Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs 1
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Artist: Magnetic FieldsBrand: MAGNETIC FIELDS
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-09-07
Music Label: Merge Records
Soundtracks:
- Absolutely Cuckoo
- I Don't Believe In The Sun
- All My Little Words
- A Chicken WIth Its Head Cut Off
- Reno Dakota
- I Don't Want To Get Over You
- Come Back From San Francisco
- The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side
- Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
- The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be
- I Think I Need A New Heart
- The Book Of Love
- Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long
- How Fucking Romantic
- The One You Really Love
- Punk Love
- Parades Go By
- Boa Constrictor
- A Pretty Girl Is Like...
- My Sentimental Melody
- Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
- Sweet-Lovin' Man
- The Things We Did
Music reviews of 69 Love Songs 1
Music Review: Beautiful and Rewarding
Rating: 5 Stars
I disagree with the past few reviewers who say that this is bland, boring and so-called "rock-critic rock." I had never really listened to any of their older recordings, but when I heard this one, I was instantly sold. True, the production is gritty at times, but if you want flashy, splashy bubblegum pop, go buy a Britney Spears or NSync CD. I'll take Magnetic Fields anyday. The term "rock-critic rock" seems to me to indicate to me one listener's disdain for intelligent, witty lyricism. He says that Merritt's delivery has no heart or soul. Once, again, I disagree. Upon first listen, I was awe-struck by the seemingly simple, yet intricately penned lyrics. Very clever, true. And who says cleverness is a bad thing? Have Limp Bizkit and Korn lowered our standards so much? Merrit's delivery is sublime. I wouldn't hear such wonderful lyrics presented any other way. These songs are at times whimsical and silly, at times wry (but never bitter), at times touching and heartfelt, and often a combination of all three. Never for a moment did I get the impression that they were not "felt." If anything, they are overflowing with emotions so layered and complex that upon first listen, it can be hard to process them emotionally. Personally, I like music that's challenging. It always rewards more with each subsequent listen. Such is this album. In a world of musical choices that seem to gravitate toward either pristine teenybopper mush and tiresome, pre-packaged rebellious moron-rock, Stephen Merrit's lonesome croon is a welecome voice. Fans of Yo La tengo, Pavement and the like, take note: this is YOUR music. Just LISTEN.
Description of 69 Love Songs 1
1999 and first new material in four years by Stephin Merrit 's main band (his side projects include Future Bible Heroes, Gothic Archies and The 6ths). Disc one of a three CD set featuring more wonderful, yet cynically skewed, pop songs as only Merritt (and a midi) can do 'em! 23 tracks.From Stephin Merrit's Gay and Loud publishing comes the first volume of the Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs, a misleadingly quiet epic of a thing. From the layered feedback of "Don't Fall in Love with Me," followed by the plinky strum of his uke through to a Merrittian 23rd psalm, "The Things We Did," this volume, more than the others, hearkens back to the gloriously distorted acoustic agitation visited on The Charm of the Highway Strip. Ever the sad sack, Merritt's characters "don't believe in the sun" and drolly proclaim themselves "ugly" and the stars so "fucking romantic." Dishing up clichés like ice cream cones at a Baskin-Robbins, Merritt's lyrics take on self-involved weightiness in the context of his over-the-top conventions. Marrying electronic elements with banjo, cello, mandolin, piano, accordian, and percussion, these little numbers--sung by a revolving cast of Merritt and cohorts--riff on everything from punk rock to madrigals to Jim Reeves and Johnny Cash-style balladry, coming across as preposterously vaudevillian and Brechtian, rather than vacuous. --Paige La Grone
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