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69 Love Songs
Pop · 1999 · 69 tracks

69 Love Songs

The Magnetic Fields

A three-hour odyssey through every possible iteration of the love song. Wry, lo-fi, and deeply literate pop that balances cynicism with profound tenderness.

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It's like a three-hour musical encyclopedia of every way a heart can break or skip a beat.

A brilliant, exhaustive, and deeply witty exploration of romance that masks its vulnerability with irony and genre-play.

69 Love Songs · vs · The Magnetic Fields
Coffee Shop+1.6σ

Coffee Shop saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 69 Tracks
01
Absolutely Cuckoo
1:35
02
I Don’t Believe in the Sun
4:16
03
All My Little Words
2:46
04
A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
2:42
05
Reno Dakota
1:05
06
I Don’t Want to Get Over You
2:23
07
Come Back From San Francisco
2:48
08
The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
3:43
09
Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits
2:25
10
The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be
1:11
11
I Think I Need a New Heart
2:33
12
The Book of Love
2:42
13
Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long
2:34
14
How Fucking Romantic
0:59
15
The One You Really Love
2:53
16
Punk Love
0:58
17
Parades Go By
2:57
18
Boa Constrictor
0:59
19
A Pretty Girl Is Like…
1:51
20
My Sentimental Melody
3:08
21
Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing
2:27
22
Sweet‐Lovin’ Man
4:59
23
The Things We Did and Didn’t Do
2:11
24
Roses
0:28
25
Love Is Like Jazz
2:57
26
When My Boy Walks Down the Street
2:38
27
Time Enough for Rocking When We’re Old
2:04
28
Very Funny
1:27
29
Grand Canyon
2:28
30
No One Will Ever Love You
3:14
31
If You Don’t Cry
3:07
32
You’re My Only Home
2:18
33
(Crazy for You but) Not That Crazy
2:19
34
My Only Friend
2:01
35
Promises of Eternity
3:46
36
World Love
3:07
37
Washington, D.C.
1:53
38
Long‐Forgotten Fairytale
3:37
39
Kiss Me Like You Mean It
2:01
40
Papa Was a Rodeo
5:02
41
Epitaph for My Heart
2:50
42
Asleep and Dreaming
1:53
43
The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
2:46
44
The Way You Say Good‐Night
2:45
45
Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
2:01
46
I Shatter
3:09
47
Underwear
2:50
48
It’s a Crime
3:55
49
Busby Berkeley Dreams
3:37
50
I’m Sorry I Love You
3:06
51
Acoustic Guitar
2:38
52
The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
3:11
53
Love in the Shadows
2:54
54
Bitter Tears
2:51
55
Wi’ Nae Wee Bairn Ye’ll Me Beget
1:56
56
Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
2:20
57
Experimental Music Love
0:30
58
Meaningless
2:08
59
Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin
1:46
60
Queen of the Savages
2:13
61
Blue You
3:03
62
I Can’t Touch You Anymore
3:06
63
Two Kinds of People
1:10
64
How to Say Goodbye
2:48
65
The Night You Can’t Remember
2:18
66
For We Are the King of the Boudoir
1:15
67
Strange Eyes
2:02
68
Xylophone Track
2:47
69
Zebra
2:16
Moments Worth Waiting For
The transition from the buzzing synth-pop of Underwear into the devastatingly simple piano of I Don't Believe in the Sun.
The way the male and female vocals intertwine during the desert-highway narrative of Papa Was a Rodeo.
The sudden, earnest shift into pure folk on The Book of Love that cuts through the album's usual irony.
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