Valentine's Day is coming. Some people love it, some people hate it. I don't really care for it myself, it's kinda of a prefab cash-grab "holiday", but that's just the way it goes. Just for fun, I wanted to see if I could put together a mix of love songs, but it didn't feel right without the darkness of heartbreak. I added even more songs and came out with these 32 tracks (yeah, I know it's long, it just happened that way). It's not definitive by any means, just stuff I happen to like. The songs are not evenly split, at least I don't think so because I didn't count. The subject matter was pretty easy, so I just tried to go for flow, and there might be some success in that respect. I'd say that most of these, I've been listening to forever. There are some newer tracks that I've taken to rather quickly, but it seems to be a decent mix of old and new.
Some of these tracks really kill me. Badly Drawn Boy's Magic In The Air is so sweet and hopeful, like when you meet someone new and everything just clicks. Lamb's Gorecki is absolutely devastating, probably the best love song I've ever heard. This is the sound of falling in love. XTC's Your Dictionary has got to be the bitterest and most venomous breakup song ever written. Garbage's #1 Crush is pure stalker obsession. I love when Shirley Manson whispers menacingly, "I'd do time for you." Now THAT, my friends, is love. Joe Jackson's Happy Loving Couples never fails to crack me up. You can almost see him rolling his eyes, a knowing look on his face as he says, "You know what I mean... happy loving couples in matching lamb turtleneck sweaters, reading Ideal Homes magazine... yeah." Those assholes. Yeah, indeed, Mr. Jackson.
Check the tracklist while you're waiting for the download magic to happen (link at the bottom) and then drop this mix onto your mp3 player of choice.
Songs of < 3 & < /3
2. The Magic Kids - Hey Boy
3. The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Want To Get Over You
4. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - This Love Is Fucking Right
5. Lesley Gore - Look Of Love
6. The Clash - 1-2 Crush On You
7. Lucky Soul - Love 3
8. Ben Folds Five - Song For The Dumped
9. Go Sailor - Windy
10. The Beatles - I'm Looking Through You
11. Frances Nero - Keep On Loving Me
12. Badly Drawn Boy - Magic In The Air
13. Cat Power - Could We
14. Neko Case - Buckets of Rain
15. Irma Thomas - It's Raining
16. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - (Do You Wanna) Come Walk With Me?
17. Tom Waits - Take It With Me
18. Aimee Mann - What The World Needs Now
19. Garbage - #1 Crush
20. Bat For Lashes - Siren Song
21. Rogue Wave - Maps
22. The Cookies - I Never Dreamed
23. Blondie - I'm Gonna Love You Too
24. Lush - I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend
25. The Ramones - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend
26. Ivy - Get Enough
27. Book Of Love - You Make Me Feel So Good
28. Chris Clark - Put Yourself In My Place
29. Joe Jackson - Happy Loving Couples
30. XTC - Your Dictionary
31. Lykke Li - Little Bit
32. Lamb - Gorecki
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2 comments:
hey jamie,
thanks so much for this post....i <3 mixes! i know a couple of songs on the list but i'm too much of a philistine to comment on the others....but judging from the last few mixes i got from you this one's going to be so so good. also, is that title your own, or is that a real album whose cover art you posted(sorry, once again...philistine)> because i love the title too.
anyway, i'm going to dl it now and let you know what i think but i already know that we'll love it. (my boyfriend and i are going to listen to it together) and i know what you mean when you say "assholes".... yes even though i have a bf who i lov very much, i remember the feeling well. besides, elliott (my bf) and i have a very long-distance relationship and i've yet to see him in person :(
but as for yourself, try to concentrate on the songs of <3 because i have a funny feeling that you'll know your beshert (soulmate) soon enough :)
xo
michelle
hey michelle, nice to hear from you again. i came up with the title, the art is something an ex made a long time ago. hope your LDR works out and that you like the mix!
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