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69 Love Songs [Box] by Magnetic Fields

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Each CD in this box set is also available separately on Merge (166, 167 & 168). The Magnetic Fields: Stephin Merritt (vocals, acoustic, electric, classical, & steel guitars, ukelele, mandolin, violin, penny whistle, recorder, melodica, acoustic & electric pianos, organ, keyboards, synthesizer, acoustic & electric percussion); Claudia Gonson (vocals, guitar, piano, drums, percussion, whistling); John Woo (guitar, banjo, mandolin, bass); Sam Davol (cello, flute); Daniel Handler (accordion, keyboards). Additional personnel: LD Beghtol (vocals, harmonium); Dudley Klute, Shirley Simms (vocals); Chris Ewen (various instruments, Theremin); Ida Pearle (violin). Engineers include: Charles Newman, Chris Ewen, Claudia Gonson. Includes a 76-page booklet. Personnel: Claudia Gonson (vocals, piano, drums, percussion); Shirley Simms, Dudley Klute (vocals); John Woo (guitar, banjo, mandolin, cello, flute, accordion). Recording information: Mother West; Polar Mother And Sonics; Polar West. Arranger: Claudia Gonson. Origin...
 

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Average Rating: 5.0
 
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"eligible, not too stupid, intelligible, and cute as Cupid."

Date of Review:  Oct 28, 2003
The Bottom Line: With less filler, this could have easily been five stars. Easy.
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Elegant and expansive, the Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs is by equal turns funny and sad, sweet and cynical, retro and excitingly new. What in the hands of a lesser songwriter could have quickly degenerated into an uninspired gimmick - 69...
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  4.0

by: Stairway2Drew
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
commendable ambition; Merritt's...
Cons
filler
 

I Love It When You Read to Me & You... You Can Read Me Anything

Date of Review:  Feb 14, 2006
The Bottom Line: 69 Love Songs is a Fun, Ambitious Collection of Love Songs from Stephin Merritt & Co.
Review: Whether in being in side projects like the Gothic Archies, the 6ths, and the Future Bible Heroes, Stephin Merritt truly has an uncanny knack for pop music with his unique ability to write catchy pop songs in a variety of styles. While he often does...
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  5.0

by: thevoid99
Recommended to buy: Yes

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A Great Box Set of 69 Fantastic Songs...
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Merritt's Masterpiece

Date of Review:  Apr 16, 2004
The Bottom Line: Buy it! Buy it! Buy it!
Review: Ask twenty Magnetic Fields fans to name their favourite track on 69 Love Songs and you'd probably get twenty different answers. That's if you can find twenty fans in the first place. I haven't encountered any other Stephin Merritt obsessives, and...
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  5.0

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a work of genius
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Product Details and Features

Key Information

Artist Magnetic Fields
Record Label Merge Records
Genre Rock and Pop
Subgenre Lo Fi
Release Date September 07, 1999
Number of Discs 3

Song List: Disc 1

  1. Absolutely Cuckoo
2. I Don't Believe in the Sun
3. All My Little Words
4. Chicken with It's Head Cut Off, A
5. Reno Dakota
6. I Don't Want to Get Over You
7. Come Back from San Francisco
8. Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
9. Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
10. Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be
11. I Think I Need a New Heart
12. Book of Love
13. Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long
14. How Fucking Romantic
15. One You Really Love
16. Punk Love
17. Parades Go By
18. Boa Constrictor
19. Pretty Girl Is Like, A
20. My Sentimental Melody
21. Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
22. Sweet-Lovin' Man
23. Things We Did and Didn't Do

Song List: Disc 2

  1. Roses
2. Love Is Like Jazz
3. When My Boy Walks Down the Street
4. Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
5. Very Funny
6. Grand Canyon
7. No One Will Ever Love You
8. If You Don't Cry
9. You're My Only Home
10. (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy
11. My Only Friend
12. Promises of Eternity
13. World Love
14. Washington, D.C.
15. Long-Forgotten Fairytale
16. Kiss Me Like You Mean It
17. Papa Was a Rodeo
18. Epitaph for My Heart
19. Asleep and Dreaming
20. Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
21. Way You Say Good-Night
22. Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
23. I Shatter

Song List: Disc 3

  1. Underwear (French)
2. It's a Crime
3. Busby Berkeley Dreams
4. I'm Sorry I Love You
5. Acoustic Guitar
6. 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. Experimental Music Love
12. Meaningless
13. Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin
14. Queen of the Savages
15. Blue You
16. I Can't Touch You Anymore
17. Two Kinds of People
18. How to Say Goodbye
19. Night You Can't Remember
20. For We Are the King of the Boudoir
21. Strange Eyes
22. Xylophone Track
23. Zebra
 

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