A soundtrack for dreamy-eyed stares, quick breaths, long kisses, happy sighs, and the feeling that you’ve entered a world where no one else exists except for you and the person you’re with (at least until someone knocks on the door and everyone freaks out).
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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. ♥
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Would Rookie considering using Spotify and publish these playlists so we could subscribe to them? I discovered my favorite album of 2012 through you guys (Chromatics — Kill For Love), but I’m on Spotify way more than Rookie and I don’t want to miss these awesome mixes.
Log in to replyWe’ve thought about that, but since Spotify requires you to download an app, we’ve decided to stick with 8tracks for now. Maybe at some point we can also upload them to Spotify, just for those of you who are on there…
Log in to replyThanks for your promptness, the explanation, and for giving the mixes interesting names (I do that too). I just decided to put it on Spotify myself. It’s missing the Elysian Fields track though.
Log in to replyThanks for putting it on Spotify.
all this and heaven too by florence and the machine!!!!!! would be so perfect!
Log in to replyTAME IMPALA! <3
Log in to replyIn Australia, we love them, so it's so good to see them getting some recognition overseas!
Yay for people who like Tame Impala!!!!!
Log in to replytame impala was the main thing that got me through my autumn term of school, i am insanely in love with them
Log in to replyI am suprised you did not put “Spin the bottle”, by Juliana Hatfield.
Log in to reply1994 was the year of my first kiss. Reality Bites soundtrack is one of the soundtracks ever made!
I LOVE 8TRACKS NEVER CHANGE ROOKIE
Log in to replyALSO THIS MONTH IS AMAZING AND ENCAPSULATIVE OF EVERYTHING I FEEL EVER
YEAH ITS NOT A WORD
WHATEVER
I LOVE YOU GUYS
Glory Box, so much win. absolutely love how you guys seem to find playlists for the most relatable real-life situations <3
Log in to replyaaaahhhh The Rosebuds are my drug.
Log in to replyTame Impala is my drug.
Log in to replyFlawless. Without a doubt my favorite Rookie playlist yet
Log in to replyTaunting me, Rookie. Haha. XP
Log in to replyHeeeeheheh yes i can attest to the portishead track from experience
also mogwai and godspeed you black emperor, because my dude is into achieving a nihilistic vibe
existential teen angst forever xxxxxxx
Log in to replyYou totally left out Make Out Club by Unrest.
Log in to replyThis playlist makes me want to make out. Pretty great.
Log in to replyTAME IMPALA <3
Log in to replyahhh rookie was particularly excellent today. just so much awesome <3 <3
Log in to replyWeezer… Tame Impala… Joy Division….
oh my god.
Log in to replyOH MY GOD
FEELS LIKE WE ONLY GO BACKWARDS
BY TAME IMPALA
THAT IS ACTUALLY MY FAVORITE SONG RIGHT NOW AND I WANT TO CRY BECAUSE IT’S ON THIS PLAYLIST AND IT IS SO SO PERFECT AND IS THIS THE REAL LIFE OMG
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Log in to replyPortishead !! Every song by them is make-out material. Also Hooverphonic’s Mad About You is great for those who like Glory Box
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Tame impala and my most fabouritest Jimi Hendrix song in the whole wide world ever. Too much excitement to contain.
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Log in to replyOMIGOSH!!! Tame Impala!!! Aussie, aussie, international! FLWOGB is my theme song after changing schools and leaving a NEAR SO behind ;)
Log in to reply“I say it’s a good thing
That you float in the aaaaair (In the aaaaairrrr)
That way there’s no way I will crush
Your pretty toenails into a thousand pieces”
<3 <3 <3 WEEZER 4EVER
Log in to replyLWWY by One Direction?
Log in to replyomg joy division. this playlist is perfff.
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Log in to replyThis is perfect!! Loving this month’s theme.
Log in to replyTAME IMPALA
Log in to replyfirst time I’ve ever listened to a rookie playlist and it’s excellent. thanks! p.s. im using this as an oboe reedmaking playlist instead of a making out soundtrack…haha
Log in to replyIT FEELS LIKE WE ONLY GO BACKWARDZZZZZ
Log in to replyI saw tame impala live last weekend they were so so incredible! god bless u kevin parker
Log in to replyTame Impala is my favorite band right now. Way to go Rookie.
Log in to replyI read once that Vetiver’s ‘You May Be Blue’ suited a psychedelic desert road trip and that’s all I can picture when I hear it now. I can’t imagine making out to it!
Log in to replyGalaxie 500′s version of “Don’t Let Our Youth Go to Waste” is one of my favorite songs ever. This playlist is great!
Some songs on my own personal Make-Out Mix are:
Log in to reply“Molly’s Lips” and/or “Son of a Gun” by the Vaselines
“100,000 Fireflies” by The Magnetic Fields”
“Car” by Built to Spill
“Buzzin’ Fly” by Tim Buckley”
“First Girl I Loved” by The Incredible String Band
Great songs. I think songs that are dreamy and hypnotize with a steady beat and build up tension to release in a climax, in that cliche “stairwell to heaven” make out song trope work really well, and are just really great songs. Also plain ol’ pretty songs work too:
Deerhunter: Spring Hall Convert: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9STd-67_Ft8
Elliot Smith: Everything Reminds me of her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9STd-67_Ft8
The Pixies: The Happening. (Crazy song because it works backwards, starting out crazy and then smoothing into this floating dream-scape. Also it’s about Aliens, but it still works, I swear, it’s a horny song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3jNZFcwdg0
Yo La Tengo: SugarCube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mri0HppCRH8
Beach House: Other People (hey something current-ish!) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mri0HppCRH8
The Ultimate: The Clean: Point that thing somewhere else: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ8C-ndyFXk
And just for fun, the ultimate anti-make out song: (I used to be sad now I’m just bored with you…)
Ryan Adams: Burning Photographs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLV2QQ3hOxs
While listening to these songs I played this video on mute on repeat to create an arty vibe and it became sort of fascinating how well the images/movements would sync with the music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPM-D_Fw67c&feature=player_embedded
dunno what it means.
Log in to replyI messed up on two of my links. Stale copy and paste skills I suppose.
Beach House: Other People: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SyZZi0D18M
And Elliot Smith: Everything Reminds me of her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcmEJoZkshw
Log in to replyK last one: just in a weird mood to be posting so much, but…
Jeff Buckley sings the rawest horniest (without being nasty) songs ever: a ridiculous, ridiculous song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEyItANG0pU
Log in to replyI love your mixes, I like to listen to them at work, gives me something new to thinki about + Just Like Honey is my ultimate ‘Walk down the aisle’ track, reminds me of Lost in Translation.
Log in to replySwans ;) i didn’t see that coming.
Log in to replyHow do I get this magic on my iPod?
Log in to replyfall out boy has a song called 7 minutes in heaven – it’s definitely a cringe-out favourite of mine
Log in to replywell, we can’t use spotify in brazil =/ so it wouldn’t work for other countries, I guess. It would limit my experience on this website and that would be sad :(
Log in to replymake out with you by the queens of the stone age is also a perfect seven minutes in heaven song!
Log in to replyOh my god Only in Dreams by Weezer I am clawing my eyes out in pure joy is that a thing oh my good choices GOOD CHOICES <3
Log in to replyi absolutely adore this playlist
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