69 Love Songs poll

I saw them perform the entire set over two nights. One of my all-time favorite gigs.

So did I … three times.

https://www.talkhouse.com/stephin-merritt-the-magnetic-fields-talks-with-daniel-handler-lemony-snicket-for-the-talkhouse-podcast/

we should poll this one by disc

― nba jungboy (voodoo chili), Tuesday, October 2, 2018

I tried!

I'd swap "Chicken" and "Parades" but yeah.

Busby Berkeley?

Listening to this in the first time in years after transferring "just the good ones" to my music player. Thought these would amount to 20-25 songs but I ended up with 40 (including a few I almost left off tbf).

with his choice of voices that didn’t automatically code “gay”

Idk, Flare bear's voice doesn't code "gay" enough on its own?

Who'll take its ashes and
Singing, fling them from the top of the Brill Building

I did the same thing a couple years ago, around the time 50 Song Memoir came out. Pared out the 19 most annoying or cringey tracks, leaving a playlist of 50. I play it all on shuffle once every few months. Until setting that up, I don't think I had listened to more than an hour's worth over the previous 15 years or so.

seeing the 25th anniversary show for this album on wednesday. looks like in boston he played the whole album in order over two nights, split right down the middle at "promises of eternity"/"world love." i only have tix for wednesday, which i guess means the first half? i think most of my faves are in the first half, but i'll miss "papa was a rodeo," "ferdinand de saussure," "asleep and dreaming," "yeah! oh yeah!," etc.

the only one i would've been genuinely devastated about missing is "luckiest guy" and it looks like i'll catch that one

I would be far more into this if it was a Mag Fields/6ths/GAs/FBHs greatest hits revue, and not to say I don't like 69 Love Songs it's just I'm a bigger fan of SM's larger body of work than this isolated project.

quite enjoyed part 1 of this in new york (and i'll be back for part 2 tonight), especially dudley klute, who sat in an easy chair at the back of the stage for the entire show, occasionally looking like he might be napping, getting up three or four times to saunter over to a microphone about 10 paces to his left whenever one of his songs came up, and then back to his easy chair to wait for the next one.

everybody was in great voice, especially shirley and claudia.

yes it was a lovely show. i will probably get tickets for next thursday to see the rest of the 69.

it was really fun hearing the little moments the crowd got excited for: "it makes me drink beeeeer!"; how fucking romantic; crazy for you but not that crazy; and obviously dudley's epic held note at the end of luckiest guy

in general tho, it was a very polite crowd and i felt weird singing along to "absolutely cuckoo" among everyone else enjoying in silence, so i was pretty quiet for most of the rest of the show. maybe it was different in the balcony? i was in the orchestra

.. playing the cor anglais ...