A Valentine’s Day Mixtape: From The First Date to The Last One

This Valentine's Day Mixtape is inspired by Joe Dunthorne's Submarine. In the fantastic film adaptation of the book, Oliver's dad, Lloyd, hears that his son has a new girlfriend and presents him with a cassette from his 'formative' relationships:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbj_DYnWWTk

So, from the first date to the last one - whatever the context of that - this Valentine's playlist features some popular and some alternative love songs to make things seem a bit more real, with a few break-up songs towards the end. Passion rarely lasts, I'm afraid...

blink-182, ‘First Date’

https://youtu.be/vVy9Lgpg1m8?t=13s

'In the car, I just can’t wait To pick you up on our very first date Is it cool if I hold your hand?'

The Internet, ‘Girl’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmY8mG4_3j4

‘Passion burning, causing rapture of laughter Pressure building, falling faster and faster If I told you that you rock my world, I want you around me Would you let me call you my girl, my girlfriend, my girlfriend?’

Wolfman ft. Peter Doherty, ‘For Lovers’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLY0eUtVlXo

‘Meet me at the Railroad Bar About seven o'clock We talk til the sun goes down Watch the lovers Leaving town’

The Only Ones, ‘Another Girl, Another Planet’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvO7HNQPFRI

‘You get under my skin I don't find it irritating You always play to win But I won't need rehabilitating, oh no I think I'm on another world with you, with you’

Seal ‘Kiss From a Rose’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqcn3XUeyk4

‘Baby, I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey Ooh, the more I get of you, the stranger it feels, yeah Now that your rose is in bloom A light hits the gloom on the grey’

50 Cent, ‘21 Questions’

https://youtu.be/cDMhlvbOFaM?t=31s

‘We only humans girl we make mistakes, To make it up I do whatever it take I love you like a fat kid love cake You know my style I say anything to make you smile Girl, It's easy to love me now Would you love me if I was down and out? Would you still have love for me?’

George Michael, ‘Careless Whisper’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izGwDsrQ1eQ

‘I'm never gonna dance again Guilty feet have got no rhythm Though it's easy to pretend I know you're not a fool’

Fleetwood Mac, ‘The Chain’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcawnRIyeok

‘And if you don't love me now You will never love me again I can still hear you saying You would never break the chain (Never break the chain)’

Joy Division, ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuuObGsB0No

‘Love, love will tear us apart again Why is the bedroom so cold? Turned away on your side Is my timing that flawed? Our respect run so dry? Yet there's still this appeal That we've kept through our lives But love, love will tear us apart again’

Jefferson Airplane, ‘Somebody to Love’

https://youtu.be/hnP72uUt_pU?t=3m33s

‘Don't you want somebody to love, don't you Need somebody to love, wouldn't you Love somebody to love, you better Find somebody to love’