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The Magnetic Fields Album: “69 Love Songs Vol. 3”
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Also available as part of 69 LOVE SONGS, a 3-CD box set on Merge (169).
<p>The Magnetic Fields: Stephin Merritt (vocals, acoustic, electric, classical, & steel guitars, ukelele, mandolin, violin, penny whistle, recorder, melodica, acoustic & electric pianos, organ, keyboards, synthesizers, acoustic & electric percussion); Claudia Gonson (vocals, guitar, piano, drums, percussion, whistling); John Woo (guitar, banjo, mandolin); Sam Davol (cello, flute); Daniel Handler (accordion).
<p>Additional personnel: LD Beghtol (vocals, harmonium); Dudley Klute, Shirley Simms (vocals); Chris Ewen (various instruments, theremin).
<p>Engineers include: Charles Newman, Chris Ewen, Claudia Gonson.
<p>The most understated and melancholy of the three volumes of 69 LOVE SONGS, this album includes some of the most emotionally affecting music of singer/songwriter Stephin Merritt's productive and varied career, hitting an early high point with the heart-wrenching piano ballad "Busby Berkeley's Dreams." As on the other volumes of 69 LOVE SONGS, eight of these 23 songs are sung by singers other than Merritt, with Shirley Simms, Dudley Klute, L.D. Beghtol, and Magnetic Fields drummer/keyboardist Claudia Gonson each taking two leads. Simms' multilayered "I'm Sorry I Love You" and Beghtol's near-operatic "For We Are the King of the Boudoir" are particular highlights, but the mordantly humorous call-and-response of Gonson and Merritt on the brilliant "Yeah! Oh Yeah!" is one of the highlights of the entire three-volume set, as is Merritt's deadpan Celtic folk parody "Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget." The CD is available by itself or as part of the three-CD box set.
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69 Love Songs Vol. 3 |
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UPC:036172946822
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Format:CD
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Type:Performer
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Genre:Rock & Pop - Alternative
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Artist:The Magnetic Fields
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Producer:Stephin Merritt
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Label:Merge Records
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Distributed:Alternative Dis. Alliance
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Release Date:1999/09/07
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Original Release Year:1999
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Discs:1
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Mono / Stereo:Stereo
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Studio / Live:Studio
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
- best of three
This is my personal favorite of the three cds. It's the most dark, bizarre and cerebral of the three in my opinion. Vol.1 is the catchiest, but Volume three excels in the lyric department with astounding songs like "The Death of Ferdinand De Saussure", "Love in the Shadows", "Wee Nae Bairn Ye'll me Beget", "Yeah! oh, Yeah!". Opening the cd with the uber-hip song "underwear", this cd establishes itself as the most unique and alluring of the three. 7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
- 23 Good Songs
I dipped my toe into the 69 Love Songs set with Vol. 1, which I give 5 stars, then was disappointed with Vol. 2, which I give 3 stars, but the group redeems itself with the last set of songs (I believe it's just the way they sequenced the songs). Anyway, Vol. 3 has consistantly good songs - none are perfect - but they're all good. They skip through a variety of styles, but they are all inventive. My recommendation - get Vol's 1 & 3. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
- Pretty good end to a great set.
Lacking the outrageously zany songs or the really deep songs of volumes 1 and 2, volume 3 of 69 Loves Songs should appropriately be the third of the three albums that you buy. But you should still buy it. At least, give it a listen.
While it doesn't have the the songs that stay with you for weeks like "My Only Friend," "Epitaph for My Heart," "Time Enough for Rocking..." "Very Funny," "Abigail..." "All My Little Words," "Book of Love" "Nothing Matters When We're Dancing" and on and on... it also does not have the serious misfires and crap of the first two albums. Note: "Love is Like Jazz," "Punk Love," "How F*ing Romantic."
Give these songs from Volume 3 a listen if you are still on the fence:
Underware
Busby Berkely Dreams
Acoustic Guitar
Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget
Yeah! Oh Yeah!
Silly, sentimental, quirky and sarcastic. Just what you want from the Magnetic Fields.
Amy A. Doerr (Buffalo, New York United States) - December 09, 2012
- 69 Love Songs 3
This music is so idiosyncratic, fun, often goofy. "Some of it is just transcendental; some of it is just really dumb." I love the Magnetic Fields tongue in cheek view of love. Customer review - October 29, 1999
6 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
- love is nice - sometimes
Stephin Merritt is The Magnetic Fields and boy does he write a lot of songs. I bought the 3rd volume of his recently released 3 CD package, 69 Love Songs, and I plan to buy the other two as soon as I can save up the money. On this album you'll find a wide variety of musical styles from eighties synth pop to baroque,complete with a harpsichord, or a synth made to sound like one. You won't be hearing this stuff in any clubs, in fact Merritt had planned to preform the music in more 'loungy' settings.
If you like GAP ads or yearn for new, less depressing, Joy Division, pick up one or all of these CD's. If not... well I really don't care. I've got better things to do than worry about what crappy music everyones into these days
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