Listen: Chic's "I Want Your Love"

What's better than celebrating Valentine's Day with a bittersweet ode to unrequited love! A timeless dance-floor anthem and effortlessly intoxicating, hypnotising and invigorating, Chic's I Want Your Love (1979) is simple, yet mesmerisingly beautiful, riding on a melodic hook driven by groovy basslines, swooping horns and lilting strings that loops itself into eternity, building into an irresistible crescendo, lifting the song to stratospheric heights. A sonic masterpiece, no less!