Friday, February 10, 2012
The Greatest Valentine's Day songs of All Time: 2007
Whether it's breaking up or getting together, Valentine's Day is full of the melodies which make a person's heart soar or sink, and you've let us know. We've posted complete audio and playlists for Mark Wheat's fifty greatest love songs of all time and Danny Sigelman's greatest break-up songs. (All audio is 128k mp3). Mark Wheat talks love songs on Midday
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Greatest Love Songs Hour 1 - Listen Rufus Wainwright - "My Funny Valentine" The Ashtray Hearts - "Valentine" Billy Bragg - "The Fourteenth Of February" Sam Cooke - "Cupid" Etta James - "At Last" The Righteous Brothers - "Unchained Melody" The Jayhawks - "All The Right Reasons" Bright Eyes - "First Day Of My Life" Cat Power - "Where Is My Love" Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - "Somewhere Over The Rainbow / What A Wonderful World" Mario Lanza - "If I loved you" Hour 2 - Listen M. Ward - "Let My Love Open The Door" Van Morrison - "Tupelo Honey" Ben Folds - "The Luckiest" Roberta Flack - "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" Magnetic Fields - "The Book of Love" Nina Simone - "I Want a Little Sugar in my Bowl" Mason Jennings - "Ballad for my One True Love" Unrest - "Make Out Club" Iron & Wine - "Such Great Heights" Elvis Presley - "Can't Help Falling In Love" Hour 3 - Listen Horace Faith - "Black Pearl" Ray LaMontagne - "Shelter" Bob Dylan - "Shelter From The Storm" Otis Redding - "Try a Little Tenderness" Semisonic - "Secret Smile" The White Stripes - "We're Going to Be Friends" Beach Boys - "God Only Knows" Talking Heads - "This Must Be The Place Naive Melody" Death Cab For Cutie - "I Will Follow You into the Dark" Leonard Cohen - "Dance Me To The End Of Love" Billie Holiday - "How Deep Is The Ocean" Al Green - "Let's Stay Together" Hour 4 - Listen The Flaming Lips - "Do You Realize" Guillemots - "Made Up Lovesong #43" The Pogues w/ Kirsty MacColl - "Fairytale Of New York" Prince - "Nothing Compares 2 U" Pixies - "La La Love You" Neutral Milk Hotel - "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" Big Star - "Thirteen" Spoon - "I Summon You" Percy Sledge - "When A Man Loves A Woman" Nick Cave - "Into My Arms" John Lennon - "Woman" DeVotchKa - "Queen of the Surface Streets" Hour 5 - Listen Sarah Vaughan - "The Nearness of You" Feist - "Secret Heart" The Shins - "Kissing The Lipless" The Wedding Present - "Perfect Blue" Paul Westerberg - "First Glimmer" Neil Young - "Harvest Moon" Wilco - "Jesus, Etc." Johnny Cash - "I Walk The Line" Looper - "impossible things #2" Alexi Murdoch - "Love You More" Serge Gainsbourg - "je taime... moi non plus" Barry White - "Can't Get Enough Of Your Love, Babe" The Cure - "Let's Go To Bed" |
Greatest Break-up Songs
Hour 1 - Listen Led Zeppelin - "Heartbreaker" Jeff Buckley - "Last Goodbye" Buzzcocks - "Ever Fallen In Love With Someone(You Shouldn't of Fallen in Love With)" Peter Bjorn and John - "Let's Call it Off" PJ Harvey - "Rid of Me" Atmosphere - "Say Hey There" Dawn Penn - "You Don't Love Me(No, No, No)" Lucinda Williams - "Abandoned" Them - "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" Stone Ponies - "Different Drum" Etta James - "I'd Rather Go Blind" Billy Bragg - "The Price I Pay" Blur - "To the End" Sonic Youth - "Superstar" Tegan and Sarah - "Where Does the Good Go?" Hour 2 - Listen Janis Joplin - "Piece of My Heart" The Seeds - "Can't Seem to Make You Mine" Sebadoh - "Soul and Fire" Clem Snide - "End of Love" Brandi Carlile - "What Can I Say?" Damien Rice - "Cheers Darlin'" Pulp - "Do You Remember the First Time?" Blondie - "One Way or Another" Bee Gees - "To Love Somebody" The Faces - "(I Know) I'm Losing You" Imogean Heap - "Hide and Seek" Feist - "Let It Die" Jeremy Messersmith - "Novacain" Coldplay - "Fix you" Her Space Holiday - "The Luxury of Loneliness" Hour 3 - Listen Sugar - "If I Can't Change Your Mind" Tori Amos - "Tear in Your Hand" Patsy Cline - "She's Got You" George Jones - "Why Baby Why?" The Clash - "Train in Vain" Joanna Newsom - "Peach, Plum, Pear" Magnolia Electric Co. - "I Can Not Have Seen the Light" Ron Sexsmith - "I'll Keep it In Mind" Bob Dylan - "Idiot Wind" Replacements - "Answering Machine" The Cure - "Pictures of You" Ben Folds - "In Between Days" Johnny Cash - "I Don't Think I Could Take You Back Again" Wilco - "At Least That's What you Said" Previous Valentine's Day 2006 The Greatest Songs for Valentine's day 2005 The Greatest Songs for Valentine's day |






