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69 Love Songs is the sixth studio album by American indie pop band 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 love songs, all written by Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt.
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 over...
- “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.
Sep 7, 1999 · The first volume of The Magnetic Fields' monumental masterpiece 69 Love Songs, and the one you’re least likely to skip through. (The track listing was decided by a randomizer, but I’ll be ...
Beloved indie pop band The Magnetic Fields perform their landmark triple album 69 Love Songs over two nights. Celebrating its 25th anniversary, The Magnetic Fields will perform 69 Love Songs in its entirety over the course of two nights, for the first time in 20 years.
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Oct 25, 2019 · 69 Love Songs is modern pop’s meta-masterpiece and exquisite compendium of the previous millennium’s musical tropes. And for its 20th anniversary we’re celebrating every piece of it by chopping it up into math, quantifying it like it’s too good for but still deserves.
