23 years ago today, the Sunday Times (30 March 2003) featured the great Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields, Future Bible Heroes).
#StephinMerritt @themagfields.bsky.social #MagneticFields #FutureBibleHeroes @robertrotifer.bsky.social
The book of love is long and boring No one can lift the damn thing It's full of charts and facts and figures And instructions for dancing But I I love it when you read to me And you You can read me anything The book of love has music in it In fact that's where music comes from Some of it's just transcendental Some of it's just really dumb But I I love it when you sing to me And you You can sing me anything The book of love is long and boring And written very long ago It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes And things we're all too young to know But I I love it when you give me things And you You ought to give me wedding rings And I I love it when you give me things And you You ought to give me wedding rings You ought to give me wedding rings
#Poetry
#Lyrics
#BlueskyPoetry
#StephinMerritt
#ValentinesDay
The Book of Love, lyrics by Stephin Merritt
(song in next post)
We’ve destroyed our mystical mysteriousness by appearing without any image-mongering.”
#StephinMerritt on documentaries, demystifying #TheMagneticFields, and why he’s never been interested in protecting the myth if it gets in the way of the song.
www.lpm.org/music/2012-0...
👉 Ha! A video/track that’s sure to rattle the Uptight Squares on my feeds (why are they on my feeds?!! I mean does that make any sense?)
Happy Birthday. Today, 1965 – #StephinMerritt, American singer-songwriter ( #TheMagneticFields, #The6ths ) was born.
youtu.be/VHqMvojZKSw
The Magnetic Fields - #AndrewinDrag
Happy Birthday. Today in 1966 – #StephinMerritt, American singer-songwriter ( #TheMagneticFields, #The6ths, #FutureBibleHeroes, and #TheGothicArchies ) was born.
youtu.be/VHqMvojZKSw?...
#BestOf #StephinMerritt
1) You must be out of your mind
2) I don't want to get over you
3) The book of love
4) 100,000 fireflies
5) Quick!
6) The saddest story ever told
7) Young and insane
8) The dreaming moon
9) You're my only home
10) All my little words
11) Strange powers
69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields. The most epic Indiepop album and a masterwork of Stephin Merritt. This is the 2024 25th Anniversary Reissue. ❤️x69
#themagneticfields
#69lovesongs #stephinmerritt #mergerecords #recordcollector #recordcollection
#nowspinning #nowplaying #indie #indiepop
Gonna soundtrack the day with some silly, sappy (but lyrically clever!) #IndiePop
Probably been over a decade since I've run through The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs.
Still a wonderful collection of tunes.
The Magnetic Fields - A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off […]
My record collection: [268] The 6ths - Wasps' Nest (CD) The 6ths was one of Stephin Merritt’s side projects that released two albums of his own compositions mostly sung by... #The6ths #WaspsNest #StephinMerritt #DeanWareham #MyRecordCollection
| BEIRUT | Ein Jongleursakt
Der Auftraggeber, ein schwedischer Zirkus, die narrative Grundlage, ein Buch der deutschen Autorin Judith Schalansky: Das neue, einmal mehr großartige Beirut-Album „A Study Of Losses"
#Beirut #StephinMerritt @themagfields.bsky.social #ZachCondon
"Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs (1999) features iconic tracks like "The Book of Love" & "Papa Was a Rodeo." A timeless classic in the music world. #MusicLegacy #StephinMerritt https://fefd.link/Amk0o
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Stephin Merritt:
🎵 One April Day
#6music #StephinMerritt
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song on #Spotify:
22 years ago today, the Sunday Times (30 March 2003) featured the great Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields, Future Bible Heroes).
#StephinMerritt @themagfields.bsky.social #MagneticFields #FutureBibleHeroes
Happy Birthday. Today, 1965 – #StephinMerritt, American singer-songwriter ( #TheMagneticFields, #The6ths ) was born.
youtu.be/Jf_l3EGQvL8
🎵I'd sign away my trust fund
I would even sell the Jag
If I could spend my misspent youth with
Andrew in drag 🎵
Happy Birthday. Today in 1966 – #StephinMerritt, American singer-songwriter ( #TheMagneticFields, #The6ths, #FutureBibleHeroes, and #TheGothicArchies ) was born.
youtu.be/Jf_l3EGQvL8
Strange Powers by The Magnetic Fields
Released in 1994 on the album Holiday.
🎇 #newyear2025 #IndiePop #SynthPop #TheMagneticFields #StephinMerritt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dNa...
Bob Barth's ONE NIGHT STAND - THE BEST OF 2024!!
Stephin Merritt of THE MAGNETIC FIELDS on 69 LOVE SONGS: An Interview - 5/2/2024
wfmu.org/archiveplaye...
Full archive:
wfmu.org/playlists/N1
#themagneticfields #stephinmerritt #unitedtheateronbroadway #wfmu #bestof2024
@wfmu.bsky.social
🔊 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Stephin Merritt:
🎵 Listen, the Snow Is Falling
#StephinMerritt
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song on #Spotify:
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBC 6 Music's #CerysMatthews
Stephin Merritt:
🎵 One April Day
#6music #BBC6Music #StephinMerritt
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song on #Spotify:
I love this song... alaso a great album, a kind of country music themed synth-pop album.
Magnetic Fields: "Lonely Highway"
#TheMagneticFields #StephinMerritt #IndieRock #SynthPop
Stephin Merritt for real. "Book of Love" #magneticfields #stephinmerritt @ Masonic Lodge at Hollywood…
instagram.com/p/2gkIWxCnJP/
The @asap_jonathon ad-hom piece on #StephinMerritt "racism" is almost impossible to parse on this side of the pond
flavorwire.com/511904/is-stephin-merrit...
The perfect 1 minute pop song: #StephinMerritt plays 'This Little Ukulele' in the back of a car http://youtu.be/HK4p3TE2WwI @TheMagFields
I suppose, given we've been playing online scrabble for years, I count as a researcher for this... www.amazon.co.uk/101-Two-Letter-Words-Ste...
#StephinMerritt
@davidbiemel indeed, #StephinMerritt is a god (and the only god I personally know http://flic.kr/p/7PcWuB we should spread his Words....
