songs for valentine's day

Started by cron, February 13, 2005, 10:16:16 PM

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cron

i know, i know, but here's my playlist:

beck - lost cause
m83 - don't save us from the flames
belle & sebastian - the model
devendra banhart - the body breaks
regina spektor - us
peter doherty - for lovers
mos def- modern marvel
joanna newsom - bridges and ballons
beck - everybody's gotta learn sometime
the streets - dry your eyes
my bloody valentine - soon
low - walk into the sea
tricky - the love cats
baby shambles - what katie did
björk - all is full of love  :yabbse-undecided:

what's yours
context, context, context.

MacGuffin



Also:

Unforgettable - Nat King Cole
I Only Have Eyes For You - The Platters
Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
Words Of Love - Buddy Holly & The Crickets
You Are So Beautiful - Joe Cocker
Your Song - Elton John
You're Just Too Good To Be True - Four Seasons
And I Love Her - The Beatles
All I Want Is You - U2
Love Song - The Cure
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol


Skeleton FilmWorks

cron

beautiful.
i'm specially interested interested in jb, 03, bigperm,p, hacksparrow, sleuth, meatwad, classical gas, gloria, tlb   's choices.  all of you really. even if you dislike this day,  please share
context, context, context.

Sleuth

99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
I like to hug dogs

meatwad

cronopio took so many of the good ones, like "the model", "dry your eyes" and "the body breaks"....but here is my list

magnetic fields "absolutely cuckoo"
ronettes "be my baby"
moldy peaches "anyone else but you"
rolling stones "love in vain"
joanna newsom "this side of the blue"
brian jonestown massacre "i love you"
bonnie prince billy "agnes, queen of sorrow"
camera obscura "pen and notebook"
richard thompson "beeswing"
the zombies "i want her she wants me"
velvet underground "i'll be your mirror"
air "venus"
van morrison "tupelo honey"
bright eyes "first day of my life"
reindeer section "strikes me down"
bob dylan "i want you"
tom waits "train song"
spiritualized "i think i'm in love"

(listen to the words of the last song and you will figure out who i'm spending valentines day with this year)

and while everyone else is busy eating out, i'm going to be in the company of my room with my spacemen 3 and spiritualized records

Pubrick

Quote from: meatwad(listen to the words of the last song and you will figure out who i'm spending valentines day with this year)
heroin?? the sun?
under the paving stones.

Two Lane Blacktop

Wow, I'm coming to this so late that a TON of the good ones have already been mentioned.  Let's see...

Liz Phair "Supernova"
The Flaming Lips "Do You Realize?"
The B-52s "Strobe Light"
John Lennon "Oh Yoko"
The Only Ones "Another Girl Another Planet"
Momus "Everyone I Have Ever Slept With"
Magnetic Fields "It's Only Time"
Kraftwerk "Computer Love"
Fountains of Wayne "Hey Julie"
The Reindeer Section "You Are My Joy"
The Gerbils "A Song Of Love"

...and of course: The Beatles "All You Need Is Love"

2LB
Body by Guinness

Gamblour.

Rufus Wainwright - "One Man Guy"
Micah P Hinson - "The Day Texas Sank to the Bottom of the Sea"
WWPTAD?

pete

david garza - bloodsuckers
nina simone - to love somebody
m ward - so much water
talib kweli - never been in love before
grateful dead - sitting on the top of the world
david byrne - the great intoxication
seu jorge - pequines e pitbull
india arie - complicated melody
cake - palm of your hand
jonathan richman - summer feeling
tanya chua - blue moon
supercar - strobolights
cymande - bra
stephane grappelli and django reinhardt - stella by starlight
grant green - I wanna hold your hand
magnetic fields - luckiest guy on the lower east side
miles davis - my funny valentine
"Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot."
- Buster Keaton

Gloria

Van Morrison - "Someone Like You"
Eva Cassidy - "I Know You by Heart"
Bon Jovi - "Thank You for Loving Me"
Patty Griffin - "You are Not Alone"
Sheila Nicholls - "Fallen for You"
Elvis Presley - "Can't Help Falling in Love"
John Hiatt - "Have a Little Faith in Me"
Alison Krauss - "Baby of Mine"
Patty Griffin - "When It Don't Come Easy"
Evanescence - "My Immortal"
Josh Groban - "You're Still You"
Morrissey - "I Like You"
Elton John - "Tiny Dancer"

Redlum

The Animals - To Love Somebody
Elliott Smith - Between the Bars
The Beach Boys - Don't Worry Baby
The Beatles - Martha, My Dear
Nick Drake - Northern Sky
Jackie Wilson - Higher and Higher
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
\"I wanted to make a film for kids, something that would present them with a kind of elementary morality. Because nowadays nobody bothers to tell those kids, \'Hey, this is right and this is wrong\'.\"
  -  George Lucas

Pubrick

mojave 3 -  love songs on the radio
richard ashcroft - A Song For The Lovers
the cure - love song
Everything But The Girl - Missing
Moloko - I Want You
Johnny Cash - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, feat nick cave
Lali puna - Together In Electric Dreams
nick cave - into my arms
rob dougan - One And The Same
Roberta Flack - the first time ever i saw your face
stina nord - love hurts
björk - amphibian
air - playground love
Ween - i'm holding you
Connie Stevens - Sixteen Reasons
Jocelyn Pook - EWS ost 08 Masked Ball

i am indifferent to the day. if i had a playlist that would be it.. in that exact order.
under the paving stones.

mogwai

air - all i need
blur - to the end
bob marley - is this love
coldplay - yellow
david bowie - heroes
joy division - love will tear us apart
kylie minogue - come into my world
mogwai - like herod
my bloody valentine - sometimes
nick cave - and no more shall we part
peter gabriel - in your eyes
r.e.m. - the one i love
ryan adams - wonderwall
stina nordenstam - dynamite
suede - the wild ones
the beatles - and i love her
the cure - friday i'm in love
the knife - heartbeats
the streets - dry your eyes
U2 - with or without you

Sigur Rós

Why all those melancholic songs?  :yabbse-undecided:

SHAFTR

"Happy Valentine's Day" - Outkast is an obvious one.

"Lets Pretend We're Married"
"Take Me With U"
"Adore"
"Do It All Night"
-Prince
"Talking shit about a pretty sunset
Blanketing opinions that i'll probably regret soon"