Reviews (page 2 of 9)
Never heard of the artist. I naively thought the album name was a pun on the use of '69', and was expecting a punk album or similar. After listening to the fist couple of tracks and being completely underwhelmed I had a dive into the wikipedia page - 3 albums, each 1 hour long, that sound like this! I persevered until track 8 (of 69) but that was my limit. Fuck right off.
Meh….bailed after 10 songs. Maybe it got better with the last 59 tracks, but I have no desire to find out 😑 1.5⭐️
About 26 songs in, I was a little perturbed. But I'm kind of glad I stuck around. The 3 hours and 69 (LOL) songs is pretty unnecesseary....but there are some gems in here. I could probably piece together a 60 minute album of stuff I liked....maybe even 80 minutes: 40 indie pop and 40 chamber pop.....but this is just too much.
Spolade igenom de första 5 låtarna och kände att detta tänker jag inte lägga nästan 3h av mitt liv på.
Bissi lang
if you don't think this is one of the greatest almost-3 hour album of love songs ever then it's clear to me you've never been in a long term relationship
imagine releeasing this and feeling pride
next up on our list is the sixth album released by indie group the magnetic fields. yes, you're reading that right. 69 love songs. almost three hours of music, all of it on three CD volumes. lead vocalist of the group stephin merritt got the idea for the album by hanging out in a gay piano bar. he initially wanted to write a whopping 100 songs, but thinking that would be much too long, he settled on 69 songs. the album has all sorts of songs, both love songs and songs more on the general theme of love, spanning all sorts of relationship types. the scale of this project is very impressive. i already think that writing a song within the span of a year is a challenge, so writing almost 70 of them? that blows my mind. and these aren't half-assed songs either, each one sticks out in their own way. merritt also has a very intriguing voice, he gets really low and he kinda sounds like eeyore when he sings. it's a bit absorbing... i listened to it in bed. it's got a unique style, and not every track you're going to like. i also wouldn't recommend listening to it all at once, listen to one CD then take a break. but this is another entry on my "indie music that's surprising good" list.
I went into 69 Love Songs wondering who actually has three hours to kill on such a self-indulgent marathon. Like a lot of people, I found it a total endurance test that swings between some really witty indie-pop gems and a whole lot of half-baked filler that’s exhausting to sit through. Some people love the quirky variety, but I just felt the weight of the massive runtime and kept wishing it was a tight, 12-track album instead. It’s definitely an ambitious project from Stephin Merritt, but after slogging through all that filler, I’m left pretty divided... I respect the hustle, but I once listened to the whole Ella Fitzgerald sings The Gershwin Songbook for that long, but at least it was goddamn Ella Fizgerald singing...
dont like
I went into this knowing absolutely nothing about The Magnetic Fields, and there was a lot here that I liked. The different vocalists, constant shifts in style, and surprisingly short songs kept things interesting. “Sweet-Lovin’ Man” was probably my favorite, and I especially enjoyed how the album could jump from folk and country influences to experimental sounds and ’60s-style pop without warning. But 69 songs is still 69 songs. Even breaking it up into multiple listening sessions, I eventually hit a wall. The problem wasn't that the songs were bad. Most were actually pretty good. There was simply too much of it, and eventually I stopped wanting to hear more and just wanted to move on to the next album. I appreciate the ambition and variety far more than I enjoyed the experience of listening to the entire thing. Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing.
Uh, is this a joke?
Un álbum muy particular. Me gustó más de lo que me digustó. Es cierto que hay canciones que parecen de circo, de musical o ya son un chiste; y hay canciones que sobran que hacen que el álbum sea innecesariamente largo, pero cuando sonaban bien las canciones me gustaba mucho el álbum. Para mí, los discos van de mejor a peor. La voz del vocalista por momentos me sonaba al de The National o al de Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros.
Too long 3 hours ffs
too short
It's ok, it's not poor, it's competently played, and I suspect they had a good following. But I found it muzak for the middle aged
I’m kind of amazed this sold a single copy. NPR must’ve been plugging it 69 times a day. Props for taking a really big swing though.
I gotta respect them for shooting their shot here and it mostly hit. The kind of asshole that would like this is the kind of asshole that would do a 1001 album challenge. People complaining that it’s 3 hours long shouldn’t be doing this list in the first place.
I was in just the right frame of mind to find this project cute
Here's another band that should not have a single album in any Top 1001 list. They're dumb and weird and so eclectic that they're not enjoyable nor can you take them seriously. I was absolutely shocked they had that many listens to this shit collection of songs that all feel like rough drafts. His voice is ridiculous ("I Don't Believe In The Sun") and feels like a Saturday Night Live skit ("All My Little Words" 24m listens?!?! or "The Cactus Where...") or a movie from the 50's you stumble across high on a Friday night and can't turn away. Then she chimes in and sounds like open mic night ("Reno Dakota", "Come Back from SF") at the local bar in a small midwest town. The atrocious "The Book Of Love" has 58M listens. Who are these people who'd listen to this and want to hear it a second time?! I have never met them. Only partly entertaining track: "Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits". As mentioned, just not enjoyable. They're not as clever as they must think they are. I truly didn't enjoy even a minute of it. I am utterly baffled. That's 69 shitty songs. What record exec signed off on this one? WTF does this album provide that should be considered T1001 worthy and must-hear-before-I-die?!? I didn't make it past song 23. Awful choice. 2 stars and that's honestly not how I really feel about it.
Okay this album did start to show its length near the end, but I really enjoyed it overall. None of the songs were too long and it didn’t take itself too seriously. Some absolute bangers too. “I Think I Need A New Heart” is probably my favorite track (the entire first disc is great start to finish) and “Papa Was A Rodeo” is a close second. Probably won’t revisit this much outside of the first disc and a few tracks on the second, but I love the concept and the execution was great. It’s not groundbreaking, but a concept like this deserves to be on the list.
Probably not the kind of record that's best suited to a one-a-day challenge - can't help but think that Stephin would find this whole thing pretty crass - but if you live with it for long enough and commit to the bit, I swear about a third of these songs will alternate as your favourite in the whole wide world at any given time. On this run-through I'm going with 'Long-Forgotten Fairytale', tomorrow it could be just about anything else. Now hit that 5 and go watch 'Strange Powers'.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should. I don't think he had enough ideas for 69 different love songs, but he decided he wanted to do a love song album with 69 songs anyway. Some of the songs were fairly good and I enjoyed them, but they were few and far between. Pick your favorite dozen and run with that instead. Maybe that would actually be nice.
Super mid
Got to song 20 and lost the will to live
It isn’t unlistenable in quality, but it is in quantity. Not sitting through 3 hours of this.
Guff
What a wonderful album.
Way more duds than hits, but I really like the hits.
Absolutely Cuckoo 3.3 I Don't Believe in the Sun 3.8 All My Little Words 3.5 A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off 3.6 Reno Dakota 3.4 I Don't Want to Get Over You 3.8 Come Back from San Francisco 3.3 The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side 3 Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits 3.4 The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be 3.3 I Think I Need a New Heart 3.5 The Book of Love 3.4 Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long 3.6 How Fucking Romantic 3 The One You Really Love 3.5 Punk Love 3.2 Parades Go By 3.3 Boa Constrictor 3.1 A Pretty Girl Is Like… 3.2 My Sentimental Journey 3.4 Nothing Matters When We're Dancing 3.4 Sweet-Lovin' Man 3.6 The Things We Did and Didn't Do 3.4 Roses 3.2 Love Is Like Jazz 3.2 When My Boy Walks Down the Street 3.6 Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old 3.8 Very Funny 3.6 Grand Canyon 3.5 No One Will Ever Love You 4 If You Don't Cry 3.6 You're My Only Home 3.4 (Crazy for You But)Not That Crazy 3.5 My Only Friend 3.3 Promises of Eternity 3.4 World Love 3.2 Washington, D.C. 3.3 Long-Forgotten Fairytale 3.3 Kiss Me Like You Mean It 3.4 Papa Was a Rodeo 3.8 Epitaph for My Heart 3.6 Asleep and Dreaming 3.1 The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing 3.4 The Way You Say Good-Night 3.2 Abigail, Belle of Kilronan 3.3 I Shatter 3 Underwear 3.4 It's a Crime 3.4 Busby Berkeley Dreams 3.2 I'm Sorry I Love You 3.5 Acoustic Guitar 3.4 The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure 3.6 Love in the Shadows 3 Bitter Tears 3.4 Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget 3.2 Yeah! Oh, Yeah! 3.1 Experimental Music Love 3 Meaningless 3.1 Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin 3 Queen of the Savages 3.2 Blue You 3.1 I Can't Touch You Anymore 3.3 Two Kinds of People 3 How to Say Goodbye 3.4 The Night You Can't Remember 3.2 For We Are the King of the Boudoir 3.2 Strange Eyes 3.3 Xylophone Track 3.4 Zebra 3.2 Score: 3.352173913
After a few days, I finally finished this fucking thing. Knew this wasn't going to be fun because I've heard people saying how overrated this thing is. Long story short, the first third is the most polished and the final third is the most interesting. The middle part was damn boring. This is the best example of why quantity is never better than quality in music.
The vocals were often atrocious. This is a novelty, but not essential listening. A list of more essential albums to the canon of Western popular music released in 1999: Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile Reba McEntire - So Good Together Rage Against the Machine - Los Angeles
Goid
Very eclectic
Interesting concept. While the songs were listenable, I think the length of this album makes it unapproachable. I would be fine never hearing this album again.
2.5
Probably the best 3 hour record of all time. 4 stars
I think this is a pretty cool achievement overall. 69 tracks with enough variation in style to hold a listener's interest through 3 hours of music. That being said, some of it works a lot better than others and the third disc seemed incredibly half-assed. There were some great songs here though -- highlights included "I Don't Believe in the Sun", "All My Little Words", "Sweet Lovin' Man", "The Book of Love", "You're My Only Home", and my personal favorite, "Papa Was a Rodeo". Overall, the highs are really good, but there was a lot of filler, and at times it got way too quirky for my tastes. I was probably at a high 4 stars going into the third disc, but settling on a 3.5.
OGC Love Songs because nearly all of these are savagely bad toss offs with weird deep horndude and hoarse harridan vocals. There is one OK song at the end called Zebra which is about demanding a pet Zebra as a romantic gift and then demanding another pet Zebra as a further romantic gift to give the other pet Zebra company but a hit rate of 1 out of 69 is a very poor hit rate indeed. Would have preferred it if there were more songs about zebras… and badgers. 69 Songs About Badgers and Zebras.
Nice. I'm conflicted with this. I appreciate the concept, and there are some great tunes in here. However, some tracks feel like filler, and this album gets tiresome, being almost 3 hours long (I had to split it in 3 sessions). It's extremely self-indulgent, and it's bold. But it was nice.
i am enjoying this, but have not yet finished. favorite: TBD
Too long
One of my favorite albums of all time. They did a tour for the 25th anniversary of this album and played the whole thing in order. One of the best shows I’ve been to. If you’re slightly cynical about love, speak sarcastically about your heartbreak, and have a dark sense of humor, this is your album.
Didn’t finish it. I don’t dislike indie, but this was exhausting.
For such a long album, I really don't have much to say. It's good, fun "little" thing. A lot of stuff that kinda falls along the same lines, and for such a long album, it's not a super compelling thing. But it's cute, fun, and pretty inoffensive. But nothing that's really speaking to me.
Listened to the whole thing. I never want to feel love again if it feels anything like this album.
Seminal indie pop. A must-own.
The Divine Comedy and Bonzo dog band meets George Formby with a deeper voice. Instant throwaway catchy ditties. But ultimately vapid and devoid of substance. "The book of love is long and boring" Couldn't agree more. Worse tracks 'love is like jazz'. I made it to 31.
It took an extra effort to get this one done but it's always worth it. Stephen Merritt is a legend for penning this one, the most ambitious triple album ever made, and his hit rate is remarkable. It's not just that he wrote the songs; it's that a significant portion are some of the best love songs ever written. And while it does overstay its welcome, it's crucial to listen to and find your next favorite song to hear.
Love the concept and back story. Music is all over the place for me so I’m rating a solid 3
So what do you do with an album that has 10 or so songs that, if they were the whole album, would be in the running for my all time top 25 or so, but also has about 40 songs that are completely forgettable and I will almost certainly never listen to again, and also takes 3 hours to listen to which is basically impossible to do in one sitting without at least doing something else, so much so that I don't really feel like I listened to the whole thing but damned if I'm going to go back and replay the stuff I don't feel like I heard because, I mean, seriously? In no way was the above sentence a metaphor for this album. 5 stars, I guess, but it's a conundrum.
I like quite a few of the tracks on here, but it's just so unnecessary.
I really like this album. There's something raw and sincere about it that I really like. Just a bunch of regular weirdos making art and sometimes whiffing. It's horribly long, but I feel like it's meant exist as a collection, and not to be listened to all at once. Maybe writing so many love songs drove the band insane and that's how they ended up with songs like Love Is Like Jazz and Experimental Music Love. The first half of disc 1 is definitely the strongest part of the album. Favorite songs: I Don't Believe In The Sun All My Little Words I Don't Want To Get Over You The Book Of Love No One Will Ever Love You Papa Was a Rodeo Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin Blue You
lovely. the concept is stupid and i think it's executed perfectly. not complicated but it is sprawling. i love the vocals, i love the toned down but super varied instrumentation. the lyricism is the meat of the album and it feels like a couple of semesters of poetry workshops. there's necessarily an album worth of skips that i don't care for, but i think the scope of the project makes up for it. the songs i *really* liked though could fit two or three--i loved No One Will Ever Love You in particular, but i've gotta give it to The Book of Love, i don't remember where i first heard it but it still gets me for sure
이거 뭔가요? 23번 트랙까지 있는대 진짜 69 럽 송을 만들려다가 만거임? 제 스타일 아닙니다 그리고…
I don’t know that I’ve ever listened to this straight through despite knowing many of the songs on it. It’s remarkable. Between 4/5 for me but I’m giving it a 5 bc of the sheer audacity of the project and the hit rate, there are so few bad songs on this massive album. Favorites include the book of love, yeah oh yeah, and very funny.
No private session. Predictable lyrics because they had to rhyme. This album was way too long but how else would they get 69 songs to make their stupid sophomoric joke? Couple of notes: 1. Quality is better than quantity 2. Stephin's songs are better when someone else is singing them. I actually made it through this epic play of crap, so I can't give it one, but I am so done with it.
i ain't reading all that i'm happy for u tho or sorry that happened. Love is like jazzin jälkeen tajusin että biisit on oikeestaan. Hyvin pinnallisia.
Some really nice songwriting on here if you go digging around. I also respect the ambition but who tf is repeatedly listening to all of that.
aint listenin to all at
I loved this! I had to wait for a day I had a good chunk of time. Almost every song has a catchy hook or melody. Some of the songs are silly, and some are incredibly sincere. They're all pretty clever. None of them overstay their welcome. I love the instrumentation of these songs, even the electronic and more experimental ones. This was a great discovery, and hopefully I'll listen to this enough to become familiar with a good number of the songs.
estás tú que me voy a estar durante 3 horas escuchando 69 canciones iguales. escuché tres y no me hace falta más.
Why did Spotify ask, "Are you sure?", before playing this album.
It's finally my turn!! I've been both looking forward to and dreading getting this album. Of course, it had to show up mid-vacation for me so completing albums before this, but knowing it was coming up, made it feel like I was climbing a mountain, but I digress. Back to the album. It's good that I liked the vocals and am a fan of alt rock/indie sound, because that's what most of this album is. I found disc 1 to be my favourite, it had the strongest songs. Disc 2 was more experimental and not as fun to listen to, so I found myself tuning out a bit. Disc 3 picked up at the start, but by the end it felt like they were just throwing anything at the wall to make love songs. I'm not sure if I would consider this an impressive feat, since I imagine most artists create a lot of songs and could put something like this together easily. There's probably a great album hidden in here, but that wasn't the purpose of this project, I assume.
Tell me how I went 25 plus years without hearing this album. I need to do that again.
Very hard to get through. hAhA 69… GeT iT? 1.41
I've heard about this album from the Reddit, and I was dreading it. But, it was actually a pretty nice listen. I havent listened to the whole thing, but I got through about half of it. Maybe it's my indie-hipster past, but I enjoyed it. Waaay too long though.
Var typ 3 av 69 låtar som jag tyckte om
A brilliant collection of love songs. Mostly folk based but I love the variety of songs here as well. I prefer when Steven Merritt sings but there’s really not a bad song in the lot. The obvious issue here is there’s too many songs. Especially if you’re trying to get through this in a day.
This was a daunting album like no album I've ever had before, quite frankly I'm glad I got this so early because I would have been a challenge down the track (though it was a challenge now anyways). 69 songs is huge, dare I say too huge; so huge that it affects the overall quality of the album itself. I like the songs by themselves and I like the band's style (looking at their artist page I realized I had actually heard of them before), but all together the nearly 3hr jaunt really takes it's toll. In fact, to put the record into perspective, I will rate the top 3 songs on each separate side (according to Spotify) to better comprehend my thoughts Fav Songs Side 1 I Don't Believe in the Sun All My Little Words I Don't Want to Get Over You Side 2 Papa Was a Rodeo Epitaph for My Heart No One Will Ever Love You Side 3 The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure Busby Berkeley Dreams Yeah! Oh, Yeah Overall Fav Songs I Don't Believe in the Sun Papa Was a Rodeo Epitaph for My Heart Is it Top 1001 Worthy (is it essential)? Kinda, not really. The songs by themselves are fine to great, but the length is absolutely killer to my overall enjoyment. A perfect example of quantity over quality. If you want to get the gist, listen to the higher rated songs and if you really want to give the whole thing a listen, break each side up into their own 50min album and take breaks in between. A cool concept with decent influence, but too much of an undertaking to properly eagerly recommend.
Normally on good double albums my complaint is that there’s one 5 star album in there. I think there’s at least two 5 star albums in this. The first one being just the first 12 songs. I think it does justify its insane length and the quality is impressively consistent. Am I going to list to it again? Probably not in one go. But I’ll certainly come back to parts of it.
I knew this day would come and I wouldn’t have 3 hours to spare. 6 months ago I decided to listen to a couple of songs from this album whenever I had downtime so today wasn’t such a big challenge. With repeated exposure, this has accidentally become one of my favourite albums. A metric fuck ton of well-written funny charming songs.
A fairly ludicrous concept during which someone needed to intervene - at least he didn’t go ahead with the original notion of 100 songs and merely let it drag out for three hours. There are plenty of ideas and some nice tunes but equally a lot of half-finished sketches. Needless to say it’s spread pretty thin - as, by the end, is your patience.
Don’t really have much to say. It’s a great album at times but it really doesn’t need to be almost three hours long. Disc One is amazing, Disc Two is still great but not as good, and Disc Three was not that good. It’s still undeniably an essential listen and it is very well produced and written, just boring at times.
It's long, by design. There's a lot in here, by design. Some really really good tunes, but sheer length makes it really hard to give it a 5. Really torn and on the fence. Can't give a 5 to something that has 12 sides on vinyl
El que puso esto en la lista tiene que ir preso. Dicho esto disfruté unos 3 temas de los 69. Nota: 3.0
Didn’t mind how quirky this was, but TWO HOURS AND FIFTY TWO MINUTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice
I think this is a lo-fi folk pop band that tries to play around with other genres. I think I would like this a lot more if it were less folksy and not lo-fi. I also think there's some good stuff especially later on that is harder to enjoy because the listener has been exhausted by the breadth of this collection of songs.
My first thought was "I'm absolutely not going to listen to 69 songs on one album. Three hours is absurd." I'm on the next to last song, and never skipped a single one. The variety of musical styles and the quality of the overwhelming majority here is really impressive. There were some "just ok" songs, but most were "pretty good." I think as a concept and artistic work, the quality and variety counterintuitively command a higher rating than an album of standard length might. I'm actually pretty impressed that this album was able to win me over so quickly and hold my interest for so long. ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Lovely lyrics, but overall I feel like there are no love songs; they sound more like sad songs.
Very clever. I think much of this is done so tongue-in-cheek it's hard to take seriously. On the other hand, there is some great songwriting and I enjoyed those tunes. Ok, so the more I listened, the more it grew on me. I'll listen again.
69 songs? How much time do you think I have?
some pretty good some pretty bad mostly forgettable 3 fucking hours long
First off, this is NOT an album you can absorb and fully appreciate in an album-of-the-day format. If this is your first listen and you're frustrated by the length, that's understandable and unfortunate. I wish this generator could differentiate between standard-length albums and double/triple/quadruple albums and offer an option to hear the latter only over weekends or on demand instead of blindsiding the listener first thing on a Monday morning. Some albums are, indeed, too long for what they are, but it's unfair to automatically ding an album just for being more than one disc (but I get it; I've been guilty of that, too). Fortunately for me in this case, I own this album and have had years to explore and enjoy it. That said, I'm not sure I've ever listened to the entire thing in one sitting. That seems like an unnecessary (and fairly stupid) demand to put on oneself and certainly not what the artist had in mind. Do you think Tolstoy expected his readers to finish 'War and Peace' in a day? No. Bottom line: this is a great collection of (often short) notions and sentiments skillfully performed in a variety of styles with various lead vocals that keep it from feeling repetitive or monotonous despite its length. Without the proper time investment, however, I'm afraid it's likely going to be inaccessible for most. If, on the other hand, you're one of the few who "gets it", definitely check out their 5-disc '50 Song Memoir'. It's another behemoth but absolutely worth the time commitment.
I did not have the time to listen to this fully. Even if I did my attention span wouldn’t have tolerated it. I will give this the benefit of the doubt, and continue to chip away at this. It’s just not happening in one day. So it will get a neutral score
long. but silly and good
I feel like there is a couple somewhere in this world that took a huge amount of acid or special mushrooms or anything else to see a lot of colors, they put this on and fucked their brains out. This is the only way I could imagine having this as a background and even then it wouldn't be good. This is bullshit. 3 hours of nothing.
Це мабуть один з найдовших альбомів з пісенною музикою, що мені доводилося чути. Я відверто втомився його слухати. Хоч і не можу сказати, що це була не захоплива подорож. Про гурт я раніше не чув. Чув лише The Book of Love та й лише у виконанні Гейбріела (грає в завершенні Scrubs - краще завершення комедійного серіалу). Видатна пісня. Спочатку я подумав, що це якась делюкс версія з демками і все таке, але виявилось що ні. Звичайно при такому обсягу багато пісень, які мені здалися посередніми, або реалізованими як якйись скелет, якому не вистачає завершеності ідеї. З іншої сторони гурту вдалося насичити альбом дуже гарним матеріалом, різного за жанрами, хороші тексти, місцями дуже гарні тексти. Подобається чоловічий вокал і не завжди подобається жіночий. Амбітна ідея, яку гурту вдалося реалізувати. Я коли слухав то в різні проміжку часу, кайфував, нудьгував, злився, захоплювався. Цікавий досвід. Послухаю також інші альбоми гурту якось.
Черговий культовий альбом, який мені важко полюбити але і хейтити важко. Всім таким альбомам я ставлю трієчку. На жаль в цьому списку такого забагато для мене, коли слухаєш аби послухати і забуваєш одразу про цю музику.
I think if this album were a reasonable length it could be a 3 or a 4 but there's just so much thats not quite good enough to be memorable. Definitely has some redeeming qualities but my favorite part of this album has probably been reading the reviews about it not the actual songs. probably could have cut this thing in half and I wouldn't have missed it
JL : 1, might have been a 2 if it weren't 3 hours long
Waayyyyyy to long to listen to. Listened to a few songs and thought it was ok but its just not my taste
If this was only one disc, it would be a 2/5. I turned it off a few songs into the second disc. I'm sure there's a decent record here if you cut out 55 songs, but I'm not gonna find out.
It sounds like the husband-and-wife band from a kid’s birthday party discovered vaudeville and committed to it for nearly three hours.
This was quirky and kitschy. Runs long, really long. It would be an interesting experiment to put this on very low in the background of a chill dinner party or cocktail party and just see what kind of comments and conversations it would spark.
I listened to the first five tracks to get an idea of the spirit of the songs. And admittedly they were not terrible. In fact, they were kinda quirky with unique instrumentation and reminded me at times of other artists like Jonathan Richman or Belle & Sebastian. But c’mon…69 songs. No one has time to listen to that many.
Album title was funny. Actually having 69 songs is funny. Running nearly 3 hours is not cool. All songs not being very good and many sounding like cheap rip offs is egregious. So yeah…eff this guy.
I made it through like three tracks and just couldn’t fathom holding on for 66 more. Some ok tracks but cmon man. 2/5
About 61 too many, honestly. Most of the songs are quite boring and blend together, and many of the lyrics are cheesy and cringeworthy. The female vocalist is more pleasing to my ears than the man, but she is used disappointingly sparingly. There is some genre variation, but while that makes this less oppressively dull then it could be, it adds to the overall feeling of the album being sloppy and lacking artistic direction.
So long but that’s part of the fun - not all songs hit but I liked this way more than I thought I would
*Volume 3 had some truly moving songs *Otherwise, this did not need to be as long as it was
I bought this when it came out and never really worked for me. Still doesn’t
I’m a little disappointed in the blue joke in the album title. It’s such a gorgeous album. I’ve often wondered if it’s a gate for those who the album isn’t for. My Sentimental Melody reminds me of why accordians have been with us for long. My absolute most favorite, tear-my-hair-out song is on this album. Part of me wants you to name it yourself. It isn’t Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing, though that song is fucking insanely wonderful. Both NMWWD and this other song are in my personal faith songs for when the world is too much. Love Is Like Jazz seems like a weird racist insult, especially as it includes “strange fruit” in the lyrics. It’s hard to get around that feeling now in 2026. I Shatter is insanely challenging. It’s one of those songs that haunts me for months after I hear it. And when I’m severely depressed it has come back to me as someone having felt this feeling and been able to communicate it to other people. It’s amazing and horrible at the same time. I give it 1 star for the pain it leaves me with. And to prevent others from finding it and knowing how amazing it is. But seriously, it started out as 5 star and then slowly dropped with the second disc as the less than ideal songs started playing. Then You’re My Only Home comes on and … is there anything that brings me back to synths and how synths can represent love? “I’ll stay if you let me stay and I’ll go if you let me go, but I won’t go far away, Because you’re my only home.” And 5 gorgeous songs immediately following… The whole album is overloaded and needed padding to make that stupid 69 joke. Revision and discernment would have helped to prevent the horror of the worst of it. But The Book of Love means that you could have 50 songs of a baby screaming and it would still be 5 stars. Because no other song, not even Jeff Buckley’s Halleluliah hits me in the same way. And, really, what if the show didn’t go on?
I've mentioned this before, but the slacker music needs to feel effortless and require technical expertise. These songs, particularly on the lyrics, were seemingly thrown together in a jam session to take them from Song 63 to 64. Condense this down to the tightest 13 songs and reissue pls. Otherwise, the sweetness and fun melodies rises this to a ceiling of 3, and I'm rounding down because too many of the songs were childishly simple
Sixty-nine love songs at nearly 3 hours of music and this thing doesn’t even have the best love song by The Magnetic Fields, Andrew in Drag. Look, I get that commitment to the bit is an important part of comedy, but sometimes a commitment needs to be broken.
Really commendable for how long this is, can't give it a 3 though it's 3 hours
man these are....... these are some love songs........zzzzzz
Droning.... too longgg.... such sarcasm.... the irony...
After the third day clocking in at the "Listening to 69 Love Songs" factory I was ready to no-notice quit. Should not be included on this list.
There were songs in here I almost liked, except that I was so emotionally deadened by the entire experience that I couldn't bring myself to like anything. To me this is an abundance of dirges (derogatory)
I really want to give it 1, because of unnecessary use of my time. But some of this stuff was good. I shatter was like really good. But nah, as much as this concept might look cool, this one didn't felt like an album I really needed to listen. How about 9 songs about love, but really good ones? Without justifying 69. We all know that 69 is funny and cool, no need to remind that in that way
Really? Love songs, 69? Are they 13? Speaking of 13, that's about the number of songs they should've put on an album
It's not bad but it's pretty samey and too damn long.
Great concept album. Brazo to the songwriter. Two day journey with this one and too much for me. Some highs and many repetitive.
Der er rigtig mange virkelig fine sange imellem, men jeg ville ønske, de havde strammet lidt op. Specielt den sidste CD faldt lidt i kadence. Så det bliver en stor 3'er frem for en 4'er, men klart et album, jeg skal have genlyttet.
I ain’t listening to 69 songs in an album. Congratulations or I’m sorry that happened
i assume i'm not supposed to take this album too seriously. but even then, what the fuu am i even listening to?? some undercooked bullshitry at its finest here. the only reason i'm not giving this a one star is for the confidence and audacity to create a 69-song album; also a few of the songs there aren't completely bad either. next day edit: i changed my mind, i remember nothing but pain from this album, one star
This sounds like a bunch of driveling, cheap, rhyming pursuitism written on a bet. Really awful.
3 +
Doomed from conception. I am not listening to the full 3 hours just because some pretentious cunt thought it would be funny to have 69 songs on an album.
655/1001 2026.07.10
Even with it almost being 3 hours I didn't mind it at all. 3 stars.
better than expected, longer than necessary.
The concept of releasing so many songs in 1 album is great, but in this case there is an issue with quantity over quality. Some songs were good, but most of this album felt like a filler
While it is impressive to have written so many songs, there is an issue of quality versus quantity. Some of these are great, others less so. It gets tiring after a while. More a gimmick than a true accomplshment.
Sadly, I'm not a fan. I stuck it out and listened to the entire two hours and fifty-two minutes, but it didn't change my mind. It isn't the worst thing I've ever listened to, but I can't say that I enjoyed it.
Ha! I love this. But it’s 3 hours long! 69 songs is no joke. So I have found that this collection is not just massive, but massively misunderstood. I remember when I first encountered it. A good deal after it had originally come out, probably because of Washington D.C. That song… having lived outside the beltway once, well, I found it instantly delightful. It somehow captures all the absurdity of that place that is so, so much better to visit than to try and live in. The thing is, I worked through Stephin Merritt’s “song book” slowly. Over days. Again and again I found myself laughing out loud. Let’s take an example from I Don’t Want to Get Over You: Or I could make a career of bein' blue I could dress in black and read Camus Smoke clove cigarettes and drink Vermouth Like I was 17, that would be a scream But I don't wanna get over you He just described ME! At the age of 14 maybe, but right down to the Camus! F* didn’t realize I was such a type. But of course I WAS. But man… And then all the examples that are direct digs at genre: Love is Like Jazz? Punk Love? Acoustic Guitar? The thing is, Merritt is engaged in the lost art of song craft for craft’s sake. These are probably the LEAST romantic or sexy songs you could imagine about love. They are demonstrations of wit, both lyrical AND musical. This is much closer to Ella Fitzgerald singing the whole Gershwin song book, if she had ALSO written the songs she sang. Only Merritt isn’t working in the golden age of NY broadway shows, he’s working out of gay bars and the musical reviews done of those show tunes of yore by drag queens. Which brings me to a great deal of misunderstanding I have already encountered with this collection. When it was re-released on its 25th anniversary I got it on vinyl for my brother. I thought as a fellow music lover he would appreciate the song craft and humor of it. He was totally weirded out. He tells me not just one ex- girlfriend, but multiple ex- girlfriends included selections from it on Valentines Mix tapes for him. I was dumbfounded. Um… I know it’s called 69 love songs but… really? Not only are there almost NO actually romantic songs, Merritt is so clearly…. Gay. Not to say that love isn’t love but Long Forgotten Fairytale kind of says it all, and you must remember that the lyrics are being delivered by Merritt’s incredible bass voice: And a long-forgotten fairytale is in your eyes again And I'm caught inside a dream world where the colors are too intense And nothing is making sense There's a floating town of ire down in a mist of mystery There's an old enchanted castle and the princess there is me Decked-out like a Christmas tree So yeah. Unfortunately, I don’t think people get the joke. I guess I just wrote a whole lot to say that very simple statement: people don’t get the joke. 5 Boolean: True, but it’s much better over many days, not powered through all at once.
Legendary - if not long and repetitive
Second song is kind of interesting You know I think I understand why this album is on the list i’ve never heard anything like this before Almost sounds like a sad Johnny Cash
I listened to 3 of the 69 songs. It's... okay. But most of them are very on the nose. Not a big fan of these.
3 heures ? Pardon, 3 heures ? Donc apparemment, quelqu'un chez les Magnetic Fields s'est dit que ce qui manquait à la chanson populaire, c'était des chansons d'amour. Et s'il a renoncé au projet fort pertinent de faire un album avec 100 chansons d'amour, il a tout de même décidé d'en faire 69, parce que pourquoi ne pas rajouter une petite couche d'humour bien beauf par-dessus, hein ? Déjà, le concept est pas fou. Si on sortait un album intitulé 10 avec 10 chansons d'amour, personne trouverait ça fou. Monter à 69, ça ne rend pas le complexe plus intéressant, c'est la même chose en plus long. Bon, l'avantage, c'est que le groupe parvient un peu à varier musicalement. Il se passe pas mal de choses différentes, certains titres sont même un peu expérimentaux. Mais soyons sérieux. Trois heures du même groupe qui fait 69 chansons sur le même sujet déjà pas ultra-intéressant, ça devient hyper lassant. Au bout du premier disque, je trouvais ça sympathique. Au bout du deuxième, ça devenait lassant. Au bout du troisième, ça devenait carrément crispant. Le fait est que le groupe n'a pas assez de choses à dire pour justifier un album de trois heures. Chaque titre pris individuellement est sympathique et un album sans prétention de 10-15 chansons auraient eu droit à son petit 3. Mais là, c'était beaucoup trop gonflant, alors ça sera un 2 parce qu'il faut arrêter de déconner, à un moment.
Really enjoyed to start with - challenge was the sheer volume, started to feel like a bit of an endurance test!
엄청 길어!!! 낫마스
There's one great album in here, but the hit rate is mid
I listened to Disc 1 yesterday morning Disc 2 Yesterday afternoon Disc 3 today morning... Why not putting 6 Songs on Disc1 and 9 Tracks on Disc2. Was 69 songs really necessary??? there were some great, good and decent songs, but so much bs tooooo (2.5/5.0)
Almost three hours of music.... the idea being he would write "100 love songs to introduce myself to the world."? Some are catchy, and there are some good ideas here, but it just feels like a collection of ideas rather than completed songs.
No, just no.
Utter drivel! There's almost three hours of this banal, meaningless slush to sit through, I've got more important things to do. I got to track 6 and had to stop before my brain died.
Mua kauhistutti aloittaa tää, sillä pelkäsin niin paljon sitä tunnelmaa, jonka muut oli asettanu. Aattelin, että pitkä automatka on tälle passeli ja vaihdan sit levyä, jos ei lähde. Ja vahingossa tää lähti. Odotin koko ajan mielenkiinnolla, minkälainen uusi aarre levyltä paljastuu. Jokainen biisi ei ollut mestariteos, mutta osa löi läpi ja kovaa. Ne mitkä innosti päätyi aivan omalle soittolistalle. Koko matka oli mukavaa ja yllättävää. Ainoa mitä mietin on se, että nämä rakkauslaulut käsitteli yllättävän paljon surua ja kärsimystä. Onko rakkaus todella noin kipeää? Sivutangentti: lempi-eksä kertoi, että oon ollu kattomassa Magnetic Fieldsia livenä. Ei mitään muistikuvaa.
Alussa olin että ok kyllähän tää menee mutta sitte kuuntelin tätä kolme tuntia ja olin että haha ei. Ainoa asia mitä kirjotin ylös kuunnellessa oli että Blue you oli City of Stars. Arvostan ja arvostin sitä miten anteeksipyytämättömän queerit lyriikat oli mutta muuten jätti kyllä kylmäksi. Ois ollu 3 jos ois kestäny tunnin.
Hyvä levy jonka suurin kiro on mitta. Tykkäsin monista biiseistä tosi paljon, mut etenkin loppua kohti alko keskittyminen loppua. Tää varmaan aukeaa paremmin kun saa kuunnella pienemmissä pätkissä.
Tavallaan tykkään tällaisesta pöljäilystä että ”oispa hauska idea että…” ja sit vaan tehään, mut tähän hetkeen tää oli vähän liikaa. Ekan levyn perusteella musa oli mieleen ja kivoja juttuja, mut jotenkin sit uuvuin kuitenkin massan alle 🥲
No nyt on renkutuksia. Osa ihan hauskoja mut cmon, 69. Vaikka ihan hauska stoori taustalla onkin. Tuntui turhanpäiväiseltä ja obnoxious et tätä pitäis kuunnella 3h 😅 kuuluuko oikeasti tälle listalle?
iso bängeri, jos ois loppunut ekaan levyyn/ olisi kaikki naputettu siihen kivaksi paketiksi, niin olisi helposti ollut 5 tähteä, mutta iso väsy kerkesi tulla mutta!!! tällä on ihan käsittämätön lore joten arvostan myös tätä kolmen levyn kokonaisuutta myös
This is a weird one. Kinda hated it first time around (yes I did listen twice), it came across as trite, with ridiculous pastiched and annoying lyrics. But then second time around I split it in to three sessions and didn’t pay as much attention and let it wash over and, well, I found myself enjoying it much more. There is a cracking little album in here somewhere. Peter Gabriel’s version of The Book of Love can’t be beaten though
It is a lot, but the songs are so sharp, ironic, thoughtful, funny,emotional...and the sounds are varied enough. In terms of an exercise in writing unique material on the most wtitten on subject of all time, it is epic.
Too fucking long, my God, this week was a drag listening to this album.
Ugh, 2 hours and 45 minutes!!!? Hell no. I listened to about a half hour. That's enough thank you. Some of them were funny, but I can't listen to the whole thing. 2 stars
A little slow and repetitive, I get it but I didn’t exactly enjoy it. A little monotonous.
Any album this long is in my eyes, quite frankly, taking the absolute piss. An album that long better be perfect from start to finish, and this one definitely is not. The soft, folk/indie/pop vibes are by no means bad to listen to and there are plenty of strong songs, but it's so frustrating when an album feels like this much of a slog to listen to. Ultimately it becomes a bloated mesh of the good and the bland, and should never have been allowed to be this long.
944AM: 7 tracks into this beast. Let's see if I can finish today 1238PM: first disc is done. The lawn isn't so let's start disc two. I'm enjoying this so far. It's pretty varied. We'll see if I still think that 46 songs from now. 103PM: Crazy for you but not that crazy, nice. Stopping here for a bit, still going relatively strong. 530PM: finish disc 2, started strong but interest is waning 938PM: let's bang this out before the deadline. 1028PM: taking a break to watch the Weakest Link. Fuck Jane Lynch and her wisecracks. My wife is asking me if i finished my album with an annoyed look on her face. 6 songs left. 1049PM: Zebra is an ass track to end with. Gauntlet complete. Overall I liked this more than I expected. It does a good job of covering a lot of ground while still sounding mostly cohesive. I can appreciate this and enjoyed the marathon listen but am unlikely to do it front to back again, even if I stumble on this again in the future. Maybe one disc at a time. Disc 1 > 2 > 3, almost certainly due to burnout. Funny how a George Harrison triple album pissed me off but this one I'm weirdly ok with.
this is a great album. neutral milk hotel meets tom waits. definitely putting this in the rotation and will look out for it on vinyl
THREE FUCKING HOURES for this super dumb and cringe concept are we for real... Ig im gona be up until 1am to listen to this, lets give it a shot. Its a mixed bag... Yes this album explore a lot of different style and atmoshere wich makes it less boring than most long album. But it doesnt mean that all these ideas are well executed! Their are SO many bad song on this album, abouth as much as good songs honestly. The good songs are prety fun and its impossible to not like atleast a couple of songs on the album. In conclusion, to no one surprise, this album is bloated because of its stupid concept. It could have been a prety respectable 40 minutes indie rock album but no, these guys had to be special. 69 haha funny/5
-great to finally be forced to listen to this all the way through -a "friend" once made me a playlist with "absolutely cuckoo" on it and it confused me. we don't talk much anymore. beautiful song though. -i am quick to say that albums, even albums i love, drag on, but this one comes surprisingly close to not doing that despite its length. it was only towards the end, where forgettable faux medieval songs get stacked on top of each other, that i tired a bit.
Some ideas are just bad ideas, and you should have people around you willing to tell you that. Making a 69-song album is one of those bad ideas. Imagine if they had taken the dozen or so genuinely above-average songs on here and turned them into a tight 12-15 track album. That might have earned its place on this list because of the music itself, instead of because it was an unusual concept. Instead, you're burying the good material under a mountain of average and below-average songs. By the time you get to the end, the quality tracks don't feel special anymore because you've had to wade through so much filler to find them. Sometimes less really is more, and 69 Love Songs is a perfect example of that.
It's *69* fucking songs from hell. FML.
Quite a bit too long, but enjoyable nonetheless
There are quite a few good songs, and plenty of ones I wouldn’t care for. I am glad I listened to it all in one sitting, without getting up from my chair.
it’s morbid, it‘s goofy, it‘s romantic, it‘s cynical, it‘s morose, it‘s cheesy, it‘s smart, it‘s dumb, it‘s a lot
lol, I’m not listening to 3 hours worth of love songs on one album. But I’ll get as far as I can. The first thing that stands out is that this singing isn’t conventionally great, but still kinda works. The songs actually are pretty enjoyable for the most part. Some of them are a little too cutesy for my tastes. I dunno, I actually like this alright, but 69 love songs is a lot to ask of a listener. My biggest gripe about this record is that it goes on longer than some box sets. 7.5/10 I wound up listening to way more of this than I expected. I enjoyed most of it way more than I expected also. Alright, 1001, you won this one.
What an odyssey... Of course, it's way too long but listening to an album a sitting is reasonable and you have to respect the sheer amount of creativity and hutzpah that went into this.
Of course there's some duds, but overall a really fun album.
"I don't believe in the sun" has captured my attention. This is a good album.
I hope the whole album isn't just 3 hours of inoffensive dull.indie rock like Absolutely Cuckoo... Ok, " A chicken with its head cut off" has a little energy at least. There's also a reasonable amount of variety honestly. Found myself surprised to be enjoying this album. That I wasn't bored of this after three hours tells you that this album is really well done.
Well, I listened to the whole thing. It took about a fifth of my waking hours, but I did it. And it was largely not worth it. There’s a handful of truly great tracks in here. Then there’s tons ranging from middling to boring. And then some songs that are genuinely unpleasant. There’s definitely a good album in here, but the quantity not quality approach really obfuscated that. I know that’s kind of what they were shooting for, and it’s mildly impressive to crank out that many passable songs in one go. In so many different genres and styles to boot. Overall, an album cut down to 40 minutes would’ve been infinitely preferable to this. Still keep the title 69 songs but only put 10 on there. It’ll be ironic or something. Hipsters love that shit.
69 ways to waste some time. (By no means the worst.)
je vais pas écouter un album de 3h, restons sérieux…
God damn I hated this!
This was a practical joke
Well, it’s an impressive accomplishment, that’s for sure. However, this is way too much for a simple album.
2 stars for the sex joke
Malo, largo, aburrido
I groaned and expected a slog through 2 and a half hours of drudgery when this came up. Quite the opposite: varied, funny, creative, sweet, clever. It took me a while to complete it all the way through, but this is certainly an album worth listening to before you die.
I actually really like some of this. Very stripped back and honest. But my lord is there a lot of it. There's a large part of disc 3 where you just want it to end - things do improve slightly though. The filler is atrocious, but the highs are so high.
The fact that it’s literally 69 songs and almost 3 hours truly warranted a 1 pre listen. But, I’m going to do my best to be fair. Update after listening: Disc 1 was good for the first 6-7 songs. After that, hours of pure degeneracy. This shouldn’t have been almost 3 hours. It’s not good enough for that. I will give it a 2 because like I said, Disc 1 started off good.
Listened to a few songs and they weren't good, so I called it there. Not listening to a 3-hour album of dogshi
This is a criminal inclusion on the list.
So many love songs.
I really enjoyed this record lots of fun songs, I will have to listen to completely as only 20 songs in but from what I heard so far, good record.
1 song out of 69. 1 good fucking song out of 4 hours worth of 69 songs. Jesus Christ. Favourite: All My Little Words Least favourite: all fucking 68 others
Some people really believe they have to listen to the junk some wackos put out, from a list another wacko decided to say it was "relevant". Guard your energies and your mind people. This album is clearly from some mentally ill people, skip when you sense trash.
Some good cheeky fun, but trails off after the first third. Three hours was a bit much.
2.3
Too long.
I’m going to admit that it is very tough to listen to this album in one sitting. For the first 20 or so songs it was interesting but after that it was no longer a pleasant or compelling experience. This is no shade to the prolific Stephen Merritt who definitely has a gift for melody and songwriting. I can’t imagine them having performed all 69 songs in order at one show. Creative and clever but all the same, I tapped out for interest at about the 20 song mark. I did listen to the entire album in one sitting and there are a couple of tracks that would pique my interest every now and again but not enough for me to note what they were called. Book of Love I was familiar with and Oapa Was A Rodeo. I actually own the box set but I’ve never broken it open and given the vinyl a spin. I might in the future.. or I might not. Which is where I stand on this record - somewhere in the middle. 3/5
It would have to be an amazing 69 songs to make this worthwhile. They are clearly not all amazing 2* because at least a few of these tracks are worth listening. I will admit to zoning out for most of the nearly 3 hours run time though
328/1089 3 hours long… here we go i guess made it through and it was decent mostly. i appreciate the intent and scope and i think for fans of them this would be great. Personally i think it’d would’ve been better with maybe the 13 or even 23 best songs. it dragged on too much with too little variation imo and at times got a bit too cringeworthy for me. i think part 1 was my fave but part 3 was close and suffered a little from fatigue faves: death of ferdinand, love in the shadows, strange eyes, book of love, world love, long-forgotten fairytale, 59/100
What a clever, weird, beautiful ride. 5/5
Merritt is obviously very talented and unique. My problem is his particular brand of whimsy seems more suited to, say, musical theater or children's TV than a rock album. To be sure, there are some songs on here that are clever, cute, and a few that are achingly beautiful (esp. "The Book of Love"). But there are some that are just damn annoying, many others that are tedious. I respect the ambition, but a triple albums is too damn long. Good songs: "Absolutely Cuckoo" "All My Little Words" "A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off' "I Don't Want to Get Over You" "I Think I Need New Heart" "The Book of Love" (!) "Sweet-Lovin' Man" Bad songs: "Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits" "Reno Dakota" "Love Is Like Jazz" "How Fucking Romantic" "Punk Love" "Promises of Eternity" "I Shatter"
Was not able to listen to the full 3 hrs... v ambitious album! I liked My Sentimental Melody.
Literally 69 love songs and they’re ass. Got through 22/69
Very interesting
It's not bad but the album title is too literal. 3 discs and almost 3 hours? No thanks.
Having a hard time getting a grip on this one. It’s neither really good nor bad. Some of the songs kind of slap, others are kind of just silly. It could have been a fun, casual listen, but then again there’s no reason for it to be 3 hours long…
I appreciate the shtick, but it was about 50 songs longer than the shtick needed
The Juno soundtrack but much too long
- I don´t belive in the sun - The cactus where your heart should be - My sentimental melody - If you don´t cry - I can´t touch you anymore
well, how the hell are we supposed to listen to this in one day?!?! but, another great “album” i've not listened to in forever. so, i'm happy to dig back onto this gem
I want to like this more than I do. I want to designate this a must-listen. I admire the ambition, the concept, the songwriting ability on display. However, I do not love the songs that are bad, and I do not love that the length almost necessitates that some songs are bad. Clearly there is filler here! And despite my greatest intentions, I cannot listen to this whole thing in one go. Sigh.
there’s a great album underneath the mass of songs thrown at it for a funny title
This is a funny album but like 2 hours wayyyyy to long.
Eclectic, in parts beautiful, quirky a mixed bag at times but always interesting.
I couldn't finish it, but am impressed/saddened that I managed to make it 49 songs in. It all bleeds together around the 20 songs mark...I really tried!
I have no idea how to rate this album to be honest. As a concept album, the idea of 69 love songs in various different genres as a commentary on the idea of love songs is a neat idea. Some of the songs are even fun to listen to. But would I listen to it again? Absolutely not. Do I think its also maybe a bit pretentious? 100%. Do I regret it? No. I do applaud unique experiences in music but listening to 3 straight hours of "love" songs was almost torture. The punchline wore out after the first volume. 2.5 but I'll round to 3.
I'm not going to sit through 3 hours of mostly mediocre, sketchpad, not fully realized, sometimes sweet, sometimes okay, sometimes cringe worthy music. I got through, I think, 45 tracks. Done. No thanks.
Some of these were ok, but there are just too many of them; it took too long to get through them. I think we all know why there were 69 of them though.
It was long and I thought I would hate it but it just disgruntled me
This is so hard to rate. I didn’t hate it, which considering how long it is, is impressive. You could make a great album from some of the songs. Overall intrigued me more than a meh 3 star so I gotta go 4.
I didn't have time for 2 hours and 45 minutes of whimsical/novelty love songs. "The book of love" is worth a listen but I'm not going to sit through all the rest.
I like the ambition of writing 69 songs for the album. The quality is pretty consistent, even if I don't hear any standout tracks.
It took some getting used to the guy's voice but some songs grew on me.
This might say more about what Urban Outfitters did for/to the vinyl album than it does the Magnetic Fields, but I truly can’t comprehend the fact that this didn’t come out during the Obama administration. I guess that means it’s ahead of its time?
I would BET the title of this album came first. I've liked 'The Book Of Love' for a long time so was excited to get this one and have been looking forward to it. What a fucking disappointment. I'm gonna give it a 1 because it wasted so much of my fucking time. Laters!!
10/10 for ambition! There is a 5 star album worth of material here for sure, but inevitably there is also some filler. I hadn't listened to this for at least a decade and was pleased to discover I had new favourites on this listen.
New to me. There are some brilliant tracks in here (No One Will Ever Love You was a delight). But why is it so long…. Just slightly too much filler, this is a strong 4 stars if it reduced the number of songs.
I'm not listening to all of that. I'm sorry it happened, or, I'm happy for you
5 very bright stars, thank you for sharing RGP, clearly 69 songs is a lot of songs and the quality not to mention the politics dips over the course of 2 hours 52 minutes but the great songs remain great. Sadly and strangely much like Johnny Marr and Camper Van Beethoven, nothing else Steve M has done comes close to his most perfect work. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏👏👏 Tom.
monotonously, boring and looooong
I've heard this before but not for some time. An amazing piece of work. The closest thing on this list so far was Guided By Voices, but the subs on this all feel more polished and crafted than they did.
VER%Y long i couldnt listen to the whole thing
I know its a cool feat of music and that its fun but i just cant take them seriously sorrrryyyyy
Genuinely enjoyed listening through. No particular song was a stand out but I tend to really like this writing style of telling a story quickly and cleanly
One of my all-time favorite albums. Heartbreaking, clever, sweet, sad, and beautiful. So many great songs. And the length is the point. A great 3 CD experience.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY.....TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...........LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG! It wore thin on me after about the tenth song.
This was odd. I think there was maybe 3 different lead singers? The lyrics were terrible but enjoyable because of being so bad. The singing was super bad too, but also, almost gave it an authenticity that saves the rest of what feels like unauthentic, synthesized music. Overall forgettable, but commendable if for no other reason than sounding different without being bad.
Very methodical in not a necessary bad way. I enjoyed the combination lyrics and music running together. It seemed a good fit. I smiled when listening to a chicken running around with its head cut off
Blah… lyrics were disturbing
An ambitious project that you kinda have to be in the mood for. I like this kind of music, luckily! This occasionally reminded me of They Might Be Giants (particularly TMBG's "Fingertips" songs), which for me is a good thing.
Heard far too many bad musicals to listen to all of this. A few tracks was enough
69 boring songs. Except the Book of Love, which was badly performed here but much improved by Peter Gabriel. Sorry, this is just self indulgent rubbish.
These love songs are anything but typical.. they're more like '69 unexpected encounters.' Every track is like opening another door to find something weird and wonderful. It's musical chaos theory, and I'm here for it. A true delight. Spins: 1 Playlist Additions - All My Little Words - I Don't Want to Get Over You - Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits - The Book of Love - The One You Really Love
What the hell? I thought "there's no way this is actually 69 songs". It's actually 69 songs. Half of them are less than 2 minutes long. Was there just no QA/QC on this album? Just throw anything together and call it a love song?
there is no way i’m listening to all of this
listened to all 69 songs and this is simply put: a perfect album. no notes
Best Song: I Don't Believe in the Sun. A creative and compelling lyrical metaphor. "I don't believe in the sun" is a great line. Worst Song: How Fucking Romantic. All of the aesthetic choices in this song, from the a capella ranting to the finger snaps, make my face pucker. Overall: Honestly, a valiant effort. When I saw that this album was exactly as advertised - 69 different songs about love - I was dreading the next three hours. But in the end, I was kind of surprised at the creativity and diversity of songs here. He really does cover a whole gamut of types of love songs in these little ditties. Some are actually halfway decent, but then you also get absolutely inane tracks like "Love is Like Jazz", for which it's difficult to tell how many layers of sarcasm and irony it was couched in on its way to recording. The whole album just feels like a personal challenge more than a worthwhile attempt to make something that someone else ought to listen to. The musical equivalent of an Ironman competition. Good for the artists for proving that they could do it. For me, the album only works when it drops its mask of cynicism to show brief glimpses of a kind of earnestness that runs quietly underneath.
I’m not listening to all that
no hay necesidad de un álbum tan largo
I thought that the title was just a ha ha funny sex joke. It was unfortunately literal. I selected the 10 most popular songs from Spotify and listened to those, because no album with 69 songs and a run time of three hours is both: a) any good and or b) respects your time. I was correct on both counts. Self indulgent, masturbatory garbage. This trash should be next to the definition of quality over quantity as what not to do. ⭐️
It was actually pretty good
Way too long.
(69/100)
There are quite a few highlights here, and some smart humour, but this is an album that is very pleased with itself. It would have been a better listening experience if it consisted of the 12 best songs on it. Of course, that would not be as high-falutin' or as high-concept as "69 Love Songs", but it would have been more fun for the listener. There are a lot of "amn't I clever?" moments here, and many fairly thin songs. 2 stars
I love a good concept album. This was just way too long to keep my attention. This album should have been presented to us on three consecutive days because most of us have lives to live. Some of the songs were really good and I liked the different genres. Maybe, I will listen to this again when I can find three hours to spare.
3 hours… jeez. Got to try and fit it in somewhere. I think it’s always a bad sign when you’re wondering how long is left when you’re halfway through. It’s just a bit flat and I hate the word but it’s a bit boring. I appreciate the scale and ambition but I couldn't be bothered finishing it. 2/5.
fuck you
Where do I start with this ambitious project? Well I listened to all 69 songs. Generally found the sound of the group to my liking. Stylistically it was all over the place. The love song dedication to Washington DC was … interesting. Some of the tunes seemed straight out of an amateur music production. The gay rodeo number was out there. As other reviewers have said, a single album of the best 14 songs would be great, but there’s no way I’m wading back through this to pick out some favourites for future listening. Maybe I’ll have a crack listening to a stand alone album from the band or maybe their top 5 Spotify plays. Hats off for the ambition and for the 69 references. And at least it wasn’t more rap and jazz.
Het duurde even maar ben helemaal in het album opgegaan. 69 liedjes over liefde in alle vormen met alle mooie, saaie, domme en lelijke dingen die er bij horen. Thema liefde in muziek is vaak dramatisch met breakups of juist romantisch maar erg eenzijdig. Een groot thema waar je op zn minst wel 69 nummers over kan schrijven. Het is erg droog en cynisch en maakt liefde en liefdesliedjes een beetje belachelijk maar is er tegelijk ook weer heel gevoelig voor. De kleine banale dingen en drama van relaties en hoe raar mensen eigenlijk zijn ook als je zelf de persoon in kwestie bent. Alles is een grap maar ook weer serieus, ontzetten veel tegenstrijdigheden die ook herkenbaar zijn. Het is wel soms een beetje vermoeiend maar ook heel leuk. Ik ben sowieso wel fan van the magnetic Fields en de stijl en humor van Stephin Merritt. Als dat niet je ding is zijn 69 nummers een lange lijdensweg. Niet alle 69 zijn natuurlijk van het zelfde niveau maar er komst toch telkens weer zoveel leuks voorbij waardoor je blijft luisteren. Zo ontzettend veel mooie observaties en leuke verhalen. Ik ga dit nog heel vaak luisteren.
Ik ben echt een beetje boos geworden van dit kutalbum. Ik snap dat het leuk is om een conceptalbum te maken, maar wat een hoop opvulling staat hier tussen. Typisch gevalletje kwantiteit boven kwaliteit. Het is nogal veel gevraagd om drie uur lang naar vrij gezapige liefdesliedjes te luisteren. Veel nummers klinken voor mijn gevoel ook meer als demo’s of schetsen dan als volledig uitgewerkte songs. Ondanks dat zit mijn frustratie daar eigenlijk niet eens volledig. Van mij mag je prima een album uitbrengen met 200 saaie nummers als je daar gelukkig van wordt. Mijn echte punt is meer dat het best een challenge is om die 1001 albums door te werken, en ik heb dit hele ding braaf afgeluisterd. Maar dit soort albums maken die challenge soms echt een lijdensweg.
Waayyyyyyyy toooooooooo long
On the one hand, this album is absolutely a gimmick. On the other hand, some of the songs are pretty good. Hard to rate. I guess using my typical methods, I'd have to give this four stars as I would likely listen to it again for fun.
There are 69 songs on this three disc (for old people) album. That is not nice. I knew two of these songs, Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side and The Book of Love, prior to hearing this entire album...or entire three albums. This is just a huge album and it would take days to appropriately listen to every song on here and evaluate how much could be cut. I think a nice 20 song album would be most appropriate, but what do I know? I have never written 69 songs that I felt were worthy of inclusion on an album. For a group of three albums that have 69 songs on them, there is more cohesion than one would expect from song-to-song and disc-to-disc. I am going to listen to this album after today, just because there isn't enough time in the day to listen to all these tunes. I did enjoy this album and there is very obviously filler on here. It would be remarkable if an album with 69 songs did not have filler.
I’m not going to listen to 3 hours of experimental Mass indie pop about love. I listened to some of the top tracks, but I didn’t have the time or desire to listen to th full thing. If it’s you preference, I’m sure it’s good.
Nice!
folky and chill favourite track: all my little words
The book of love has music in it In fact, that's where music comes from Some of it is just transcendental Some of it is just really dumb
No album needs to be this long
need to revisit
Not my universe.
Ambitious, indulgent, maybe perilous? Whatever you want to call it this isn’t as bad as some would have you believe. There is some musicianship and catchy hooks with thought out structure. My only true complaint is that the lyricism is wanting in many songs and so of course this could have been 15 refined Love Songs, but what fun would that be? I listened to neaaaaarly all of this, had to skip a few boring songs, but overall I’m not ashamed to admit that I enjoyed it.
I like the premise of the music and the album, and the bits I listened to were witty/playful and nicely constructed songs. But I was overwhelmed by the quantity and insufficiently excited by the content to push through the whole thing.
This is hell. There might be a decent album in here if they only made like 8 songs.
I had burned CD copies of this album back when…well, when people would burn copies of CDs…but I don’t believe I’d ever sat and listened to the entire thing in one go until today. It was a more enjoyable experience than I anticipated listening to it as a whole. It’s funny, poignant, annoying, catchy, there are some genuinely great songs on here; there’s some total garbage. So what if it’s uneven? That’s not the point. Totally deserves to be on this list.
It was a good time, very eclectic - i wouldn't turn it off
This album is ahead of its time in the sense that some of these songs sound AI generated. Which I guess if you write 69 love songs, they can't all be great. Some of these songs are kinda weird
Braced myself going into it, but actually found myself enjoying a good portion of the album! It didn't feel like 2hr 52 min at all... Definitely far from perfect, but every song had its charm and I enjoyed the cheekiness of it all. High 4
jedan od meni najdražih albuma koji sam bezbroj puta preslušao od početka do kraja jest »sandinista!« grupe clash, koji je izvorno objavljen u formatu od tri ploče i traje skoro dva i pol sata. ovaj pak album objavljen je na tri CD-a, zbog čega je negdje pola sata duži. i album je izvrstan! uopće nisam mislio da će ovako zvučati. ima pjesama bez kojih se stvarno moglo (uglavnom kratke i bezvezne), ali nekako mi sve to na kraju funkcionira. dao sam si vremena i tretirao svaki CD kao jednu cjelinu, što slušanje čini puno ugodnijim. zbog nedosljednosti i nagruvanosti materijala dat ću četvorku, ali jako sam sve u svemu ugodno iznenađen
Day 38 — The Magnetic Fields — 69 Love Songs (1999) Listened: May 9–10, 2026 Genre: Indie Pop / Chamber Pop / Art Pop Vibe: Grandiose, witty, and deeply personal — 69 tiny love songs spanning every style imaginable, delivered with an old-timey theatrical baritone that echoes Scott Walker. Highlights: • I Don’t Believe in the Sun • A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off • I Don’t Want to Get Over You • The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side • Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits • I Think I Need a New Heart • Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long • A Pretty Girl Is Like • My Sentimental Melody • Sweet-Lovin’ Man • When My Boy Walks Down the Street • Grand Canyon • No One Will Ever Love You • If You Don’t Cry • Promises of Eternity • Long-Forgotten Fairytale • Papa Was a Rodeo • How to Say Goodbye • The Night You Can’t Remember • I’m Sorry I Love You ★ It’s a Crime • Bitter Tears Impression: Abrupt start that almost lost me but glad I stuck with it — a lot of songs landed immediately and more revealed themselves on the second listen. Reminds me of Scott Walker in the best way — that same grandiose voice carrying dark, personal, real content. A remarkably creative project that I respect as much as enjoy. Needs more listens to fully settle. Rating: 3.3/5 Keep songs? Yes Revisit album? Yes
Hated it with the fire of a thousand suns. I am only giving this album one star, because I can’t give it anything lower. This album stole 11.80% of a day of my life. I’ve never heard of it or that band before and never want to ever again. Ever
It wasn’t horrible just waaaaayyyy to much and it was very repetitive, I could only bear to listen to disc 1
It’s just too many songs for one album. Some of the songs are decent and if the best of them were all on one album then maybe you would have something but this is ridiculous. Granted I did not listen to all 69, there just wasn’t anything good enough that I did hear to entice me to keep going. Interesting concept but it did not work for me.
This album is long and some of it has fillers. If you look past the length there are some absolutely catchy & sometimes hilarious songs. Im a fan of songs not being taken too seriously, and a lot of this hit the mark. "Fido your leash is too long..."
This was so ponderously long, but after listening over two days, I think I got it – besides the "nice" number, this eclectic album was making fun of the very structure of albums. The songs were short, for the most part, and the lighthearted, or sometimes absurd, themes gave me a chuckle or two as they played in the background of my workday. It felt like Bert, the geology professor from The Big Bang Theory, meets the Crash Test Dummies meets the Barenaked Ladies. This one doesn't take itself seriously, but its vocabulary is impressive, and the variation of styles and instruments throughout helps offset the sheer length of THREE VOLUMES. Enjoyed parts of it, but I won't be back.
This the type of shit your extremely talented drunk friend from college with wayyy too much time on his hands would do. Love is like jazz might be the worst song I’ve ever heard. There were some good songs in here so don't think I'm just being a hater. I just genuinely couldve died a happy man without hearing this shit.
Highlights: 1-1, 1-3, 1-4, 1-6. 1-8, 1-9, 1-10, 1-12, 1-13, 1-15, 1-17, 1-20, 1-21, 2-2, 2-6, 2-8, 2-9, 2-14, 2-15, 2-18, 2-22, 3-1, 3-2, 3-8, 3-12, 3-13, 3-16, 3-21, 3-23 It took a lot to successfully sit through this shit. It's very bloated. I guess it's just to prove some point about how various love songs can be but also be like "ahhahxhaxhahx funnny 69". And yeah, it might also mocks the typical love songs sometimes, but come on - I got the point after 20 minutes, why does it have to be 3 hours long. The song "The Book of Love" basically perfectly describes my thoughts on the length of the record, and I guess the record itself is just supposed to be a statement, not something to really listen to. It's as if the writer flexes to the listener just how much various material he can put out. It kinda got monotonous after some time too, which was nicely described by "Love Is Like Jazz". However, there are gems hidden in between. This record has two sides - a folky sounding one and a goofy synth one. I honestly prefer the goofy synth over the monotonous folk approach, but they were decently balanced over the runtime. The lyrics are often pretty basic, but there were some original ideas which I did like. But yeah, this doesn't sound like something I'll be revisiting in its entirety anytime soon. Thematically it's all over the place (go figure). It's not like you are supposed to listen to it because it's a record for this or that mood. It's just a library you pick stuff out off or a book of love full of stories. However, I would feel confident saying that the "book" could have been half the current length.
Loveeeee this album. I would’ve never thought lol
If it was done nowadays it would of been 67 Love Songs
Some tracks I liked, some I didn't care as much for, but I'm left wondering why anyone felt this was worth creating a 3 hour album.
There are so many songs. Some are alright some are good but man a 2 hr and 50 min album
Some great songs I don't want to get over you I think i need a new heart
Wow so hard this one. I thought 3 hours would destroy me, and maybe they did, but most songs are good and unique. I appreciate the experiment.
It's a cliche that every good double album would make a great single album. So what's the case when faced with a triple album? I'm sure it would be stronger as a double or even a single album. In this case, though you'd be missing out on a lot. There's enough variety among the 69 (nice) tracks here that it doesn't feel like 3 hours listening to one artist, which an become dour with some indie acts. Something that I was worried would be the case after the first couple of tracks with Stephin Merritt's somewhat sardonic vocal tone. Thankfully there's a lot of variety here, different co-vocalists chip in to vary the mood considerably. There's also a few synth-forward tracks that remind me of either Depeche Mode or the Pet Shop Boys sonically, and those are the ones I enjoyed most. Also, while the concept is 69 Love Songs, it looks at love from a lot of different angles, from the yearning of "Come Back from San Francisco," to the horniness of "Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits," to infidelity in "Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long," means it doesn't descend into glurge.
Super long, some great songs
first of all SIXTY NINE right on bruh, second of all are you kidding me with the three fucking discs and nearly three hour runtime? You arent a Miles Davis Jazz performance, I dont care what statement you're making or theatre-kid brained idea this was. I do appreciate that he decided not to do 100 songs because "that would be too difficult/take too long." I cant say that this idea is a terrible one, in terms of a musical experiment bordering on performance art, its kind of a neat idea. The execution just leaves a lot to be desired. I think it was pared down to maybe 25 tracks with a lot of love put into them, it could've juiced up the quality quite a bit. As it stands its mostly a mishmash of some interesting songs mixed with mediocre and some real bonkers entries. The ambitious nature is the selling point to me, but the product just didnt deliver. Usually I listen to these entries during a part of my work day, this one I had to break up a few times and it wound up eating up a good chunk or my day.
An interesting experiment. Some of the songs are enjoyable, some are not very good at all! All of them feel a little half baked but what can you expect when the artist is going for quantity over quality. Also for an album about love songs there sure are a lot of self pitying sad boy songs about what a loser the singer is. Weird choice! It’s also obscenely long so feel free to break this one up into multiple days. Your score will probably be lower if you don’t
I found this to be a really interesting concept album.
Overall: 4/10 There's enough good music in here to make a very solid album, but a majority of it feels like they just slapped together a few chords to hit this arbitrary amount of songs to make the album stand out. It's a dumb gimmick in my opinion, and it's length ruins what could have been a really good album. Fav Song: Long-Forgotten Fairytale
Weird music. Don't like the vocal. Random listen. Not worth it.
My 666th album, and I definitely feel like I've been sent to hell and back with this absolute unit of an album. Granted, it's not all bad, it's quite pleasant actually. The biggest weakness is that despite the lengthy track list, there is a lack of variety and musical styles that would have been appreciated for my patience.
Not my cup of tea
i really liked it, spoke to me in a personal level.
From a variety and amount of content perspective it’s impressive but I just didn’t think it was enjoyable to listen to
Many, most?, of my friends are fans of The Magnetic Fields. And not to set myself apart--I have my own fair share of uber-indie music that I've loved, and even still love. But I've never understood any affection for Merritt's music. Ok, that is overstated: he's an excellent and prolific songwriter. But I find little to like in his voice, nor those of his regular collaborators, and I find many of his instrumentation choices poor. Too often his songs sound to me like someone lobotomized what could have been a good, even great song. Maybe a little like Leonard Cohen, he's arguably a better song writer than performer--though I personally like Cohen's performances, but both have penned songs that spawned covers great than the originals. All the complaining aside, there's song great songwriting here.
feels a little on the nose to say that this record contains multitudes. Maybe if it was ONLY a double album. There’s stuff for everything: Brian Wilson croons, renaissance lute ballads, classic Merritt dirges and even choir chestnuts like The Book of Love. But most important for me, there’s a supercut of hazy power-pop bangers that faithfully soundtracked my most melodramatic times. That cut alone would make a full LP. For my own tastes, most other Fields albums contain 1/3 things that I want to hear forever, but a third of 69 is 23. So goddamn.
When The Magnetic Fields set out to make an album of 69 love songs, I'm sure they didn't think "but what if our album is someday included on a website that generates an album every day for people to listen to." It was at least partly a response to Charles Ives' 114 songs. Yes you could probably make an incredible album of just the best songs on here, but I think if it hadn't been 69 songs some of the really enjoyable weird stuff wouldn't have been written. I love this album. I love how strange it is. I love how varied it is. I love how broad their definition of "love song" becomes. Many of these songs regularly appear on my playlists. I'd never sat down to listen to the full album before, but I'm glad I did. There were some songs on here that I hadn't heard but really loved. Not every song on here is one I would choose to play on its own, but a lot of them are. I like the ambition of the project and despite its long run time, I do think I'll listen to it again. Fav song: Reno Dakota, Absolutely Cuckoo and Papa Was a Rodeo are some of my favourites. From the songs I didn't know already, No One Will Ever Love You and World Love are some new favourites. Least fav: Experimental Music Love
Obviously it's a long album and it suffers from the nature of this reviewing process- they probably weren't ever expecting people to try to listen to it in a day. Although everyone complaining should be glad he didn't make it 100 love songs like originally planned. Honestly the further into the album I got the more I appreciated the scale of it. It's not just an album its a project on love songs, an exploration across genres, emotions and types and stages of relationships. There are some truly gorgeous songs and lyrics and while they aren't all perfect I never got bored or annoyed, I was always excited to see what they'd done next and I'm really glad this project made me listen to it all. Favourite song: All My Little Words (also absolutely love The Book of Love and Absolutely Cuckoo) My favourite new song: Meaningless (or It's A Crime, or I'm Sorry I Love You) Least: Love Is Like Jazz
2 horas... e 45 min... jesus FAVS (top 3): all my little words, lets pretend we're bunny rabbits, my sentimental melody mençoes hornosas: i dont want to get over you, i think i need a new heart, the book of love, nothing matters when we're dancing, grand canyon, if you dont cry, washington d.c., asleep and dreaming, blue you, i cant touch you anymore, zebra gente? pior q é um bom album. infelizmente muito massante por ter 2 horas quase 3 MEU DEUS! felizmente tem bastante musica boa entao nao é como se fosse tortura KKKKKK ouvir ele de novo inteiro com certeza nao vou, mas as q salvei com certeza, se fosse menor e conseguissem salvar as melhores de todas ia ser um album de amor mt lindo, se tivesse 1 hora por ai KKKKK mas curti! experiencia doida perde alguns pontos por causa dessa capa feia nota final: 3.5/5
I listened to a few songs and didn't have patience for it. I'll try again when I'm older. If anyone's listened to the Series of Unfortunate Events books, one of the singer does original songs for that which is fun!
Pretty good album with some iconic love songs, however it is a bit long for my taste.