Lesser-known love songs

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🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Making a playlist or mixtape for that special someone? We've got you covered this Valentine's Day with these off-the-radar love songs.

Featured artists and songs:
1. Linda Diaz: "Watching Ourselves Die (feat. Solomon Fox)" (single)
2. Gal Costa: "Baby," from 'Gal Gosta'
3. Mirah: "Engine Heart," from 'You Think It's Like This, But Really It's Like This'
4. Paloma Murphy: "me faltas tú" (single)
5. Stretch Arm Strong: "For Now," from 'Rituals of Life'
6. Tender Forever: "Then If I'm Weird, I Want To Share," from 'The Soft And The Hardcore'
7. Xavi: "Tu Casi Algo," from 'NEXT'
8. Elf Power: "Temporary Arm," from 'Vainly Clutching at Phantom Limbs'
9. Daniel Lanois: "I Love You," from 'Shine'

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0:00.0	Well, Valentine's Day is rapidly approaching.
0:03.1	Maybe one of the more polarizing, perhaps, well, not really holiday.
0:08.5	I don't know what, what is at an event?
0:10.3	A ritual.
0:11.2	A ritual.
0:12.0	A ritual is a good word for it.
0:14.0	Some people really, really hate Valentine's Day.
0:17.5	Some people really, really love it.
0:20.1	What do you all do?
0:22.8	Do you get into it? Do you get or give flowers or candy or whatever to the person you're with? This is feeling like a question about my love life.
0:28.8	Oh, I'm not making any assumptions here at all. Do I like to celebrate Valentine's? I like to mark
0:35.2	the occasion. Yeah? I like to mark the occasion. I'm a lover. I like
0:39.1	love. I love. So I think I enjoy the concept. I like a holiday. I make anything into a party
0:44.4	anyways. So if you're with somebody and they didn't do anything special for you, you'd be a little,
0:49.5	I'd be like, you should be doing something minimum special for me every day.
0:54.6	Give it another 20 years or so, Anna.
0:57.2	You might feel differently.
0:59.4	That's like you recycle them, Bob.
1:01.8	You recycle them?
1:03.8	You got them on rotation, and they're always motivated.
1:07.2	So that they forget that they were ever over you?
1:09.7	Yeah.
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