In 1999,
Stephen Merritt, leader of The
Magnetic Fields released a 3 Volume set of recordings on
Merge Records entitled "69
Love Songs" Volumes 1, 2, and 3. As the name suggests, it's an
eclectic compilation of 69
pop songs about love. While the different songs vary wildly in terms of
style, and some of the songs could be considered higher
quality than others, the
caliber of the
songwriting for the songs is extremely high. Merritt is a
wordsmith in the best sense - his songs will make you
crack a smile at how
incisive and how
sincere they are.
Because each song is so well written, and the lyrics are so clever and poignant, this central 69 Love Songs node has been constructed to index each song (**not** namespaced).
This particular noder is not really predisposed to noding the lyrics to every song he's ever heard, but because Merritt has been able to so wonderfully depict every stage of love in these 69 songs, I hope is that they will not only beautify Everything but also provide a handy source of nodes that you can softlink to in order to very nicely express a particular feeling.
Editor's note: In September 2003, we removed cpoyrighted texts. The lyrics to Stephen Merrit's 69 Love Songs fell victim to that change in policy.
69 Love Songs Volume 1:
- Absolutely Cuckoo
- I Don't Believe in the Sun
- All My Little Words
- A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off
- Reno Dakota
- 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
69 Love Songs Volume 2:
- 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 Good-Night
- Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
- I Shatter
69 Love Songs Volume 3:
- 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
- How to Say Goodbye
- The Night You Can't Remember
- For We Are the King of the Boudoir
- Strange Eyes
- Xylophone Track
- Zebra