Ten Songs To Get Busy To On Valentine's Day
Teenage Fanclub - "Sparky's Dream"
Key lyric: "If she lived in space, man / I'd build a plane"
Grand Prix is an emotional ride of an album, and "Sparky's Dream" is the song that you want if you're feeling like you're in love. It song captures that buoyant, effervescent feeling perfectly. Think: driving in the warm summer sunshine with the windows down while a new lover is at your side singing along.
R.E.M. - "At My Most Beautiful"
Key lyric: "At my most beautiful / I count your eyelashes... secretly"
R.E.M. was a band that was about feelings. This track off of one of the bands sunniest albums, Up, is slow and tentative and bashful, much like young love. ("I read bad poetry into your machine / I save your messages just to hear your voice") The song is bashful, even tender, and all of the obtuse lyrical dances that R.E.M. was known for are cast away in favor of a pure expression of romance.
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