Love Catastrophe: Music for a Love Cycle

Whether you’re a lover or loather this Valentine’s Day, there’s always music to soundtrack the dramas of romance—the heights, the death, and the dearth of it. Luckily, we’re all total cliches, and that’s why songs about lust and love and loneliness and heartache are so relatable and often cathartic.

So, in honor of this holiest of phony holi-days, Toast n Jams presents the Love Catastrophe mix, which attempts to track the stages of a typical love cycle. Click the link, download, and enjoy. Happy Valentine’s Day!

(Track listing is after the jump…)

1. Love Is Strange — Mickey & Sylvia

2. Feeling Called Love — Wire

3. Girlfriend — The Modern Lovers

4. Believe Me — Dara Puspita

5. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend — The Ramones

6. That Great Love Sound — The Raveonettes

7. There Is a Light — Dum Dum Girls (Smiths cover)

8. You and Me — Penny & the Quarters

9. Lord Knows Best — Dirty Beaches

10. You Can Make Me Feel Bad — Frankie Rose & the Outs (Arthur Russell cover)

11. Bang! — Yeah Yeah Yeahs

12. Devil In His Heart — The Donays

13. My Baby Left Me — Rox

14. Didn’t I — Darondo

15. Runaway — Del Shannon

16. Anti Love Song — Betty Davis

17. Deep Shadows — Little Ann

18. Diary of a Young Man — Television Personalities

19. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea — George Harrison

20. 96 Tears — The Stranglers

21. I Don’t Want to Be Friends with You — The Shop Assistants

22. I’m Loving Nothing — The Impressions

23. California Dreaming — Lee Moses

24. Here Comes That Feeling — El Perro del Mar