Songs that may merely facilitate intimacy, and not exactly discuss or explore it…
I asked people about intimacy and the songs they associate with the word. I cautioned them about the first impressions of that concept, of the physicality it immediately implies, and asked them to veer away from the R. Kellys and the Careless Whispers. As one friend put it, those are songs that may merely facilitate intimacy, and not exactly discuss or explore it.
I actually have a playlist in my iPod of more than three hundred songs that, I assume based on personal preference and popular opinion (I’m not the only one who listens to my iPod), could set “the mood”. But intimacy is no mood.
It involves inside jokes delivered with a momentarily raised eyebrow and acknowledged with a hidden smile. It is the tenderness after a punch in the arm. It is the subject matter of proxemics, haptics, and possibly any theory that hinges on the idea of introverts having Facebook accounts. It is the knowledge of birthmarks. It is the difference between blanket and comforter. And of course it includes the sharing of bodily fluids.
These are the songs that talked to me about intimacy—describing it, finding it, and even discussing the lack of it. Up to you, these songs may even facilitate it. –PTM Tolibas
Download “Getting to Know You”
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Semisonic – “Secret Smile”
Daft Punk -”Something About Us”
The Magic Numbers – “I See You, You See Me”
Matthew Sweet – “We’re The Same”
James Iha – “One and Two
Feist – “Lovers’ Spit”
Afghan Whigs – “Neglekted”
Monta – “Good Morning Stranger”
The Cure – “There Is No If”
Boom. Feist!
Posted by marla | 07.20.2010, 8:47 pmBravo, good sir! At one point, I wanted to make a playlist for this month with this exact same premise, and while I did come up with a number of tracks that fit the theme, not enough of them could be put in sequence together quite as organically as your own selection. I bow down to your mad audio curation skillz.
Posted by paolo | 07.20.2010, 10:15 pm“It might not be the right time. I might not be the right one. But there’s something about us, I have to say.”
Getting to know you, indeed!
Posted by Mikey | 07.20.2010, 10:52 pmthis playlist absolutely encapsulates all the giddy feelings that come and go with a newbie love.
Posted by bellestar | 07.20.2010, 10:57 pmLove the pic that came with the article. Thank you!
Posted by Petey | 07.20.2010, 11:08 pm“getting to know you” to me conjures images of tim and daisy from spaced, and these songs easily fit their ‘moments’ — galing! salamat!
Posted by Ac | 07.21.2010, 11:08 amdaft punk, nice!
Posted by edward | 07.21.2010, 11:11 am@Petey: glad you like it good sir! Flash Mobler always did remind me of you.
Posted by alice | 07.21.2010, 1:41 pmthis will definitely be useful!!!!!!!!!!!!!
apir!
Posted by juan benito | 07.21.2010, 4:22 pm@all: Thank you!
@alice: Thank you for letting me in this schtick
Posted by Petey | 07.22.2010, 12:18 am