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I don't know why I haven't mentioned this earlier. I've been bugging poor old anarki13 about this every other time I post on his blog.
69 Love Songs is a triple CD album by the not-so-known The Magnetic Fields. Why would a blog about computer games, medicine, and jarredom mention such a soppy album? Well, cos not only is it one of the best hidden nuggets of music around, but it's also got nearly nothing to do with lovey-dovey love, but more about betrayal, lust, passion, sadness, happiness, adultry, and anything else that no one else would sing about other than incomprehensible metal bands.
The 69 songs on the album cover a wide range of genres also, from folk rock, to electronic, to pop and even experimental, it's just a brilliant experience all together.
The main man behind the music is a Stephen Merritt, a genius at lyric writing and composing at the same time. With a dull, monotonous haunting voice like moby, he adds more meaning to his music by singing the majority himself (with a few other vocalists sometimes).
With song titles like The Cactus Where You're Heart Should Be, It's a Crime (To Fall in Love), and Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits, you know that this is a special album that deserves recognition. Worth mentioning is "I Don't Wanna Get Over You", a song about giving up on trying to forget, and about living in blue. Sung with Merritt's trademark dull and dark voice (that you wouldn't expect to be so sentimental and sad), to a bouncy sing-a-long tune that again contradicts the sad and sentimental lyrics, which are about living in blue forever, it's a great example of the genius behind this album. My personal favourites have got to be:
Absolutely Cookoo:don't fall in love with me yetwe only recently mettrue i'm in love with youbut you might decide i'm a nut All My Little Words:you are a splendid butterflyit is your wings that make you beautifuland I could make you fly awaybut I could never make you stayReno Dakota:reno dakota I'm reaching my quota of tears for the yearalas and alak you just don't call me backyou have just disapperedit makes me drink beer I Don't Wanna Get Over You:I don't wanna get over youI guess I could take a sleeping pilland sleep at willand not have to go through what I go throuhI guess I should take Prozac, rightand just smile all nightat somebody new The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side:Andy would bicycle across townin the rain to bring you candyand John would buy the gownfor you to wear to the prom, with Tomthe astronomer who'd name star for youbut I'm the luckiest guy on the lower east sidecos I've got wheels and you wanna go for a ride It's A Crime (To Fall In Love):my mother said gentlysyou can buy her a bentlybut my son she'll only drive it awayI didn't listencos my brain was missingand I only found it today Yeah! Oh, Yeah!:Are you out of love with meare you longing to be freedo I drive you up the tree?Yeah! Oh, Yeah!though I need you more than airis it true you just don't care?are you having an affair?Yeah! Oh, Yeah!