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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.
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- “The Book of Love” The Magnetic Fields. New York, New York. follow. ✓ following. unfollow. 69 Love Songs The Magnetic Fields / . 00:10 / 00:58.
- “Sweet-Lovin’ Man” 69 Love Songs The Magnetic Fields / . 00:10 / 00:58. According to Merritt, per Beghtol’s 33 1/3 book, “Sweet-Lovin’ Man” began its life as a synth-pop song originally intended for The Magnetic Fields’ 1992 sophomore album, The Wayward Bus.
- “When My Boy Walks Down the Street” 69 Love Songs The Magnetic Fields / . 00:10 / 00:58. In “When My Boy Walks Down the Street,” the exuberance of new love is apparent already in the opening line, “Grand pianos crash together / When my own walks down the street.”
- “Grand Canyon” 69 Love Songs The Magnetic Fields / . 00:10 / 00:58. If electronic Americana were a genre, “Grand Canyon” could be the defining song. Merritt’s references here are distinctly drawn from U.S. geography and lore.
Sep 7, 1999 · That's because it's impossible to reconcile the concept of 69 Love Songs with its execution; it's simply too big. That might sound like a cop-out, but this is truly an album you can get...
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Oct 27, 2015 · Over the course of the 69 tracks, Merritt deconstructs the love song—the book of love—even though he acknowledges it is a foolhardy and impossible task. “The Death Of Ferdinand De Saussure” tells the tale of a debate with the Swiss semiotician who claims not to know what love is because it offers “no understanding, no closure.”
