Wedding Playlists Part 7: The Love Stories Mix

These are the liner notes for our wed­ding favor CD titled “Love Sto­ries”. We did four spe­cialty mixes as favors for the wed­ding, and grouped them into two 2-Disc sets. This set belonged to the Love themed set; whereas the other set was a rock ‘n’ love set, this set is qui­eter and con­tains songs with impor­tant lyrics. “Love Sto­ries” is the bal­lads CD, with lyrics to lis­ten to care­fully, as some of the great­est musi­cal love sto­ries are told. We, for the most part, gave the female guests the Love themed cd set, and the male guests the rock’n’love themed set, which meant that cou­ples got all four cd’s which was great because that meant that almost every sin­gle guest got access to all four playlists, four cd’s, two box sets, lol.

1. Heaven/Where True Love Goes by Yusuf (4:50) — This is a truly great ode to love by the artist for­merly known as Cat Stevens.
2. All I Want Is You by Barry Lousi Polisar (2:40) — A great story song from the Juno soundtrack.
3. When You’re Next To Me by Mitch and Mickey (2:59) — We take this song seri­ously as a love song even though its from the com­edy A Mighty Wind.
4. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine by Jim­mie Rogers (2:20) — Ah! Such a great story song, hon­estly one of the best!
5. Be Gen­tle With Me by The Boy Least Likely To (3:52) — This is really a cute lit­tle song, with an addic­tive glock­en­spiel melody!
6. Lovely Rita by The Bea­t­les (2:42) — This track would also be a fine selec­tion for the sing-a-long CD but it has such a funny lit­tle narrative!
7. It’s Oh So Quiet by Bjork (3:41) — An Aus­trian song from 1948 became the shrill 1951 song Blow A Fuse by Betty Hut­ton and then again trans­formed to become this song by Bjork in 1995. We first dis­cov­ered it through its music video by Spike Jonz (which y’ou all need to youtube because it is incred­i­ble). This song equals love at such an excit­ing level that its scream-worthy!
8. Life Is Unbe­liev­able by John South­worth (1:57) — Great song, right? Pure Cana­dian genius dis­cov­ered when Joan lived on the bor­der in Detroit.
9. Some­thing In The Way She Moves by James Tay­lor (3:14) — The ulti­mate slow love song, almost so per­sonal its sur­pris­ing he ever let it out.
10. In Your Eyes (Stripped) by Sara Bareilles (5:29) — One of Todds favorite movies in the world is Say Any­thing, and, yes, he ha’s been under Joans win­dow a num­ber of times. This ver­sion is so raw!
11. For­ever by Ben Harper (3:24) — Ooh, ooh, Joan loves her some Ben Harper. This is another del­i­cate love song that we truly believe any­one who knows love will appre­ci­ate hearing.
12. The Ori­gin Of Love by John Cameron Mitchell (5:27) — The love song from one of our favorite musi­cals, Hed­wig And The Angry Inch.
13. You Turn Me On (I’m A Radio) by Joni Mitchell (2:40) — One of our early love songs from the Can­i­sius days when Joan was still con­sid­er­ing chang­ing her name to Joni.
14. My Sweet Lady by John Den­ver (4:28) — J.D. wrote such ten­der love songs, and this one makes Joan cry every time. It’s as if there’s only the two of them, no stu­dio record­ing peo­ple, no accom­pa­ny­ing musi­cians, no CD spin­ning, no timespan.
15. She Is Stag­ger­ing by Polaris (3:08) — The love song from Nick­elodeon 90’s show Pete and Pete (Pedro Y Pedro, for the Spanish-speaking community).
16. The Story by Brandi Carlile (3:58) — This is kind of the ulti­mate raw love story song. There’s just so much emo­tion in this song!
17. All I Want by Her­bie Han­cock Feat. Sonya Kitchell (4:15) — The best track by far from Hancock’s Joni Mitchell trib­ute album, River: The Joni Let­ters. Our favorite line: I wanna knit you a sweater.
18. This Guy’s in Love with You by Herb Alpert (3:58) — What we love about this song is that it is pretty ten­der and vul­ner­a­ble for it being a song from a guy to a girl. Also, Burt Bacharach wrote it! Yay, Burtie!
19. Did I Remem­ber? by Bil­lie Hol­i­day (2:53) —  Did I remem­ber to tell you I adore you, and pray forever­more more that you’ll be mine?
20. I Could Write A Book by Harry Con­nick, Jr. (2:30) — A Rodgers and Hart hit from 1940 recorded for the When Harry Met Sally sound­track. One of the best love songs ever writ­ten, in our o.p.
21. ‘Til Tomor­row by Cit­i­zen Helene (1:52) — A pure 1960s West Coast psych-folk sound from a great new-ish under­ground Lon­don MySpace artist.
22. The Luck­i­est by Ben Folds (4:45) — What a pre­cious piano bal­lad. Best lyrics = I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you.