A little love music

 Posted by on 14 February 2009  Modern Life, Music
Feb 142009
 

cinnamonheartsAmy may say that she doesn’t really like Valentine’s Day, but I’m going to make it my business to change her mind. How am I going to do that? With a mix CD, of course! Didn’t you see her post? Music is the way to a woman’s heart, people!

I went back and forth on this Valentine’s Day CD for a while. I wasn’t sure if I wanted  a CD of classics, or of new-and-undiscovered stuff, or a mix of the two styles.

I settled for some old favourites that weren’t “standards” as well as a couple of new-ish covers of old tunes, and some new just-discovered ones. Plenty of songs briefly made an appearance on this disc, only to be cut when they didn’t quite fit — some good ones, too!

Some of the picks were found by trolling through other peoples’ love CD mixes, some were found by deliberate searching and some have been just rattling around in my head, waiting for the right moment to be burned onto a disc.

But the best discoveries were serendipitous ones.

I won’t do song-by-song descriptions, but here they are:

The Magnetic Fields – The Book Of Love

The Four Tops – Reach Out (I’ll Be There)

Rivers Cuomo – Annie’s Song

Death Cab For Cutie – Love Song

Blur – You’re So Great

Modernboys Moderngirls – My Baby Says Boy, Don’t You Ever Go

The Bird and the Bee – My Love

We Are Scientists – Be My Baby

Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl

M. Ward – Never Had Nobody Like You

Rosie Thomas – The One I Love

Band of Horses – No One’s Gonna Love You

The Leisure Society – Love’s Enormous Wings

Florence and the Machine – You’ve Got the Love

Now, I hope you’ll agree that this is a fun, pleasant mix with a bit of a flair for the unexpected. If you truly love it, you can download the full zip file — and as a special bonus, it comes with an iPod slideshow of lovey-dovey couple pictures, featuring me and my Aeyms.

Together Forever – Valentines Day Mix 2009 (zip)

Happy Valentine’s Day, all. And if you’re truly stuck for a gift, I’m sure you could cobble together a pretty rad mix CD from the songs that Amy and I have posted.

Grant Hamilton

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  • http://endlessspin.blogspot.com Curtis

    No woman could resist that mix, Grant. Nice work!

    Rana, like Amy, is also not into V-Day, so we do something different that doesn’t include flowers/chocolate/jewellery. Every year, I make a clever homemade card out of construction paper and Kraft Dinner noodles. It started as a joke, but it’s become a tradition and it’s actually kind of fun since I don’t have many other outlets for my Grade 4-level artistic abilities.

    I’d post some examples of my oeuvre, but I’m afraid I’d get mocked by my readers. But I’m throwing this out there for any guy who wants to offer up an unconventional and appreciated V-Day gift.

  • http://www.absurdintellectual.com/ Grant Hamilton

    Thanks Curtis! And I think yours is a great tradition! I wouldn’t mock you for it!

    And, as my brother pointed out to me yesterday, a tradition is just something that you did twice and ended up liking. (He was telling me about some friends of his — their Valentine’s Day tradition is to go out for a really nice and expensive meal, but only every second year. On the off years, they go to McDonald’s, but they take candles.)