No offense to Sunny Day Real Estate, U2, Metallica, or the Goo Goo Dolls, but Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me” is on another level on every conceivable level, and I never put it on a mixtape for a lady because (a) of course I could make anyone love me, and (b) this song possesses such a fearsome, lovelorn power that it would’ve somehow physically erased every other song on the tape.
