69 Love Songs

Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs

69 Love Songs
List Price: $39.98
Our Price: $35.99
You Save: $3.99 (10%)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Used: from $21.95 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more CD details
Listen soundtracks from this album



(Click here)
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store

CD Details

Artist: Magnetic Fields
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Limited Edition
CD Release Date: 1999-09-07
Music Label: Merge Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Absolutely Cuckoo
  2. I Don't Believe in the Sun
  3. All My Little Words
  4. Chicken with It's Head Cut Off
  5. Reno Dakota
  6. I Don't Want to Get Over You
  7. Come Back from San Francisco
  8. Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
  9. Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
  10. Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be
  11. I Think I Need a New Heart
  12. Book of Love
  13. Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long
  14. How Fucking Romantic
  15. One You Really Love
  16. Punk Love
  17. Parades Go By
  18. Boa Constrictor
  19. Pretty Girl Is Like
  20. My Sentimental Melody
  21. Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
  22. Sweet-Lovin' Man
  23. Things We Did and Didn't Do
Music CD 2
  1. Roses
  2. Love Is Like Jazz
  3. When My Boy Walks Down the Street
  4. Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
  5. Very Funny
  6. Grand Canyon
  7. No One Will Ever Love You
  8. If You Don't Cry
  9. You're My Only Home
  10. (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy
  11. My Only Friend
  12. Promises of Eternity
  13. World Love
  14. Washington, D.C.
  15. Long-Forgotten Fairytale
  16. Kiss Me Like You Mean It
  17. Papa Was a Rodeo
  18. Epitaph for My Heart
  19. Asleep and Dreaming
  20. Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
  21. Way You Say Good-Night
  22. Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
  23. I Shatter
Music CD 3
  1. Underwear
  2. It's a Crime
  3. Busby Berkeley Dreams
  4. I'm Sorry I Love You
  5. Acoustic Guitar
  6. Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
  7. Love in the Shadows
  8. Bitter Tears
  9. Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget
  10. Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
  11. Experimental Music Love
  12. Meaningless
  13. Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin
  14. Queen of the Savages
  15. Blue You
  16. I Can't Touch You Anymore
  17. Two Kinds of People
  18. How to Say Goodbye
  19. Night You Can't Remember
  20. For We Are the King of the Boudoir
  21. Strange Eyes
  22. Xylophone Track
  23. Zebra

Music reviews of 69 Love Songs

Music Review: It's that good.
Rating: 5 Stars

There are verry few bands that truly amaze in modern music...The Magnetic Fields are one of those bands. Beautiful, dark, romantic, intellectual, and unusual in every way. The music on this box set (trilogy CD compilation) goes all over the spectrum of indie pop and experimental rock. At times, even a little raw dirty country...and a sprinkle of neo-classical down tempo who knows what. Great music...that all I can say. Amazing!

Description of 69 Love Songs

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). Limited three disc set f eaturing more wonderful, yet cynically skewed, pop songs as only Merritt (and a midi) can do 'em! Features all three volumes of '69 Love Songs' (also sold separately), as well as a76 page booklet only available in this box! Each disc comes in a separate standard jewel case & together they come in a colorful CD-sized slipcase box. 69 tracks.
Singer-songwriter Stephen Merritt's ironically morose lyrics, Tin Pan Alley stylings, sugary melodies, and idiosyncratic sound have earned his band the Magnetic Fields cult status and the adulation of grad students everywhere. The ambitious, genre-hopping, and intensely heart-tugging three-disc set 69 Love Songs probably won't gain Merritt the wider recognition he deserves, but the clever misanthrope likely wouldn't have it any other way. --Mike McGonigal
Initially conceived as 100 love songs arranged in alphabetical order for theatrical revue performance, Stephin Merritt--indie-pop songsmith and Magnetic Fields spearhead--downsized his ambitious concept project to 69 Love Songs, his first recording under this moniker in four years. Parleyed into three volumes, Merritt, as on other outings, is joined by a rotating cast of musicians including manager Claudia Gonson. These players take on the role of orchestra and cast to Merritt's madcap composer, librettist, and performer, augmenting his lo-fi electronic-based rock with sparkling instrumental touches and narrative vocals for a portion of his absurdly wondrous ditties. Endlessly intriguing, the Fields revisit not only earlier themes of love both shunned and requited, but continue to forge a seemingly impossible synthesis of country-tinged Euro-pop and old-school musical theater. No stranger to melancholy, Merritt's twinkly music-box world, in shades of resplendent violet, is beautifully peopled with incurable romantics who drop pop-culture references and shed gender identity as often as most folks change their underpants. Not surprisingly, 69 Love Songs is delicious defeat on the romance front while pulling ahead as Merritt's most coherently engaging listen. --Paige La Grone

General CDs

Music Genres
Bestsellers in General CDs
Kingdom of Rust ImageDoves - Kingdom of Rust
Release date: 2009-04-07; Music CD
Best price: $10.11
Price in other shops: $14.98
Fleet Foxes ImageFleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Release date: 2008-06-03; Music CD
Best price: $7.99
Price in other shops: $13.98
The Fray ImageThe Fray - The Fray
Release date: 2009-02-03; Music CD
Best price: $8.55
Price in other shops: $18.98
Dark Was the Night ImageDark Was the Night
Release date: 2009-02-17; Music CD
Best price: $12.05
Price in other shops: $16.98
Viva La Vida ImageColdplay - Viva La Vida
Release date: 2008-06-17; Music CD
Best price: $7.46
Price in other shops: $18.98
Sounds of the Universe Deluxe Box Set (3 CDs/DVD/2 Books) ImageDepeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe Deluxe Box Set (3 CDs/ DVD/ 2 Books)
Release date: 2009-04-21; Music CD
Best price: $81.16
Price in other shops: $99.98
Swoon ImageSilversun Pickups - Swoon
Release date: 2009-04-14; Music CD
Best price: $8.99
Price in other shops: $15.98
Only by the Night ImageKings of Leon - Only by the Night
Release date: 2008-09-23; Music CD
Best price: $7.80
Price in other shops: $16.98
We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things ImageJason Mraz - We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things
Release date: 2008-05-13; Music CD
Best price: $8.93
Price in other shops: $18.98
Twilight Soundtrack ImageTwilight Soundtrack
Release date: 2008-11-04; Music CD
Best price: $7.98
Price in other shops: $18.98
Similar CDs
Dear Science ImageTV on the Radio - Dear Science
Release date: 2008-09-23; Music CD
Best price: $8.96
Price in other shops: $13.98
Merriweather Post Pavilion ImageAnimal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Release date: 2009-01-20; Music CD
Best price: $9.18
Price in other shops: $15.98
Vampire Weekend ImageVampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Release date: 2008-01-29; Music CD
Best price: $7.49
Price in other shops: $14.98
Middle Cyclone ImageNeko Case - Middle Cyclone
Release date: 2009-03-03; Music CD
Best price: $8.24
Price in other shops: $17.98
The Charm of the Highway Strip ImageMagnetic Fields - The Charm of the Highway Strip
Release date: 1994-04-18; Music CD
Best price: $7.91
Price in other shops: $11.98
Get Lost ImageMagnetic Fields - Get Lost
Release date: 1995-10-24; Music CD
Best price: $8.20
Price in other shops: $11.98
Fleet Foxes ImageFleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Release date: 2008-06-03; Music CD
Best price: $9.16
Price in other shops: $13.98
Holiday ImageMagnetic Fields - Holiday
Release date: 1999-01-12; Music CD
Best price: $7.98
Price in other shops: $11.98
i ImageMagnetic Fields - i
Release date: 2004-05-04; Music CD
Best price: $3.99
Price in other shops: $16.98
Distortion ImageMagnetic Fields - Distortion
Release date: 2008-01-15; Music CD
Best price: $8.98
Price in other shops: $16.98
Compare prices and find music notes for more than one million Music CD titles