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mixtape challenge: SMASHLEY





1. The Temptations: The Way You Do The Things You Do (1964)
I love this song and it always makes me happy. I remember this song at my aunt and uncle's wedding when I was 10 years old. This is exactly how you would want someone to think of you and hopefully spend time with them. It sounds like how good love should sound.
"well, you could've been anything that you wanted to
and i can tell, the way you do the things you do."

2. The Postal Service: Nothing Better (2003)
"will someone please call a surgeon, who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart."
Is there any more I need to say? This song is amazing.
Sidenote: used this song as a project in my choreography/improv dance class senior year. one of my favorite projects.


3. Bob Marley: Waiting in Vain (1977)
This is a tough one so I'll just spit it out. I started to fall in love with someone to this song. I remember the moment and the day and this song was playing. And now, it hurts to listen to. But other than the nausea that now accompanies this song, it's fantastic. I love Marley. So I better suck it up if I want to listen to him at all this summer.
"from the very first time I rest my eyes on you girl
my heart says follow through"
le sigh.

4. Justin Timberlake: LoveStoned/I Think She Knows Interlude (2006)
Well, Justin is my boyfriend of 10 years. We make sweet sweet love ALL the time.
This song is so sexy. It's like you're in a club surrounded by people and all of sudden, he notices you and wants you and then you dance together and get close. As Claud would say, "HOT." And then the song turns into the interlude and your out of the club and gettin' busy. UGH. I'm such a shameless ho.
I'm going to take a cold shower now.
"and now i walk around without a care.
she's got me hooked, it just ain't fair
i'm lovestoned and i could swear
that she knows. i think that she knows."

5. Iron and Wine: Such Great Heights (2006)
So poetic and cozy. And yes, this is technically a Postal Service song but this version is so lovely. It sounds like snuggling on a rainy day.
"and true, it may seem like a stretch, but

its thoughts like this that catch my troubled
head when you're away when I am missing you to death"

Runner-ups:

Coldplay: Yellow
Billie Holiday: All of me.
Cat Power: Sea of Love
The Beatles: I Will
311: Amber
The Rolling Stones: Under My Thumb


I'm going to puke now.
HAPPY SINGLES AWARENESS DAY!