Oh, love.
It is a moving target and an obsession. At times fleeting but occasionally forever. Intoxicating and transfixing one minute, mercurial and pained the next. It might look like folding laundry together on a Sunday morning, or laughing so hard you can’t catch your breath. Maybe it's a fond farewell or a heart full of gratitude for something that could never have survived, but was wonderful while it lasted. It could be the snap of a suitcase or slam of the door — sounds that are sometimes more final than any goodbye.
Depending on our personal and lived experiences, “true” love is a sliding-scale definition, and you don’t have to look much further for proof of that than the thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands, of love songs in the world.
CBC Music asked musicians and songwriters to tell us about their favourite “true” love songs. From the melancholic beauty of Nick Cave to the soulful stirrings of Etta James, click through the gallery above to check out what Bonnie Raitt, Austra, Scott Helman, Donovan Woods, Kira Isabella, Born Ruffians, the Sheepdogs, Lindi Ortega, Ben Caplan and many more musicians think makes the “truest” love song.
You can also click on the YouTube playlist below for a full list of all of the "true" love songs.
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