69 Love Songs , The Magnetic Fields
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69 LOVE SONGS ALBUM INFO
Artist: The Magnetic Fields
Album: 69 Love Songs
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''69 Love Songs'' is a three-volume concept album by The Magnetic Fields. As its title suggests, the album is composed of 69 (number)|69 love songs, all written by Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt. The album was released in 1999 in the United States (as a box set with Merritt interview booklet, and as three separate individual volumes), and in 2000 in Europe and Australia (box set without booklet).
Conception
The album was originally conceived as a grandiose musical revue. Stephin Merritt was sitting in a gay piano bar in Manhattan, listening to the pianist's interpretations of Stephen Sondheim songs, when he decided he ought to get into theatre music because he felt he had an aptitude for it. "I decided I'd write one hundred love songs as a way of introducing myself to the world. Then I realized how long that would be. So I settled on sixty-nine. I'd have a theatrical revue with four drag queens. And whoever the audience liked best at the end of the night would get paid."<ref>[http://www.sfbg.com/Guides/Noise993/index.html Interview] in the ''San Francisco Bay Guardian'', 1 September 1999</ref>
Genres and themes
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The variety of ''69 Love Songs'' also derives from the many song genres that Merritt raids and filters through his own sensibility. Merritt has said "''6
Track list:
- Come Back From San Fransisco
- A Chicken With It's Head Cut Off
- I didn't believe in the sun
- Let's pretened we're bunny rabbits
- Fido,Your leash is too long
- A Pretty Girl Is Like…
- The Things We Did
- You’re My Only One
- Promise Of Eternity
- Washington D C
- Long-Forgotton Fairytale
- Epitath for My Heart
- Alseep and Dreaming
- Abigail, Bell of Kilronan
- Wi'Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget
- For We Are the Kings of the Boudoir
- All My Little Words
- How Fucking Romantic
- Punk Love
- Experimental Music Love
- Underwear
- Busby Berkeley Dreams
- Acoustic Guitar
- The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
- Love in the Shadows
- Bitter Tears
- Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
- Meaningless
- Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin
- Two Kinds of People
- How to Say Goodbye
- Strange Eyes
- Zebra
- Absolutely Cuckoo
- Reno Dakota
- The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be
- I Think I Need A New Heart
- The Book of Love
- The One You Really Love
- Parades Go By
- Boa Constrictor
- My Sentimental Melody
- Roses
- Love Is Like Jazz
- When My Boy Walks Down the Street
- Very Funny
- Grand Canyon
- No One Will Ever Love You
- (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy
- My Only Friend
- World Love
- Kiss Me Like You Mean It
- Papa Was a Rodeo
- The Way You Say Good-Night
- I Shatter
- I'm Sorry I Love You
- It's a Crime
- I Can't Touch You Anymore
- The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side
- If You Don't Cry
- I Don't Want to Get Over You
- The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
- Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
- Sweet-Lovin' Man
- Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
- Xylophone Track
- The Night You Can't Remember
- Blue You
- Queen of the Savages
- 69 Love Songs (disc 1)
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- 69 Love Songs (disc 2)
- 69 Love Songs (disc 3)
- 69 Love Songs
- Holiday
- Get Lost
- 69 Love Songs Vol. 1
- The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees
- 69 Love Songs, Vol. 3
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