{"product_id":"69-love-songs-1","title":"69 Love Songs #1","description":"Amazon.com\n\nFrom Stephin Merrit's Gay and Loud publishing comes the first volume of the Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs, a misleadingly quiet epic of a thing. From the layered feedback of \"Don't Fall in Love with Me,\" followed by the plinky strum of his uke through to a Merrittian 23rd psalm, \"The Things We Did,\" this volume, more than the others, hearkens back to the gloriously distorted acoustic agitation visited on The Charm of the Highway Strip. Ever the sad sack, Merritt's characters \"don't believe in the sun\" and drolly proclaim themselves \"ugly\" and the stars so \"fucking romantic.\" Dishing up clichés like ice cream cones at a Baskin-Robbins, Merritt's lyrics take on self-involved weightiness in the context of his over-the-top conventions. Marrying electronic elements with banjo, cello, mandolin, piano, accordian, and percussion, these little numbers--sung by a revolving cast of Merritt and cohorts--riff on everything from punk rock to madrigals to Jim Reeves and Johnny Cash-style balladry, coming across as preposterously vaudevillian and Brechtian, rather than vacuous. --Paige La Grone\n\nProduct Description\n\n1999 release, the first of three volumes of this ambitious project that includes a total of 69 love songs spread over three volumes (each disc contains 23 tracks). Magnetic Fields are an Indie\/Electropop band led by singer\/songwriter Stephin Merritt.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B00000JY74\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.B00000JY74.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Magnetic Fields|The Magnetic Fields\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Audio CD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Individually inspected: Guaranteed to play perfectly or your money back. Case may show wear and may be in library packaging. Ships Fast!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41497245122618,"sku":"DBV.B00000JY74.G","price":7.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/B00000JY74-0.jpg?v=1782927493","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/69-love-songs-1","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}