69 Love Songs poll

I probably would have picked "I Don't Want to Get Over You." Don't think I've listened to the whole thing tho.

Add to the list - "Long Vermont Roads." Cosign re: "Take Ecstasy With Me," especially the Susan Amway version.

Really great songs that had no votes:

Grand Canyon
The Night You Can't Remember
Two Kinds Of People
I Don't Believe In The Sun
Acoustic Guitar
Kiss Me Like You Mean It
The Things We Did And Didn't Do
Boa Constrictor
Parades Go By

Parades Go By

!

Is that ! at it being good, or ! at it getting no votes?

First and second place in this poll are weak.

Was the Susan Amway version of Take Ecstasy With Me released, or do I need to mickey-acquire it?

xpost both of those things.

Hey y'all. I don't have my copy of 69 Love Songs with me and internetting is not helping. Can someone tell me what Aphex Twin song Merritt called one of the greatest compositions of the 20th century (or something to that effect....he does say this in the liners, does he not)? Thanx!!!

The version I have makes no obvious mention of Aphex Twin, alas.

Kevin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIeA2ct5Sew

That bit from the booklet is quoted here.

Oooh awesome! Thanx on the roof (and odd - I was looking at that blog when googling this...).

reno dakota

7 votes for the death of ferdinand de saussure and only 1 for abigail, belle of kilroan? this needs to be polled again.

15 years old, ayo

Don't do that, all I need to do is look at my kids, or my CD racks, and time flashes by.

Couldn't do this poll now.

7 votes for the death of ferdinand de saussure and only 1 for abigail, belle of kilroan? this needs to be polled again.

Ha, I'm pretty sure I was that one vote.

I don't think I have listened to this in 12 years.

I remember when £5 would get you 69 poll options, with enough left over for a side poll. Now you daren't leave the house.

i listened to this a bit recently after a long layoff, really the thing that had changed most was that it was harder to have affection for the shittiness of the sound/arrangements

something i have never cared about.

how music sounds, you never cared about that

production, no. It's Stephin making music in his apartment, whaddya want?

check any ILE film poll for ppl who don't care how movies look

The next ILX covers project?

Maybe not...

You're My Only Home 0

def the best song that didn't get a vote.

like Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin and Grand Canyon more.

Of the zero voteds:

"Fido, your leash is too long" is scarily like a song I wrote called "Rover, come back to me this minute" when I was 12, and had forgotten until I heard that one.

Also, "Not that crazy" is great, and I'm amazed that "Parades go by" got zero as its one of the best tracks.

decided to pull this out during an insomniac fit - listening to the whole thing as a piece makes me appreciate it more and im glad i successfully fought off the temptation to skip some of the filler songs like 'experimental love' or 'roses'

taken as a whole i think its really beautiful and impressive in a particular way it reminds me of watching the coolest boy i knew lighting a cigarette in one fluid single-handed motion this performance thats both studied and nonchalant. like how the smallest things are best equipped to bear the burden of grace because theyre secure in their own inconsequence

Underwear is underrated. Both in life and in song.

There is no filler on this for me. I can't imagine the sequencing arguments but they nailed it.

this is one of my favorite albums but i think most of the "filler" is unlistenable after the third or fourth rundown. the imperfections make me like the album better... flawless albums are almost suspicious to me. albums don't need to be "total works" and in some cases it's better if they're not.

my controversial opinion on this thing is that busby berkeley dreams > the book of love

punk love fucking rules

busby berkeley dreams > the book of love

I can see why you might feel that way. There's an unmistakable sense of pathos and longing in BBD whereas BOL can be seen as tongue-in-cheek. Frankly I think Peter Gabriel did more justice to BOL by finding it's true emotional heart.

Abigail belle of kilroan might be the best

What a shame so few votes. I want a recount and I vote for "I Don't Want To Get Over You"

abigail belle of kilronan and papa was a rodeo are both based on very theatrical conceits -- he is singing from an assumed standpoint, and a kind of hackneyed one -- but also among the most heartbreaking songs on the album.

Abigail has always been my answer

Busby Berkeley, instinctively. I've not listened to the whole thing in over 10 years.

What a shame so few votes. I want a recount and I vote for "I Don't Want To Get Over You"

you're crazy if you think you'd get more than 83 ppl voting in 2018

So many standout tracks!

Could the 50 year one stand anywhere close on that score?

Underwear is underrated. Both in life and in song.

― Jeff, Thursday, October 9, 2014 6:32 AM (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think I’m changing my mind on this.

About life or the song?

I remember carefully ranking the 69 love songs for a list, and after that brain-rack someone just said the list could have been in any other order, and I had to admit that's quite apt.
Also had a brief "should we shouldn't we" romantic month with a girl abroad during an exchange, and after playing some songs from 69LS to her and despite this being long ago, ever since she's told me she plays them from time to time, and I think the power of nostalgia is very much in the songs (not me).
I know I pretty much haven't gone back to the band at all, neither for 69LS or the first two that were my true favorites.
No clue what song I could have elected.

Rather surprised "Nothing matter when we're dancing" finds itself without a vote.

Will mention: I don't want to get over you, Sweet-Loving Man, The Luckiest Guy, The Sun goes down... I really need to listen to it again

I don't like it when he sings in the higher register

I was just listening to this this morning and thinking about how I never listen to discs 2 or 3.

Amen re: "Abigail," definitely in my top 1 or maybe 2. I've always loved how disorienting it sounds on headphones. Also so many keepers among the 0 vote getters, "Grand Canyon" is a particular fave.

Could the 50 year one stand anywhere close on that score?

I'd say yes. Every song is musically striking and serves the project, and most are very good! Though I suppose the highs aren't as high.

did the same thing as above, and marveled at the 0 vote-getters.
Has Merritt ever had a more devastating song than "The Things We Did And Didn't Do"?

lol just saw this thread I had How Fucking Romantic stuck in my head this morning while making coffee and started singing it to myself, snaps included

For a few years, “how fucking romantic” was the only magnetic fields song I knew. A friend put it on a mix for me. I like it well enough, but I wish he would have chosen one of maybe 30-40 other songs off the album instead, because i wasn’t really motivated to investigate then any further at the time

I don't like it when he sings in the higher register

There’s another male singer, right? It’s kind of weird because on some songs it seems the other guy sings higher and it’s easier to tell them apart, and on others he sings as low as Merritt and it’s confusing. Either that or Merritt is the only male singer and I’m confused.

There are five singers on 69 Love Songs.