Magnetic Fields 3CD Love Songs.... C/D?

magnetic fields: classic or dud

Well, no. I think there are only handful of those -- 5 or 6. I think it's particularly unfortunate that two of those throwaways start off the 2nd disc. (But it's also kinda fortunate in that it makes them easy to skip.)

I like the first 6ths album, it has pop stars singing and stuff.

Come Back From San Francisco
All My Little Words
Reno Dakota
The Book of Love
Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
No One Will Ever Love You
Papa Was A Rodeo
Asleep and Dreaming
It's A Crime
Meaningless
I Can't Touch You Anymore
Yeah! Oh Yeah!
Busby Berkeley Dreams
Acoustic Guitar
Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
I Don't Want to Get Over You
Parades Go By
Kiss Me Like You Mean It
Long-Forgotten Fairytale
Sweet-Lovin' Man
When My Boy Walks Down the Street
If You Don't Cry

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Destroy:
Experimental love song (obv), Punk rock love( obv)
The king of the boudoir - tried it, didn't work, is bad.

Search: Come Back From San Francisco, Reno Dakota

Destroy: How Fucking Romantic

I'm very into 'Abigail, Belle of Kilronan' at the moment.

1 | Absolutely Cuckoo | The Magnetic Fields
2 | I Don't Believe In The Sun | The Magnetic Fields
3 | All My Little Words | The Magnetic Fields
4 | A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off | The Magnetic Fields
5 | Reno Dakota | The Magnetic Fields
6 | I Don't Want To Get Over You | The Magnetic Fields
7 | Come Back From San Francisco | The Magnetic Fields
8 | The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side | The Magnetic Fields
9 | Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits | The Magnetic Fields
10 | I Need A New Heart | The Magnetic Fields
11 | The Book Of Love | The Magnetic Fields
12 | The One You Really Love | The Magnetic Fields
13 | Time Enough For Rocking When We're Old | The Magnetic Fields
14 | Grand Canyon | The Magnetic Fields
15 | No One Will Ever Love You | The Magnetic Fields
16 | My Only Friend | The Magnetic Fields
17 | Washington, D.C. | The Magnetic Fields
18 | Papa Was A Rodeo | The Magnetic Fields
19 | Epitaph For My Heart | The Magnetic Fields
20 | Asleep And Dreaming | The Magnetic Fields
21 | Abigail, Belle Of Kilronan | The Magnetic Fields
22 | Busby Berkeley Dreams | The Magnetic Fields
23 | Acoustic Guitar | The Magnetic Fields
24 | Yeah! Oh, Yeah! | The Magnetic Fields
25 | Experimental Music Love | The Magnetic Fields
26 | Meaningless | The Magnetic Fields
27 | Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin | The Magnetic Fields
28 | Queen Of The Savages | The Magnetic Fields
29 | Blue You | The Magnetic Fields
30 | Xylophone | The Magnetic Fields

I am like the only human alive who doesn't rate 'The Book Of Love', aren't I?

I like the book of love.

"Punk Rock Love" is fantastic. So is "Experimental Music Love".

Stuff I could do without:

How Fucking Romantic (how fucking much I hate this song)
Roses
Love Is Like Jazz
Love in the Shadows
Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget
Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin

Best five tracks on each Disc:

1
Absolutely Cuckoo
All My Little Words
I Don't Want to Get Over You
Come Back from San Francisco
Nothing Matters When We're Dancing

2 (these choices are in flux, along with my opinion on Disc 2)
When My Boy Walks Down the Street
Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
Promises of Eternity
Washington, D.C.
Abigail, Belle of Kilronan

3
It's a Crime
Acoustic Guitar
Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
Meaningless
Night You Can't Remember

I Don't Believe In The Sun
All My Little Words
I Don't Want To Get Over You
Come Back From San Francisco
The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side (I still can't believe those last three are /in a row/)
My Sentimental Melody (This was my #1 for like the whole of school)
Long-Forgotten Fairytale
Papa Was A Rodeo
The Death Of Ferdinand De Saussure

??

"We are nothing (whoa! whoa!)"

"I'm just a great composer *clap, clap, clap, clap*/and not a violent man"

I remember sighing and going "oh come on" a lot, first time of playing CD2, until "Rodeo" came up. Now, it all seems fine.

I will have to dig this one up. I used to have a long commute (Reading->MiltonKeynes) and this album (and the Stooges FunHouse sessions) were just right for the journeys. Now, my journey to work is about the length of a 60's Shadows single and b-side. But, nevertheless, umm you've stopped reading now havent you? I can tell.

It's divine
It's asinine
It's depressing

And it's almost entirely
window
dressing

but it'll do...

alone, surely?

I also like 'Love in the shadows' a lot (reading the Pynchon thread over on ILE just now, I realise it reminds me of the sequence in 'V.' about the WWI vets and the beginnings of plastic surgery).

On 'Long-forgotten fairytale' I love the way that Dudley's voice is treated to make him sound like an emphysemic but soppy robot.

He has a weekly DJ gig (when not touring) in the East Village on Monday nights:

http://houseoftomorrow.com/tentacle/

I went to the inaugural one... He and his tag-team partner were playing Free Design, the Fifth Dimension, Bonzo Dog Band, Pink Floyd, etc. And the Pink Tentacle cocktails are tasty.

Pisces - in the US, it was released as individually priced single CDs in as well as as a boxed set. last.fm only has the first volume, strangely.

12:41 AM
There are, as the name implies, 69 songs on/in 69 Love Songs. So there will be 69 entries after this, before I make more entries about music not from 69 Love Songs. You get the idea.

From josh blog

If anything it's Disc 3 which I don't pull out so much, although there's obviously a stockpile of amazing tracks on it.

I don't believe in the sun
Reno Dakota
I Don't Wanna get over you (has someone covered this? Sure i heard a diff version)
Washington DC - great the melody

And in terms of the one I have to keep listening to:
If You Don't Cry

which someone mentioned upthread - damn, cool song. Haven't even played the 3rrd CD yet. I kind of like that it's an album that can take months to get to know.

3CD's of Merrit? I'll Pass.

/uncaring ignoramus

1. It's amazing how few of these songs stick in the memory. I could probably hum some bars of maybe 10 of them, and I've listened to all three disks many times.

2. It's also amazing how people who supposedly like Merritt and 69 Love Songs(such as I, but others too) never actually want to listen to any of these disks anymore.

3. Book Of Love is probably the only song out of the 69 I actually care about. There are lots of others I like when I hear them. Alba's list wasn't bad. I like Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long, too (but not so much Abigail).

O RLY?

Found this on Youtube a while back- a fan-made Claymation video for "The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure." Ridiculously cute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vykJ7-UgNQ

Thanks to seeing them being wonderful on Wednesday, I've been spurred to make my own 1-CD distillation of 69 Love Songs in an effort to persuade the good lady of its brilliance. Is this the act of a heretic? Judging by the above posts, it would seem not!

32 Love Songs, then. Comes in at 79.58. Phew!

01 Absolutely Cuckoo
02 I Don't Believe in the Sun
03 All My Little Words
04 A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off
05 Reno Dakota
06 I Don't Want to Get Over You
07 Come Back from San Francisco
08 The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
09 Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
12 The Book of Love
19 A Pretty Girl Is Like
01 Roses
02 Love Is Like Jazz
03 When My Boy Walks Down the Street
04 Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
06 Grand Canyon
08 If You Don't Cry
15 Long-Forgotten Fairytale
17 Papa Was a Rodeo
01 Underwear
03 Busby Berkeley Dreams
05 Acoustic Guitar
09 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
16 I Can't Touch You Anymore
17 Two Kinds of People
18 How to Say Goodbye
19 The Night You Can't Remember
23 Zebra

So, I haven't played it for such a long time.

I do see the new one around for a fiver. It's them, but like the Jesus and Mary Chain, apparently.

That's the sort of description I'd get in my e-mail as an advert, which converely makes me not want to go (back) there.

Am I wrong? You can tell me.

Distortion? it's ace. (and so's the album ectect) i'm about to listen to it... right... NOW!

Charlie, your 32-song set is marvellous, but then another 32 songs would be pretty great too. You don't include 'Sweet-Lovin' Man'. Good luck, I suppose, and almost all your choices are excellent - but by this point I guess I don't feel that anyone should need a diluted version of TMF. The whole of 69LS is magnificent, and if you're going to like it or get it at all then it shouldn't take that long, ro a shortened version, to realize that. And as Dr M and Stevie T have both said, the grandeur of the whole 69 is the point.

I do write, though, as one who had initial problems with TMF, because I didn't trust the sonic perversity and worried that it was some kind of 'dance music'. A long time ago.

I find it odd reading comments from people who don't like TMF, like "It's also amazing how people who supposedly like Merritt and 69 Love Songs(such as I, but others too) never actually want to listen to any of these disks anymore" above. I can't identify with a word of them. I suppose I think they are something like the best band in the world - or if that is a silly way of putting it, then: that Merritt is the greatest single pop songwriter, let's say, under 50, by many leagues. I have hundreds of individual value judgements about all his songs, but I cannot imagine approaching the whole achievement without reverence; at least, I hope that will never happen.

I saw them twice this week; I think Wed's show may have been better than Thu's; despite all the tosh about the flight from Dublin, Merritt was a lot grouchier and quieter last night. But I have also come to a new appreciation of Gonson, something I never thought would happen. I actually adored her prancing performance of 'Yeah, oh Yeah' last night, like something she had earned. And her 'Tiny Goat' on Wed (a song I've never listened to before) was masterly.

i bloody knew they'd do 'yeah, oh yeah' on the night i didn't go :-(

it was lovely. and hearing the song with ambient laughter was an interesting experience as well. the impression was that the laughers hadn't heard the song before and it made me listen to it and think about the lyrics in a different way.

i had no problem with Stephen Merritt's grouchiness - with Gonson making such an effort to be chatty there was almost a "good cop/bad cop" feel to the show.

if i could afford it i'd definitely want to go again tonight.

yeah i found the laughing a bit weird - surely they'd heard those songs before?? i guess maybe not

The other day I took it out wanting to force myself to sit through it completely. I remember I skimmed and was let down. So maybe now I need to put it on my ipod and really give it another go?

I think there's something to be said for making a playlist or a cd out of your favourite tracks of the 69. Personally I can't listen to it from start to finish without skipping b/w ten and twenty tracks.

Personally I can't listen to it from start to finish without skipping b/w ten and twenty tracks.

getting a vinyl release apparently

This make take a while but I've just realized this is something I have to do...

15 tracks I still really love (from fav to least fav):

1. Epitaph for My Heart
2. The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
3. I Don't Want to Get Over You
4. All My Little Words
5. Acoustic Guitar
6. A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off
7. The Book of Love
8. Meaningless
9. Absolutely Cuckoo
10. The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
11. When My Boy Walks Down the Street
12. My Sentimental Melody
13. Sweet-Lovin' Man
14. Two Kinds of People
15. Nothing Matters When We're Dancing