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69 Love Songs Vol. 1
Disc 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 Disc 2 13. Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long 14. How Fucking Romantic 15. The One You Really Love 16. Punk Love 17. Parades Go By 18. Boa Constrictor 19. A Pretty Girl Is Like… 20. My Sentimental Melody 21. Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing 22. Sweet-Lovin’ Man 23. The Things We Did
69 Love Songs Vol. 2
Disc 1
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 Disc 213. 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. The Sun Goes Down And The World Goes Dancing 21. The Way You Say Good-Night 22. Abigail, Belle Of Kilronan 23. I Shatter
69 Loves Songs Vol. 3
Disc 1
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 Ferdinad 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 Disc 2 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. The Night You Can’t Remember 20. For We Are The King Of The Boudoir 21. Strange Eyes 22. Xylophone Track 23. Zebra 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.
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