Stars' "Elevator Love Letter": this decade's "Bizarre Love Triangle"?

(ha ha, thanks gear)

1. The Jackson Five - I Want You Back
2. Stars - Elevator Love Letter
3. Van Morrison - Sweet Thing
4. The Kinks - Victoria (her name)
5. The Smiths - Ask
6. Annie - Me Plus One
7. My Morning Jacket - Wordless Chorus
8. David Bowie - Star
9. Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla
10. X - The World's A Mess, It's in My Kiss
11. M83 - Run Into Flowers
12. T.I. - Let Me Tell You Something
13. Bob Dylan - The Man in Me
14. Donovan - There Is a Mountain
15. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
16. Basement Jaxx - All I Know

I'm not trying to be super heavy-handed so a lot of these are on simply as great songs she mostly hasn't heard before. I think I might actually be a little too explicit with the T.I. and Basement Jaxx songs. Anyway, this is not meant to distract from the "Elevator Love Letter" love, only to further the discussion. Did I miss the mark with this mix? There's still time to fix it, so comments are welcome.

The Jackson Five - I Want You Back
Stars - Elevator Love Letter
Van Morrison - Sweet Thing
Donovan - There Is a Mountain
The Kinks - Victoria (her name)
The Smiths - Ask
Annie - Me Plus One
My Morning Jacket - Wordless Chorus
X - The World's A Mess, It's in My Kiss
David Bowie - Star
Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla
M83 - Run Into Flowers
T.I. - Let Me Tell You Something
Bob Dylan - The Man in Me
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
Basement Jaxx - All I Know

It's a little electro-heavy at the end, but I think that's okay.

And apparently ILM is now my livejournal. Can I blame this on being awake at 5 AM? Yeah, I didn't think so.

anyway, elevator love letter is a great mixtape song

And it is not much of stretch to posit that Elevator Love Letter is the new Bizarre Love Triangle. Such a great song.

go with "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want"

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I will report back on this William business. Right now it's between Ask, William, Stop Me If YOu Think...., Sheila, Is It REally So strange?

maybe I Want You Around or I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend, if I was feeling completely uninhibited (which I'm not)

In other news, I just watched the ELL video, which was a bit of a letdown. Def. not as good as the Ageless Beauty video.

Or how about...Talking Scarlet by Prefab Sprout? (jk)

yes it is

fag

Please, though, "Ask"? I guess I can't really hate on innocent doe-eyed love, but....wait, yes, I can. Don't put "Ask" on there for god's sake. Soft sell! Soft sell! Slide some dude-ish stuff in there, be a music dork about it. Have some tracks that will always bore her to tears, have something noisy and obnoxious, but for the love of god no "Ask." I'm barely allowing "I Want You Back." The whole thing, the whole project is a little too mushy and potentially creepy (although, whatever, I mean, you say there's a chemistry there or whatever) - she has a boyfriend for pete's sake... jeez... I mean, "Ask"? "Ask"?

Maybe the problem is less that you're giving a non-single girl a twee "love me!" mixtape (which, in fact, I sort of support as the sort of thing I would do and have done), but the fact that I've pretty much always hated "Ask," for no single reason that I can put my finger on. Maybe I hate fun.

As far as mishearing songs and putting alligators in them goes, I'm going to lobby for my mishearing Pete Seeger's rendition of "Erie Canal" - "If you've ever navigated on the Erie Canal" -> "If you've had an alligator on the Erie Canal."

Doc, I feel you. I happen to really like "Ask" though, since I first heard it. I mean, there's no doubt that this mixtape is twee as fuck, but they're all songs that I fuckin' love. Plus, isn't the dude-ish/music dork stuff for her to find out later. Like, I don't want to put a bunch of fucking Slayer and Ornette on there (although Anthrax's "Indians," maybe) 'cause not only would I not really enjoy a mix with all Slayer/Ornette songs ("The Shape of Blood to Come"), but this is about my ability to introduce her to music that will tickle her fancy. Basically, I'm trying to say, "Hey, I think you're pretty great, and I care about you," not "Hey, be with me 'cause, look, I'm fuckin' awesome!" Twee for sure. Misguided, hopefully less so.

Also, I think some of the creepiness might be taken away by the fact that this mix is being made under the pretense of taking her mind off of the MRI she got today because of the horrible neck/back pain she's been having. So it's not entirely uncalled for.

Such a great song.

Also, did you attempt the girl friend heist? Did she get the Mix Cd or is it sitting on a shelf somewhere? These things intrigue me on a wasted Friday night.

Hell yes. An underrated classic. I've got to listen to it again, b/c it has been a while - it never failed to give me the sugar rush/chills-down-spine at the intro & by the time the vocals kick in, forget about it. It's over

All of the top ______ singles of the decade talk that has been going on lately has had me thinking a bit about what my own list would include, & this would def figure somewhere near the top, right alongside International Player's Anthem & Digital Love.

Forgot how fucking amazing this is.

alligator love letter is a decade old now