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Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (CD)

69 Love Songs
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Album Details: 69 Love Songs

Release Date:09/07/1999
Label:Merge Records
UPC:036172946921

Track List: 69 Love Songs

User Reviews: 69 Love Songs

  • Overall:

    almost pulp

    By gen_x_x_x  Jun 4, 2001

    but nobody is that good

  • Overall:

    what's love got to do with it?

    By Calamity  Nov 6, 2000

    EVERYTHING! Stephin Merritt is a musical genius - every song on this 3 CD set is a gem and some songs are spectacular (cf. When My Boy Walks Down the Street on Vol. 2 and Sweet-Lovin' Man on Vol. 1. Without doubt the best release of 1999.

Pro Reviews: 69 Love Songs

  • All Music Guide

    As the sprawling magnitude of its cheeky title suggests, 69 Love Songs is Stephin Merritt's most ambitious as well as fully realized work to date, a three-disc epic of classically chiseled pop songs that explore both the promise and pitfalls of modern romance through the jaundiced eye of an irredeemable misanthrope. A true A-to-Z catalog of touchingly bittersweet love songs that runs the gamut from tender ballads to pithy folk tunes to bluesy vamps, the sheer scope of the record allows all of Merritt's musical personas to converge: the regular use of guest vocalists recalls his work as the 6ths, the romantic fatalism suggests the Gothic Archies project, and the stately melodies evoke the Future Bible Heroes. The whole is much greater than the sum of its parts, however; for all of Merritt's scathing wit and icy detachment, there's a depth and sensitivity to these songs largely absent from his past work, and each one of these 69 tracks approaches l'amour from refreshing angles, galvanizi...ng the love song form with rare sophistication and elegance. Naturally, given a project of this size there's the occasional bit of filler, but all in all, 69 Love Songs maintains a remarkable consistency throughout, and the highlights ("I Don't Believe in the Sun," "All My Little Words," "Asleep and Dreaming," "Busby Berkeley Dreams," and "Acoustic Guitar," to name just a few) are jaw-droppingly superb. Also available as three individual releases, 69 Love Songs was nevertheless conceived as a whole and is best absorbed as such, with all of its twists and turns taken in stride; despite its three-hour length, the music boasts the craftsmanship and economy that remain the hallmarks of classic American pop songwriting, a tradition Merritt upholds even as he subverts the formula in new and brilliant ways. - Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Magnetic Fields

The Magnetic Fields are a bona fide band, but in most essential respects they are the project of studio wunderkind Stephin Merritt. Merritt writes, produces, and (lately) sings all of their material, as well as plays many of the instruments, concocting a sort of indie-pop synth-rock. While The Magnetic Fields may draw upon the electronic textures of vintage acts like AB... Read more