69 Love Songs

Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs

69 Love Songs
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Artist: Magnetic Fields
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Limited Edition
CD Release Date: 1999-09-07
Music Label: Merge Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Absolutely Cuckoo
  2. I Don't Believe in the Sun
  3. All My Little Words
  4. A Chicken with It's Head Cut Off
  5. Reno Dakota
  6. I Don't Want to Get Over You
  7. Come Back from San Francisco
  8. The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
  9. Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
  10. The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be
  11. I Think I Need a New Heart
  12. The Book of Love
  13. Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long
  14. How Fucking Romantic
  15. The One You Really Love
  16. Punk Love
  17. Parades Go By
  18. Boa Constrictor
  19. A Pretty Girl Is Like
  20. My Sentimental Melody
  21. Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
  22. Sweet-Lovin' Man
  23. The Things We Did and Didn't Do
Music CD 2
  1. Love Is Like Jazz
  2. When My Boy Walks Down the Street
  3. Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
  4. Very Funny
  5. Grand Canyon
  6. No One Will Ever Love You
  7. If You Don't Cry
  8. You're My Only Home
  9. (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy
  10. My Only Friend
  11. Promises of Eternity
  12. World Love
  13. Washington, D.C.
  14. Long-Forgotten Fairytale
  15. Kiss Me Like You Mean It
  16. Papa Was a Rodeo
  17. Epitaph for My Heart
  18. Asleep and Dreaming
  19. The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
  20. The Way You Say Good-Night
  21. Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
  22. I Shatter
Music CD 3
  1. Underwear
  2. It's a Crime
  3. Busby Berkeley Dreams
  4. I'm Sorry I Love You
  5. Acoustic Guitar
  6. The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
  7. Love in the Shadows
  8. Bitter Tears
  9. Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget
  10. Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
  11. Meaningless
  12. Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin
  13. Queen of the Savages
  14. Blue You
  15. I Can't Touch You Anymore
  16. Two Kinds of People
  17. How to Say Goodbye
  18. The Night You Can't Remember
  19. For We Are the King of the Boudoir
  20. Strange Eyes
  21. Xylophone Track
  22. Zebra

Free Music Notes for 69 Love Songs

Free Music Review: Journey through the human heart
Hit: 5 Stars

Who would have the creative energy and ambition to release a three disc set containing 69 songs all about the most complex of human emotions, while at the same time giving it a name that is a clever double entendre? Stephen Merritt, that's who. The gifted/eccentric pop auteur has delivered a stunning set of songs that examine love from every possible angle. This is no sappy collection of silly love songs. Merritt is concerned with more than just the superficial idea of love that we have been presented in movies, television, and, well...... music.

The songs on this collection examine the countless effects that love can have upon us. There is the giddy joy of falling in love and developing a new relationship, the pain of realizing that love is fading from a relationship, the need for love, unrequited love, the pain of a failed relationship, clinging to falsely idealized love, etc. The list goes on and on. Sometimes the songs explore the intertwined natures of lust and love and sometimes they examine love in the purest sense.

The course taken by these songs is never conventional and neither is the music. Just like love itself, nothing is ever predictble. Sometimes Merritt crafts pure pop songs, elsewhere he shows his Joy Division influence with syntheziers and distortion. But turn around again and he's churning out acoutsic folk or jazz influenced cuts. The reason that everything coheres so nicely is because Merritt has a singular artistic vision here. He works with a purpose on these songs and whether he's breaking your heart or making you laugh with his caustic with, he never resorts to cheap sentimentality or easy answers. We wouldn't want it any other way. Savor this album. We may never see it's like again.

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1999 and first new material in four years by Stephin Merrit 's main band (his side projects include Future Bible Heroes, Gothic Archies and The 6ths). Limited three disc set f eaturing more wonderful, yet cynically skewed, pop songs as only Merritt (and a midi) can do 'em! Features all three volumes of '69 Love Songs' (also sold separately), as well as a76 page booklet only available in this box! Each disc comes in a separate standard jewel case & together they come in a colorful CD-sized slipcase box. 69 tracks.
Singer-songwriter Stephen Merritt's ironically morose lyrics, Tin Pan Alley stylings, sugary melodies, and idiosyncratic sound have earned his band the Magnetic Fields cult status and the adulation of grad students everywhere. The ambitious, genre-hopping, and intensely heart-tugging three-disc set 69 Love Songs probably won't gain Merritt the wider recognition he deserves, but the clever misanthrope likely wouldn't have it any other way. --Mike McGonigal
Initially conceived as 100 love songs arranged in alphabetical order for theatrical revue performance, Stephin Merritt--indie-pop songsmith and Magnetic Fields spearhead--downsized his ambitious concept project to 69 Love Songs, his first recording under this moniker in four years. Parleyed into three volumes, Merritt, as on other outings, is joined by a rotating cast of musicians including manager Claudia Gonson. These players take on the role of orchestra and cast to Merritt's madcap composer, librettist, and performer, augmenting his lo-fi electronic-based rock with sparkling instrumental touches and narrative vocals for a portion of his absurdly wondrous ditties. Endlessly intriguing, the Fields revisit not only earlier themes of love both shunned and requited, but continue to forge a seemingly impossible synthesis of country-tinged Euro-pop and old-school musical theater. No stranger to melancholy, Merritt's twinkly music-box world, in shades of resplendent violet, is beautifully peopled with incurable romantics who drop pop-culture references and shed gender identity as often as most folks change their underpants. Not surprisingly, 69 Love Songs is delicious defeat on the romance front while pulling ahead as Merritt's most coherently engaging listen. --Paige La Grone

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