Ambitous Pulp fans wanted! (69 Love Songs - Magnetic Fields)

Member Name: wid

Product:	69 Love Songs - Magnetic Fields
Date:	21/08/00 (54 review reads)
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Advantages: It'll last you years!!!

Disadvantages: It'll take you years!!!

Magnetic fields are a curious little band that have been creating off the wall music for a decade or so now, and despite writing some cracking stuff they've been ignored by 99% of the western world.
Why?
Because they insist on releasing stuff like this. Dont get me wrong 69 love songs is a wonderful album, but its 69 tracks on THREE cd's. Hardly a marketing mans dream is it? Its takes some patience just to listen to the first 23 track cd, but then there's 2 others... It's such a large opus theres a A-Z track listing as well as the usual!
It sounds like commercial suicide, but it is in fact an absolute wonder of the modern world. There's bound to be fillers on an album this large you say? Well one or two short ditty's and ramblings, and a few experimental tracks (such as 'Love is like jazz' errr). The amount of cracking tracks is hard to believe.
Singer/songwriter and lead musician Stephen Merritt is an odd ball to say the least. A just over 5foot he's one of the smallest musicians around but his vocal range is amazing (he reckons he's got the lowest voice in pop!), and his propensity for bizarre lyrics is unparalleled-'my hearts running round like a chicken with its head cut off', those who appreciate the wit of Jarvis will like this.
Its a diverse album. If you imagine the cream of eighties new romantic pop being an airport, this album takes off from there and flies around the world picking up bits of country and western, jazz, africa and Jarvis Cocker before landing back in the Phil Oakey terminal 69 tracks later.
Go on , take a chance, it'll last you years.

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