Genre: Indie pop, synth-pop
Places I remember: Fopp
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: World Love
Gear costume: All My Little Words
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: World Love
Gear costume: All My Little Words
They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6; Part 7
Active compensatory factors: My initial experience of The Magnetic Fields, which is dominated by one guy - Stephin Merritt, is 69 Love Songs. Since then, Tom has used another album on MNAC as his album of the fortnight.
A colleague while I was at Cambridge High School, played 69 Love Songs a lot and a couple of the songs burrowed into my brain. So, I bought a copy while I was in England, in some ways to be hip and current. It's not a triple CD that I love or play often, although I do love and applaud the fool's errand idea.
Active compensatory factors: My initial experience of The Magnetic Fields, which is dominated by one guy - Stephin Merritt, is 69 Love Songs. Since then, Tom has used another album on MNAC as his album of the fortnight.
A colleague while I was at Cambridge High School, played 69 Love Songs a lot and a couple of the songs burrowed into my brain. So, I bought a copy while I was in England, in some ways to be hip and current. It's not a triple CD that I love or play often, although I do love and applaud the fool's errand idea.
It's hard to digest 69 songs in a row. A consistently high-quality triple studio album cannot be done, I don't think. Even The Fabs didn't try to do that. A decent single vinyl album is in 69 Love Songs somewhere, but he'd need a new title which wouldn't be as school-boy naughty would it.
It's certainly not boring, as it features songs in many different genres, including country, synth-pop, free jazz even, and, yes, off kilter love ballads. Highlights other than my two choices above are I Don't Believe in the Sun, Asleep and Dreaming, Busby Berkeley Dreams, and Acoustic Guitar.
Where do they all belong? I'm glad I have a copy. It's one I'm return to in the future - maybe it will make more sense then.
