You’re in love for the very first time and this is what your brain is playing and this is what your heart is singing … until you get dumped (or do the dumping).
Ten songs for a first love (from the glorious beginning all the way to the nasty end).
Illustration by Minna
Hello, you. June’s theme will be LONGING. Unlike more-acute forms of desire like desperation or need, longing is a sweet ache—more pining for something than dying for it. It’s nostalgia, homesickness, boredom, a persistent feeling of lack, dreaming of escape/the future. It’s summer: summer homes & cottages, stuffy summer bedrooms, sun-bleached memories of summers past. The shadow of September that hangs over June. It’s secret hangouts, crushes, unrequited love. Send what you’ve got here, and thanks. ♥
CULTS 4EVA!!!
Log in to replyI just got my first boyfriend ever and I’m extremely nervous about it. However, this list has made me excited. I can get my jams on and stop my worries about what everyone thinks of my relationship status. Thank you, Rookie!
Log in to replygreat playlist, but fabienne delsol’s name is misspelled in the illustration. it’s ie not ei.
Log in to replyTeen love is overrated anyways.
Log in to replyi love this playlist, cults are one of my favorite bands they are incredible.
Log in to replyThe Pains of Being Pure at Heart are pretty awesome!!
Log in to replyI loveee it, this is so perfect! I want to see more of these playlists on rookie!
Log in to replyVeganpop, don’t worry too much about it. I had A Boyfriend for the first time when I was 16 (shameful, I’m told), and although the relationship lasted almost half a year, I was always so nervous and preoccupied with what everyone else thought of it that I couldn’t really enjoy it and ended up dumping him. It’s just jittery at first though, so just relax and have fun (:
Log in to replyLemme just say. This playlist is swag-tastic.
Log in to replySong: Maps by Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Girl: Carla Hanson (in Tiffany Swoboda’s Chevy Suburban with JD Nicks? Hicks?)
Story: We were telling stories of our first kisses, and I stupidly (NOTE: Never tell the truth about your first kiss, just make up some cutesy bullshit) told all present how I had been so nervous to kiss Carla that I instead tried kissing her hand, like a Prince (the Prince all girls want when I was 15, right?). It would have been embarrassing, except I missed Carla’s hand and kissed mine instead. The car laughed for several minutes, and then Tiffany told Carla that she would have broken up with me if I had done that to her. Carla laughed, removed her katana, stabbed me through the heart and said, ‘God, you’re right. Alex? We are totally broken up, that story is just too ridiculous.’
A wonderful song, though.
Log in to replywoooot. you guys make me so happy.
Log in to replyI love how the mix goes from the start of the relationship to the end BRILLIANT – It’s like what the dad does in ‘Submarine’! Hazel has sideburns! (kidding)
THIS RULES!!!!
Log in to replyThus playlist just makes me want to fall in love… the perfect playlist for your first love
Log in to replybecause your first love always feels like it will be the last and the last always feels like your first
abducted has always been amazing to me YESSSSSSSSS
(Oh, and thank you Hazel for reminding me how sad it is that I listen to all sorts of breakup songs and first love songs without having either. Thank you very much.)
Log in to replyP.S. Gabi-SUbmarine YAAAAY
I had such a huge crush on Craig Roberts because of Being Human so I watched Submarine and was like WOW and then I saw him in Jane Eyre and I was like YESSSS!!!!! But yes, one of my favorite pastimes are stalking his and watching his interviews/Bruce andrews vids.
Log in to replyMm, yes. I also creepily listened to Strange and Beautiful by Aqualung. It was a strange time.
Log in to replyhere’s my interpretation of a first love mix, called teenagers :)
http://preflyerr.tumblr.com/post/5630984424/teenagers
Log in to replyI love this! amazing! x
Log in to replyI am 20 years old. Eating granola with fruit and almond milk. Sitting behind the desk of a wellness center in Wisconsin. And now feeling way too nostalgic to get any real work done. THANKS aLOT!
Log in to replyI can’t believe Friday I’m In Love by The Cure isn’t on this playlist! Some great choices though.
Log in to replyGreat mix, Ween 4ever.
Log in to replyThanks for the list! Sometimes I like to listen to thematic lists like this. One of my favourite teenage love songs is Rilo Kiley’s “teenage love song”. It’s an amazing song!! Maybe you want to add it to your list too :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zj_RgPmJpc
Log in to replytoday has been boring, which made me question things. this just reaffirmed my feelings:D.
Log in to replyThis reminds me of that power-pop Matthew Sweet album Girlfriend, which celebrates it’s 20th birthday next month. It starts out really positive and happy about romantic love then basically turns into a break-up record. A damn fine good one though!
Log in to replycults are totally my life. and i really love 8tracks. sometimes i just put random playlists on and do homework or whatever.
Log in to replyCan I just add:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhCEWnZEekU
Log in to replyThis has got to be the BEST playlist ever.. Even if your not in “LOVE”!!! Haha!! It gets you pumped up and excited. I really enjoyed this playlist and am still enjoying it. :P
Log in to replyCULTSSSS!
Log in to replyYES!!!! Tiger Trap!!!!!
Log in to replywow this is awesome!
Log in to replyI love all the sticker appearances on Rookie!
Log in to replyi’m sixteen and i still haven’t had “first love”…though i do love this playlist! :)
Log in to replyI was just at a speech tournament with my friends and sang Abducted the.whole.time. My friends said I should make that song into a musical… brilliant song, band, album! And freakin’ brilliant lyrics!
Log in to replyhell fuckin ya, Hunx and his Punx!!! do you listen to any other queer stuff, Hazel? ~Gravy Train!!!!~, maybe?
Log in to replyEverything could either use some Distillers, Dead Milkmen, or Casualties to it. Might I recommend: (songs in same order as the band they’re by) Beat Your Heart Out, If You Love Somebody (Why Not Set Them on Fire), or Punk Rock Love. I say, they are very important. Also, where is the Green Day?! Their old stuff is primarily love songs. Or even some nice Blink-182. [=
Log in to replyHere’s a very recent song that I personally find essential but has nothing to do with first love, yet is very appropriate:
Log in to replyhttp://soundcloud.com/slumberland-records/weekend-hazel
‘Hazel’ by Weekend! A great song for a great writer here at Rookie Mag. You’re welcome!
Tiger Trap’s self titled is one of the best albums ever recorded. Not really a summer album to me, though – definitely suits fall and winter.
Log in to replyI’d love to be able to download this! If not as individual mp3′s than maybe as a single mp3? My daughter totally became smitten by this site when I sent her the link! thanks!!!!
Log in to replyYay! I was wondering when the Violent Femmes were going to make an appearance here!
Log in to replyThis is such a great playlist. <3
Hell.
Log in to replyI searched the videoclips on YT! Hunx and His Punx’s clip is sooo to die for and stuffs! Squeal, people, squeal. (no, really, and when the dude call back!)
Just when I thought videoclips were boring, anyway, and couldn’t change your view of the music. That’s so campy, too!
CULTS! definitely giving this playlist a spin later today
Log in to replyLove this play list! I’m not in a relationship right now, but I’ll know what to listen to when i am, lol
Log in to replyOh it is so lovely !!
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YOU WERE MY FIRST LOVE, HAZEL!
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