Insound Staff Pick - 2008! Three CDs of some of the best songwriting you've ever heard, and every kind of love song you can imagine -- except those in the Celine Dion vein.

3xCD $37.99

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THIS ITEM IS A PRE-ORDER. WE EXPECT IT TO SHIP ON OR BEFORE THE TBD RELEASE DATE. VINYL FORMAT. Includes a coupon for an mp3 download of all 69 love songs! Limited edition of 3,000 boxes! Remastered vinyl reissue of The Magnetic Fields classic three-album-length rumination on, of course, love. Originally released in 1999, 69 Love Songs, is funny, smart, dark, memorable, and a lifetime's worth of listening. Stephen Merritt solidifies his songwriting genius on his "most ambitious and fully realized work....   [ read more ]

6x10" $99.98

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The Magnetic Fields' first two albums, available on one CD, differ from the band's later work in that it is not songwriter Stephin Merritt who is singing his tales of wounded hope, starry-eyed romance, and quiet desperation. 1990's less-is-more DISTANT PLASTIC TREES is directly indebted to early-'80s minimalist-pop geniuses the Young Marble Giants, especially on the hypnotic "You Love To Fail" and the tremendously affecting "100,000 Fireflies," perhaps Merritt's most heartbreakingly beautiful song. By comp...   [ read more ]

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