The Running in Heels “That Moment” Playlist
Yes, Valentine’s is coming up (yawn…) but this playlist is definitely not about “they’re playing our song” (double yawn…) The Running in Heels “That Moment” playlist is all about the songs that made us think about love. The songs we heard when we realised we were falling in love. Or the tracks that just made us think of that chosen one, and still continue to whenever we hear them. Or maybe one song we can’t stop listening to at the moment and makes us think that maybe, just maybe, that person gives us the same funny, fuzzy feeling that the music does.
Whether it’s love past, present or future, this is a collection of special, private tracks that make us believe in love, even if it’s just for a fleeting moment. The playlist is available to listen to on Spotify or watch the videos on Youtube.
Stand By Me
Stand By Me – Ben E. King
This is not a song specific to me at all, and it is always deemed too contrived. But, this soul number is so many a couple’s love song, it seems stupid to leave it out. Amazing vocals, evocative lyrics, a great tune and simply an embodiment of togetherness.
Chosen by John
In My Life – The Beatles
Falling in love with someone is about forgetting your past because the future they seem to promise seems so much brighter. This song is about that: still loving and remembering the places and friends which made your life so special, but moving on from them when you fall in love. “These memories lose their meaning when I think of love as something new”. There’s a time in most significant love affairs when you have to leave something behind to be with that someone. And this song describes it beautifully.
Chosen by Becky
Everywhere – Fleetwood Mac
I don’t really like Fleetwood Mac, but I’d had this CD for a while and had listened to virtually everything else in my music collection. I put the album on and just couldn’t stop listening to this track even though it’s ridiculously poppy and not my kind of sound. Everywhere gave me butterflies in the same way you did and made me want to run barefoot in fields and get drunk on pink champagne. And not care about anything but love.
Brighter Than Sunshine – Aqualung
Matt Hales’ uplifting and heartfelt song beautifully articulates how it feels to be in ‘that moment’ as it creeps up on you when least expected. A lyrically powerful track that will always conjure fond memories.
One Day Like This – Elbow
It reminds me of lazy Sunday breakfasts with my hubby. And we played it at our wedding ceremony last year!
Five Years’ Time – Jonah and the Whale
In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel
It safely makes it onto my iTunes “Top 25 Most Played.” Imaginative and beautiful lyrics. All about enjoying what you have now, but aware that everything can (and usually does) spin out of control eventually.
Crash Into Me – Dave Matthews Band
This song reminds me that the most perfect ‘love’ moments are usually those wholly, unexpected and simple ones. It reminds me one night, snuggling in a boy’s lap and just listening to each other breathe. And this song.
Chosen by Eleni
Thunder Road – Bruce Springsteen
Every now and then my man and me like to kick back, get smashed and dance to this little beauty. It’s the ultimate freedom song about two crazy kids. “Show a little faith, there’s magic in the night”. Indeed.
Get You Good – Jon Justice Band
Whilst I may be biased as I know these guys, this is the most perfect song. Everything about the sound is just so sexy, from the saxophone playing to Jon’s amazing voice. An ode to a night in together, this is the ideal background music for when you’re in the moment. Check out the Jon Justice Band online here.
Sex On Fire – Kings of Leon
Duende + The Some Now – Barbarasteele
This is the best, catchiest song my ex-boyfriend ever wrote, and the first song I had to learn when I joined his band as guitar player in 2006 in San Francisco. Shortly after, I became his girlfriend. A few months later, his best friend and bass player killed himself and Barbarasteele was disbanded. And a couple months after that, my visa to the US expired and I had to move back to Europe. We are still in love, but we cannot be together…yet. A very tragic love story! And besides my story behind it, it’s a very good, sexy song. Download it for free on lastfm.
Chosen by Valeria
Reptilia from The Strokes' Room on Fire
Reptilia – The Strokes
This song was my realisation that I was in love with a certain person, as we listened to it all the time, when it was played I would miss him. Just fun, naive love
The Way Young Lovers Do – Van Morrison
Meeting my boyfriend seven years ago was a bit of an inconvenience for us both (long story) and not exactly the romantic idealist’s dream. It was an unlikely coupling – still is in ways! – but nonetheless almighty. This is the song my boyfriend has since told me kept playing itself on his inner monologue’s turntable, and subsequently, is the one that always reminds me of the time we got together. Slightly erratic and fierce, this track does something remarkably to one’s spine and spirit.
Last Goodbye – Jeff Buckley
Ironically, ‘that moment’ represented by this tune is something I hope nobody has to endure too many times in one lifetime. But it’s a gorgeous farewell to love and acknowledges that being together will always be a fond memory.
In These Arms – The Swell Season
Je L’Aime A Mourir / La Fille Qui M’Accompagne – Francis Cabrel
I can’t choose between them, but Cabrel’s lyrical genius is highlighted in these two achingly beautiful odes to love. I have tried to translate both songs for friends but the English versions do not quite do justice to his description of how it feels to be unashamedly and unconditionally in love with someone.
Edith Piaf
La Vie en Rose – Edith Piaf
Everything – Michael Bublé
My boyfriend used to play this when we first got to together and sing little bits of it to me, so it always makes me smile when I hear it now. A little cheesy, but there you go!
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow – Amy Winehouse
I remember her performing this cover of the Shirelles classic on ‘Tonight with Jools Holland’ when she was just a wee 17 year old. This slowed down version reminds me of those early electric, magical yet unsure days of a relationship, where you are standing at the precipice of falling in love with someone. The moment is pregnant with the potential of something wonderful to come and yet the vulnerability that comes with laying your feelings on the line. Has a heart wrenching edge that gets me every time.
Neptune’s Jewels – Mystic
Just listen to it. It’s a love letter to a guy who is in a different world than the rest. And a girl who can see his light outside of the boxes. And the silent back and forth, the pledge that her love will be there because he’s “the one”.
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