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69 Love Songs , The Magnetic Fields

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69 LOVE SONGS ALBUM INFO

69 Love Songs album cover 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:

  1. Come Back From San Fransisco
  2. A Chicken With It's Head Cut Off
  3. I didn't believe in the sun
  4. Let's pretened we're bunny rabbits
  5. Fido,Your leash is too long
  6. A Pretty Girl Is Like…
  7. The Things We Did
  8. You’re My Only One
  9. Promise Of Eternity
  10. Washington D C
  11. Long-Forgotton Fairytale
  12. Epitath for My Heart
  13. Alseep and Dreaming
  14. Abigail, Bell of Kilronan
  15. Wi'Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget
  16. For We Are the Kings of the Boudoir
  17. All My Little Words
  18. How Fucking Romantic
  19. Punk Love
  20. Experimental Music Love
  21. Underwear
  22. Busby Berkeley Dreams
  23. Acoustic Guitar
  24. The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
  25. Love in the Shadows
  26. Bitter Tears
  27. Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
  28. Meaningless
  29. Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin
  30. Two Kinds of People
  31. How to Say Goodbye
  32. Strange Eyes
  33. Zebra
  34. Absolutely Cuckoo
  35. Reno Dakota
  36. The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be
  37. I Think I Need A New Heart
  38. The Book of Love
  39. The One You Really Love
  40. Parades Go By
  41. Boa Constrictor
  42. My Sentimental Melody
  43. Roses
  44. Love Is Like Jazz
  45. When My Boy Walks Down the Street
  46. Very Funny
  47. Grand Canyon
  48. No One Will Ever Love You
  49. (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy
  50. My Only Friend
  51. World Love
  52. Kiss Me Like You Mean It
  53. Papa Was a Rodeo
  54. The Way You Say Good-Night
  55. I Shatter
  56. I'm Sorry I Love You
  57. It's a Crime
  58. I Can't Touch You Anymore
  59. The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side
  60. If You Don't Cry
  61. I Don't Want to Get Over You
  62. The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
  63. Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
  64. Sweet-Lovin' Man
  65. Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
  66. Xylophone Track
  67. The Night You Can't Remember
  68. Blue You
  69. Queen of the Savages

The Magnetic Fields top 10 albums

  1. 69 Love Songs (disc 1)
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  3. 69 Love Songs (disc 2)
  4. 69 Love Songs (disc 3)
  5. 69 Love Songs
  6. Holiday
  7. Get Lost
  8. 69 Love Songs Vol. 1
  9. The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees
  10. 69 Love Songs, Vol. 3
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