| View Larger Image | 69 Love Songs, Pt. 3 | Audio CDby Magnetic Fields
| List Price: | $14.98 | |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | Merge Records | | Release Date: | September 07, 1999 | | Sales Rank: | 42,389nd |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Underwear
- Track 2: It's a Crime
- Track 3: Busby Berkeley Dreams
- Track 4: I'm Sorry I Love You
- Track 5: Acoustic Guitar
- Track 6: Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
- Track 7: Love in the Shadows
- Track 8: Bitter Tears
- Track 9: Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget
- Track 10: Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
- Track 11: Experimental Music Love
- Track 12: Meaningless
- Track 13: Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin
- Track 14: Queen of the Savages
- Track 15: Blue You
- Track 16: I Can't Touch You Anymore
- Track 17: Two Kinds of People
- Track 18: How to Say Goodbye
- Track 19: Night You Can't Remember
- Track 20: For We Are the King of the Boudoir
- Track 21: Strange Eyes
- Track 22: Xylophone Track
- Track 23: Zebra
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Album Description
1999 and first new material in four years by Stephin Merrit 's main band (his side projects include Future Bible Heroes, Gothic Archies and The 6ths). Disc 3 of a three CD set f eaturing more wonderful, yet cynically skewed, pop songs as only Merritt (and a midi) can do 'em! 23 tracks. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 3 reviews)
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best of three by R. Abraham (Syosset, NY USA)  5 Stars
June 20, 2002
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.
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23 Good Songs by Anthony Cooper (Louisville, KY United States)  4 Stars
April 09, 2002
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.
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love is nice - sometimes 4 Stars
October 29, 1999
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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