69 Love Songs (Magnetic Fields)
from Domino Records
Disk 1: - Absolutely Cuckoo - I Don't Believe in the Sun - All My Little Words - Chicken With It's Head Cut Off - Reno Dakota - I Don't Want to Get Over You - Come Back from San Francisco - Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side - Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits - Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be - I Think I Need a New Heart - Book of Love - Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long - How Fucking Romantic - One You Really Love - Punk Love - Parades Go By - Boa Constrictor - Pretty Girl Is Like - My Sentimental Melody - Nothing Matters When We're Dancing - Sweet-Lovin' Man - Things We Did and Didn't Do
Disk 2: - Roses - Love Is Like Jazz - When My Boy Walks Down the Street - Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old - Very Funny - Grand Canyon - No One Will Ever Love You - If You Don't Cry - You're My Only Home - (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy - My Only Friend - Promises of Eternity - World Love - Washington, D.C. - Long-Forgotten Fairytale - Kiss Me Like You Mean It - Papa Was a Rodeo - Epitaph for My Heart - Asleep and Dreaming - Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing - Way You Say Good-Night - Abigail, Belle of Kilronan - I Shatter
Disk 3: - Underwear - It's a Crime - Busby Berkeley Dreams - I'm Sorry I Love You - Acoustic Guitar - Death of Ferdinand de Saussure - Love in the Shadows - Bitter Tears - Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget - Yeah! Oh, Yeah! - Experimental Music Love - Meaningless - Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin - Queen of the Savages - Blue You - I Can't Touch You Anymore - Two Kinds of People - How to Say Goodbye - Night You Can't Remember - For We Are the King of the Boudoir - Strange Eyes - Xylophone Track - Zebra
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Binding/Format: Audio CD
Release Date: 11/10/2004
Availability: dispatched within 24 hours
Index: Music
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Music Pod Price: £8.17
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"Grandiose" is the word that Stephin Merritt uses to describe this album, and he doesn't seem to be the type who's prone to overstatement. After all, his three-CD collection of 69 love songs has the rather under-elaborate title 69 Love Songs. Still, where he lacks creativity in titling an album, he more than makes up for it as a lyricist. Whereas most of his contemporaries would be lucky to write this many songs in their entire career, Merritt--as the creative force behind the Magnetic Fields--effortlessly proves himself as one of the pre-eminent songwriters of his generation. He is also an incurable romantic; his love songs are interspersed with melancholy, bitterness, hope, sadness, joy, longing--all the emotions that seem to coexist with love. The tunes themselves are a mixture of styles, ranging from sunny pop to simple ballads to faux-Broadway showtunes, while also taking in country (Disc Three's "I'm Sorry I Love You"), toy pop (Disc One's "Absolutely Cuckoo") and synthesized Euro-pop (Disc Two's "Long-Forgotten Fairytale"). The scale of 69 Love Songs is absolutely staggering, and not just because of its sheer size and scope. Stephin Merritt and his Magnetic Fields have crafted one of pop music's most beautiful and inspiring tributes to love. --Robert Burrow
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Associated music album categories: Indie & Lo-Fi |
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