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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...
- “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.
Aug 26, 2024 · The first night of their two-part gig, as The Magnetic Fields perform from their landmark concept album 69 Love Songs. | Andrew Perry
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Sep 9, 2019 · 69 Love Songs — the massive triple-disc, three-hour opus that celebrated its 20th anniversary this past Saturday — is a writing exercise, a parlor trick, a flex. It is not a work of personal...
69 Love Songs is Stephin Merritt's most ambitious as well as most fully realized work to date, a three-disc epic of classically chiseled pop songs that explore both the promise and pitfalls of modern romance through the jaundiced eye of an irredeemable misanthrope.
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Sep 7, 2011 · Download 12 covers of songs from the Magnetic Fields' '69 Love Songs,' by The Antlers, Robin Pecknold, and more in honor of the albums 12th birthday.