Artist
– Album: The Magnetic Fields – 69 Love
Songs
Released: 7th September 1999
Sounds
Like: The book of Love
69 Love Songs does exactly what it says on the tin: a hugely ambitious project, it sets out to serenade us with 69 brilliant songs about love. This is no Mills & Boon album though; Stephen Merritt examines the condition of love from all angles, dissecting the grisly and painful bits at least as much as the warm and fuzzy bits, always with wit and style.
There, 69 words.
Albumaday... rating: 9/10
1. Absolutely Cuckoo – 1:34
2. I Don’t Believe in the Sun – 4:16
3. All My Little Words – 2:46
4. A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off – 2:41
5. Reno Dakota – 1:05
6. I Don’t Want to Get Over You – 2:22
7. Come Back from San Francisco – 2:48
8. The Luckiest Guy of the Lower East Side – 3:43
9. Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits – 2:25
10. The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be – 1:11
11. I Think I Need a New Heart – 2:32
12. The Book of Love – 2:42
13. Fido, Your Leash is Too Long – 2:33
14. How Fucking Romantic – 0:58
15. The One You Really Love – 2:53
16. Punk Love – 0:58
17. Parades Go By – 2:56
18. Boa Constrictor – 0:58
19. A Pretty Girl Is Like… - 1:50
20. My Sentimental Melody – 3:07
21. Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing – 2:27
22.
Sweet-Lovin’
Man – 4:59
23.
The Things We
Did and Didn’t Do – 2:11
24.
Roses – 0:27
25.
Love Is Like
Jazz – 2:56
26.
When My Boy
Walks Down the Street – 2:38
27.
Time Enough
for Rocking When We’re Old – 2:03
28.
Very Funny –
1:26
29.
Grand Canyon
– 2:28
30.
No One Will
Ever Love You – 3:14
31.
If You Don’t
Cry – 3:06
32.
You’re My
Only Home – 2:17
33.
(Crazy for
You But) Not That Crazy – 2:18
34.
My Only
Friend – 2:01
35.
Promises of
Eternity – 3:46
36.
World Love –
3:07
37.
Washington
D.C. – 1:53
38.
Long-Forgotten
Fairytale – 3:37
39.
Kiss Me Like
You Mean It – 2:00
40.
Papa Was a
Rodeo – 5:01
41.
Epitaph for
My Heart – 2:50
42.
Asleep and
Dreaming – 1:53
43.
The Sun Goes
Down and the World Goes Dancing – 2:46
44.
The Way You
Say Good-Night – 2:44
45.
Abigail,
Belle of Kilronan – 2:00
46.
I Shatter –
3:09
47.
Underwear –
2:49
48.
It’s a Crime
– 3:54
49.
Busby
Berkeley Dreams – 3:36
50.
I’m Sorry I
Love You – 3:06
51.
Acoustic
Guitar – 2:37
52.
The Death of
Ferdinand de Saussure – 3:10
53.
Love in the
Shadows – 2:54
54.
Bitter Tears
– 2:51
55.
Wi’ Nae Wee
Bairn Ye’ll Me Beget – 1:55
56.
Yeah! Oh,
Yeah! – 2:19
57.
Experimental
Music Love – 0:29
58.
Meaningless –
2:08
59.
Love Is Like
a Bottle of Gin – 1:46
60.
Queen of the
Savages – 2:12
61.
Blue You –
3:03
62.
I Can’t Touch
You Anymore – 3:05
63.
Two Kinds of
People – 1:10
64.
How to Say
Goodbye – 2:48
65.
The Night You
Can’t Remember – 2:17
66.
For We Are
the King of the Boudoir – 1:14
67.
Strange Eyes
– 2:01
68.
Xylophone
Track – 2:47
69.
Zebra – 2:15
Listen to ‘Abigail, Belle of Kilronan’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75u4mN1HO0M
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