Artist:The Magnetic Fields
Date Released:September 7, 1999
Label:Merge
Produced By:Stephen Merritt
Tracklisting:
- Absolutely Cuckoo
- I Don't Believe In The Sun
- All My Little Words
- A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
- Reno Dakota
- I Don't Want To Get Over You
- Come Back From San Francisco
- The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side
- Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
- The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be
- I Think I Need A New Heart
- The Book Of Love
- Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long
- How Fucking Romantic
- The One You Really Love
- Punk Love
- Parades Go By
- Boa Constrictor
- A Pretty Girl Is Like
- My Sentimental Melody
- Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
- Sweet-Lovin' Man
- The Things We Did And Didn't Do
- Roses
- Love Is Like Jazz
- When My Boy Walks Down The Street
- Time Enough For Rocking When We're Old
- Very Funny
- Grand Canyon
- No One Will Ever Love You
- If You Don't Cry
- You're My Only Home
- (Crazy For You But) Not That Crazy
- My Only Friend
- Promises Of Eternity
- World Love
- Washington D.C.
- Long-Forgotten Fairytale
- Kiss Me Like You Mean It
- Papa Was A Rodeo
- Epitaph For My Heart
- Asleep And Dreaming
- The Sun Goes Down And The World Goes Dancing
- The Way You Say Goodnight
- Abigail Belle Of Kilronan
- I Shatter
- Underwear
- It's A Crime
- Busby Berkeley Dreams
- I'm Sorry I Love You
- Acoustic Guitar
- The Death Of Ferdinand De Saussure
- Love In The Shadows
- Bitter Tears
- Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget
- Yeah! Oh Yeah!
- Experimental Music Love
- Meaningless
- Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin
- Queen Of The Savages
- Blue You
- I Can't Touch You Anymore
- Two Kinds Of People|Two Kinds Of People
- How To Say Goodbye
- The Night You Can't Remember
- For We Are The King Of The Boudoir
- Strange Eyes
- Xylophone Track
- Zebra
Review[]
One thing you can say about this is that it does what it says on the box. There are in fact nearly 70 songs in this boxset, all of them having to do with love in one way or another. These songs range from the stupid ("Punk Love") to the whimsical ("I Think I Need A New Heart, and "The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side") to the heartbreaking ("All My Little Words") to the gorgeous ("Busby Berkeley Dreams"). It's a bit exhausting to work your way through it end to end, but the experience is totally and utterly worth the (lack of) effort.
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