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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.
Mar 16, 2024 · The songs explore many different aspects and types of love. Straight, gay, lesbian, and bisexual love are all touched upon at one point or another. Heartbreak, anger, lust, sex, yearning, frustration, bliss, loss, self-loathing, jealousy and much, much more weave themselves throughout the record.
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. Full Review.
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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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Sep 14, 1999 · Record/Vinyl + Digital Album. The box set includes six records housed in a sturdy slipcase along with a full-size, 24-page color booklet featuring liner notes written by author Daniel Handler, a.k.a. Lemony Snicket.
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