HELP! Epic songs for epic kisses. Ballady whatever.

[timepiececlock]

I am trying to write a fanfic where it involves an epic make-out moment, and... I don't know what to listen to!

Music is VITAL to my writing process. And all I can seem to find to listen to on my comp is break-up songs! ARGH!

I need some quick recs. Something sweeping. Romantic. Swooning. Swooping. Other cleaning & vertical movement metaphors, I don't know. I'm not asking for links, just names I can play from youtube or something. Anything to jolt my brain into the right sphere of sappy romantic thinking! They can be totally mainstream, too. I don't discriminate in my pop.

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllppppppppppppppppppp!

ETA: The pairing I'm trying to write for is Uhura/Spock, if that helps.



ETA 3: 1. You guys are so thoughtful for responding! 2. I don't think my romantic vernacular matches everyone else's, apparently. I should figure out how to fix that. To clarify my confusing and incomprehensible request above: Not slow songs, because slow songs tend to be sad even if they are romantic and my brain thinks sweeping/swooning/epic = big music and energy. Seventy-six bloody trombones.

Comments

[thelymachy.livejournal.com]

Lolz, I think my mistake here is that when I think epic I think DOOMED. Hence the depressing theme.

For more uplifting, I recommend:

You Are My Joy (http://www.box.net/shared/sa1u7ppovn) by The Reindeer Section

Open Your Eyes (http://www.box.net/shared/43uhmmqcpt) by Snow Patrol (this especially fits the running to a loved one theme I think)

Undying Love (http://www.box.net/shared/xi7nzfjnbs) by Two Steps From Hell (aka SWEEPING ROMANTIC TRAILER MUSIC!)

Hopefully this helps more? XD

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

olz, I think my mistake here is that when I think epic I think DOOMED. Hence the depressing theme.

Aaaaah. Hm. The internet is a confusing method of communication sometimes. ;D Especially since people's perceptions of music are different and the language that describes it is likewise negotiable.

[thelymachy.livejournal.com]

You'd think I'd know better, given that I use EPIC as a positive noun 99.9% of the time in real conversation (as a synonym for AWESOME or HUUUUUUGE) but when it comes to fiction and movies the word epic as a descriptor makes me immediately think of like... war epic? Which makes me think like... Faith Hill or Celine Dion power ballads? IDK. ANYWAYS. MAKE OUTZ GOING BETTER NOW?

Celine Dion is the pure definition of Epic Awesome.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

You'd think it'd be going better, right? But I'm now obsessed with this, though, and not writing fanfic. For the last 45 minutes.

*tears out hair Homer-style*

THE WAY SHE BEATS HER CHEST WHEN SHE SINGS A LOVE SONG.

[thelymachy.livejournal.com]

OH NO D: RECFAIL.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I like to think of it as RASHAKA NEUROSIS FAIL.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

[[subconscious attempt to delay writing? I hope not, but I know not my own brain some nights]]

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

'Undying love' is pretty! And I think I have heard it in a movie trailer before.

OH CELINE DION, YOU SOFT ROCK MY WORLD.

[thelymachy.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? Two Steps From Hell is one of the best trailer music producers going so they have a lot of stuff out there.

Also, in the event of complete fic production halt this calls for the big guns:

IN YOUR EYES - THE LIGHT, THE HEAT. IN YOUR EYES - I AM COMPLETE. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrzr4R3LpsQ)

If its good enough for John Cusack, its good enough for me!

I first heard that song in an X Files vid! Oh, fandom days gone by!

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

LoL,I should just give up an hunt down the soundtrack for every John Cusak movie.

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

*watching video*

I've...never seen this before. I am overcome with a need to do a running commentary!

1. Wow, the lyrics are being taken literally with the car thing.

2. Wow, Peter Gabriel is pretty weird looking.

3. OMG, they're actually using giant zooms of eyeballs!

4. Wow, at 1:44 he looks like a giant fish face with the eyes on either side and oooh, that's weird.

5. Mysterious white flashes over a naked Peter Gabriel. Metaphor???

6. The churches I get (lyrics), but the small heart candies? Je suis muy confused.

7. Lady jumping from bed in a dream illusion and reappearing in front of her mirror? Shadow hands floating in fuchsia/purple light? I did not realize this was going to be a horror movie.

8. I give up. You win, video. I concede. You have bested me and my intellect cannot decipher what I see in your eyes.

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[thelymachy.livejournal.com]

It is seriously one of the weirdest videos XD

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, Undying Love is fantastic! I don't have enough good instrumental stuff, thank you!