On this episode of Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music, it’s the annual Anti-Valentine’s Day Show, featuring all the downsides of love — heartbreak, jealousy, longing, suspicion, agony and pain. All the really good stuff!

See the playlist below and listen to the episode for two weeks after it airs using the media player above.

Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music Playlist for Feb. 15, 2025

HOUR ONE:

• “Sylvia’s Mother” – Dr. Hook (listener suggestion)
• “Operator” – Jim Croce 
• “Text from Your Ex (feat. Tinashe)” – Tinie Tempah
• “Losing Side Of Love” – Thee Sacred Souls
• “Goodbye Mr. Nice Guy” – Bazooka Jones (listener suggestion)
• “Good Luck Babe” – Franz Ferdinand (listener suggestion)
• “My Kink Is My Karma” – Chappell Roan
• “Don’t Like You Anymore” – Tanika Charles
• “Sweet Baby Since You’ve Been Gone” – Aretha Franklin
• “Writer In The Dark” – Lorde
• “Love Is A hurting Thing” – Lou Rawls (listener suggestion)
• “Happy Loving Couples” – Joe Jackson
• “Tights On My Boat” – The Chicks
  
• “Calling From The Car” – George Strait
• “You Keep me Hanging On” – The Supremes
• “Blah Blah Blah” – Dorothy Shay
  

• “That Don’t Appease Me” – Thornetta Davis (listener suggestion)
• “Ugly” – Fishbone (listener suggestion)
• “Maureen” – Fountains Of Wayne
• “Truck On Fire” – Carly Pearce
• “Exhausting Lover” – Ben Folds
• “Why” – Walter Charuba (listener suggestion)
• “Breakup Season” – Maya Delilah & Samm Henshaw
• “Bet You Got A Chick On The Side” – The Pointer Sisters (listener suggestion)
• “I Want None Of This” – Radiohead (listener suggestion)
• “Kiss With A Fist” – Florence & The Machine (listener suggestion)
• “Cry For Me” – The Weeknd
• “For Lovin’ Me” – Gordon Lightfoot (listener suggestion)
• “Smoke From A Distant Fire” – Sanford – Townsend Band
  
• “I Wanna Be Around” – Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra with Rodrigo Amarante

Listen to Rob Reinhart’s Essential Music every Saturday from 2-4 p.m. ET on Detroit Public Radio 101.9 WDET and streaming on-demand at wdet.org.