Volume 2-69 Love Songs

Magnetic Fields

Genre: music4me > Rock > Rock

Format: CD Album

Released: Tue 7 Sep 1999

Catalogue Number: MRG29467.2

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Description:
Also available as part of 69 LOVE SONGS, a 3-CD box set on Merge (169).

The Magnetic Fields include: Stephin Merritt (vocals, various instruments); Claudia Gonson (vocals, piano, drums, percussion); John Woo (guitar, banjo, mandolin, bass); Sam Davol (cello, flute); Daniel Handler (accordion, keyboards).

Additional personnel includes: LD Beghtol, Dudley Klute, Shirley Simms (vocals).

Engineers include: Charles Newman, Chris Ewen, Claudia Gonson.

Opening with the choral "Roses," the cacophonous "Love Is Like Jazz" and the gloriously fuzz-toned '60s pop of "When My Boy Walks Down the Street," 69 LOVE SONGS, VOLUME TWO is the most wide-ranging of the Magnetic Fields' three similarly-titled and simultaneously released CDs. Unlike earlier Magnetic Fields albums, each of which worked within specific musical idioms, the 23 songs on this CD skip from genre to genre, held together by mastermind Stephin Merritt's inimitable vocals and singular lyrical viewpoint. The gospel-style "Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old" and the good-timey country duet with Shirley Simms, "Papa Was a Rodeo," show Merritt's doleful baritone at its Johnny Cash-like finest, but each tune is an idiosyncratic gem, with keyboard-based arrangements, colored by ukelele, cello, musical saw, and other unusual instruments that are as individual as the songs themselves. The CD is available by itself or as part of a three-CD box set.

Details:

Distributors: PIAS UK, Sony DADC
Producer: Stephin Merritt
Discs: 1
Release Year: 1999

Track Listing:

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.	Not That Crazy, (Crazy for You But)
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, The
21.	Way You Say Good-Night, The
22.	Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
23.	I Shatter

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