Warped Love mixtape

So, someone gave me the idea to make a mixtape about love/romance, but where there's something wrong/unusual/fucked up with it. I'd like any suggestions you have (songs about love, not sex), any genre is good, hip hop suggestions would be good as I'm not too hot on that genre. Suggestions of a name for it would be good too. This is not a commercial thing, I'll just put it on the internet if anybody wants it.

This is what I have so far:

Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love
The Police - Roxanne
The Beat - Hands Off She's Mine
Buju Banton - Girl U Know
The Damned - New Rose
Elvis Presley - Suspicious Minds
Bullet Proof - Tainted Love
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe
Kiss - Strutter
Stiff Little Fingers - Barbed Wire Love
Thin Lizzy - Don't Believe A Word
Gene Pitney - 24 Hours From Tulsa
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Buzzcocks - What Do I Get
Rod Stewart - Maggie May
Public Image Ltd - This Is Not A Love Song
Ghostface Killah - Wildflower
Bobby Gentry - Ode To Billy Jo
Black Sabbath - Evil Woman
Dolly Parton - Jolene
The Offspring - She's Got Issues
The Specials - Too Much Too Young
James Carr - Dark End Of The Street
The Velvet Underground - The Gift
The Zombies - Care Of Cell 44
Biggie Smalls - Me And My Bitch
Neil Young - Down By The River
The Band - Long Black Veil
Sam Cooke - Frankie And Johnny
Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield
Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
The Police - Can't Stand Losing You
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine
Ray Charles - Hit The Road Jack
The Roots ft. Erykah Badu - You Got Me

sorry, you're asking if anyone knows if there are any songs about love?

A lot of Patti Smith stuff, especially

Dancing Barefoot
Pissing in a River

Dancing Barefoot
Pissing in a River

very important not to get these mixed up, or you might end up with urine on your feet, or worse, drowning to death whilst doing the soft-shoe-shuffle.

sorry, you're asking if anyone knows if there are any songs about love?

No, not just standard love songs, but ones where something's fucked up about it ie

Roxanne - He's in love with a prostitute
Girl U Know - Although he loves his missus, she puts up with him having casual sex on the side
Barbed Wire Love - Love across the Protestant/Catholic divide in NI (I think)

etc. Also, like I say I'd like to include some hip hop, but don't know that much about it.

joy division - love will tear us apart
soft cell - tainted love (the Bulletproof version if you want a banging psy remix)
rick astley - never gonna give you up

braaap.

R Kelly & Aaliyah "age aint nothing but a number"

R Kelly grooms 15 year old aaliyah, they fall in 'love' eventually get married.
But it later transpires that R Kelly was a bit of a Paedophile & sex addict swinging every way, especially toward minors.

Dark End Of The Street; any version but Percy Sledge is good, James Carr is better, the Flying Burrito Brothers is excellent too.

Reason To Believe; I will get slated for this but my favourite cover is by Rod Stewart.

that's warped in itself.

Deborah Cox's Just Be Good To Me is pretty sick

Great one for getting you thinking...

Okay "The Gift" by The Velvet Underground, surely?

that's warped in itself.

Prejudice is a terrible thing JimJams; it's a great version; you can see the video on my home page here on the forum.

I Want You by Elvis Costello

Homemade by Sebadoh if self-love is included

"A fool in love" Ike & Tina Turner

the first record they put oout together, the lyrics tina sings go on about how Ike is such a good man, how she trusts everythings he does, hes the best thing ever etc...

But he then goes on to be a serial wife beater/rapist.

Ok, now one that doesnt qualify through personal lives of the artists! This one is actually one is buy one of my favourite bands. Its a great 60's british invasion type song, really joyful but with a sinister/dark twist they often had in their songs.

'care of cell 44' by The Zombies. Its a chap writing to his beloved who is in Prison.

This song nearly gets me in tears sometimes, so uplifting/romantic.

Tinderstick - rented rooms.

Hip Hop wise..

"Me and My Bitch" - Biggie Smalls

if you want real fucked up and intellectual at the same time

"Wildflower" by Ghostface

kings of leon - soft

Great one for getting you thinking...

Okay "The Gift" by The Velvet Underground, surely?

Yes definitely!

eerr... Down by the River, Neil Young?

Yes definitely!

eerr... Down by the River, Neil Young?

Advice on warped love by Dick Cheese?

Advice on warped love by Dick Cheese?

:-)

Long Black Veil by The Band

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- Sam Cooke - Frankie And Johnny (Stereo)[/ame]

:-)

Long Black Veil by The Band

or most any other folk song, really...

matty groves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1it7BP5PckI

barbara allen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyrXJP1WMJA

Thanks for the ideas, have listened to all the songs and updated my list. Any more suggestions are super welcome, especially hip hop/dance records.