Artist	Song
Bright Eyes	First Day of My Life
from I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (2005)
Built to Spill	Car
from There's Nothing Wrong With Love (1994)
Neutral Milk Hotel	In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
Beat Happening	Fortune Cookie Prize
from Dreamy (2007)
The 6ths	You You You You You
from Hyacinths and Thistles (2000)
Belle and Sebastian	If She Wants Me
from Dear Catastrophe Waitress (2003)
The Afghan Whigs	66
from 1965 (1998)
Iron & Wine	Love and Some Verses
from Our Endless Numbered Days (2004)
New Order	The Perfect Kiss
from Singles (2005)
Jets to Brazil	Sweet Avenue
from Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998)
Stars	On Peak Hill
from Nightsongs (2001)
Air	Cherry Blossom Girl (Hope Sandoval Version)
from Cherry Blossom Girl - EP (2003)
Pulp	TV Movie
from This Is Hardcore (1998)
Pinback	The Yellow Ones
from Summer In Abaddon (2004)
Kicking Giant	She's Real (Version)
from Alien I.D. (2007)
The Clientele	(I Want You) More Than Ever
from Suburban Light (2001)
Red House Painters	Smokey
from Old Ramon (2001)
Band of Horses	Part One
from Everything All the Time (2006)
The Mountain Goats	Love Love Love
from The Sunset Tree (2005)
Bobby Birdman	I Must Admit That I Love You
from Let Me In (2001)
The Stone Roses	This Is the One
from The Stone Roses (Remastered) (2009)
Calvin Johnson	Ode to St. Valentine
from What Was Me (2007)
Sugar	Your Favorite Thing
from File Under: Easy Listening (2006)
Melpo Mene	I Adore You
from Bring the Lions Out (2008)
Slow Runner	Love and Doubt
from Mermaids (2008)
Bright Eyes	First Day of My Life
from I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (2005)
Built to Spill	Car
from There's Nothing Wrong With Love (1994)
Neutral Milk Hotel	In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
Beat Happening	Fortune Cookie Prize
from Dreamy (2007)
The 6ths	You You You You You
from Hyacinths and Thistles (2000)
Belle and Sebastian	If She Wants Me
from Dear Catastrophe Waitress (2003)
The Afghan Whigs	66
from 1965 (1998)
Iron & Wine	Love and Some Verses
from Our Endless Numbered Days (2004)
New Order	The Perfect Kiss
from Singles (2005)
Jets to Brazil	Sweet Avenue
from Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998)
Stars	On Peak Hill
from Nightsongs (2001)
Air	Cherry Blossom Girl (Hope Sandoval Version)
from Cherry Blossom Girl - EP (2003)
Pulp	TV Movie
from This Is Hardcore (1998)
Pinback	The Yellow Ones
from Summer In Abaddon (2004)
Kicking Giant	She's Real (Version)
from Alien I.D. (2007)
The Clientele	(I Want You) More Than Ever
from Suburban Light (2001)
Red House Painters	Smokey
from Old Ramon (2001)
Band of Horses	Part One
from Everything All the Time (2006)
The Mountain Goats	Love Love Love
from The Sunset Tree (2005)
Bobby Birdman	I Must Admit That I Love You
from Let Me In (2010)
The Stone Roses	This Is the One
from The Stone Roses (Remastered) (2009)
Calvin Johnson	Ode to St. Valentine
from What Was Me (2007)
Sugar	Your Favorite Thing
from File Under: Easy Listening (2006)
Melpo Mene	I Adore You
from Bring the Lions Out (2008)
Slow Runner	Love and Doubt
from Mermaids (2008)
Bright Eyes	First Day of My Life
from I'm Wide Awake It's Morning (2005)
Built to Spill	Car
from There's Nothing Wrong With Love (1994)
Neutral Milk Hotel	In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
Beat Happening	Fortune Cookie Prize
from Dreamy (2007)
The 6ths	You You You You You
from Hyacinths and Thistles (2000)
Belle and Sebastian	If She Wants Me
from Dear Catastrophe Waitress (2003)
The Afghan Whigs	66
from 1965 (1998)
Iron & Wine	Love and Some Verses
from Our Endless Numbered Days (2004)
New Order	The Perfect Kiss
from Singles (2005)
Jets to Brazil	Sweet Avenue
from Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998)
Stars	On Peak Hill
from Nightsongs (2001)
Air	Cherry Blossom Girl (Hope Sandoval Version)
from Cherry Blossom Girl - EP (2003)
Pulp	TV Movie
from This Is Hardcore (1998)
Pinback	The Yellow Ones
from Summer In Abaddon (2004)
Kicking Giant	She's Real (Version)
from Alien I.D. (2007)
The Clientele	(I Want You) More Than Ever
from Suburban Light (2001)
Red House Painters	Smokey
from Old Ramon (2001)
Band of Horses	Part One
from Everything All the Time (2006)
The Mountain Goats	Love Love Love
from The Sunset Tree (2005)
Bobby Birdman	I Must Admit That I Love You
from Let Me In (2010)
The Stone Roses	This Is the One
from The Stone Roses (Remastered) (2009)
Calvin Johnson	Ode to St. Valentine
from What Was Me (2007)
Sugar	Your Favorite Thing
from File Under: Easy Listening (2006)
Melpo Mene	I Adore You
from Bring the Lions Out (2008)
Slow Runner	Love and Doubt
from Mermaids (2008)

Comment:

Like a lonely wanderer searching for a soul mate, we’ve traveled the far corners — from basement to garage, from club to coffee shop — to gather together the best in cutting-edge D.I.Y. and otherwise out-of-the-box indie rock love songs. The result is a potpourri of tuneful heart-tuggers that state their cases in their own, distinctive ways — through the intensive study in expression that is Ed Harcourt’s “Metaphorically Yours,” or in the subtle, alt-country plea of the Decemberists’ “Angel, Won’t You Call Me?”; by way of the dreamy retro yearning of The Clientele’s “(I Want You) More Than Ever,” or via the art-rock ache of Wolf Parade’s “This Heart’s On Fire.”

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