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69 Love Songs is the sixth studio album by American indie pop band the Magnetic Fields, released on September 14, 1999, by Merge Records. As its title indicates, 69 Love Songs is a three-volume concept album composed of 69 love songs, all written by Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt.
Sep 7, 1999 · 69 Love Songs is the sixth album by The Magnetic Fields, released on September 7, 1999 by Merge Records. As its title indicates, 69 Love Songs is a three-volume concept album composed of 69...
- “Papa Was a Rodeo” Most reasonable people can agree that this song is the best on 69 Love Songs. It’s in the running for title of “only believable love story of the 20th century.”
- “The Book of Love” Merritt makes great use of his sonorous voice to authoritatively put forth a kind of manifesto, as he’s called it, for _69 Love Song_s.
- “Asleep and Dreaming” A lullaby for a grown up, a love psalm, a moment of almost unbearable vulnerability and surrender—“Asleep and Dreamin” is all of these things.
- “All My Little Words” Wise, tender and softly defeated, this really could be one of the best love songs, one of those transcendent pages in The Book of Love, even if it is tear-stained.
Does the Magnetic Field's 69 Love songs justify its length? The notorious three-sided album stretches on for nearly three hours, with a seemingly endless supply of carefree ditties. It has received near-unanimous praise, and very few have questioned or criticized its extremely protracted length.
Sep 7, 1999 · There's only one question that really needs to be asked of 69 Love Songs: is it a brilliant masterpiece or merely very, very good? The title alone is enough to send music geeks the world...
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Oct 27, 2015 · After three initial months of songwriting, most of 69 Love Songs was recorded in Merritt’s apartment on reel-to-reel, Pro Tools, ADAT tape or Gonson’s four-track cassette recorder over the course of nine months. Merritt tried out many of the songs in different styles, and some changed drastically along the way.
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Oct 23, 2024 · Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields on 25 years of '69 Love Songs'. Halfway through the first installment of the multi-volume magnum opus from Stephin Merritt’s landmark project The Magnetic Fields, a disarming line upends the tenderness of the triple album’s most touching moment. “The book of love has music in it / in fact that’s ...