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Best Indie Love Songs

  • April Showers – Abandon Ship (Chrysalis ‎– chs 2787 12″ 1984)

    ‘Abandon Ship’ emerged from all the stars colliding in 1984. Jonathan and Beatrice writing a romantic, panoramically lush pop song and asking Anne Dudley before she was famous to score and orchestrate it. Chrysalis records put it out on its Big Star offshoot as a 12″ with the vocal A side, instrumental B side and… Read more

  • Songs to make you cry

    More Indie love songs, but this time the emotional dial has been turned up to maximum. Here are 35 songs that will make you cry. It’s time to reflect on life, death, the loves you lost and the fast cars you drove past the people and the places you’ve left behind. Nick Clegg has used… Read more

  • Indie Love Songs that defined an era 1984-5

    How a song by Ricky Gervais (Seona Dancing – More to Lose) helped me fall in love in 1984 – and sixteen other great love songs compiled here – http://wp.me/pCEKG-7t Read more

  • The Greatest Indie Love Songs of all Time (Vol 4)

    ‘You and me gonna be fine’. Exit hand in hand walking into the sunset. In love? This is your soundtrack. Vol 4 of the Greatest Indie Love Songs of all time. Read more

  • The Greatest Indie Love Songs of all Time (Vol 1)

    You’ll have yours. I’ve got mine. Sixteen British Indie pop songs and one Swedish classic that changed the world. Inside my head at least. Some are deleted and impossible to find, one or two are recent and surprisingly capable of making a veteran Indie roller catch a little tear somewhere back in the throat. Geneva,… Read more