"I want you to move to California. . . . But not for me," Matt Vasquez sings over synth-rock swirls. It's a far cry from the band's Friday Night Lights folk benediction, "Devil Knows You’re Dead," but Vasquez's warm West Coast vocals make the unvite seem like an act of kindness.

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“Let My Love Open the Door”

A peppy, hopeful love song, "Let My Love Open the Door" became a U. S. Top Ten hit for Pete Townshend in 1980, anchored by the kind of repeating synthesizer figures that he'd used in some of the Who's recordings in the previous decade. Although Townshend brushed the song off as "just a ditty" in Rolling Stone shortly after its release, in 1996 he revealed it was about love of the holiest sort. "It's supposed to be about the power of God's love," he remarked. "That when you're in difficulty, whether it's major or minor, God's love is always there for you."