Dear DateSpacers:
We’ve gotten a lot of positive feedback about our little love-makin’ jazz playlist we compiled for you a few weeks back. As one reader raves: “Thanks for the tuneage–my lady and I rode the Coltrane all the way to Love Junciton and back!”*
As such, we’ve decided to use this issue of Thursdates to launch a new series for the site: PlayDates. The idea is simple–soundtracks for your love life. We’re pulling together the best of the best songs by which to live and love.
Our inaugural playlist is a collection of wistful reveries to, well, make out to. Perfect for a sleepy, shadowy afternoon with the one you love. Lose yourself in a soundscape of patient rhythms, shimmery guitars, gentle slides. Play the whole list, or pick your favorites and put them on repeat–you could even loop just one, over and over, on its own. Whatever your fancy, find a blanket, draw the shade, and dream away. Click here to get the Rhapsody list.
DateSpaces’ Top 8 Dreamy Make-Out Songs**
1. “Introduction” -Nick Drake. A fitting start both in name and tenor. Let the orchestral swell send you on your way.
2. “Linger” -The Cranberries. A lush, layered pop classic that has us wrapped around its finger.
3. “Agaetis Byrjun” -Sigur Rós. One track (and one letter) takes us from Ireland to Iceland. Tune into the rolling drum beat.
4. “High and Dry” -Radiohead. I got my first college kiss to this song. I think we listened to it about six or seven times in a row before our lips met.
5. “She’s a Jar” -Wilco. Perhaps the best part is the descending 3-2-1chord progression (right after the line “…in my fragile family tree.”) Lift off.
6. “Seymour Stein” -Belle & Sebastian. The tune really coalesces at the end with the claps, the comping piano, the brushing of the drums, and the rumble of the jet plane.
7. “Pink Moon” -Nick Drake. Yes, we could have done a whole playlist of Nick Drake.
8. “Fade Into You” -Mazzy Star. The slide guitar and rolling 12/8 feel make this a candidate for the best make-out song ever. The title says it all.
Enjoy.
1. DateSpace of the Week
In need of some mead? You’re in luck. This week’s DateSpace of the Week is Hearth: “As far as we know, Hearth is the only bar or restaurant in New York City that actually serves mead. What’s mead you ask? It’s honey wine — that’s right: wine from fermented honey as opposed to grapes — and it also happens to be the libation that Beowulf and his crew drank heartily the night they kicked Grendel’s ass.” And if mead can help you slay a dragon…
Why else is mead a great date drink? Because of the inevitable chain of romantic associations it initiates. Mead…Trapper Keepers…Lisa Frank…bunnies in tutus…ballet…Romeo and Juliet…family feuds…Louie Anderson***… Ok. Maybe not, then. But it sure is delicious.
Been on a really great date lately? Suggest next week’s DateSpace of the Week by emailing eric@datespaces.com.
2. This Week at The Daily Dater
Letty offers comfort to a hairy man. Don’t sweat it, friend. Some women prefer hairy men. Heck, we got a guy here at DateSpaces who makes Alf look like Mr. Bigglesworth, and he just got engaged.
Happy Dating,
The DateSpaces.com Team
XOXOX
*Not.
**Sure, we could’ve made it 10. But that would be just as arbitrary as going out for coffee instead of caramels, and we think Will Hunting makes for a pretty good role model.
***Love you, Louie.
