THE MAGNETIC FIELDS 50 Song Memoirs SEALED 5LP box set

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THE MAGNETIC FIELDS 50 Song Memoirs hails from 2017 and is a SEALED 5LP box set.  Nonesuch Records presents the Magnetic Fields' 50 Song Memoir. The 5LP-set chronicles the 50 years of songwriter Stephin Merritt's life with one song per year; it was produced by Merritt with additional production by Thomas Bartlett and Charles Newman. Merritt began recording on his 50th birthday: February 9, 2015. Unlike his previous work, the lyrics on 50 Song Memoir are nonfiction – in Merritt's words, "a mix of autobiography (bedbugs, Buddhism, buggery) and documentary (hippies, Hollywood, hyperacusis)." As he says in the album's liner note interview with his friend, the author Daniel Handler, "I am the least autobiographical person you are likely to meet. I will probably not write any more true songs after this than I did before, but it's been interesting working on it." In addition to his vocals on all 50 songs, Merritt plays more than 100 instruments on 50 Song Memoir, ranging from ukulele to piano to drum machine to abacus.

LP1
1. ’66 Wonder Where I’m From
2. ’67 Come Back as a Cockroach
3. ’68 A Cat Called Dionysus
4. ’69 Judy Garland
5. ’70 They’re Killing Children Over There
6. ’71 I Think I’ll Make Another World
7. ’72 Eye Contact
8. ’73 It Could Have Been Paradise
9. ’74 No
10. ’75 My Mama Ain’t

LP2
1. ’76 Hustle 76
2. ’77 Life Ain’t All Bad
3. ’78 The Blizzard of ’78
4. ’79 Rock’n’Roll Will Ruin Your Life
5. ’80 London by Jetpack
6. ’81 How to Play the Synthesizer
7. ’82 Happy Beeping
8. ’83 Foxx and I
9. ’84 Danceteria!
10. ’85 Why I Am Not a Teenager

LP3
1. ’86 How I Failed Ethics
2. ’87 At the Pyramid
3. ’88 Ethan Frome
4. ’89 The 1989 Musical Marching Zoo
5. ’90 Dreaming in Tetris
6. ’91 The Day I Finally…
7. ’92 Weird Diseases
8. ’93 Me and Fred and Dave and Ted
9. ’94 Haven’t Got a Penny
10. ’95 A Serious Mistake

LP4
1. ’96 I’m Sad!
2. ’97 Eurodisco Trio
3. ’98 Lovers’ Lies
4. ’99 Fathers in the Clouds
5. ’00 Ghosts of the Marathon Dancers
6. ’01 Have You Seen It in the Snow?
7. ’02 Be True to Your Bar
8. ’03 The Ex and I
9. ’04 Cold-Blooded Man
10. ’05 Never Again

LP5
1. ’06 “Quotes”
2. ’07 In the Snow White Cottages
3. ’08 Surfin’
4. ’09 Till You Come Back to Me
5. ’10 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
6. ’11 Stupid Tears
7. ’12 You Can Never Go Back to New York
8. ’13 Big Enough for Both of Us
9. ’14 I Wish I Had Pictures
10. ’15 Somebody’s Fetish