Make a Best of 69 Love Songs 1CD Compilation

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Mine, predictably, is titled "20 Love Songs"

1. I Don't Want to Get Over You
2. (Crazy for you but) not that Crazy
3. Chicken with its Head Cut Off
4. The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
5. Absolutely Cuckoo
6. When my Boy Walks Down the Street
7. All my Little Words
8. I Think I Need a New Heart
9. The One You Really Love
10. Nothing Matters when we're Dancing
11. Long-Forgotten Fairytale
12. Queen of the Savages
13. It's a Crime
14. How to Say Goodbye
15. The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
16. Yeah! Oh Yeah!
17. Love is like a Bottle of Gin
18. I Can't Touch you Anymore
19. Epitaph for my Heart
20. Papa was a Rodeo

Mine's only 56 minutes, actually, but I wanted to keep all the riff-raff out.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Friday, 5 January 2007 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

1999 called and it wants this thread back.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 5 January 2007 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

OK, only new millenium threads from now on, got it.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Friday, 5 January 2007 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

I made this years ago for a friend, but I was just listening to it on my iPod the other day. I don't listen to the remaining songs much. I should, there's some good stuff in those 38 other tracks, but I got used to hearing this version. It clocks in at 79:43

31 Love Songs

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

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:20 (nineteen years ago)

didn't they MAKE a 69LS 1-discer?

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

Who were "they", then?

― tiit (tiit), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

Merge also sells the 3CD set separately, I think, as Vol. 1, 2, and 3.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

Merge. and I don't mean the individual ones...

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― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

If they did collect the best songs on one CD, it's not listed on allmusic or discogs.com

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Friday, 5 January 2007 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

1999 called and it wants this thread back.

No worries, Alex, in two more years they can have the six-month-long tenth anniversary "What did 69LS mean for your life?" series on VH1, copresented by Pitchfork.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

I wait with bated breath.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 5 January 2007 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone have the 33 1/3 book on this album? I wasn't sure if I ought to pick it up or not...

anyway:

1. Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
2. I Can't Touch You Anymore
3. Bitter Tears
4. Time Enough For Rocking When We're Old
5. If You Don't Cry
6. Yeah! Oh Yeah!
7. The Book Of Love
8. Meaningless
9. Acoustic Guitar
10. I Think I Need A New Heart
11. Washington D.C.
12. Queen Of The Savages
13. The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be
14. The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
15. Zebra
16. Epitaph For My Heart
17. Busby Berkley Dreams
18. Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin

― el juan (el juan), Friday, 5 January 2007 07:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh is there one?

Anyway, from memory...

1. Cuckoo
2. I don't want to get over you
3. Rena Dakota (for being like Black Angel's Death song)
4. Honestly
5. Parades go by
6. Papa was a rodeo (wasn't this going to be a single?)
7. Acoustic Guitar
8. luckiest guy on the lower east side
9. Come back from SanFransisco
10. Abigail

Brain freeze now. No doubt some titles are wrong, but you know which ones they are.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 January 2007 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

I made a supergreat C60 out of this record once, but I can go fuck myself cos I left "Bitter Tears" off it.

HEY THO WHY TURN THE WHITE ALBUM INTO REVOLVER

― 808 the Bassking (Andrew Thames), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

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Honestly = No One Will Ever Love You? The rest are close enough. It seems weird that I never tried to do this before. These are my favorites, I guess:

Absolutely Cuckoo
All My Little Words
Reno Dakota
I Don't Want to Get Over You
Come Back from San Francisco
Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
When My Boy Walks Down the Street
Grand Canyon
No One Will Ever Love You
If You Don't Cry
(Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy
World Love
Long-Forgotten Fairytale
Papa Was a Rodeo
Asleep and Dreaming
Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
I Shatter
Underwear
Busby Berkeley Dreams
Acoustic Guitar
Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget
Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
Meaningless

I didn't check to see if that fits on one disc or not.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I think "Honestly" is a better title for it, the other title is not what the song's saying...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

I think it shows how good the record is that all these lists look great.

But you can't leave off The Book of Love. My sister read that at our wedding.

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

I think I need Fido, Your Leash is Too Long, as well.

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

One of the fist songs I ever wrote was called "Rover, come back to me this minute" which was scarily similar (and forgotten until I heard this song)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 5 January 2007 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

1 Love Song:

"All My Little Words"

― Jim M (jmcgaw), Friday, 5 January 2007 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

I think it shows how good the record is that all these lists look great.

I agree. I have to say, though, "When my Boy Walks Down the Street" is one of my favorite songs of the 90s, probably, so I can't fully support any tracklist that doesn't include it somewhere, preferrably in a showcase position.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'll bite. As it turns out, there are about 23 songs that I'm in love with; even though 'filler' comes to mind, the stuff left off isn't bad.

What's kind of scary is that my 23 songs clock in at about an hour, which means it could've easily been a proper album. If it had been released like this, it probably would have been my favorite album of the '90s (after checking, I'd never realized it was Fall of 1999).

1. Absolutely Cuckoo
2. I Don't Believe in the Sun
3. A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off
4. Reno Dakota
5. I Don't Want to Get Over You
6. Come Back to San Francisco
7. The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
8. The Book of Love
9. Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long
10. When My Boy Walks Down the Street
11. Very Funny
12. Grand Canyon
13. No One Will Ever Love You
14. (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy
15. Washington D.C.
16. Long-Forgotten Fairytale
17. Papa Was a Rodeo
18. Underwear
19. Busby Berkley Dreams
20. I'm Sorry I Love You
21. The Death of Ferdinand De Saussure
22. Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
23. Meaningless

When I first heard 69 Love Songs I was a bit sad it didn't contain anything with the drive of "All the Umbrellas in London." I got over it. Still listen to 69 Love Songs on a regular basis to this day.

― Jamesy (SuzyCreemcheese), Saturday, 6 January 2007 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

I like that list.

Had he cut it down to one CD, it would have been one of my very favorites of the decades as well. It still is in its 3 volume form, but it would be even better as one.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Saturday, 6 January 2007 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

PERSONALLY I think I could tear up all 23 of those songs in a karaoke challenge.

:: trolls for .kar YSI masterpiece ::

I'm eager to see which path the 33 1/3 series book took. There's a ton of stuff I'd love to know about this album.

Speaking of which, can someone fill me in on Claudia Gonson? I know nothing about her and I'd like to know more.

― Jamesy (SuzyCreemcheese), Saturday, 6 January 2007 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

yeah oh yeah
and nothing else

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 6 January 2007 07:30 (nineteen years ago)

In a rough order

1. Epitaph for My Heart
2. Grand Canyon
3. How To Say Goodbye
4. Washington, D.C.
5. Reno Dakota
6. Busby Berkeley Dreams
7. Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
8. Meaningless
9. A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
10. Absolutely Cuckoo
11. I Don't Believe in the Sun
12. Long Forgotten Fairytale
13. No One Will Ever Love You
14. The Book of Love
15. I Don't Want to Get Over You
16. Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
17. Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
18. I Think I Need a New Heart
19. (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy
20. Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
21. Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
22. My Only Friend
23. Boa Constrictor
24. All My Little Words

One Hour This would be one I would make for someone who doesn't want all the discs and not something I would listen to very often. I need to put this thing to sleep for five years and come back to it.

― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Saturday, 6 January 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

seventeen years pass...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0021hrt

an hour's radio he did for bbc this week, one of his songs and then a bunch of interesting things including stuff i only know as covers

― koogs, Saturday, 10 August 2024 10:05 (one year ago)

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