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Song of the Day: "Sweet Avenue" by Jets to Brazil"

Blake Schwarzenbach formed Jets to Brazil after his band Jawbreaker, a San Francisco punk band often cited as an influence with some of the first emo bands, disbanded in the 1990s. The band takes its name from a poster in the movie, "Breakfast at Tiffany's," which is one of those classics I keep meaning to watch some day.

Anyway, "Sweet Avenue," the last song off JTB's debut, "Orange Rhyming Dictionary," has been playing through my iPod a lot recently, perhaps because of my own current relationship status. The song, a smooth acoustic number with minimal drums and piano, tells of seeing the world through a new light thanks to love. Cliche maybe, but in the throws of love it's handled with much more class and original lines than 95 percent of the love songs out there.

The first lines are the best in the song: "tasting you and rain I walk down to the train/trying not to look down/this day could one day be an anniversary."

Listen here.