My Ten Favorite Man and Woman Songs: Men Who Love Women Who Love Men (#6)

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In the world of music you have all sort of "boy" and "girl" songs. @teamfreak16 and I covered those, then I also went with the men, the women, and the men and women. I'm counting down my favorite "men" songs and "men and women" songs. Here's the next song in the latter countdown. #6: Men Who Love Women Who Love Men - Steve Goodman If you think the title is silly, you're right. It fits the song perfectly. As many of you know, I love Steve Goodman's music. I did a countdown of my ten favorite Goodman songs earlier this year. He was so good at taking your emotions on a roller coaster. In one moment he could break your heart with a song like Mike Smith's "The Dutchman" or his own "Song for David" (about his brother, who eventually gave Steve a bone marrow transplant in a last-ditch effort to save Steve's life as the leukemia advanced), then he could have you on the floor laughing with songs like "Chicken Cordon Bleus" ("this stuff is so strange that the cockroaches moved next door") or his magnus opus, "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request" (which is now eternally obsolete thanks to the Cubs' World Series victory this year...something that Steve would have been the first to cheer). Or something like this. Written in New York City (he got his leukemia treatments at New York's famed Sloan-Kettering Memorial), it's not that far removed from things like "Lola" or another song that's going to follow on this countdown. It's a comical look at the gender issues in the sexual revolution of the late 60s and early 70s ("there are those who make love to machines that don't talk back and are easy to clean"). And don't take offense, it's just a joke. Men Who Love Women Who Love Men Written by Steve Goodman Recorded by Steve Goodman From High and Outside, 1979 A live version of Steve doing the song: