blue Trane
25. Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swingin' Lovers!
26. Billie Holiday - Songs For Distingue Lovers
27. Air - Moon Safari
28. Bread - Lost Without Your Love
29. Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis
30. Josh Groban - Closer
31. Isley Brothers - Between the Sheets
32. Chet Baker - Chet
33. Isaac Hayes - Black Moses
34. Diana Krall - The Look of Love
35. Jimmy Scott - Falling In Love Is Wonderful
36. Dean Martin - Dino! The Italian Love Songs
37. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
38. Roxy Music - Avalon
39. Air Supply - Now and Forever
40. Prince - For You
41. Roberta Flack - First Take
42. Boyz II Men - II
43. Enigma - LSD
44. Depeche Mode - Violator
45. Fiona Apple - Tidal
46. Harry Connick, Jr. - We Are In Love
47. Zero 7 - Simple Things
48. Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
49. Theivery Corporation - The Mirror Conspiracy
50. George Michael - Faith
51. Paolo Conte - Reveries
52. Lou Donaldson - Lush Life
53. Carla Bruni - Quelqu'un M'a Dit
54. A Touch of Schmilsson in the Night - Harry Nilsson
55. The O'Jays - So Full Of Love
56. The Spinners - Mighty Love
57. Francoise Hardy - Ma Jeunesse Fout L'camp
58. Julee Cruise - Floating Into The Night
59. Nina Simone - Here Comes The Sun
60. The Dramatics - Me & Mrs. Jones
61. Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
62. Willie Nelson - Stardust
63. The Softies - It's Love
64. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
65. John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy
66. Stevie Wonder - My Cherie Amour
67. Billy Ocean - Suddenly
68. Judee Sill - Heart Food
69. Usher - Confessions
70. Red House Painters - Red House Painters I
71. Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl
72. Erykah Badu - Baduism
73. Maxwell - Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
74. John Legend - Save Room
75. Sarah McLachlan - Solace
76. Ray Charles & Milt Jackson - Soul Brothers / Soul Meeting
77. Jean-Yves Thibaudet - Satie: The Magic of Satie
78. Dave Brubeck - Take Five
79. Chris Isaak - Heart Shaped World
80. Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust
81. Bjork - Homogenic
82. Patricia Barber - Modern Cool
83. Nicolai Dunger - Tranquil Isolation
84. Michael Buble - Call Me Irresponsible
85. Jill Scott - Who is Jill Scott?
86. Tricky - Maxinquaye
87. Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
88. Keren Ann - Nolita
89. Shirley Horn - Travelin' Light
90. James Moody - Young At Heart
91. Jens Lekman - When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog
92. Bebel Gilberto - Bebel Gilberto
93. The Cure - Disintigration
94. Enya - Watermark
95. The Postal Service - Give Up
96. Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Wainwright
97. The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs, Vol. 1
98. Astrud Gilberto - Look to the Rainbow
99. R. Kelly - 12 Play
100. Seu Jorge - The Life Aquatic Exclusive Sessions

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i own or have owned - 4,14,15,27,37,47,48,49,62,65,72, 91,95,97

i also own vol. 2 & 3 of The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs

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@djjd62,

I've got 4, 7, 14, 19, 27, 38, 47, 49, 81, 86, 94, and 93 and significant lumps of about a third of the others on compilations and single song downloads. What a romantic dude I turned out to be.

I don't agree with the list generally (Tricky's Black Steel on Maxinquaye is not romantic) and some of them are 'saccharine romance' and yet others pick the wrong album by the artist (eg Bjork, Enigma).

Can't believe Fisherman's Woman by Emiliana Torrini or A Book Like This by Angus and Julia Stone didn't make it, or even Ben Lee's 'Awake is the new sleep'.

But lists are just lists - a wee bit o' fun.

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wait wait wait wait wait..........................

George Micheal?

Romantic album?
Laughing

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R KELLY ??!!

Laughing

thats romance.

I can hear him now

"pissin off a dock of a bayyyyyyyyyyyyy "

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@djjd62,

I've owned #1, #8, #20, a Roberta Flack, not sure of the title, an Aretha, not sure of the title, a Paolo Conte disc which I've in my giveaway pile - maybe I should listen again, Brubeck #78.

Eh.

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I've got most of those on my Favorites List at last.fm. Some good songs and artists in that list. We've sure had a wide range of great musical talent in the last 75 years.

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I've owned #'s 21, 23, 34, 59, 75, 85, and 96.

Off the top of my head, Diana Krall strikes me as the most romantic.

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@shewolfnm,

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R KELLY ??!!

Ha... that was exactly my reaction. I had a horrific momentary vision of a sleazebag urinating on 12-year-old girls... by moonlight.

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I don't know the Willie Nelson album except for a couple of songs. I would imagine many are ballads such as "She left me with a woodie".

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I have Coltrane's 'Blue Train'. I can think of a lot of words to describe it and 'romantic' is not one of them. Who compiles this **** anyhow?

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@djjd62,

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4. Portishead - Dummy

Not so long ago the missus and I were discussing music we considered to be romantic, and I named this album. She said I was confusing "romantic" with "gettin' it on." Is there a significant difference? If there is, then I think she has a point that Portishead doesn't quite fit this list. In its place I might propose, oh I don't know... maybe something by the Cowboy Junkies?

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@Shapeless,

I think Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan is a very romantic album.
His voice breaks in 'If you see her say hello'
You're gonna make me lonssome when you go
Buckets of Rain..
the whole record is sort of a recittation of his history with his wife and his goodbye to her.

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