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Magnetic Fields albums featuring Stephin Merritt See all 13 items
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| | Wayward Bus/Distant Plastic Trees CD (1995)
 $9.95  
THE WAYWARD BUS was originally released on Popup in 1992. DISTANT PLASTIC TREES was originally released in England on Red Flame in 1991.
The Magnetic Fields' first two albums, available on one CD, differ from the band's later work in that ...
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| Charm Of The Highway Strip CD (1994)
$9.95 
Stephin Merritt claims that the first four full albums by his band, the Magnetic Fields, each have a specific and unique musical style. As such, THE CHARM OF THE HIGHWAYS STRIP may be the first synth-country album. Marrying the Fields' ...
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| Get Lost CD (1995)
$9.95
After four full albums and a handful of EPs and singles recorded mostly (if not entirely) by himself, Stephin Merritt introduces a full band on GET LOST. He surrounds his own keyboards and guitar with real drums and percussion, cello, ...
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| 69 Love Songs, PT. 2 CD (1999)
$12.19
Also available as part of 69 LOVE SONGS, a 3-CD box set on Merge (169).
Additional personnel includes: LD Beghtol, Dudley Klute, Shirley Simms (vocals).
Opening with the choral "Roses," the cacophonous "Love Is Like Jazz" and the gloriously fuzz-toned '60s pop ...
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| 69 Love Songs CDs (1999) Box Set
$36.69 
Each CD in this box set is also available separately on Merge (166, 167 & 168).
Originally envisioned as a 100-song stage revue but cut down to 69 songs (as Stephin Merritt explained, "That was the first love-related number I could ...
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| I CD (2004) SACD Hybrid
$13.29 
Five years after the lauded triple-album 69 LOVE SONGS, Stephin Merritt once again dons his Magnetic Fields hat for I, his second release on Warner's Nonesuch imprint (his first being the PIECES OF April soundtrack, released under his own name). ...
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| Holiday CD (1994)
$9.89
Stephin Merritt has claimed that each of the first four Magnetic Fields albums has a specific and unique musical style. It is telling that HOLIDAY shares its name with Madonna's first major hit single, because the musical style on display ...
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| 69 Love Songs, PT. 1 CD (1999)
$12.19
Also available as part of 69 LOVE SONGS, a 3-CD box set on Merge (169).
D.I.Y. indie pop is perhaps not the first place where one would look for a successor to Cole Porter and the Gershwins, but that's just one ...
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| House Of Tomorrow CD (1996) Extended Play
$9.69
Although this CD was released in 1996, these songs were previously available on singles in 1989 and 1993. As such, the brief EP lacks the conceptual or thematic unity of the Magnetic Fields' full-length albums. Taken by themselves, however, the ...
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| 69 Love Songs, PT. 3 CD (1999)
$13.85
Also available as part of 69 LOVE SONGS, a 3-CD box set on Merge (169).
The most understated and melancholy of the three volumes of 69 LOVE SONGS, this album includes some of the most emotionally affecting music of singer/songwriter Stephin ...
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 Magnetic Fields Lyrics and Songs
Popular or famous Magnetic Fields songs: Epitaph For My Heart, I Think I Need a New Heart, Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side, California Girls. More music songs Courtesans, Drive On, Driver, I'll Dream Alone, Mr. Mistletoe, Nun's Litany, Old Fools, Please Stop Dancing, Three-Way. More music songs Till the Bitter End, I Have the Moon Lyrics, Sunset City Lyrics, Absolutely Cuckoo Lyrics, Busby Berkeley Dreams Lyrics, I Can't Touch You Anymore Lyrics. More music lyrics and songs Reno Dakota Lyrics, Yeah! Oh, Yeah! Lyrics.
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Magnetic Fields Biography
The mastermind of the Magnetic Fields is Stephin Merritt, an urbane songwriter with a scathing wit, equally influenced by the Pet Shop Boys and Stephen Sondheim. Since 1991, Merritt has married sophisticated wordplay with elegant melodies and (particularly on his earlier releases) electro-pop arrangements. Ever the dissolute romantic, Merritt pens world-weary songs of romance gone awry. Sometimes he sings them himself, in his dry-martini voice, sometimes he employs the brighter tones of Claudia Gonson. Merritt has also invented other guises to present his songs, such as the 6ths and Future Bible Heroes, further utilizing guest vocalists.
Key Personnel
| Member Name | Worked With | | Sam Davol | 6ths, Stephin Merritt | | Stephin Merritt | Future Bible Heroes, 6ths, Neil Gaiman, Gothic Archies | | Claudia Gonson | Future Bible Heroes, 6ths, Neil Gaiman, Stephin Merritt, One Ring Zero, Steve Smith, Tender Trap, Michael Hearst | | John Woo | 6ths, Stephin Merritt |
Contemporaries
Yo La Tengo, Belle & Sebastian, Smog, They Might Be Giants, Rufus Wainwright, Superchunk, Lambchop, Sebadoh, Tindersticks, The Divine Comedy, American Music Club, The Hidden Cameras, Jens Lekman, Lou Barlow, The High Llamas, El Perro del Mar, Momus, East River Pipe, Helium, The Palace Brothers, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Aluminum Group, Unrest, Portastatic, Heavenly, Bob Hillman, White Town, The Pulsars, Lee Feldman, The Lofty Pillars, Vitesse, Air Miami, Friends of Sound
Followers
The Decemberists, The Postal Service
Influences
The Beach Boys, Leonard Cohen, Joy Division, New Order (UK), Tom Waits, The Smiths, Nick Drake, Scott Walker, ABBA, Burt Bacharach, Kate Bush, Pet Shop Boys, Cole Porter, Soft Cell, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (O.M.D.), Noël Coward, Lloyd Cole, Joe Meek, Phil Spector
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