It’s Valentine’s Day, which means that a lot of people have
love on the mind today, including pop-punk bands. Over the weekend, pop-punk
band Relient K released a Valentine’s Day EP. Released in the same spirit as
last year’s Halloween EP, ‘The Creepier EP…er,’ the iTunes-exclusive ‘Truly,
Madly, Deeply’ EP includes three Valentine’s-related songs. Topics on the
EP range from candy hearts, to remembering the good times with your sweetheart.
It’s not unheard of for pop-punk and “emo” bands to write
about love. After all, love is a pretty universal theme for songwriters. And everyone
writes about it in their own artistic way.
With Relient K’s EP in mind, Vinyl Bay 777, Long Island’s
top music outlet, is taking a look at some of pop-punk and “emo’s” greatest love
songs. Here are seven guaranteed to make
you or your significant others weak in the knees this Valentine’s Day.
1.
Dashboard Confessional, “Hands Down”: “Hands
Down” is one of the happiest songs Dashboard Confessional frontman Chris Carrabba
has ever written. The verses are sung softly, like Carrabba is talking sweetly
to you. Then, the chorus bursts out as if he can’t contain his love anymore. He
gives his love his heart completely “to fill or burst, to break or bury, or
wear as jewellery.” (video)
2.
Death Cab for Cutie, “I Will Follow You Into The
Dark”: Perhaps Death Cab is a little more indie-rock than pop-punk or “emo,”
but this is a beautiful song where Ben Gibbard just pours his heart out. “I
Will Follow You Into The Dark” is a simple love song stating that he will
follow his love anywhere, including death. What girl wouldn’t want that kind of
devotion? (video)
3.
Green Day, “When It’s Time”: Billie Joe
Armstrong has written a lot of love songs for his wife Adrienne. But “When It’s
Time,” released only on the soundtrack to the Broadway’s ‘American Idiot,’ is
one of the most beautiful songs he has ever written. Supposedly written for and
sung to his wife on their wedding day, Armstrong professes his love and thanks
her for helping him become a better man. (video)
4.
Yellowcard, “Only One”: It’s not necessarily
easy to tell if “Only One” is a love song or a break-up song, but it’s kind of
both. The song’s narrator seems to have done something wrong, he and his girl
broke up and he is trying to let her go, though he’s not over her. At the
chorus, singer Ryan Key can’t contain the emotion anymore, “screaming his lungs
out” to tell her that she is his “only one” and can’t live without her. (video)
5.
Paramore, “The Only Exception”: Pop-punk is
obviously not just a men’s game. Female-fronted bands can get in on the feels
too. Very different sonically from anything the band had put out before that, “The
Only Exception” tells the story of a girl who thought she has sworn off of love
until now. Her beau is the “only exception” to the wall she has put around herself,
the only reason to sing a love song. (video)
6.
Rise Against, “Swing Life Away”: First and
foremost, “Swing Life Away” is a song about being content with what you have.
The love song part is kind of secondary. With that said, the song can clearly
be interpreted to mean that the singer and their love can be content with what
they have together. Rise Against’s only acoustic song, “Swing Life Away” has
this Americana, longingly nostalgic feel that screams “we don’t to have a lot
to be in love.” (video)
7.
We The Kings, “Check Yes Juliet”: “Check Yes
Juliet” is a story of young, forbidden love. Like ‘Romeo and Juliet,’ the song’s
couple runs away in the night to be together. It’s a nice, if not a little
misguided a sentiment, but one that anyone who has been in love has probably
felt. (video)
If you’re looking for some great songs for your Valentine’s
Day playlist, try adding these pop-punk and “emo” songs. Make your significant
other swoon with the amount of love and passion each of these songs exude.
What are some of your favorite love songs? Let us know!
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online at vinylbay777.com and give your loved one the gift of music! Long
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