The Galaxy Playlist

February 14/15, 2010

Happy Valentine's Day!

We started at 10pm this evening, so we begin with a nice selection of music with romantic themes.

Composer's name is listed where notable (i.e. Classical Performance, Jazz Performance).

For more information on any of the rock, pop and Jazz music featured on this program, I frequently utilize AllMusic , an excellent free database holding a huge plethora of information about music and the artists that make it.

Composer Performer Title Genre Label Notes
Air Supply
Chances
Pop
Arista, 1980
A chance is all there is....
Lost In Love
 
Sweet Dreams
Arista, 1981
 
Now and Forever
Arista, 1982
 
Come What May
 
Antonio Carlos Jobim -w- Joao Gilberto (g & voc), Astrid Gilberto (voc), Stan Getz (ts), Tommy Williams (b), Milton Banana (d)
The Girl From Ipanema
Bossa Nova
Verve, 1963
 
Antonio Carlos Jobim, -w- strings (Claus Ogerman, dir)
Samba de Una Nota So (One Note Samba)
 
O Grande Amor
 
Desafinado
 
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Frank Sinatra
How Insensitive
Reprise, 1967
 
Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars
 
Gordon Lightfoot
Beautiful
Folk/Pop, Singer-Songwriter
Reprise, 1972
 
The Bee Gees
Run To Me
Pop
Polydor, 1972
 
Bread
Make It With you
Pop, Singer-Songwriter
Columbia, 1970
 
It Don't Matter To Me
Columbia, 1969
 
If
Columbia, 1971
 
Arnold Schoenberg
Concertante Chamber Players
Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 ("Transfigured Night")
Classical, post-Romantic era, chamber music
Helicon, 2001
Inspired by Richiard Dehmel's 1896 poem of the same name ; it is the story of a young woman confessing to her lover that she is pregnant with the child of a man she was with before the lovers met. The man responds that the child will be transformed by their love into his, after which the lovers continue into the "high, light night" ("hohe, helle Nacht").
The Beatles
Something
Pop
Apple, 1969
Something in the way she moves... attracts me like no other lover....
Got To Get You Into My Life
Capitol, 1966
Say we'll be together everyday....
She Loves You
Capitol, 1963
She loves you... and you know you should be glad....
I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Oh please, say to me, you'll let me be your man...
This Boy
Recorded the same day as She Loves You, their first opportunity to use 4-track tape.
I Want You (She's So Heavy
Apple, 1969
I want you so bad its driving me mad....
The Moody Blues
Nights in White Satin
Deram, 1967
Beauty I'd always missed with these eyes before... just what the truth is, I can't say anymore....
Glenn Miller Orchestra
In The Mood
Jazz, big band, swing
Victor, 1939
 
I've Got A Gal From Kalamazoo
Victor, 1942
Oh what a gal, a real pip-er-ooo
Moon Love
Bluebird, 1939
Based on Tchaikovski's Fifth Symphony, 2nd movement
A String of Pearls
Bluebird, 1941
 
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Vienna Mozart Ensemble, Willi Boskovski, cond.
Serenade in D, K.250 ("Haffner")
Classical, Classical era, music for larger string ensemble
London, 1972
Probably the longest of Mozart's instrumental works; the serenade was written for the 1776 wedding of the daughter of the mayor of Salzberg.
Lamb of God
Hourglass
Metal
Sony, 2004
What will be left behind in the ashes of the wake?
Now You've Got Something To Die For
We'll never get out of this hole until we've dug our own grave
Metallica
Master of Puppets
Metal, Thrash
Elektra, 1986
An anti-drug song, if you look at the lyrics carefully ("I'm your source of self destruction")
One
Elektra, 1988
 
To Live Is To Die
Lyrics written by Cliff Burton

 

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