The Magnetic Fields [Archive]

VenusInFurs341

12-26-2007, 10:41 PM

"i," is pretty much awesome. And I am currently listening to 69 love songs, these people are quite talented, o i also have distortion if anyone wants it.

quixoticgoat

12-27-2007, 07:37 AM

.....reno dekota there's not an iota of kindness in youuuuuuuu

i just re-got into magnetic fields and have been trying to play them on guitar and failing miserably at it. they make me wanna buy a banjo.

grimeyno1

12-28-2007, 09:41 AM

i was listening to distortion just this morning. so good.

i think i only own about six of mr. merritt's records, but they're all fantastic.

officeparty

12-28-2007, 12:57 PM

distortion is a beautiful album

hockywierdo

12-28-2007, 01:10 PM

distortion RULES!

lucylala

12-28-2007, 01:33 PM

has distortion been released, or just leaked?

Shiny

12-28-2007, 03:22 PM

just leaked

Musicalfusion

12-28-2007, 07:32 PM

any sendspace links?

Musicalfusion

12-29-2007, 10:44 PM

Absolutly Cuckoo is the story of my life

Code_J

12-29-2007, 11:14 PM

The Magnetic Fields are fantastic. Distortion is kind of hard to get into...but I think I'm getting used to it and I'm loving it. 69 Love Songs is great as well. Haven't listened to all of i, but Stephen is definitely one of the best songwriters around. "Abigail, Belle of Kilronan" is my current favorite.

mikehattem

12-31-2007, 05:47 AM

I don't know why but my favorite from 69 is The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side. Kind of a silly song but musically whimsical and, strangely, very heartfelt.

grimeyno1

12-31-2007, 07:03 PM

"Abigail, Belle of Kilronan" is my current favorite.
i think it's my all-time favorite song by merritt. for lack of a less sentimental word, it's beautiful.

i've tried recording versions of it twice in the past year or so, and it never sounds half as good as it does on the record.

EDIT: immediately after posting this, i felt compelled to add that "lovers from the moon", "take ecstasy with me", "meaningless", and "100,000 fireflies" could also easily be considered my favorite stephin merritt songs.

yayablahblah

01-03-2008, 08:19 PM

i think distortion is very good. It sounds like the raveonettes sounding like jesus and mary chain

my fav song on 69 love songs is "kiss me like you mean it"

grimeyno1

01-04-2008, 06:33 PM

whenever i've heard anyone describe the sound of distortion, they say "it's like ____________ meets the jesus and mary chain".

when i first heard "three way" i said "hey, it's like the go! team meets the jesus and mary chain."

the world should retire the variable and just agree that the album sounds like stephin merritt through a jesus and mary chain filter.

garyw

01-12-2008, 03:39 PM

grimeyno1

01-12-2008, 05:46 PM

shit, i don't check this board enough! new magnetic fields and im just finding out about the leak!? color me excited though...

ps: i dont know if im the only one in this boat, but i got into the magnetic fields from the adventures of pete and pete, which also got me into apples in stereo, which then brought me into the elephant 6 world!
it's weird -- i liked pete & pete way before i liked either of these bands. then i got into the apples in stereo through a whole different source years later. then i rediscovered pete and pete, which got me into the magnetic fields.

i had no idea that the apples even had a song in pete and pete. and now that the last volume of the show isn't getting released on DVD, i don't know if i'll ever see that episode.

stompclapclap

01-12-2008, 09:26 PM

wow yeah i definitely watched pete & pete way before i got into the apples or magnetic fields

hockywierdo

01-13-2008, 02:04 AM

wow yeah i definitely watched pete & pete way before i got into the apples or magnetic fields

ditto

piaptk

01-13-2008, 04:30 AM

I'd like to hear distortion.... I liked I a lot, and the first disc of 69 love songs was AMAZING, the rest I could take or leave....

Tilde

01-15-2008, 04:07 PM

The Magnetic Fields have been just about my favorite band since age 12.
I wish they played a show somewhere accessible to me, though.

Gotham

01-15-2008, 07:29 PM

"I don't wanna get over you" is my favorite from 69 Love Songs; it's ingenious.

horseface

01-16-2008, 11:20 PM

"I don't wanna get over you" is my favorite from 69 Love Songs; it's ingenious.

that's always been my favorite of 69 love songs. the whole song is comedy gold but especially:

or I could make a career of being blue
I could dress in black and read Camus
smoke clove cigarettes and drink vermouth
like I was 17
that would be a scream
but I don't want to get over you

"disortion" is much more like their 90's output. which is a cool thing. standard length albums from them just seem so disappointing now after the epic 69 love songs though. he spoiled me rotten w/ that album.