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A Quiet Storm,' Smokey Robinson

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Mood-Setter Song: 'Quiet Storm'

Every Smokey Robinson album could make The BoomBox's Valentine's Day playlist. The Motown songwriter pioneered and perfected the love song with his storytelling and serenely gentile voice. "Oh, you short circuit all my nerves/ Promising electric pains/ You touch me and/ Suddenly there's rainbow rings ..." he sings on 'Quiet Storm.' On other songs like 'The Agony and the Ecstasy' and 'Baby That's Backatcha,' his croon wraps around you like a long embrace that doesn't want to let go and gets tighter with each verse.