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Love Songs Vol. 1 Magnetic
Fields
From Stephin Merrit's
Gay and Loud publishing comes the first volume of the Magnetic
Fields' 69 Love Songs, a misleadingly quiet epic of a
thing. From the layered feedback of "Don't Fall in Love with
Me," followed by the plinky strum of his uke through to a
Merrittian 23rd psalm, "The Things We Did," this volume,
more than the others, hearkens back to the gloriously distorted
acoustic agitation visited on The
Charm of the Highway Strip. Ever the sad sack, Merritt's
characters "don't believe in the sun" and drolly
proclaim themselves "ugly" and the stars so
"fucking romantic." Dishing up clichés like ice cream
cones at a Baskin-Robbins, Merritt's lyrics take on self-involved
weightiness in the context of his over-the-top conventions.
Marrying electronic elements with banjo, cello, mandolin, piano,
accordian, and percussion, these little numbers--sung by a
revolving cast of Merritt and cohorts--riff on everything from
punk rock to madrigals to Jim Reeves and Johnny Cash-style
balladry, coming across as preposterously vaudevillian and
Brechtian, rather than vacuous. --Paige La Grone
More Love Songs:
Stephin Merritt Bands:
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What you will find here is information on
Stephin Merritt and his bands The Magnetic Fields, Future Bible
Heroes, the 6ths and the Gothic Archies. As stated above, this is
the official MF Website, and is updated frequently with
information directly from the band.
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The Three Terrors are Stephin
Merritt, Dudley Klute (Kid Montana) and LD Beghtol (Flare, Moth
Wranglers). Since Dudley and LD did vocals on 69 Love Songs, the
three of them have performed together under the name "The
Three Terrors". LD himself says: "T3T is an on-going
performance project, loosely modelled on the trio/three tenors
concept, starring stephin, dudley and me. we'll be doing period
live shows on specific themes, performing our own works and select
cover songs. james jacobs (cellist for flare and leader of his
band, sounds like) and daniel handler (novelist, who played
accordion and keyboard on 69LS) are featured musicians..."
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Interview with Stephin Merritt
Excerpt:
Merritt has also made himself an anomaly with
his graceful witticism and impressionistic wordplay that would
make one wonder if he was either a prominent novelist or a
magnificent filmmaker in a previous lifetime. Dreamy hideaways,
scenarios with odd details, and silly tales about openly gay love
that turn dark and upsetting reveal a mysterious humor inside
Merritt's deep well of loneliness, whether describing a nighttime
sky with "more stars than there are prostitutes in
Thailand," telling someone "a vodka bottle gave you
those raccoon eyes" or stating with blunt despair,
"After all those days on God-forsaken highways/The roads
don't love you/And they still won't pretend to..."
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Music and lyrics of Stephin Merritt of the
Magnetic Fields and The 6ths. Includes articles, interviews,
reviews, trivia, a Stephin Merritt game, fan sites, discography
and more.
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By John Krewson for The Onion
Excerpt:
O: Do you try to live your life so that you
could have fit in in 1963?
SM: I would have been very unhappy. Being gay, for example, would
have been a huge problem in 1963. Also, the technology that I use
wouldn't have been around. A lot of it was around in 1973, and
almost all of it was around in 1983...
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