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This is a fully illustrated oral history of the Magnetic Fields' 1999 triple album, "69 Love Songs" - an album that was afforded "classic" status by many almost as soon as it was released. LD Beghtol's book is chatty, incestuous, funny, dark, digressive, sexy, maddening, and delightful in equal measures. It documents a vital and influential scene from the inside, involving ukuleles and tears, citations and footnotes, analogue drum machines, and floods of cognac. Oh, and a crossword puzzle too.
The center of the book is the secret history of these tuneful, acerbic, and sometimes heartbreaking songs of old love, new love, lost love, punk rock love, gay love, straight love, experimental music love, true love, blue love, and the utter lack of love that fill the album - as told by participants, fans, imitators, naysayers, and others.
Also included are a lexicon of words culled from the album's lyrics, recording details, performance notes from the full album shows in New York, Boston and London, plus rare and unpublished images, personal memorabilia, and much much more.
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PETE LABARBARA
reviewed The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs (33 1/3 Series) on May 21, 2008
The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs (33 1/3 Series)
Probably should only be read by people who have listened to this record so much that they know every nuance and lyric by heart. I am one of those people. The intro (encyclopedia of terms used on the record) is funny at first and then becomes really exhausting to read. I love the song-by-song anecdote section of the book, although I hate the author's commentaries most. I feel like everything LD Beghtol has to say about the songs he sings on 69LS is so completely & disgustingly self-congratulatory, like for one of the songs how he talks about how his singing is so moving that he even made Stephin Merritt cry when they were playing a live show once. Oh come on.
Also the author repeatedly mentions his 'graphic design skills' and how he designed the cover for the book and the cover for 69LS, which I found irritating and self-promotional since it's a horrible book cover and a horrible record cover. More actual Magnetic Fields info, less LD Beghtol info please.
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