69. Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs (2000)
What a genius concept. A triple-disc album for a start (with love included) and a huge stew of song-writing invention. It has bangers, clangers and a few that leave you hanging on to the idea of luuuuuuurve till the kingdom comes. Stephin Merritt deserves a lifetime supply of champagne for penning all the songs and singing on most of them of corpse. The lyrics are often cheeky, and boundless ideas are chanelled into one schmaltzy school of thought. I would never play this in one sitting, it would like be eating an 11 course meal, but then and again, the next album by Magnetic Fields wasn't called 69 Gluttonous Songs for nothing.
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This must have come out in 2000 in the UK, because it was definitely '99 here in the States. Best triple record ever.
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