69 Love Songs (studio album) by The Magnetic Fields

69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields
Year: 1999
Overall rank: 459th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
80/100 (from 595 votes)
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Award Top 100 albums of the 1990s (83rd)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (459th)
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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 80.3/100, a mean average of 78.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.4.

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80/100
From 05/11/2023 19:31
Por maior que seja o álbum não cansa. Incrível.
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From 03/06/2023 11:54
The ambition of this project is huge and you have to respect the group for the huge amount of effort they clearly put into this release. This effort pays off for the majority of the record with so many of the songs being classics and due to the size of the album there are loads of deep cuts to discover and fall in love with. This also means there will be something for everyone on here as the music is extremely diverse throughout and its near impossible for someone to listen to this record and not find a song they think is great. However, this also means there will be several songs people find that will be filler or uninteresting to them making it quite a divisive listen. It is also a tough record to get through due to its length which makes it not an easy album to revisit. In my opinion, there is quite a lot of filler on here and it doesn't warrant the run time that it has. Furthermore, I also feel like the ambition got the better of them as several songs feel forced onto the record to make up the numbers. Despite this, the musical and instrumental quality is extremely high with this album having one of the most diverse array of instrumentation I have ever seen. Overall, there is outstanding moments on here which blow me away but this is not maintained across the whole 3 hour run time which holds this album back for me.
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85/100
From 02/14/2022 15:35
The genre spoofs on this album are incredible! I especially like "Papa Was a Rodeo," "Love is Like Jazz," and "Experimental Music Love". A few duds (as there will be in any triple album), but a great one nonetheless.
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From 01/28/2021 17:44
Ambitious and worthwhile in doses. A lot of ideas, not all of them good. Three hours on a theme is pretty self-indulgent, but the individual tracks generally don't overstay their welcomes.
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From 07/08/2020 11:08
The best album inside the top 500 you’ve never heard of ? Probably

I do like me a good album challenge and this ones a biggy at 69 tracks and 3 hours requiring something of a life style choice to fully wrap your head around whats on offer here. And what makes this such a remarkable release you should know despite its hefty length its largely good and simply brilliant in parts , a rare beast where quantity also equals quality
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From 06/20/2020 05:46
This is the Magnum Opus of Merrit and I finally made it through and it was fun to go through very specific music I like it all the way some parts I don’t like so mich but it was ok great album. Really good work.
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From 08/22/2019 20:19
This album has such a specific atmosphere. It's ironic and depressing and I love it? There are times when I can't bear it, there are times when I need it.
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70/100
From 04/01/2019 00:56
Now this is something else.
Stephin Merrit really is a productive pop songwriter with a unique sense of sound.
It is irrelevant that the whole pack doesn't really makes for a formidable album.
The amount of good stuff that will inspire you is great.
The lyrics are awesome.
This one you got to listen once in your life at least.
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From 06/08/2018 18:18
So many styles and so many ways to sing about love. Masterful work by the Fields.
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From 02/25/2018 03:45
Simply genius. Some might say it has filler, but I always listen to the whole thing - generally in a few sittings!
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