69 Love Songs
by The Magnetic Fields
- Type: Album
- Released: 7 September 1999
- Label: Merge
- Country: United States
- Length: 2:52:36
- Community rating: 4.18/5 from 11 ratings
Artists on this release: Shirley Simms, Dudley Kludt, Sam Davol, John Woo
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'69 Love Songs' is an incredibly ambitious, three-volume indie pop concept album examining the myriad facets of romance. Stephin Merritt employs immense stylistic variety, from synthpop to alt-country, delivering highly literate, sarcastic, and deeply bittersweet songwriting.
Genres
Descriptors: about music, breakup, conceptual, crooning, female vocalist, lesbian, lgbtq, male-vocalist, melodic, minimalistic, repetitive, satirical, theatrical
Tracklist
- Absolutely Cuckoo (1:34)
- I Don't Believe in the Sun (4:16)
- All My Little Words (2:46)
- A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off (2:41)
- Reno Dakota (1:05)
- I Don't Want to Get Over You (2:22)
- Come Back From San Francisco (2:48)
- The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side (3:43)
- Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits (2:25)
- The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be (1:11)
- I Think I Need a New Heart (2:32)
- The Book of Love (2:42)
- Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long (2:33)
- How Fucking Romantic (0:58)
- The One You Really Love (2:53)
- Punk Love (0:58)
- Parades Go By (2:56)
- Boa Constrictor (0:58)
- A Pretty Girl Is Like (1:50)
- My Sentimental Melody (3:07)
- Nothing Matters When We're Dancing (2:27)
- Sweet-Lovin' Man (4:59)
- The Things We Did and Didn't Do (2:11)
- Roses (0:27)
- Love Is Like Jazz (2:56)
- When My Boy Walks Down the Street (2:38)
- Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old (2:03)
- Very Funny (1:26)
- Grand Canyon (2:28)
- No One Will Ever Love You (3:14)
- If You Don't Cry (3:06)
- You're My Only Home (2:17)
- (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy (2:18)
- My Only Friend (2:01)
- Promises of Eternity (3:46)
- World Love (3:07)
- Washington, D.C. (1:53)
- Long-Forgotten Fairytale (3:37)
- Kiss Me Like You Mean It (2:00)
- Papa Was a Rodeo (5:01)
- Epitaph for My Heart (2:50)
- Asleep and Dreaming (1:53)
- The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing (2:46)
- The Way You Say Good-Night (2:44)
- Abigail, Belle of Kilronan (2:00)
- I Shatter (3:09)
- Underwear (2:49)
- It's a Crime (3:54)
- Busby Berkeley Dreams (3:36)
- I'm Sorry I Love You (3:06)
- Acoustic Guitar (2:37)
- The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure (3:10)
- Love in the Shadows (2:54)
- Bitter Tears (2:51)
- Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget (1:55)
- Yeah! Oh, Yeah! (2:19)
- Experimental Music Love (0:29)
- Meaningless (2:08)
- Love is Like a Bottle of Gin (1:46)
- Queen of the Savages (2:12)
- Blue You (3:03)
- I Can't Touch You Anymore (3:05)
- Two Kinds of People (1:10)
- How to Say Goodbye (2:48)
- The Night You Can't Remember (2:17)
- For We Are the King of the Boudoir (1:14)
- Strange Eyes (2:01)
- Xylophone Track (2:47)
- Zebra (2:15)
Credits
- The Magnetic Fields - primary artist
- Daniel Handler - accordion, liner notes [booklet text]
- Stephin Merritt - art direction, vocals, ukulele, written-by
- John Woo - banjo, lead guitar, mandolin
- Sam Davol - cello, flute
- LD Beghtol - design, vocals
- Charles Newman - engineer [additional engineering]
- Christopher Ewen - engineer [additional engineering]
- Claudia Gonson - engineer [additional engineering], management, photography by, piano, drums, percussion, vocals
- Eric Masunaga - engineer [additional engineering]
- Jon Berman - engineer [additional engineering]
- Michael English - logo
- Jeff Lipton - mastered by
- Leslie Davol - photography by [booklet endpapers]
- Brenden Hussey - photography by [booklet front cover], design [booklet rear cover]
- Dudley Kludt - vocals
- Shirley Simms - vocals