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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.
- “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 · About “69 Love Songs”. 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...
- “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 14, 1999 · Includes unlimited streaming of 69 Love Songs via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Apr 9, 2024 · “69 Love Songs” is exactly what it says on the tin: nearly three consecutive hours of amorous-themed tunes, all written by the group’s mastermind Stephin Merritt.
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...
