iTunes "Essential" Indie Love Songs

[Frau_Blucher]

I dunno about this list, but it's worth a look. I'll make some alt picks in brackets...

Once Around the Block - Badly Drawn Boy - The Hour of Bewilderbeast
[Magic in the Air from the same album is way better]
Girl - Beck - Guero
[Debra from Midnight Vultures - hilarious]
All Is Full of Love - Björk - Homogenic
Sea of Love - Cat Power - The Covers Record
Love Song - The Cure - Mixed Up
[Letter to Elise!!!]
Punk Rock Girl - The Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba
Lips Like Sugar (Album Version) - Echo And The Bunnymen - Echo & The Bunnymen
[Ian McCullogh's September Song cover?]
Do You Realize? - The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Classic Girl - Jane's Addiction - Ritual de Lo Habitual
Just Like Honey - The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
[Sometimes Always with Hope Sandoval]
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division - Permanent
[what's there to say!]
100 - 000 Fireflies - The Magnetic Fields - The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees
Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
In a Funny Way - Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration (Bonus Tracks)
About a Girl - Nirvana - Bleach
Wonderwall - Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
[Don't Go Away]
Too Young - Phoenix - United
Gigantic - Pixies - Surfer Rosa
[it's obvious but Here Comes Your Man is tough to beat]
Such Great Heights - The Postal Service - Give Up
[Clark Gable from same album if better imho]
You Are the Everything - R.E.M. - Green
[again obvious but The One I Love?!]
I Will Dare - The Replacements - Let It Be (Remastered)
[I'll Be You is pretty unbashedly hopeless/hapless]
New Slang - The Shins - Oh - Inverted World
Modern Girl - Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
We're Going to Be Friends - The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
[Fell in Love with a Girl??]
Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

Other picks I might make with that "Indie" feel, mostly 90s tracks...

Afternoon in Bed - The Bats - Couchmaster
To The End - Blur - Parklife
See a Little Light - Bob Mould - Workbook
Lovefool - Cardigans - First Band on the Moon
Black Mettalic - Catherine Wheel - Ferment
I Had to Say This - Clientele - Suburban Light
Run - Collective Soul - Dosage
A Girl Like You - Edwyn Collins - Gorgeous George
Hey Jealousy - Gin Blossoms
There She Goes - The LA's - The LA's
Into Your Arms - The Lemonheads
Pure - The Lightning Seeds
Flowers in December - Mazzy Star - Among My Swan
Sometimes - My Bloody Valentine
Hazey Jane 1 - Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
Creep - Radiohead - Pablo Honey [yeah, to me it's kind of a love song!]
Mary - Scissor Sisters
Perfect - Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Here's Where the Story Ends - Sundays - Reading Writing & Arithmetic
All I Want - Toad the Wet Sprocket - Fear


Oh wait, I forgot that There She goes is about heroin not love...well, love of heroin I guess.

[scramjet]

I like your list better, Blir. I also llke Matthew Sweet's "I've Been Waiting" better than "Girlfriend". How about The Foo Fighters' "Big Me"?

[DearGod]

I listened to the lightening seeds yesturday



LUNA - love dust! I love Luna.... Do you?

[DearGod]

Luna's cd Bewitched is very good! California All The Way is really lovely

Slash Your Tires... was one of my favorite Luna videos. It was always on mtv's 120 minutes

[DearGod]

I'm babbling...

I love all the tunes you listed Blir!

[Frau_Blucher]

That's because you're "just a socal chick who grew up listening to the World Famous KROQ fm 106.7"...you necessarily have great taste. [:I]

But yeah, I totally neglected Luna. I knew a few songs but Otters really turned me on to a bunch more stuff over a year ago. Lot's of great stuff from early 90s to just last year. I like Lovedust okay, but Slash Your Tires from their original Lunapark - definately! It starts of very reminiscent of Morrissey's recent "First of the Gang of Die". Love their semi-acoustic guitar sound, kinda Badly Drawn Boy meets Beck meets Bob Mould on some stuff. Malibu Love Nest makes me miss the Southland.

[DearGod]

So come back!

[:D]

[Hani]

Most songs in the list are my fav. But i would've add Jane's Addiction's 'Obvious 'from the same album too.