Reviews (page 7 of 8)
This should not be on the list. It’s terrible. The dude can’t sing. It’s like listening to my dog wail. It’s disrespectful of my time. Who’s got 3 hours to listen to this garbage. Be better.
23 love songs was enough.
Was hoping the title was more of an innuendo. Had some flashes but way too long
Had high hopes, shouldn't have.
Kind of a slog to get through, didn’t really connect to any of it but there were hints of things I liked here and there
Every single song on this is… fine? Found it overall quite tedious and wasn’t really on board at any point.
This is way too long and so many of the songs don't feel fully finished. Cool idea but meh execution
I anticipated this would be the "nice" kind of 69 love songs, or romantic ballads contemporary to the year 1969, or an album titled "love songs" by the band "69" or some alternate combination. Indeed this is non-figuratively a count of 69 musical tracks of earnest, wholesome serenades. I must disclose I probably gave up with the first third, or 23 songs, but that was my torture threshold.
Too long
This list is becoming more and more demanding every day. Three hours!?
What am I supposed to say here “oh it really comes alive halfway through the second album oh the third disc really has some hidden gems in it.” Get tf outta here with a nearly 3 hour long album comprised mostly of male manipulator music. This album was a huge test of strength for me to meet a piece of art where it’s at, and I tried my hardest. But after a while, these songs did what I’m guessing a lot of deadmau5 songs do for his first time listeners: blended all together. This was a Spotify streaming bloat album well before it’s time though, I’ll give it that
Cool concept album but not really my cup of tea
Absolutely Cuckoo A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long My Sentimental Melody Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing Time Enough for Rocking When We’re Old No One Will Ever Love You I Can’t Touch You Anymore The second 3 hour album I’ve gotten. Idk who enjoys an over 1.5 hour album. But I don’t. Wasn’t the worst I suppose. Genuinely surprised I made it to the end without much struggle. Some melodies were quite entertaining and the vocals sounded depressed but in a strangely good way.
This album is nearly 3 hours long … the hubris of this band! While it is mostly pleasant (I feel like I hear this type of music all the time when eating at trending restaurants in Seattle), it’s simply too long to listen to in it’s entirety without skipping. And I can only stand so much ukulele…
too many songs - but pretty good album
3 hours! I don’t even listen to three hours in a row of music I do want to listen to
Full of itself
Too long and arduous to finish . 50 - 55 songs too long Cake ish There's some Len Cohen here too
1 star for the concept and 1 star for not sticking with the original plan of 100 love songs
Decent background music and there is definetly a good album in there somewhere. There was just no reason to make it this long
About one albums worth of quality songs. Ambitious project, but not worth a spot here.
I appreciate the challenge mindset behind this album project, but this was too much. Some songs were okay but they really all blended together and became monotonous. 2.5/5
A lot of songs, some of them are okay
J'aime bien le concept mais trop long là
Too long
Woah, this is some Kanye level shit.
Too long.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. They probably would have been better making 10 good songs rather than 69 meh songs. They have created a talking point but thats it.
Before Spotify was a thing these guys nailed the 'slightly mediocre love songs' playlist. The better moments were well hidden in the massive amounts of self-indulgent nonsense but I'm still not sure there's a decent album's worth hiding in here
When it says 69 Love Songs on the tin, I wasn't expecting literally 2 hours 45 minutes worth of songs. To give a reasonable review of this album it'd need to be listened to in a few instalments, which I doubt I'd want to put the effort in for. From the initial one-off listen, it's an alright 3-side album, giving me Lou Reed vibes, quite humorous in places, tiresome in others, nothing I disliked, but equally who would love a chicken with its head cut off? 2.5
Muy extenso. No es demasiado de mi agrado.
This felt like the worst kind of homework. Cute at times, with some variety, but a slog. Like others have mentioned, they should have focused their attention on 10-12 really good ones instead of 69 mediocre ones. 2/5
I just can’t. 3 hours is too much, and I don’t love “indie” music in the best of times. It wasn’t awful, there were some toe tappers, but it’s just too much.
I can appreciate the ambition and commitment to the bit. I did not like one song on this album though
ура осилила один раз и СРАЗУ узнала первую песню когда пошёл на второй. в среднем есть интересные идеи и музыка, но вокал совсем не для меня, это какой-то Том Петти / Леонард Коэн уровень завывания
Realistically I will not be listening to all 3 hours of this.
this is too many love songs
Some of this is good. Some of this is bad. But it's 3 hours long. Sorry
I’m not going to listen to this entire album out of principle. Very few artists will earn my attention for three discs, and a sub-par, boredom-inducing caterwauler is not going to make the cut. Two stars.
69 songs on 1 album? Must be grindcore. It isn't? Pas.
I was extremely disappointed that I had to listen to almost 3 hours of this album, which consists of 3 disks. It wasn't THAT bad, but would've enjoyed it just as much if it was only 15 minutes long. Kinda chill, it's nice that the songs were relatively short. Definitely very weird at times, and although I was going to rate it 1 star, it kind of made me not hate it too much after bonding with the album for almost 3 hours...
Another one that I’ll stop after disc 1. The cover of Book of Love is great as Izzy says. The rest, a bit subpar Divine Comedy.
Songs we ok but way too long
Quantity over quality. Honestly, not gonna listen to all of these. Low effort creativity and musicianship. Feels like a stunt album just to use "Love" and "69" hyuk, hyuk.
I almost admire the audacity to release a 3 hour album of love songs. By my ratings system, I should give this a 1 because I didn't finish it. I only got through about 40 songs. Most are generic nothing songs and it was all blending by the time I called it quits. There are a couple in here that I actually recognized and enjoyed, but the rest was forgettable. I would hardly call this mandatory listening.
It's like Our Gang meets painfully ironic ennui. Trying way too hard to be clever and original and not really pulling it off for me. Maybe a third of these songs I'd want to hear again, but not for a while.
Music for a middle school drama club. And way too much of it. Barely listenable for me. Bright spot - Sweet Lovin' Man Might be 10 or 12 decent songs in here, but easy to miss amongst the nonsense
What I listened to was fine, but this was just too long to commit to without it being truly exceptional.
69 Love Songs is one love song too many. The song that should have been omitted is Love Is Like Jazz, but ya can’t really have an album about love songs titled 68 Love Songs so ya might as well leave it in. It’s just a bad song, or bad jazz, or both. Overall, I like the album and the concept. A Chicken With It’s Head Cut Off, Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits, and Papa Was a Rodeo are among the better songs. Album runs a little long for one listening session, no kidding. (2.2*s)
What a bloated, pretentious collection of average Indie rock. Maybe there are some good or very good of songs but they are lost within all the mediocrity.
How about 10 love songs next time?
Idk how to rate this. I guess I like the intention and context of this record but I could never listen to it again.
Quirky and funny. Every song is different but same theme and concept throughout. Never something I’d revisit.
One full extra star for Book of Love
Meh. Way too long, did not finish.
We’ve had two classic albums by two of the biggest and most influential artists of the period. Now this.
I made it through 2/3s of this to realize that I don’t need to spend another hour on it. Now, a few songs are good without a doubt. But is this a good listening experience as an album? Absolutely not. And some songs are outright bad and/or simply fillers. I can understand that it’s a fun project to put together for yourself, but to write 69 love songs for the sake of it doesn’t really cut the mustard for me as an album.
Too long, seemed amateurish.
2.5. Funny project. Some good songs, a lot of ok songs, but also a lot of stinkers
The band members can’t seriously think all of these songs are good? Some of them are so close to being good songs, maybe if they’d cut out a majority of the songs and focused on these few this would be a fantastic indie album. As it is, it stinks.
This is a 4 star album, less 1 star for stretching it to 3 disks and less another star for stretching it to 2 disks. They who live by the disk die by the disk.
69 love songs but nary a one about 69
3 hours of love songs? How about no. It only gets a 2nd star because I'm feeling nice for putting in the effort.
Ok, c'était vraiment trop long...
i mean i guess some songs are okay but seriously what do you want from me. its not even that impressive of a feat to make this large of an album, it was 1999 producing music was easy at this point.
Too many sub par songs
The water drop torture is a method of torture consisting of tying a condemned person immobile to a board. From then on, at regular intervals, a drop of water fell on his forehead. Lack of sleep and repetition wear down the subject's resistance. This results in a psychological alteration of the victim, who ends up going crazy.
A bit droning, not too interesting
Certainly a variety
Unique indie sound. It's a mood
Was ok but just way too long. I only got through about half of it before I was done
It's almost impossible to try to appraise in the way we've been doing so because of the length and diversity of the content, and it really does come across at times as if the inspiration for putting this work together was to receive acclaim for exactly that, rather than because of the music. Some of the songs are really nice, some of them are pretty, some quirky, there's cross-genre stuff, there's stripped back stuff, there's a lot going on. The femle vocals are infinitely more tolerable than Merritt's (my favourite songs are those ones, No One Will Ever Love You, Come Back From San Francisco, Acoustic Guitar), which I find annoying most of the time, although it works on the most stripped back songs like The Book of Love and Meaningless and Nothing Matters When We're Dancing. If I was going to give this a 3 because of everything going on and settling in the middle, I'm dropping it to a 2 because it is far, far, far too long and doesn't hit enough highs to remotely justify it.
Listened to Vol1, that was enough
This album overstays its welcome. It has some decent tracks, especially the Book of Love, which is its only saving grace in my opinion and raises it to a 2 instead of a 1. The rest is just drivel.
boring but it has the song from the scrubs finale
the magnetic fields' 69 love songs went in almost every direction, and they tried to tackle too much within one album. yes, it's full of creativity, but it lacks so much cohesiveness. i thought i understood this album with its quick turns from indie to pop to electronic, but then some celtic sounds came out of nowhere. i'm annoyed i had to listen to such an unnecessarily long album, and i didn't want to even like this album. i suppose when you create 69 songs, odds are some of them can be hits. the lyrics didn't stand out at all. it figures with so many songs that the creative songwriting juice would run out. having different lead vocalists help switch things up in this three CD album. with the lead vocalist, i found myself reminded of leonard cohen often with that raspy voice.
Well, this was every bit as exhausting as I thought it would be. From a creative expression perspective, I can absolutely appreciate the creative endeavor of making 69 love songs, all of which seem to be short poems narrating the various aspects of love. The compositions are all fairly unique, but also seem to be fairly subdued, if not simplistic, almost as if to convey this idea of modern minstrel music. But being forced to LISTEN to 3 hours of this is an absolute chore.
random 1-2 minuutin pituisia kappaleita spämmitty oikeiden biisien keskelle.. koska pitää olla 69 konsepti, mutuaalinen suuseksi asentoesque album... hyviä pätkiä löytyy mutta niitä täytyy suurennuslasilla pyynätä kolmen tunnin mörkäleestä, ei kiitos.......vihaan kaikkia tällä sivustolla, myös itseäni. (i shat)ter
Almost 3 hours Long album?! It has some weird songs
Far too long!
Thoughts before listening: This comes up a lot on best albums lists but I have never listened. I think that's mainly cause 69 songs is A LOT of songs and it just seems like a daunting task. Plus I have heard bits and pieces of the album and I don't really like what I've heard. Review: Wow, right out the gate this album has some really nice songs on it. Wonderful melodies and super catchy pop rock songs. Stylistically this is lo fi pop rock with a bunch of different influences on the songs: some remind me of the Smiths, some sound like Irish folk songs, there are some country rock tunes and some that jse electronic inspired instrumentation. There are definitely too many songs, and a lot of this feels like half assed songs thrown together to meet the silly 69 tracks concept. The highs are very high, but the lows are something I'd never go back to. Also, I don't have time for nearly 3 hours of music...I tried to listen all the way through, but once I realized there are some jokey throwaways on here I started skipping a lot. I tried to cheat a bit and looked up best of lists to help pick and choose tracks, but there is very little consensus. Tracks that were at the top of one list would be at the bottom of others. That certainly speaks to just how polarizing this album can be as well as the stylistic variation throughout. There are definitely highlights here: I Don't Believe in the Sun, All My Little Worlds, The One You Really Love, When My Boy Walks Down the Street, Long Forgotten Fairytale, Papa Was a Rodeo, Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side, and Death of Ferdinand de Saussure. Overall this is way too hit or miss to get a good score from me, although I will happily revisit the songs above that I added to the playlist.
The length affects this album greatly. Fair play making that many songs for one album though, even if most are garbage.
I did it, I did it! All 69, all 2.5+ hours. Am I better for it? Not really. The songs are mediocre, which made me kind of mad. What hubris to put out almost three hours of mediocrity! There were great moments and ultimately I wish this was boiled down to ten stellar songs. As it is, a harsh rating for the sheer audacity of this project!
This is like an MFA thesis. Quite an accomplishment, but that doesn't mean it's any good. I'll be more charitable than I was initially thinking - there's more than a decent album among these "69 Ideas for Love Songs in Various Stages of Final Draft." Maybe a decent double album. But it's quite a bit too much as 69. Also, the ABCB rhyme scheme in 50+ of them is a big part of overstaying the welcome.
And then the doorbell rang and the trance was broken. Got just about half way. Quite a scatterbrain collection. This is car journey stuff at best where one needs something light heading up the motorway. As it is so long one might even create a playlist from it picking a select bunch of tunes. That seems the best option for repeated plays.
Distinctly average with some very uninspiring lyrics, simplistic to a fault
Well, not my idea of Love Songs apparently. I didn't like the style , the simplicity, and the vocal, just terribly not my type of music. I tried to listen to at least 10 songs, to make an opinion (out of 69, which is actually unbelievable), but it was quite repetitive, so no reason to listen to it in whole. Bad match.
69 songs is a lot. I nearly didn't even attempt it but I swore I'd listen to all these albums. I didn't enjoy it 95% of the time, and as you'd expect it is massively quantity over quality... but it's not the worst thing i've heard on this list - and it blows my mind that nearly 3 hours later I'm willing to give more than 1 star
I got about 20 songs in. Tedious. I'm terrible at music so I wouldn't even be able to write one of these songs admittedly, but I can't help but feel any musician who's half decent could knock up a similar set of 69 unfleshed out ideas within 24 hours. How is this even anywhere near the 1001 list.
Cool idea for an album, I'm just not listening to all that shit. I don't know if their idea transitioned into the actual creation as well as they would've liked, but still thought provoking. I hate that to find a good song or 2, you have to sift through 50-60 shitty fillers. Granted, this was created as a theatrical performance type of album, so it's more understandable when you know that. I didn't listen through every song but I read through a lot of the lyrics. There aren't a lot of love songs in this love album, just an album full of random genres with lyrics loosely pertaining to love in a not so direct way (aside from a few). All in all, it could've been good if it wasn't for its ridiculous length and collection of unthoughtful fillers. Personal Favorites: The book of love, All my little words, I don't want to get over you, I think I need a new heart
Songs were very much a 3/5 average not bad, but to make 3 hours of them is self indulgent and a waste of everyone's time
Whew, just finished listening to this whole thing. It’s interesting, I’m glad it exists because I know some people really love it. And it’s a neat idea. But personally I find his singing and lyrics overwrought, and most of the songs just sort of blend together.
Sounds like something Matthew would like
Disjointed and annoying and long
Long and weird... some okay tracks
This monster of an album is a darling of rock critics everywhere. One Christgau gave it an A+, the rock nerds came running and boom, it landed on this list. I've tried to listen to this album in earnest at least 5 times in my life and I've never made it past the first CD. My brain goes numb somewhere around Punk Love and I just can't recover. This time I made it to Promises of Eternity before tapping out. It's a damn shame too because there are several tracks in the first 10 songs that are legitimately interesting and engaging. If only they made this a normal LP length.
there were some decent songs on here. it’s actually kind of impressive how eclectic this album is, so many different styles of music are represented. many of the songs are intentionally tongue in cheek, some more clever than others. overall, this album was about 3x as long as it should have been, too much filler. it was too gimmicky to have an album that was almost 3 hours long full of love songs, 69 to be exact.
I'm not going to listen to 3 hours of love songs from a no-name band
I’m really questioning on why I should listen to these 1,001 albums. This one was ok for a bit but 3 hours?
Boring and samey. Is there really three lots of 23 songs to endure? I sure wouldn't like to actually listen to these. Concentration over that period of time is a legitimate chore, however just having this playing along in the background isn't actually objectionable. It does seem like a lot of effort to go to for such a juvenile joke, though.
Honestly, there's enough ok to decent songs on here to make it not a terrible album but holy shit 69 songs is way too long for this quality of music. 3 hours is a complete slog to get through. I'm still listening but this will probably be my first DNF. The album title is self explanatory. Some people got together and wrote 69 simple love songs and threw them all together on this album. Many of them (if not most) sound like they were written in an hour. They're simple little hippy era accoustic things with simple singing over the top. The guys voice kind of sounds like Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros and sometimes the music gives the same vibe but, with much less thought put into it. (I feel like this comparison is an insult to Edward Sharp) This HAS to be a background album while you're doing other things to enjoy it. Some stuff is pretty good like "No One Will Ever Love You" "Long Forgotten Fairy Tale" I thought were pretty good. And a few others had some quality to them but on the whole its just mostly half-assed filler. There's probably enough decent songs on here to make a mediocre 3 star album but as it stands with the length of this thing and the amount of filler junk on here its like a 1.5 - 2 star album.
A bit too indie band for me. I quite like Merritt's voice though.
Kon hier niet veel Kaas van maken.
meh
Interminable opera magna de Magnetic Fields (amb el permís de '50 Songs Memoir'), amb 69 esbossos de cançons fent referències i acceptant influències de multitud de géneres i autors. Hi ha uns quants encertos i l'exercici mereix respecte, però és massa llarg i malauradament els resultats estan força lluny de l'esforç que requereix la seva escolta
Anything good about this album is buried under hubris and volume.
First off this is insanely long.
Very ambitious, and took too big of a swing
Wow, it's really 69 songs... in 3 albums... ok. I mean, I kind of like this simplified style, and I appreciate the ability to write and record so many songs... but it's a little like going to the Golden Corral--lots of food, but no single item is all that amazing. I'd rather go to Ruth's Chris and get a couple of unforgettable items.
I am reminded of the story of a young man who went to a brothel and asked the madame for a girl to try '69' with. The madame only had one girl available, but she had just come back from a Mexican restaurant. They got into position and were just starting to get busy when the girl passed some mean gas. They kept at it and in a few minutes the girl tooted again. A few coughs and tears later the guy went back to it and was soon greeted by one of the most horrendous farts ever dealt. Finally, after gagging to the point of almost upchucking, the guy rose and put his clothes back on. The girl was aghast as she never before had someone quit in the middle of an encounter. The guy wiped a few more tears away and said, "Darling, I am sorry but I don't think I can take another 66 of those." For this album, quirky as it was, I tapped out at ten.
Of all of the albums I have listened to, this is one of them.
Not a huge fan of this one.
When I first saw a three hour run time I was about to nope the fuck out but then I saw it was broken down into three 23 track albums so I listened to 1 a day. It’s at least listenable too but definitely an exercise in endurance.
Idk what this was….
Too long man
Didn’t have the time or motivation to listen to 69 songs. What I did listen to didn’t “grab” me. 2*
Alt for langt!
The sum is not greater than its individual parts, all of which suck.
Quirky, poppy, okay songs but I'm really not so sold on this that I am going to listen to almost 3 hours worth of this. Life is too short
Magnetic Fields have always been a "small doses" group for me due to the vocals and maudlin nature of their sound. So the prospect of listening to 3 hours of not-very-curated output from this band was several giant leaps beyond my tolerance. Did I listen to all of it? Of course not. I read reviews and picked out about 1/4 of what seemed to be the best-regarded. A few were clever. Most were meh. I don't feel particularly bad about missing the rest.
Jeg gjorde det!! Knap 3 timer er desværre for langt, men der var da nogle meget gode indimellem
No album should ever be this long
Got old quick. 69 tracks is 60 too many
Meh
Quirky - hard to assign to a particular genre; some tracks are like C&W performed by Lou Reed. Some tracks feel a bit pretentious.
Wymiękłem w połowie pierwszej płyty
This got funnier as it went on (and yes I listened to all of it). I can't say I'll need to listen to this again and do feel like this guy is punking us a bit.
I listened to the entire album over a couple days. There are some good songs on here but they are sandwiched between a bunch of mediocre songs. The Washington DC song is something else. If this was cut down to 15 songs it could have been a great album.
I love Book of Love. But this whole thing is a little weird.
Too long.
2/5. I am only going to listen to this album once. Sure there are some good songs but this is insane. Like, if this was a band that tried wildly different genres it could super enjoyable but I can’t tell 20 songs from each other. Not a 1 for the ambition.
Cut out about two hours of filler, and this would actually be a pretty good album.
Tried to listen through it all but almost 70 similar sounding songs gets grading, ended up skimming through to find the good stuff and skip the duds (and was happier for it). Not worth a full listen but definitely gonna save a couple songs off this thing
Ugh. 2 hours and 52 minutes of not good. Still better than Lorde
OMG. It is *actually* 69 songs. No. NO album should be that long. Three. Hours.
It really is 69 songs. Oh dear. I'd struggle to listen to 69 songs by The Beatles in one sitting, let alone 69 songs by a US indie act I don't give a shit about. Most of the songs reminded me of nursery rhymes, rather than love songs. I made it as far as track 23. Nice innuendo with the album title, all the same.
Fun in parts, a drag in others. I found it hard to get through. It's way too long. I know! I know! It's in the TITLE that it's 69 Love Songs. Might I suggest 12?
Nothing special and bit of a strange mix across the album.
Muutama hyvä biisi mukana, mutta 69 kappaleen listaan mahtuu melkonen määrä paskaa. Ihan hauska idea tehdä tuollainen setti, mutta materiaali ei vaan riitä.
Weird as shit. Grew on me a bit, but wouldn't want to listen to it again. 2.5
Hard to listen but great name
This album felt like it would never end. The only redeeming quality was that each song felt different and it faded into the background.
5/10
A concept album, self evidently. I can't say I felt the concept translating terribly well. Irony is a selection of about 10 of these songs would have made quite the album.
Listened to the most popular songs, did not listen to all 69. Would give this a 3, maybe even 4, for its quirky humor and genuine feel, if it wasn't so bloody long.
I made it through 8½, then a couple more. Some are good, some are ok, some are shit
Dull and so god damn long
3 hours of love songs. is 2 hours and 50 min to much
1.5/5 some good songs in there, but holy sht is it long and boring with at times very bad vocals
Not terrible songs, but certainly not good enough to warrant 69 of them 1.5/5
You cannot fucking give me this now. It gave me a little bit of hope to get through this though. And then the last line of "The One You Really Love" hit me... "Punk Love" saved it all though ahahhah When you make an album 3 hours long, some of it is gonna sound like shit. Quite a bit of this does just that. 2
too avant-garde. and _long_.
Hljómar eins og eitthvað grín, hef heyrt verri tónlist svo sem.
I get the appeal. But the sheer length is just absolute disregard for the listener. Gotta wade through some filler crap to find a decent record. There is one in here. I could judge it based on its ambition which I might give it a few more points but on track quality and overall experience. It's a 2 from me.
Some good stuff, but a little self-indulgent. Did not listen to the whole three hours.
Too long
Interesting concept, but don’t think I would listen again. Witty lyrics, but not many songs out of the 69 that kept me engaged
Concept albums almost always fall short of the mark. Even when they don't take three hours to get through. The schtick always wears thin as songwriters work to force thoughts into spaces that don't fit like Cinderella's step sisters trying on shoes. In the end, concept albums always find they have to cut off their toes to get the shoe on. The result is a bloody, painful mess. And that's exactly what we're dealing with here. It's a slow, shallow, painful slog of an album. I didn't need it. Nobody needs it. Take the best 15-20 of these tracks and put them on an album without all the trash tracks and you've got something. But that doesn't fit the concept. And, because Stephin Merritt insisted on serving the concept, he's failed the listener.
I was dreading this and it lived down to my prejudice. I love The Charm of the Highway Strip and Get Lost, but you can't even cut the highlights of this down to a single album that would be of remotely similar quality. The definition of indulgence, and a real puzzle who has the time for this
Didn't like it at all!!!
Way too long. Sorry
This was fine but I lost interest after about a dozen songs. I liked the ones with the female lead vocals much better than the males ones. His voice reminds me of The National, who I don’t like at all.
This album frustrates me because I quite enjoy the song writing, the wit, the vibe, and the variety of this album but it's length seems self-indulgent and gimmicky. I only made it through 31 songs and I'm just not inclined to continue to listen...the enjoyment just doesn't outweigh my willingness to give it more of my time
Whilst this was playing, I groped a young Japanese man in the checkout queue at Tesco. He was happy and smelt of oranges.
It was just way to much filler
It's amazing how you can make 69 songs on a single album but not one stands out.
Very average, no real highs or lows, just alright throughout. Although the concept is clear, the album is way too long and unmemorable.
Three hours of this? Fuck off.
That was a lot of songs. Did not enjoy them, mostly due to the vocals.
Way too long of an album 3 hours and only a handful of interesting songs the vast majority were quite boring
TLDR
Meh
Ma come 69 canzoni e 2 ore e 52 minuti?! 'I don't believe in the sun' non male. Anche 'A Chicken with its head cut off' e 'Reno Dakota', boh forse come spettacolo da guardare live ci può stare, ma non so se me la sento di ascoltarlo tutto. Qualcuna appunto, si fa ascoltare, ma l'esperienza in generale, non la consiglierei. Il tutto per essere stato mollato, spero abbia aiutato. Non pessimo, ma 1 stella in meno per la lunghezza.
Nice songs. But 2.5 hours???
Appreciate & respect the project, just not songs I'd seek out for three full hours. I listened to it all but it became background music... I know there were songs sprinkled in that almost caught my ear but not enough for me to stop what I was doing to see which ones. Maybe will try again sometime.
didn't listen to much of it
Self indulgent? Tongue in Cheek? Sometimes funny? Yes to all, and that’s why it should not be soooo long. I get that you’re going for 69(hehe) but c’mon.
Mmm mmm mmm mmm. I'll crash test this one. Some quality deep vocals. 3 discs. 3 hours... Sounds like Beck in parts. And like a high school drama production in others. Interesting to say the least. The Book of Love has tender moments.
Some good songs - but hard to get through all of them.
So so so so long. Some of these were good. Others felt like the throw away games on those cheap knock off 42 in 1 video game consoles. Need some filler to hit the numbers.
Way to long. Some of the songs were interesting (I need a new heart my favorite) but I think there was too much filler to get to 69 songs.
69 tracks! I got bored after 5 or 6.
Got it but didn’t want to listen.
Not my jam
Holy shit what a fucking punish. 3 hours of dreary indie rock. Yes it's very ironic, here's the annoying hipster award. I listened to about half, which is still twice as long as it should've been. 2/5.
rather would be 19 songs instead of 69 :)
It was saved from a 1 star rating by The Book of Love alone because that song did strike a chord with me. 1 gold nugget amid 68 turds.
Ok indie music, it actually has 69 songs
No es mal álbum, de hecho es algo bueno pero ¿por qué 69 canciones? Después de las primeras 10 se torna aburrido y repetitivo ¿cómo puedo pasar 3 horas escuchando lo mismo?
I like some of the Magnetic Fields' other songs so I really tried to give this a chance. But this is a classic case of quantity over quality. After about 10 songs they get so monotonous and the voices are so freaking annoying I really couldn't continue. This is a cute gimmick that has gone badly off the rails.
Boring, self indulgent, twee…. And that was just the first 10.1%
Jesus Christ its actually 69 songs long. unfortunately the beginning doesnt seem to be very good
The good tracks are good, and the lyrics are great. But this many tracks is just way too much. There's not enough stuff to tie the whole thing together which I guess means I don't get the concept of the concept album but hey.
There's a good album in here somewhere. I'm guessing a fun game to play would be to pair it down from 69(!) songs to around 15. Then we might have a 5 star album. As it is, it's just too self-indulgent.
Ambitious for the goal in mind. I applaud anyone who actually went through the entire album, as I only went through the first third and any other tracks that had a high number of Spotify plays or interesting titles. A lot of the tracks are decent, and a few work really well, mostly the folk-pop / country-pop songs. They had a lot of fun experimenting with all these different genres, and it helps keep you going through the tracklist, but they don't understand how to use these different genres. Their attempts with world music or synth only possess remnants of the music they try to represent. The sounds and instruments often clash with the vocals and seem like they're doing their own thing. Despite being gimmicky, it gave me insight on distinguishing all these genres.
This album is way too long. I am not a lyrics person in general so I feel like I missed a lot of what makes this album a good one. Musically wasn't anything stellar.
Meh too many songs nothing particularly remarkable. Did not finish.
Just stupid BS
Gimmick idea (69 songs in 3 CDs of 23 songs each), but I found the results rather meh
2/5 to tell you the truth they probably decided to go with quantity instead of quality
Eclectic I think the word is!
Way too long
Toooooooo long
Pedestrian
Konzeptalbum!!!! Ja, großer Wurf, die Box beinhaltet 3 CDs - ich schwöre sie nicht ein Mal komplett gehört zu haben. Und ich werd das wohl auch nie schaffen, even „not for all the tea in China“
highlights - a chicken with its head cut off, i think i need a new heart, book of love, Sweet Lovin' Man, Long-Forgotten Fairytale, bitter tears (i wanted more of this, it's too short) lowlights - how f*ng romantic, a pretty girl is like This "album" is like a 30 songs in 30 days challenge; when artists do this, not everything should be kept...Sometimes greatness comes out, but a lot of filler that's best left on the cutting room floor. There are certainly gems to be found, but many are tough to listen through...luckily most tracks are short (Bitter Tears was a great track I wanted MORE), but after a while fatigue sets in and I stopped caring. Some tracks were distractingly bad (how f*ing romantic)...and overall I started to feel like Book of Love (gem) is also a review of this album...Long and boring...some of it is transcendental...some of it is just really dumb.
Difícil não ter uma dúzia de música boa entre 69, mas a maioria é ruim ou chata.
“All my little words” is an all-time favorite of mine, but, funnily enough, I was not aware it was from a 69 songs record lol... the album starts strong, some good tunes and interesting music but then it becomes more and more of the same and drags for literally hours. It changes a bit and grabs new strength starting the third record but falls again in nonsense and half backed songs. There are some good tunes but I wonder if it would have made the list if it had been a regular length record with the best say 12 songs and not just because it was a 69 songs long record.
some classics, mostly fluff
This one brings me back to 2011, and to my first real heartbreak in particular. I played the hell out of "Absolutely Cuckoo" because Stacy introduced it to me, and the Book of Love has shown up on quite a few playlists. The whole project is 3 hours long, though... way too long, and not every song was great.
seems like a gimmick?
Love the concept and back story. Music is all over the place for me so I’m rating a solid 3
이거 뭔가요? 23번 트랙까지 있는대 진짜 69 럽 송을 만들려다가 만거임? 제 스타일 아닙니다 그리고…
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.
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
Var typ 3 av 69 låtar som jag tyckte om
JL : 1, might have been a 2 if it weren't 3 hours long
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.
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 ain’t listening to 69 songs in an album. Congratulations or I’m sorry that happened
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.
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.
It's *69* fucking songs from hell. FML.
je vais pas écouter un album de 3h, restons sérieux…
God damn I hated this!
This was a practical joke
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.
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
Literally 69 love songs and they’re ass. Got through 22/69
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!!
monotonously, boring and looooong
Heard far too many bad musicals to listen to all of this. A few tracks was enough
I’m not listening to all that
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. ⭐️
fuck you
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.
No album needs to be this long
Not my universe.
This is hell. There might be a decent album in here if they only made like 8 songs.
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
Weird music. Don't like the vocal. Random listen. Not worth it.
Yeah, you got me fucked up if you think I'm gonna listen to a 69 song album.
bored the tits clean off me
Yeah no, 69 is way too many songs for an album. What the hell
Themaverfehlung
Nichts rechtfertigt eine Albumlänge von 2:45h. Die Bereitschaft 65 weitere Songs zu hören ins Bodenlose, wenn die ersten 4 nicht besonders gut sind. Diese könnte man zwar mit 2-3 bewerten, aber diese muss ich auf 69 songs verteilen -> 1
Afgezet na 20’
För många låtar. för olika låtar. wow vilket maraton
Over indulgent and over long. If one were to take the 8 or so best songs from this and make a normal length album, it might be decent, but most of this 3 hours was boring.
This is a concept album (love songs or songs about love songs) undone by a gimmick (a whole bunch of them at once). Whatever impact the album could have had is lost in the leaden morass of its length. There are ways to achieving both without subjecting listeners to what this became. The wit, the experimental, the cute gets flattened. The fact that music critics loved this when it came out (I'm old enough to remember it), speaks more to their vanities than their understanding of a good album.
-2 stars for the length. Pick 10 songs randomly. It’d be better..
oh my goodnesssssss... what an absolute slog. this was so difficult to get through my god. i mean, i have to think/hope that this band has better works to be introduced to. but jumping in to a nearly 3 hour random generator of different songs that maybe relate to love somehow... wow what a maddening thing to listen to
It’s too damn long. I only added 5 songs out of 69 to my ‘best of…’ playlist. I can see some influences here and there, but I’m not coming back to this one.
So it literally takes nothing at all to make this list? -5
3 hours? Nice try, but I'm not listening to all that.
69 songs, almost 3 hours is an insane album. I feel like a lot of artists have a whole lot of songs that don't make the cut when they make albums. This band ignored this and released them all. Unfortunately that means that the average quality of songs isn't that great. A few songs are good but most of them are okay to meh. Listening through all those songs also made the few good songs disappear so after it was over I couldn't even remember what songs I liked. A good experiment that didn't pan out for me.
10 songs in and yeah, I’m not listening to all that
Grusomt kjedelig. Tror ikke jeg har hørt noe kjedeligere enn dette. 69 sanger med gørr.
I guess this is considered music… someone sang the words from their diary and called it an album. Sounds like a 10 year old gave their diary to their dad and he sang it for him. And the dad let the kid make some of the beats.
I couldn’t listen to the whole album
No reason for this to be 3 hours.
This was so gruelling it actually affected my men’s mental health. This just feels like it exists for the sake of it, most of it just sounds like the first draft of a song that someone has written down and said ‘that will do’. So much ukulele. Inevitably some of the ideas are alright here but you’ve got to wade through so much rubbish it renders the whole thing unlistenable.
I am on song 40 while writing this. I just... Don't understand why this is a thing, there have been some actual good songs but holy hell are some of these (like Papa Was a Rodeo) fucking hideous. Ok I have finished the album now. Could have been a 2 or 3 if it was 1/3 of the length and didn't focus on the 69 songs gimmick where most of them are pure garbage. It's just way too long and drawn out, why was this ever picked for this list I can not imagine, but from now on keep it far away from me.
This was heading for a 2, and then I got to "I Shatter", and it finally found its way to a 1. This album is 69 "songs" vaguely related to a theme of "love". They're clearly supposed to be funny, but they aren't. They attempt parody, but fail miserably. The vocals are mostly pretty bad, the lyrics are tedious and repetitive, the music is tedious and repetitive. The album is 3 hours long, and contains maybe 10 minutes worth of music I might choose to listen to. It was an obvious attempt to gain fame/notoriety by producing a gimmicky album... and I've never heard of them, so it obviously wasn't that successful. Not only that, but they obviously tried to do it again! Considering their discography lists a "50 song memoir" that is, you guessed it, 50 songs long! Pretentious tripe.
69 love songs? oh it's 69 love songs that's funny IT'S 3 HOURS no longer funny I think this might be the best evidence that we should have stuck to vinyl. Letting people be this self indulgent on the cheap is a mistake. He wanted to release 100 of these mediocre songs!! 100!!!!! there's HOW LONG left? The fact that the first song is "Absolutely cuckoo" and the last song is "Zebra" I wonder if he originally had 26 songs with an A-Z of love of sorts. That could have been cute. there's HOW LONG left?? "Love is like jazz" is exactly what I hated about jazz for a while. After that it's been one big pile of mush I'm only halfway through.. This is the only album that has made me question why I was doing this project in the first place, I swear I've heard this song before Experimental music love has officially annoyed me. I like experimental music don't make fun of it I can't rate this anything but a 1.
It's just too many songs. I get the whole concept of the album, but it's just too self-indulgent and not interesting enough. I am sure that an edited down album would be better, but this is not that.
I cannot give this any more than a 1 star review for the hubris and the sheer self-indulgence required to assume that I am going to commit to listening to 69 songs over nearly 3 hours. This holds exceptionally true when the first half dozen or so songs prove to be bang average. What an awful selection for this list. No more needs to be said.
Novelty records don't belong on this list in my view. And this is very much a novelty. And the songs arn't very good either. I got part way through and, like so many other people, gave up. The music just wasn't interesting enough. Musically it might be a 2, but the sheer ridiculousness of it makes it a 1
Terrible awful boring total unnecessary album
it’s a big fat no from me dawg j’avais l’impression d’être dans un burger joint ouvert par un millennial qui charge 45$ pour un burger d’orignal servi sur une planche de bois some of these are genuinely the worst songs i've ever heard, mais honnêtement pour pas juste chialer ils sont vraiment en avance sur leur temps parce que je pensais vraiment écouter de la musique indie des années 2010 donc en ce sens this is fr some true visionary shit je tiens aussi à préciser que certaines tounes sont vraiment pas si pires, mais celles que j’ai pas aimé, je les ai tellement détesté que ça a jeté de l’ombre sur tout le reste. and the runtime just pissed me tf off. also how are you going to spend all this time and energy writing and performing 69 songs (HAHAHA!) but have this fugly ass cover quelques points positifs : m'a fait encore plus apprécier la musique que j'écoute habituellement. avec le recul, j’ai même le goût d’augmenter la note de Toys in the Attic et de Play. je pense pas qu'il va y avoir pire album pour moi parmi les mille quelque restants donc le pire est passé and that's a win in my book. le fait que je me sois tapé les trois heures est également un gage de ma ténacité et de mon courage chanson préférée : Epitaph for my Heart (la seule que j'ai aimé) mention honorable : moi qui était legit su’l bord de brailler en écoutant Reno Dakota tellement c’est venu uncover de la rage que je savais même pas que j'avais ; le fou rire que j’ai eu quand je faisais la vaisselle et que How Fucking Romantic a commencé. I Shatter et Love Is Like Jazz m'ont fucking fait rire aussi P.S. je comprends que c’est censé être tongue-in-cheek comme album, mais ça change rien à mon expérience atroce. peut-être à revisiter quand je vais être de meilleure humeur
Will slowly listen to this album. There's a lot (69, shweet).
Absolutely not.... 3 hours?
This is a joke, right?
Skjer ikke
I don't hate it because it's long, I hate it because it's annoying.
Aggressively bad at some points (punk love, jazz something) too long for sure. The vocals are annoying on some (maybe all) tracks. It's way too long. The book of love is the only song I know from the cover by some guy( not Peter Gabriel) and I always skip the song. I havent even finished the album yet, I will, but it is just so blegh. The music is also all over the place and mostly not noteworthy or bad. I was convinced I had heard a song already halfway the album... I can keep going about the things I dislike but will stop to not make the review too long, something this band should have done
I listened to 5 tracks and couldn't force myself to sit through another 64 SONGS(!). There might be some decent tunes hidden in all this slop, but I'm not about to subject myself to 3 solid hours of listening to some uppity theater kid's vanity project. This isn't an album; it's a boxed set collection. It gets disqualified for sheer quantity of songs alone. 1 star.
Honestly, if this was just the one disc this would be a solid 2 or 3 stars. There is some interesting stuff in the first disc. Then you realize you have 2 more full LP's to sit through. The idea is interesting but it wears on you after you realize they put all the good ingredients at the front of the sandwich and all your left with at the end is some mayo soaked bread. 1/5
TOO. MANY. SONGS. and none of them were good.
How is this a great album? More like a mediocre box set. An album (LP) is no more than 50 min. Yes, there are double albums, but this is more than that. Not just that though, it's inconsistent. Maybe you could make a good album out of this if you whittled it down. I do like the Magnetic Fields, but calling this a great album is wrong. This is like a B-side compilation, if you are a fan you like it as a way to better know the band, but even you don't call it a great album!
This took me three days to get through. I couldn’t listen to it straight through. There are a few good songs. It should have been an album of ten songs and cut the other 59.
Pfff veel te lang en vrij saai
Classic and always a great listen.
69 love songs is way too fucking many. This should’ve ended at like 10. A properly painful listen
Oh wait, the album is actually 69 songs long? That's certainly a choice. Not surprisingly this is totally uninspired, but it has 69 in it, so it's EDGY uninspired music. Three hours of bad "love" songs is a bridge too far. Update: after listening to more of this I have this to add: what are these lyrics? I think they're going for the whimsical indie feel that was so popular in the late '90's and early '00's, but it just comes off as a bunch of self indulgent dorks sitting around thinking they're funnier than they really are. Kind of like a knock off Wes Anderson movie.
Album Review 063 69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields (1999) Rating 1.5/5 No album that I’ve ever heard better sums up the phrase “quantity over quality”. I won’t be the first or last to think it but there are enough songs hidden away in here to distill into a half-decent 10-12 track album but it really, really isn’t worth the effort or commitment to listen to the full 273 minutes of 69 Love Songs to find them. The vast majority of the album is not good at best, unlistenable at worst, and so many of these songs are little more than the shell of an idea, here only to make up the numbers. If this were broken down to three double-albums, I doubt I’d rate any of them above 2/5 - as a single, drawn-out experience, it deserves less. Reading up on The Magnetic Fields, AllMusic.com mentions that their lead song-writer, Stephin Merritt, originally considered writing 100 songs for the album but he thought that might be too long and pared it down to 69 songs - I guess that’s at least something to celebrate.
The heck is this
старина, ты молодец конечно, концепт выполнил на 5+ НО БЛЯТЬ 69 ПЕСЕН пососи мое яйцо правое пожалуйста
Not listening to all that
Oh boy. I mean, I get it. The whole premise is very ambitious and kinda brilliant. But the execution is subpar, and the outcome is this very bloated almost three hour ordeal with the most annoying music, infuriating production and unfinished songs sung by people who can't really sing. I guess it's not unexpected that I found the whole thing very grating on my nerves. I mean, alright, some tunes were kinda cute and some lyrics were kinda funny, but those cute and fun parts just drown in the sea of the most annoying music I have listened to lately. Had it been shorter, I would have given this 2 stars. Maybe even 3 for those rare flashes of brilliance and humour. But the whole album felt like 2 hours and 45 minutes of torture to me. My first 1 star rating.
What the hell.... I didn't think this would literally be 69 songs. 3 hours?? There better be some damn bangers if I'm gonna basically gonna sit and listen to a movie. NGL not interested from the first 10 songs and really don't want to force myself into 3 hours of whatever they wanted to make. respect but no thanks
Painful and sooo long!!
1 out of 5 Some songs weren't even too bad. I enjoyed it for a little while. But 1 star because this was 3 fucking albums. Holy hell I could not sit through 3.5 hours of this. Not cool.
There is no need for this to be nearly 3 hours long. I don't find anything about this enjoyable - voice, lyrics, or music, sorry.
An album made by an artist who wants people to smell their farts