The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs [6 x 10"] (LP Box Set)

Released in 1999, The Magnetic Fields' opus 69 Love Songs remains a singular achievement - a bold undertaking by one of pop music's most innovative and acclaimed songwriters. Originally conceived by Stephen Merritt to be a live musical revue of 100 songs, he soon realised that 100 songs, even at two minutes each, would be far too long a show, and decided upon the next meaningful number, 69. 69 songs about life, loss, hope and beauty. 69 songs about the pursuit of that ever elusive and patently undefinable holy grail, love.

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Tracklist:

10" 1:
1. Absolutely Cuckoo
2. I Don't Believe in the Sun
3. All My Little Words
4. A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
5. Reno Dakota
6. I Don't Want to Get Over You
7. Come Back From San Francisco
8. The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
9. Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
10. The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be
11. I Think I Need a New Heart
12. The Book of Love

10" 2:
1. Fido, Your Leash is Too Long
2. How Fucking Romantic
3. The One You Really Love
4. Punk Love
5. Parades Go By
6. Boa Constrictor
7. A Pretty Girl is Like...
8. My Sentimental Melody
9. Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
10. Sweet-Lovin' Man
11. The Things We Did and Didn't Do

10" 3:
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

10" 4:
1. World Love
2. Washington D.C.
3. Long-Forgotten Fairytale
4. Kiss Me Like You Mean It
5. Papa Was a Rodeo
6. Epitaph for My Broken Heart
7. Asleep and Dreaming
8. The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
9. The Way You Say Goodnight
10. Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
11. I Shatter

10" 5:
1. Underwear
2. It's a Crime
3. Busby Berkeley Dreams
4. I'm Sorry I Love You
5. Acoustic Guitar
6. The 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

10" 6:
1. Meaningless
2. Love is Like a Bottle of Gin
3. Queen of the Savages
4. Blue You
5. I Can't Touch You Anymore
6. Two Kinds of People
7. How to Say Goodbye
8. The Night You Can't Remember
9. For We Are the King of the Boudoir
10. Strange Eyes
11. Xylophone Track
12. Zebra