I Love You. What Did You Get Me?

Like the DeBeers Diamond Right Hand Ring or Moby, Valentine’s Day is a completely invented, shrewdly marketed scheme to print money.

Rock Turtleneck believes in year-round romance, so to celebrate the randomness of February 14 as the national day o’ luv, the word “valentine” was fed into the Rock Turtleneck steam-powered music search engine. It generated an eclectic melange that runs the gamut from genuinely lovey-dovey to completely irrelevant to potentially relationship-ending. And if that ain't romance, what is?

Herewith, for your randomly generated downloading pleasure:

Elvis Costello, “My Funny Valentine,” Armed Forces (bonus track)
Spoon, “The Two Sides of Monseiur Valentine,” Gimme Fiction
The Valentines, “Blam Blam Fever,” Trojan Ska Box Set, Vol I
The Valentines (different band), "Gotta Get Yourself Together," Night Train to Nashville
The Go-Go’s (bassist: Kathy Valentine), “Head Over Heels,” Talk Show
Johnny Cash, “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” (composed by Robert Valentine Braddock & Charlie Putnam, Jr.) Unearthed

And because every day is Valentine’s Day for Rock Turtleneck's founding fathers & mothers, here is our vote for most genuinely romantic song ever:

YouTube: Roberta Flack, “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” 1972