69 Love Songs
by The Magnetic Fields
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69 Love Songs is ranked as the best album by The Magnetic Fields.
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69 Love Songs track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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69 Love Songs rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | The Magnetic Fields: So Far.. | 1/10 | - |
| 2026 |  Pastiche | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 32/100 | 14 |
| 2026 |  Repo | Top 63 Music Albums of 1999 | 1/63 | 5 |
| 2026 | joathome | Top 53 Music Albums of 1999 | 49/53 | 0 |
| 2026 | amirmishali | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 18/100 | 17 |
| 2026 |  Romanelli | My Overall Chart: 1301-1400 | 30/100 | - |
| 2026 |  imimesis | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 68/100 | 33 |
| 2026 |  DommeDamian | Scaruffi Best Albums of 1999 | 70/94 | - |
| 2026 | amirmishali | Top 40 Music Albums of 1999 | 1/40 | 5 |
| 2026 | Elauqsapid | Top 99 Music Albums of the 1990s | 79/99 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 540 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 3,477 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/22/2026 00:42 |  MrBrown | 398 | 80/100 |
| ! | 10/17/2026 23:17 |  joyofdivision | 242 | 92/100 |
| ! | 10/04/2026 14:22 | Siromynian | 1,789 | 74/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.2/100, a mean average of 78.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.7.
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jeraffe 01/03/2015 21:50 | #130772 | TOP COMMENT
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So many amazing songs and not a few irritating experiments. You can't help but pick through, revisit your favorites and overlook all the terrible moments. Sorta like love?
Yes, I would agree that it is not perfect, but the overall concept saves it. Listen to the thing in its entirety and feel appallingly naive and inexperienced in life and love. Also if you ever need to come up with a masterpiece of the "post-modern" this is it: mosaic of various different styles, confusing notions of art as serious (high concept album) and art as fun and a joke (high concept album named for a sexual position).
Mr. Shankly TOP 100 COMMENTER 06/27/2010 06:17 | #13214 | TOP COMMENT
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I suppose you could argue it's generic indie pop, although even that statement doesn't really hold true if you listen to the whole thing, as there are multiple styles and genres on it. But you think the songs are generic? I beg to differ. Stephen Merritt, as a songwriter, is anything but generic.
johnner TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/02/2012 17:46 | #34209 | TOP COMMENT
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There are absolutely no fillers on this lp and in my opinion this is the nearest you will get to pop perfection. I don't find the fact that there are 69 love songs included here impressive but that Merritt manages to sustain this level of quality over the ensuing 3 hours. Complaining about this masterpiece is akin to complaining about how over rated the aurora borealis is.
In short, what you've got here is 69 perfect pop songs about how love can reduce to tears or hysterics, and more importantly realise how ridiculous and crushing falling in and out of love can be. What more do you want?
Ridiculously underrated. Having this as the 6th best album of 1999 is outrageous, 6th best of all-time would be closer to the truth.
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