Hero, come and get your love: The Playlist

December 20, 2016 10:32 AM

I need songs like Redbone's Come and get your love or like the song I need a hero.

Answers with links to the video will be automatically best answered. If you think it fits, post it. If you think I won't get why you are suggesting it, feel free to 'splain (or explain, if you didn't grow up in the Deep South). Songs with a single line that seems to fit are very welcome.

Thanks!

posted by Michele in California to Media & Arts (19 answers total)

Best answer: Boom: KC & the Sunshine Band's Give it Up
posted by Draccy at 10:39 AM on December 20, 2016

By "I need a hero" do you mean "Holding Out for a Hero" from the movie Footloose?
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 10:47 AM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Google tells me yes, that is what I mean. The song by Bonnie Tyler.

Thanks!
posted by Michele in California at 10:50 AM on December 20, 2016

Best answer: How about Express Yourself by Charles Wright and theWatts 103rd Street Rhythm Band
posted by briank at 10:51 AM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

Is the idea that the tracklist will itself be a poem of titles?
posted by rhizome at 10:52 AM on December 20, 2016

Best answer: Paul Simon - Loves Me Like A Rock

This is the Rorsach Test of Asks!
posted by Room 641-A at 11:13 AM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

Can you elaborate on what sort of theme you're going for? Is it the lyrics, theme, musical style?
posted by Metroid Baby at 11:18 AM on December 20, 2016

Response by poster: No, not making a poem of titles.

I am interested mostly in the lyrics. I am looking for songs that say something like "Come get me" or "Rescue me" or "Right here is your love."
posted by Michele in California at 11:22 AM on December 20, 2016

Best answer: I'll bite. Theme to Wonder Woman
posted by Mchelly at 11:23 AM on December 20, 2016

Guess I should have previewed.
posted by Mchelly at 11:24 AM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Rescue Me
posted by Mchelly at 11:34 AM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

I feel like most songs by LaBouche fit this requirement.
posted by CoffeeHikeNapWine at 11:40 AM on December 20, 2016 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Al Green "Here I Am, Baby"

Stevie Wonder "Signed, Sealed, Delivered"

There are about a hundred juuuuust out of reach in the recesses of my brain.
posted by zorseshoes at 12:01 PM on December 20, 2016 [2 favorites]

Best answer: Madonna - Rescue Me

You may also find some gems amongst the James Bond themes. Specifically, I 'm thinking Nobody Does it Better ,For Your Eyes Only, and Moonraker maybe Goldeneye (more hero worship than, hey hero, I'm yours).

Circling back to Madonna (b/c why would you not?) - He's a Man
posted by sparklemotion at 12:24 PM on December 20, 2016

Best answer: Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle "I feel like I've been locked up tight / For a century of lonely nights / Waiting for someone to release me"

Sugababes - Push The Button "If you're ready for me boy / You'd better push the button and let me know"
posted by bluedora at 2:05 PM on December 20, 2016

Best answer: Selena Gomez - Come & Get It
Squeeze - Take Me I'm Yours
posted by phoenixy at 4:35 PM on December 20, 2016 [2 favorites]

Best answer: Come and Find Me - Josh Ritter
posted by fairlynearlyready at 8:59 PM on December 20, 2016

Best answer: Joan Armatrading's Drop the Pilot.
posted by merejane at 3:47 PM on December 21, 2016

Hi - I don't have any songs to add but I made a Spotify playlist with all of the suggestions so here you go!

https://open.spotify.com/user/craseland/playlist/099fGtehtoEeC855D6y5FU
posted by dawkins_7 at 10:04 AM on March 2, 2017