Top 5

Current Music: My crazy sketch of my future wedding recessional music

Several top 5 song lists:

Love Songs:

1. Crush (DMB)
2. Unexpected Song (from Song & Dance, the musical)
3. Live with Somebody you Love (Martin Guerre, the musical)
4. Till You Came into My Life (Jekyll & Hyde, the musical concept album)
5. Che Gelida Manina (Your hand is freezing...) from La Boheme...although it sort of sucks to cut it out of the context of the scene...the segue into Mimi's "Mi chiamano Mimi" really helps make it rock,but hers isn't explicitly about love; just sort of invoked a bit in"il Primo bacio dell'Aprile e mio!" ("April's first kiss.")

Honorable mentions:

• All I Ask of You (Phantom of the Opera, the musical)
• A Whole New World (Aladdin, the movie)

Anti-love songs:

1. Haloween (Dave Matthews Band)
2. One Night in Bangkok (Chess, the musical)
3. [Love and your world will become a] Madhouse (Aspects of Love, the musical)
4. Happilly Ever After (cut from the musical Company, by Sondheim)
5. Bitches Ain't Shit (Snoop Dogg)

Unrequited love songs:

1. Say Goodbye (Dave Matthews Band)
2. The Winner Takes it All (ABBA)
3. All I Ask of You Reprise -- Finale Act 1 (Phantom of the Opera)
4. Only the Very Best (from Tycoon, the English translation of the Canadian rock opera Starmania)
5. If I Can't Love Her (Beauty and the Beast -- the stage musical version)

Star-Crossed Lovers songs:

1. You and I -- reprise (Chess, the ABBA/Tim Rice musical -- Broadwaycast recording)
2. Written in the Stars (Aida, the Elton John/Tim Rice musical)
3. Don't (Martin Guerre, the musical [revised version]).
4. Letting Go (Jekyll & Hyde, the musical)
5. Someday out of the Blue (El Dorado, the Elton John/Tim Rice animated film soundtrack)

Honorable mentions:

• One Upon a Dream (Jekyll & Hyde)
• I Still Believe (Miss Saigon, the musical)