Your "Romantic Summer Night" Playlist

[HigherTomorrow]

So here's the story. You and a romantic companion (whether you are in a relationship, or would like to be) are in your car, and you're driving on a long, endless road on a beautiful summer night. You turn on a music player of some kind, and you click on your specially-designed playlist for making the night more romantic. What is on it?


Since I have, and am always adding to, this ridiculous playlist, I was wondering what you guys would have on your own. Mine ranges from classics from Meat Loaf, Bruce Springsteen, Queen, Billy Joel, The Beatles, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, to newer bands like The Gaslight Anthem, The Hold Steady, and even some more modern music, which I don't always enjoy, but it's not all about me, now, is it?

How about you guys?

And please, no, "I'm a basement-dweller and would never be in the afore-mentioned story," because that's just a huge waste of time to you and people reading and discussing the thread.

 

[Greater Evil]

Well I don't change my music when my girlfriend is around so anything from my 770 discographies on my computer. This ranges from klezmer to progressive death metal to zeuhl to mbalax to hip hop to whatever forms of electronic music.

 

[emeraldrafael]

huh.... not sure.

maybe just a CD of Chef songs from south park.

 

[TeeBs]

http://stereogum.com/627782/cut-copy-need-you-now/mp3s/

This is currently the free download of the week on Itunes, my god its simple but I love it.

 

[Just_A_Glitch]

Bruno Mars' "Doo-Wop and Hooligans" album, and the James Blunt songs that aren't about being sad, so about a quarter of them.

That's all you need.

 

[PunkyMcGee]

huh.... not sure.

maybe just a CD of Chef songs from south park.

why not just Issac Hayes (RIP)? Same guy but the songs a bit less obtuse.

 

[Tuddle]

Summer Nights from Grease (movie).
Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen.
That's Amore by Dean Martin.
Midnight The Stars And You by Ray Noble and Al Bowlly.
Take On Me by A-ha.
Don't Worry Baby by The Beach Boys.
Something by The Beatles.
How? by John Lennon.
Stand By Me by Ben E. King.
Take My Breathe Away by Berlin.
Linger by The Cranberries.
Two Of The Lucky Ones by The Droge and Summers Blend.
Last Night On Earth by Green Day.
Electric Feel by MGMT.
Endlessly by Muse.
Make It Wit Chu by Queens Of The Stone Age.
Kiss From A Rose by Seal.
When You Were Young by Vitamin String Quartet.
The Angel And The One by Weezer.
Eminence Front by The Who.

 

[Ladette]

An endless loop of Come Sail Away by Styx. /seriousface

That or some soft Bob Marley.

 

[SplitDemonIdentity]

I specialize in New Age so that's probably what it'd be. And not just cause the calmness works so well with the setting.

 

[emeraldrafael]

huh.... not sure.

maybe just a CD of Chef songs from south park.

why not just Issac Hayes (RIP)? Same guy but the songs a bit less obtuse.

Because when a woman hears "I'm gonna make love to you woman, gonna lay you down by the fi-yah!" she knows whats happening.

Besides its really a joke, since I cant be bothered, and I wanted to get a few chuckles. Though that would be on the disk, like, half way through, just to see if she laughs or gets turned off. Cause if she laughs, thats the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with.

 

[PunkyMcGee]

Because when a woman hears "I'm gonna make love to you woman, gonna lay you down by the fi-yah!" she knows whats happening.

Besides its really a joke, since I cant be bothered, and I wanted to get a few chuckles. Though that would be on the disk, like, half way through, just to see if she laughs or gets turned off. Cause if she laughs, thats the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with.

OK, I see what your getting at. The first one i thought of was the one about prostitutes, then chocolate salty balls. That's just were my mind went.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Because when a woman hears "I'm gonna make love to you woman, gonna lay you down by the fi-yah!" she knows whats happening.

Besides its really a joke, since I cant be bothered, and I wanted to get a few chuckles. Though that would be on the disk, like, half way through, just to see if she laughs or gets turned off. Cause if she laughs, thats the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with.

OK, I see what your getting at. The first one i thought of was the one about prostitutes, then chocolate salty balls. That's just were my mind went.

Well I wanna save the prostitute one till our third date, and the chocolate salty balls is hard since I'm rather Cherokee/White/Italian coloured. XD

 

[KEM10]

Summer night you say? Pick out some Death Cab for Cutie (Narrow Stairs or Transatlanticism) and Arcade Fire (Neon Bible). I can only listen to CDs from them while driving during a summer night because it feels like it was written for that scenario.

Or you could go a different route and have some Thievery Corporation, Massive Attack, and Portishead.

 

[PunkyMcGee]

Well I wanna save the prostitute one till our third date, and the chocolate salty balls is hard since I'm rather Cherokee/White/Italian coloured. XD

just don't bathe for a few weeks it may not be "chocolate" but it would be a brown, salty film hanging on there.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Oh I've got a disc somewhere with as much soft, romantic classical music on it as I could manage to fit. I can't recall any titles, but it's all suitably soppy.

Then I threw in a particularly bombastic version of Beethoven's 9th Symphony there. I defy you to not feel romantic after both going batshit crazy to the hyperactive chorus of the 9th then settling down on the grass/blanket to the soothing tones of "Ave Marea".

Or maybe that's just a personal thing...

 

[emeraldrafael]

Well I wanna save the prostitute one till our third date, and the chocolate salty balls is hard since I'm rather Cherokee/White/Italian coloured. XD

just don't bathe for a few weeks it may not be "chocolate" but it would be a brown, salty film hanging on there.

And that image has been burned in my and everyone elses' brains, so lets just stop here.