Wayward Bus/Distant Plastic TR

Magnetic Fields

Genre: music4me > Rock > Rock

Format: CD Album

Released: Mon 23 Jan 1995

Catalogue Number: MRG29375.2

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Description:
The Magnetic Fields: Susan Anway (vocals); Stephin Merritt (various instruments).

Additional personnel: Sam Davol (cello); Johny Blood (tuba, horns); Claudia Gonson (percussion).

Engineer: Ken Michaels.

THE WAYWARD BUS was originally released on Popup in 1992. DISTANT PLASTIC TREES was originally released in England on Red Flame in 1991.

Track 11 is a silent track.

The Magnetic Fields' first two albums, available on one CD, differ from the band's later work in that it is not songwriter Stephin Merritt who is singing his tales of wounded hope, starry-eyed romance, and quiet desperation. Susan Anway, whose classic '60s pop voice bears remarkable resemblance to that of Petula Clark, is the vocalist here, and her performance is transcendent. 1990's less-is-more DISTANT PLASTIC TREES is directly indebted to early-'80s minimalist-pop geniuses the Young Marble Giants, especially on the hypnotic "You Love To Fail" and the tremendously affecting "100,000 Fireflies," perhaps Merritt's most heartbreakingly beautiful song.

By comparison, 1991's THE WAYWARD BUS is downright lush, combining Merritt's avowed love for Phil Spector, ABBA, and '60s French pop into keyboard-based two-minute pop classics like the Ronettes homage "When You Were My Baby" and the swinging "Suddenly There Is A Tidal Wave." Taken together, both albums are the perfect introduction to Stephin Merritt's magical pop world.

Details:

Distributors: PIAS UK, Sony DADC
Producer: Stephin Merritt
Discs: 1
Release Year: 2000
Running Time: 64 minutes

Track Listing:

1.	When You Were My Baby
2.	Saddest Story Ever Told, The
3.	Lovers from the Moon
4.	Candy
5.	Tokyo a Go-Go
6.	Summer Lies
7.	Old Orchard Beach
8.	Jeremy
9.	Dancing in Your Eyes
10.	Suddenly There Is a Tidal Wave
11.	(Untitled)
12.	Railroad Boy
13.	Smoke Signals
14.	You Love to Fail
15.	Kings
16.	Babies Falling
17.	Living in an Abandoned Firehouse with You
18.	Tar-Heel Boy
19.	Falling in Love with the Wolfboy
20.	Josephine
21.	100,000 Fireflies

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