Valentine’s Day is complicated. One year, it’s fine wine, a fancy hotel, and sweet loving. The next, it’s crying in your pillow. Twelve months later, it’s bitter cursing at Cupid. And then, it’s fine wine, a fancy hotel and sweet loving again. Here is to the many emotions (like them or not) Valentine’s brings.
Curated by Marjorie Owens of Clumsy N Shy
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- ENCHANTING LOVE:
Jeff Alexander w/ Bonnie Beecher – “Come Wander With Me”
“He came from the sea / He came from my sorrow / And can love only me”
- LINGERING LOVE:
Jeans Wilder – “Sparkler”
“And the tears on my pillow keep waking me up / From this beautiful dream / That you’re still here with me”
- WISHING IT WAS DIFFERENT LOVE:
Hortense Ellis – “Can I Change My Mind”
“I keep looking back / But my baby’s nowhere in sight / I would like to start all over again”
- WANTED LOVE:
Shelley Duvall – “He Needs Me”
“For once, for once in life / I finally felt that someone needed me / And if it turns out real / Then love can turn the wheel”
- OVER-IT LOVE:
Jack Scott – “Goodbye Baby”
“Gooooooood-bye / Baby bye, bye / I’m gonna leave you now”
- INTOXICATED LOVE:
Bryan Ferry – “Love Is The Drug”
“I say go, she say yes / Dim the lights, you can guess the rest / Oh oh catch that buzz”
- FOREVER LOVE:
Mathemagic – “Always Will Be”
Okay, I can’t even really hear what he is singing except when he airily sings “Always will be.” But, it definitely gives off a happy, relaxing let’s stay in love forever, move away to Costa Rico, get a beach house and lay out in the sun vibe.
- ONE LOVE:
The Knockouts – “Nobody But You”
“When you take me in your love arms / And you tell me of your many charms / I don’t want no-no-no-body but you you now”
- HEARTBROKEN LOVE:
Memoryhouse – “Lately (Deuxieme)”
“Lately / I’m not sleeping / I’m not breathing / Without machine”
- BUBBY, NEW LOVE:
eyes, wings, and many other things – “Cinema”
There are no lyrics, but it’s there.
- LONG-DISTANCE LOVE:
Ketty Lester – “Love Letters”
“I memorize every line / And I kiss the name that you sign /And, darlin’, then I read again right from the start”
- SOMEONE’S GOT BAGGAGE LOVE:
Richard Hawley – “Open Up Your Door”
“Ooh open up your door / Cause we’ve time to give / And my feelings aren’t so obscure”
- FORBIDDEN LOVE:
The Shangri-Las – “Dressed In Black”
“They said he was much / Too wild for me / They said I didn’t know what I was getting myself into / They said a whole lot of things / But there are some thing they could never understand”
- OPPRESSIVE LOVE:
Helene Smith – “I Am Controlled By Your Love”
“My heart can’t beat / Unless you tell it to / My eyes can’t see / Unless you tell them to”
- HIBERNATING-TORTURED LOVE:
Scott Walker – “Through A Long And Sleepless Night”
“I pray that someday our love will see the light / ‘Til then; In thick dark silence / I beg my heart to replace / All through and oh so long and sleepless night”
- YOUNG LOVE:
Wild Nothing – “Summer Holiday”
“We’re driving to your parents house just for a visit / And I’m sleeping in your brother’s bed / Won’t you sneak into my room and climb under the covers / Talk nonsense in your sleep”
- ONE-NIGHT-STAND LOVE:
Iggy Pop – “Fall In Love With Me”
“A bottle of white wine / A cigarette and you / Here in this saloon / White wine and you / I wish you’d fall in love with me”
- WISHING YOU WERE OVER IT LOVE:
Lonnie Donegan – “Get Out Of My Life”
“Night after night / I tell myself / You are gone / You are gone / But I know you’re still around / Get out of my mind”
(Available only with complete download.) - RETURNING LOVE:
Vetiver – “Been So Long”
“I can’t believe that you’re knocking / Knocking on my door / Oh, it’s been so long, been so long”
- FALLING HARD LOVE:
Wanda Jackson – “Funnel Of Love”
“Here I go, going down, down, down / My mind is a blank / My head is spinning around and around / As I go deep into the funnel of love”
- BONUS TRACK:
Harry Nilsson – “He Needs Me” (Spanish Demo)
- BONUS TRACK:
Harry Nilsson & Shelley Duvall – “He Needs Me” (Demo)
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