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intereact!Magnetic Fields
Retail Price (not our price): $39.98
Release Date: 1999-09-07
Manufacturer: Merge Records
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...
| Disc 1 | ||||
| 1. | Absolutely Cuckoo | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 2. | I Don't Believe In The Sun | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 3. | All My Little Words | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 4. | A Chicken WIth Its Head Cut Off | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 5. | Reno Dakota | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 6. | I Don't Want To Get Over You | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 7. | Come Back From San Francisco | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 8. | The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 9. | Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 10. | The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 11. | I Think I Need A New Heart | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 12. | The Book Of Love | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 13. | Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 14. | How Fucking Romantic | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 15. | The One You Really Love | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 16. | Punk Love | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 17. | Parades Go By | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 18. | Boa Constrictor | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 19. | A Pretty Girl Is Like... | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 20. | My Sentimental Melody | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 21. | Nothing Matters When We're Dancing | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 22. | Sweet Lovin' Man | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 23. | The Things We Did | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| Disc 2 | ||||
| 1. | Roses | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 2. | Love Is Like Jazz | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 3. | When My Boy Walks Down The Street | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 4. | Time Enough For Rocking When We're Old | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 5. | Very Funny | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 6. | Grand Canyon | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 7. | No One Will Ever Love You | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 8. | If You Don't Cry | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 9. | You're My Only Home | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 10. | (Crazy For You But) Not That Crazy | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 11. | My Only Friend | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 12. | Promises Of Eternity | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 13. | World Love | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 14. | Washington, D.C. | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 15. | Long Forgotten Fairytale | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 16. | Kiss Me Like You Mean It | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 17. | Papa Was A Rodeo | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 18. | Epitaph For My Heart | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 19. | Asleep And Dreaming | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 20. | The Sun Goes Down And The World Goes Dancing | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 21. | The Way You Say Good Night | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 22. | Abigail, Belle Of Kilronan | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 23. | I Shatter | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| Disc 3 | ||||
| 1. | Underwear | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 2. | It's A Crime | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 3. | Busby Berkeley Dreams | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 4. | I'm Sorry I Love You | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 5. | Acoustic Guitar | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 6. | The Death Of Ferdinad De Saussure | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 7. | Love In The Shadows | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 8. | Bitter Tears | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 9. | Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 10. | Yeah! Oh, Yeah! | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 11. | Experimental Music Love | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 12. | Meaningless | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 13. | Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 14. | Queen Of The Savages | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 15. | Blue You | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 16. | I Can't Touch You Anymore | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 17. | Two Kinds Of People | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 18. | How To Say Goodbye | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 19. | The Night You Can't Remember | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 20. | For We Are The King Of The Boudoir | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 21. | Strange Eyes | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 22. | Xylophone Track | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 23. | Zebra | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| Disc 4 | ||||
Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
1) Amazon.com's Best of 1999
Singer-songwriter Stephen Merritt's ironically morose lyrics, Tin Pan Alley stylings, sugary melodies, and idiosyncratic sound have earned his band the Magnetic Fields cult status and the adulation of grad students everywhere. The ambitious, genre-hopping, and intensely heart-tugging three-disc set 69 Love Songs probably won't gain Merritt the wider recognition he deserves, but the clever misanthrope likely wouldn't have it any other way. --Mike McGonigal2) Amazon.com
Initially conceived as 100 love songs arranged in alphabetical order for theatrical revue performance, Stephin Merritt--indie-pop songsmith and Magnetic Fields spearhead--downsized his ambitious concept project to 69 Love Songs, his first recording under this moniker in four years. Parleyed into three volumes, Merritt, as on other outings, is joined by a rotating cast of musicians including manager Claudia Gonson. These players take on the role of orchestra and cast to Merritt's madcap composer, librettist, and performer, augmenting his lo-fi electronic-based rock with sparkling instrumental touches and narrative vocals for a portion of his absurdly wondrous ditties. Endlessly intriguing, the Fields revisit not only earlier themes of love both shunned and requited, but continue to forge a seemingly impossible synthesis of country-tinged Euro-pop and old-school musical theater. No stranger to melancholy, Merritt's twinkly music-box world, in shades of resplendent violet, is beautifully peopled with incurable romantics who drop pop-culture references and shed gender identity as often as most folks change their underpants. Not surprisingly, 69 Love Songs is delicious defeat on the romance front while pulling ahead as Merritt's most coherently engaging listen. --Paige La Grone3) Album Description
1999 and first new material in four years by Stephin Merrit 's main band (his side projects include Future Bible Heroes, Gothic Archies and The 6ths). Limited three disc set f eaturing more wonderful, yet cynically skewed, pop songs as only Merritt (and a midi) can do 'em! Features all three volumes of '69 Love Songs' (also sold separately), as well as a76 page booklet only available in this box! Each disc comes in a separate standard jewel case & together they come in a colorful CD-sized slipcase box. 69 tracks.
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
1) Great songwriting [Rating: 4 out of 5]
Stephen Merritt is an amazing songwriter and demonstrates this on each and every album. 69 Love songs is just a great, ambitious concept album both funny and heartbreaking. I highly recommend this and Get Lost and I and Holiday and pretty much anything else he's done.2) Excellent! [Rating: 5 out of 5]
If you like the Magnetic Fields, (or if you appreciate quality music at all), then you would love this box set. The Magnetic Fields sing about love and happiness/unhappiness, but they do so in a quirky and entertaining. Most of the songs are very short (two to three minutes) and non- repetitive, however there is one longer song (I think it's about eight minutes) in the set. I love 69 Love Songs and I strongly encourage others to listen to it.3) Great compilation! [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This album is one of the better alternative albums of the 90's and it showcases not only the wonderful songwriting abilities of Stephin Merritt, but the wonderful blending of the breaking indie music scene at the time as well as the classic Magnetic Fields synth-pop sound. The album has very unconventional instruments used and a few special guest singers (like on "Long-Forgotten Fairytale" "All My Little Words" "Come Back from San Francisco" etc.). The albums central theme is all love songs (hence the title) and is by far the most diverse collection done by the Magnetic Fields to date. My personal favorite is Disc 3 but all discs have their highlights. Definately a great buy for any fans of the Magnetic Fields.4) Can't get past the first CD [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I love those albums that start off with an upbeat tune. This one has Absolutely Cuckoo....what a beginning. It took me weeks before I got through the first CD, getting stuck on All My Little Words (the great banjo sound) for days, then Come Back To San Francisco (simple electric guitar melody), then Book of Love (a few weeks...how about those refrains...easy to sing along and click together with the prior lyrics..you can read to me anytime).I'm leery about going onto the next two CDs. Not prepared for a let down; maybe not prepared for more great sounds. I have listened to "i" which was pretty good as well. I found about the album from On My Nightstand, a weekly column by Dylan Foley in the Star-Ledger. He interviews authors to see what they're reading. Well, one author had read a book about the making of the album. Some day I'll read the book. 5 stars and haven't listened to the 2 other CDs. Found just one other person who knows about the album. Where are the rest???5) do you really need to read this?? [Rating: 5 out of 5]
i am the 129th person to review this, or at least i'm pretty sure i'm #129, and the 3 disc set is already approaching 100% approval. Here is all i have to say. Buy it. You won't regret it. Stephin's music is beautiful and the lyrics are untouchable as well. if you've never heard it, i highly suggest buying it sight unheard and blindly accepting you made a good decision. it may take a few listens to get the full grasp of what it's all about, but when you do you will be hooked. welcome to stephin's world...you won't regret it.