Five Pop-Punk and “Emo” Love Songs To Play This Valentine’s Day

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 five 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 Adeline. 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)

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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To read about two more pop-punk and “emo” love songs, read the original article on vinylbay777.blogspot.com.