Quickies features twentyeight new short songs by stephin merritt, ranging in length from thirteen seconds to two minutes and thirtyfive seconds. Love at the bottom of the sea tablature added 912 distant plastic trees the wayward bus the house of tomorrow holiday the charm of the highway strip get lost bsidescompilations 69 love songs vol 1 69 love songs vol 2 69. This twosided design features the album artwork graphic on the front and the full track listing in alphabetical order on the back. Merritt is the groups primary songwriter, producer, and vocalist, as well as frequent multiinstrumentalist. Check out the book of love by the magnetic fields on amazon music. Print and download the book of love sheet music by the magnetic fields. It was released on may 4, 2004, by record label nonesuch. Pdf magnetic fields 69 love songs download full pdf book. Pdf magnetic fields 69 love songs download full pdf. Ld beghtols book is chatty, incestuous, funny, dark, digressive, sexy, maddening, and delightful in equal measures. Cabaret meets indie rock in the onemanband known as singersongwriter. Peter gabriel sang to an accompaniment of lush strings. As its title indicates, 69 love songs is a threevolume concept album composed of 69 love songs, all written by magnetic fields frontman stephin merritt.
Ld beghtols book is chatty, incestuous, funny, dark, digressive, sexy, maddening, and delightful in. You can watch the video for i want to join a biker gang here now. Cabaret meets indie rock in the onemanband known as singersongwriter stephin merritt. The magnetic fields is essentially a vehicle for merritts songwriting, as are various sideprojects including the 6ths, future. The book of love appears on magnetic fields threevolume concept album 69 love songs, which contains 69 tracks described as love songs, 23 tracks in each of the three volumes. The magnetic fields the book of love lyrics songmeanings. Stephin merritt albums from worst to best stereogum. While synthpop often forms the foundation of their music, the magnetic fields music borrows from many other styles, notably country, folk and indie pop. The magnetic fields singersongwriter had his challenge. Stream adfree or purchase cds and mp3s now on amazon.
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The book of love is a beautiful, romantic song written by the magnetic fields, and covered by peter gabriel for the film, shall we dance. Billie marten book of love magnetic fields cover ont sofa gibson sessions duration. On the fields previous outing, get lost, you can hear merritt beginning to lean toward simpler, more elegant arrangements. Download magnetic fields 69 love songs ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format.
The book of love is a song written by stephin merritt and attributed to the magnetic fields. Merritt first envisioned what would become the groups sixth album as a staged musical revueentertaining, but requiring no real narrativewhere hed host nonsingers trading off songs in a cabaret competition of sorts. The book of love magnetic fields image collections book. It includes often described fairytale like moments as well as the moments of boredom that exist between emotional high peaks. The book of love by the magnetic fields on amazon music. A fully illustrated oral history of the magnetic fields 1999 triple album, 69 love songs an album that was afforded classic status by many almost as soon as it was released. Printed in red and white ink on a black unisex royal apparel tee. The magnetic fields is a new yorkbased group fronted by stephin. In celebration of the 20th anniversary of 69 love songs, we are reviving the magnetic fields 1999era tshirt. The book of love the magnetic fields song wikipedia. Andre bretons the magnetic fields, written in 1919, is a wonderful piece of writing. The book of love is relivent to all as it is a catalog of personal attachment. Now, the magnetic fields return with a record that, like 69 love songs, forces merritt to get focused and inspired.
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Apr 28, 2012 billie marten book of love magnetic fields cover ont sofa gibson sessions duration. Song is book of love by an amazing band the magnetic fields if you didnt notice by the title. Nov 08, 2011 sheet music available at book love magnetic fields sungpetergabriel. As the sprawling magnitude of its cheeky title suggests, 69 love songs is stephin merritts most ambitious as well as most fully realized work to date, a threedisc epic of classically chiseled pop songs that explore both the promise and pitfalls of modern romance through the jaundiced eye of an irredeemable misanthrope.
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