Playlist: Valentine’s Day
While I tried my best to make most of this playlist full of “uplifting” songs about love and romance, etc., I did have to throw in a few melancholy numbers for those of you who aren’t at the receiving end of Cupid’s arrow. Enjoy,
Foo Fighters – “February Stars”
It’s hard to decipher who or just what Dave Grohl is singing about in “February Stars”, but from my understanding, it reads as a relationship and/or friendship Grohl was once in, in which the other person saw success at a more grandiose scale and success than Grohl. Being that this song was written back in 1997, during Foo Fighters’ rise to success, that idea doesn’t seem likely, which instead leaves more to the brain to wonder, but that’s the beauty of music I suppose.
The Clientele – “Bookshop Cassanova”
Lead singer of The Clientele, Alsadair, has always been one to wear his heart on his sleeve. With song titles such as “I Can’t Seem to Make You Mine”, “We Could Walk Together”, and “When You and I Were Young”, “Bookshop Cassanova” is no different, saying to the object of his desires throughout the song “let’s be lovers”.
Django Reinhardt – “I’ll See You in My Dreams”
Legendary jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt always knew how to create wonderfully upbeat and swinging numbers. Be whisked away to the 1940s with this song, as it acts like a breath of fresh air in an otherwise clouded Valentine’s Day.
Fleet Foxes – “Someone You’d Admire”
One of the shorter numbers on Fleet Foxes’ second album, Helplessness Blues, “Someone You’d Admire” works like a double-edged sword, in which Robin Pecknold, lead singer and songwriter of Fleet Foxes, can’t decide whether to be someone a certain person would admire, or someone who throws that certain person on the fire. Decisions, decisions.
Utilizing the classic Phil Spector “Wall of Sound”, this song has been featured in Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets and covered by the likes of John Lennon and Michael Bublé. A classic in the truest sense of the world, the three ladies comprising The Ronettes, two sisters and their cousin, continued to make hits after this, but nothing could truly have the staying power “Be My Baby” has had.
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