Sweet wonderful you

Hey, Megs,

Another post related to the A.V. Club. Let me go ahead and highly suggest looking into that website. It is a treasure trove of excellent writing, new music, and pop-culture references. Regular highlights include the weekly inventory, published on Mondays (these range in subject matter--some recents: The gift that keeps on taking: 15 terrible presents in TV and film, I vant to suck your broccoli: 23 unusual vampire variations, and Hey, teacher! Leave those kids alone!: 26 evil, awful, or just plain stupid educators in TV and film); new music reviews, published on Tuesdays (and generally featuring samples of key songs from each of the reviewed albums); the Tolerability Index; and, the subject of today's post, the AVQ&A, published on Fridays. (The site also features Dan Savage's advice column Savage Love and--a long-time favorite--Max Cannon's genius cartoon, Red Meat.)

Today's AVQ&A question: What handful of songs would you put on a mix-tape for someone you love or are trying to woo?

The list has some great songs on it, plus some questionable songs, but it's the descriptions that I love. This is my favorite, from Steve Hyden:

Fleetwood Mac, "You Make Lovin' Fun"

This giddy ode to puppy love is all the more affecting because it's sung by Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac’s sad-voiced Edith Piaf, who never again allowed herself to sound so joyous on record. You can almost forgive her for writing a song about banging the band's lighting director, then making her ex-husband play bass on it.


I highly recommend this feature. They even made a virtual mix-tape for your listening pleasure.

Happy Valentine's Day!

love, molly

ps--the Ben Folds song on here, "The Luckiest," is oh-so-pretty, and was also featured on NPR's Make-Out Mix.

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