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The Magnetic Fields – The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
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Featuring some off-kilter instrumentation with bouncy synths percussion, track 8 from Volume 1 from the “Lower East Side” of New York City who isn’t attractive, but has an awesome
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Kings of Convenience – Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
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[Verse 1] / Andy would bicycle across town / In the rain to bring you candy / And John would buy the gown / For you to wear to the prom / With Tom the astronomer / Who'd name a
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The Magnetic Fields – The Night You Can't Remember
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Before you left your garrison / You'd had a drink, maybe two / You don't remember Paris, hon / But it remembers you / It's true, we flew to Paris, dear / Aboard an Army jet / The
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The Magnetic Fields – Roses
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Shockingly sparse, track 1 from volume two of 69 Love Songs is a good piece of advice wrapped in a solitary man’s trembling vocal.
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The Magnetic Fields – Love in the Shadows
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[Verse 1] / The woman with no nose / I know where she goes / The old guy with the gold eye / We go back, he and I / Don't smile / We don't do that here, baby / [Chorus] / Love in
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The Magnetic Fields – Dreams Anymore
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He put his fist through the window / And his foot through the door / Cause she don't believe in his dreams anymore / No, she don't believe in his dreams anymore / And what's more
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The Magnetic Fields – Experimental Music Love
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[Repeated and overlapping 23 times] / Experimental music love
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The Magnetic Fields – Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
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[Click here to read Stephin's account of the making of "Abigail, Belle of Kilronan"] / [Verse 1] / Abigail, can you feel my heart in the palm of your hand? / And do you understand
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The Magnetic Fields – Blue You
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The moon was singing the blues / The stars in the sky harmonized singing it too / And I, far below was singing low and slow for you / And I know all the world was singing the blues
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The Magnetic Fields – Queen of the Savages
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My girl is the queen of the savages / She don't know the modern world and its ravages / Instead of money she's got yams and cabbages / She lives in a dome / I don't care if I never
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The Magnetic Fields – For We Are the King of the Boudoir
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On 69 Love Songs, Merritt worked in a remarkable breadth of musical styles; this track is a harpsichord-driven post-Baroque art song, of the sort that might have been composed by
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The Magnetic Fields – Strange Eyes
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An extended metaphor about an ex-lover’s blue eyes.
Ordinarily in writing love songs you try not to specify eye color, to make it more universal. This hits you over the head with
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The Magnetic Fields – Time Enough for Rocking When We’re Old
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On one of the lowest vocal performance of Stephin Merritt, he simply says that he will always be by his/her lover side (even in the afterlife), but tonight he’d rather go dancing
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The Magnetic Fields – Xylophone Track
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To my dear, dear mother / I leave my only shoes / To my dear, dear mother / I leave my only shoes / By the time you read this / I will have died of the blues / Scream, little choo-
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The Magnetic Fields – Asleep and Dreaming
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I've seen you laugh at nothing at all / I've seen you sadly weeping / The sweetest thing I ever saw / Was you asleep and dreaming / Well, you may not be beautiful / But it's not
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The Magnetic Fields – Underwear
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A pretty girl in her underwear / A pretty girl in her underwear / If there's anything better in this world / Who cares / [Chorus] / La mort, c'est la mort / Mais l'amour, c'est l'
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The Magnetic Fields – I Don't Want to Get Over You
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“I Don’t Want to Get Over You” is the much-beloved track 6 from Vol. 1 of The Magnetic Fields’s 69 Love Songs. Featuring a full band, Merritt sings lyrics that nail the sensation
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The Magnetic Fields – Boa Constrictor
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Track 18 of volume one of The Magnetic Fields’s 69 Love Songs is another showcase for Shirley Simms, the on-again off-again vocalist for the band. She sings over an intricate
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The Magnetic Fields – Stray With Me
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When I wake in the morning / With sleep in my eyes / Stray with me / When I come home in the morning / And I'm too drunk for lies / Stray with me / When morning comes and I'm on
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The Magnetic Fields – All I Want to Know
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All I want to know is do you still want me? / And, if not so, why do you still haunt me / Like a song, like a ghost, all night long? / That's almost all I want to know / All I want
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The Magnetic Fields – Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
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The sweet “Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing” is track 21 on The Magnetic Fields’s 69 Love Songs, Volume 1. Stephin Merritt sings a soft ballad over ukelele and dimmed background
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The Magnetic Fields – Love is Like Jazz
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“Love is Like Jazz” is a genre experiment, parodying a beatnik style with hand drums, stand-up bass and accordion provided by writer Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket).
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The Magnetic Fields – Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
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Track 9 of volume one of The Magnetic Fields’s magnum opus 69 Love Songs features a very lo-fi synth-heavy composition detailing the carnal desires a man has for a lost loved one.
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The Magnetic Fields – Bitter Tears
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[Chorus] / Bitter tears keep me goin' / Through the years, freely flowin' / What have you done? / Only a gun could stop these bitter tears / [Verse 1] / The endless streets I walk
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The Magnetic Fields – Very Funny
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Everybody knows but me / When you go where you shouldn't be / Everybody knows but me / Where you go when you're feeling free / Everybody knows but me / So you go there for a laugh
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The Magnetic Fields – Reno Dakota
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Reno Dakota is track 5 of the first volume of The Magnetic Fields’s 69 Love Songs. Claudia Gonson sings these brilliant lyrics over a sole banjo.
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The Magnetic Fields – Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long
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“Fido” is a classic, cliché name for a dog, dating back to ancient Rome. It means “Faithful” and in fact the most famous Fido was famous for his loyalty.
However, to have a long
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The Magnetic Fields – I Shatter
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Bang, there was you / Too gold, too blue / You took the truth / I cried, you flew / [Chorus] / You called me mad (And I am mad) / As a hatter / Some fall in love (Some fall in love
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The Magnetic Fields – Zebra
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So we got married in Venice in June, so what? / We circled the earth in a hot air balloon, so what? / And the rest of our lives / Is one long honeymoon / Well, that doesn't mean we
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The Magnetic Fields – Meaningless
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Meaningless? / You mean it's all been meaningless? / Every whisper and caress? / Yes, yes, yes, it was totally meaningless / Meaningless / Like when two fireflies fluoresce / Just
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The Magnetic Fields – When My Boy Walks Down the Street
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“When My Boy Walks Down the Street” is the third track on the second volume of The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs. The song is characterized by upbeat, driving verses and chorus
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The Magnetic Fields – Parades Go By
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[Verse 1] / I'll linger here / Your ring upon my finger, dear / And sing till dawn / A song of you and me and what and why / For time is all / I have to keep between these walls
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The Magnetic Fields – Washington, D.C.
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[Hook] / W-A-S-H-I-N-G-T-O-N, baby, D.C / W-A-S-H-I-N-G-T-O-N, baby, D.C / [Verse 1] / Washington, D.C., it's paradise to me / It's not because it is the grand old seat / Of
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The Magnetic Fields – I Think I Need a New Heart
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“I Think I Need a New Heart” is track 11 on the first volume of The Magnetic Fields’s 69 Love Songs. Like an argument put into song, the instrumentation is like a country song with
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The Magnetic Fields – Epitaph for My Heart
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"Caution, to prevent electric shock / Do not remove cover / No user-serviceable parts inside / Refer servicing to qualified / Service personnel" / Let this be the epitaph for my
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The Magnetic Fields – Acoustic Guitar
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Acoustic guitar, I'm gonna make you a star / Get your picture all over the world / Acoustic guitar, you can have your own car / Just bring me back my girl / She always loved the
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The Magnetic Fields – No One Will Ever Love You
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The Fleetwood Mac vibe to which Merritt refers is reflected in the track’s music as well, with a deceptively simple and gently propulsive rhythm track reminiscent of “Dreams,” and
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