69 Love Songs

Another album where the listening felt like a chore. Dull & cynical. Absolutely hated it.

I’d never heard of The Magnetic Fields until this album came up. This was absolutely awful. Unbearable, obvious songs executed lamely and with seemingly no conviction or originality. God knows why this would be on any list. At three discs and close to three hours I knew this would be a chore. I gave it my best shot. For me, this couldn’t be anything other than a 1.

I'm not listening to all of that.

This indie pop album uses sparse, lo-fi arrangements of drum machines, simple synths, acoustic guitars, and occasional orchestral touches, paired with monotone, near–spoken-word vocals used more as narrative tools than expressive instruments. Unfortunately 69 times.

Worst 69 I’ve been involved in

Okay, I made it through 46 songs and I’m calling it. This is a very ambitious project but ultimately it is just too long for a one day session. I do think there is a lot of musical talent on display, obviously the musicians involved can sing/play anything and come up with quick ideas and rhymes. If only YouTube had been around this would have made a really great “making of“ series. I feel like they were writing and recording 10-15 of these songs per day in the studio. There are a few cute little songs and I get They Might Be Giants vibes crossed with Barenaked Ladies. In the end, there’s too much ukulele and it feels like a Portlandia sketch or a spoof of an NPR music show brought to life. Side note: “Love Is Like Jazz” is an actual crime, and may be the worst song I have ever heard. Did I need to listen to this before I die? Absolutely not.

I get how this album could be a big deal for a lot of indie heads and hipsters. But for the rest of us this feels bloated. Only a few bands can pull off a triple album and for the most part only the die hard fans love it.

God this was insufferable. "Stephin Merritt was sitting in a gay piano bar in Manhattan, listening to the pianist's interpretations of Stephen Sondheim songs, when he decided he ought to get into theatre music because he felt he had an aptitude for it" - Wikipedia The only thing Stephin has an aptitude for is pissing me off. What a egocentric thing to do, listening to someone else singing love songs, and think 'Oh I could do that! Let me write 69 of them and put them on an album'. What a gimmicky way to get on this list, and so undeserving of it. It especially pisses me off that he probably thinks his album is good because its on 1001 albums to listen to before you die. This should be on the a list called 1001 albums that make you want to die. The only reason I finished listening to this is for the completionist inside me. Also 69? Really?! Are you 12 Stephin? 1/10

OMG there are actually 69 songs on this album. What is the actual...?! I don't have the attention span for 3 hours of mid-music. This dude's voice is something, and it isn't something good. They clearly have some musical skill, but I don't want to have to wade through all of this to find a gem or two. This is too self-indulgent. Certainly not worth a second listen. Learn to edit.

Long and repetative

# Playlist Track - The Book of Love # Notes - I almost gave this an extra star for the ambition of the album. Putting that many songs ou there is a giant challenge. However, after almost 3 grueling hours, I don't think that they have actually lived up to the challenge. - The entire album is full of bits and scraps that frankly should have been left in the cutting room floors. - It's not bad that they created all the bits. But getting them out is such an important part of the creative process and the album feels like they skipped this entire part. - Not recommended to anyone but to the most bored cynics.

(1) I’d like to know more about what this is… I’m sure someone thinks this is the best band in the world,I would love to hear from you. Try to convenience me the beauty of this album, but for me heck: No! Rating of a one. Maybe I’m not cool enough! It’s just too weak, soft.

Usually if you have a 3 hour album with 69 songs, I would expect you to have at least one idea. However this album sounds like it was made in an afternoon as a demo tape that they were then forced to release at gun point. Maybe it got better after song 20 but there’s no chance I was listening any further.

What a waste of time... This is a gimmick album, and not even a good one. On paper, it seems really funny, but in execution there's not enough time given to any song for them to ever really become good. Even if they took the good songs on this album and focused on refining them, they'd only really have an EP's worth of songs, and it would still only be good at best. The better songs on this album do show promise, but I don't think they'd ever be great, and they're sandwiched between 15 minutes of bad and sometimes cheesy too. Favorite Song(s): Reno Dakota

I have so many thoughts and none of them are positive. Stephin Merritt is now my enemy. Why did he want 100 songs? Why is this on the list? Why does he sing like that? I got 34 songs in. Almost halfway. I got progressively angrier as I listened to it. What a massive waste of time. No album should demand this much of my time. I liked one or two songs maybe. Every song Merritt sang on, I had to skip. It was a mix of his voice and some of the music behind it. Due to so many factors, this might be my least favorite album on the list. If I ever see Stephin, it’s on SIGHT.

This album is like a testament to man's arrogance. I can't think of a single artist I like enough to sit through three hours of their music at once and it certainly isn't this one. I honestly do not think there is even enough good material on here for a single album. I have no idea why critics viewed this so favorably because I did not perceive any of the creativity or cleverness. I thought the lyrics were embarrassingly bad on a lot of these and they never got better. Maybe it's all supposed to be overdone on purpose or ironic? If so, why am I spending three hours listening to someone's inside joke? The only reason this album appears on this list and the Rolling Stone list is because people go wow big album.

I got through 14 tracks. Eventually I will get back to this to cross it off for real

WHY

Just what I wanted! A 69 song album with a run time of 2:30 hours of songs that all sound the same!

Fav: Sweet-Lovin’ Man Least Fav: I Shatter Nearly 3 hours later, I have discovered that just because you can do something - doesn’t mean you should do it

Ok no

truly has 69 love songs. none spoke to me. unfinished.

After about 15 tracks that can best be summarized as making me feel like John Belushi on the stairs at the Toga Party, I said “Jeez, how many tracks are on this album”. Discovering that this asshole released a 3 hour album and the first of the 3 discs can most generously be described as parody I binned the listening immediately. What a load of codswallop.

So he backed off from 100 songs because that would have been too long? Maybe he should have kept cutting it down. To four. Or two. Or maybe just none at all. Now in fairness, there may be one or two good songs in here, but I didn’t listen to the whole thing. It was just too long. In fact, I was wanting it to be over two songs in. In the 1/3 of it I did hear, the thing that was missing most was any real emotion. It’s hard to take an album of love songs serious if there is no sense of love in them. Remember kids, quality over quantity.

Not 4 me

Yes, this album actually contains 69 songs, and I couldn't find two that were exactly the same. Congratulations—mission accomplished! On closer inspection, this project has all the weaknesses you'd expect: many of the songs are difficult to distinguish from one another, some are very short (do they even count?), and none of them have been comprehensively arranged and produced. In other words, the whole thing prioritizes quantity over quality, and I don't like that. The Magnetic Fields brought “69 Love Songs” to the stage, but refused to play it in its entirety in one evening. Apparently, they were annoyed by their own material.

ah yes, the hipsters’ white album. The album every record store nerd in the early 2000s used to test your indie bona fides. Well, friends, I have always failed because I have always hated this record. You hear the concept and wow, what a cool idea. Then you listen to Stephen Merritt’s awful voice mumbling boring sketches of songs for three hours and you say, ah that’s why no one ever did this before. It’s a terrible fucking idea. He recently toured this and you had to sit through two nights to get all 69 songs. I can’t imagine paying for that torment. Anyway, this album is my musical Gravity’s Rainbow. I don’t get it and no matter how many times I try, I can’t finish it.

Oh my God. I finally finished this over 8 or 9 sessions. If this was only 40 minutes long it would get one star for trying way too hard to be cutesy while producing some very bland music. Add the fact that this album is 3 hours long and you have a candidate for worst album on the list. What a colossally terrible idea for an LP. 0.5/5.0: Unlistenable

THIS IS BAD AND IM A BAD LOVER

You would think there would be a couple of decent songs with 69. 1 star or F.

Infuriating.

The more I listened to this album, the more it pissed me off. The Magnetic Fields can kick rocks.

This sucks. I think the concept of "everyone performs select songs and the crowd votes on who did it best" is cool. But it didn't need to be 3 hours of music. The joke "69 love songs" is funny, but I dont think there is a good singer here. The girl is better tho. This just goes on for wayyyy too long and I can't believe I listened to it all. There are some good moments, but I'd hope out of 69 songs. They didn't need this many...AND THEY WANTED 100. Liked Songs 16/69: "All My Little Words" , "A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off" , "Come Back From San Francisco" , "I Think I Need a New Heart" , "Parades Go By" , "Nothing Matters When We're Dancing" , "Sweet Lovin' Man" , "When My Boy Walks Down the Street" , "Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old" , "Grand Canyon" , "No One Will Ever Love You" , "Crazy For You But (Not That Crazy)" , "Long-Forgotten Fairytale" , "The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Crazy" , "I'm Sorry I love You" , "Meaningless"

If this was strictly instrumental this would get a 2, but the droning vocals drag this down to a 1. I also can’t think of any reason for an album to be 3 hours except for being pretentious.

Overblown when it came out. Still unlistenable to me now.

Far too long and mostly forgettable.

This album is 3 hours long. It literally contains 69 songs. It's "indie" because any record company employee who approved this album's making would have been summarily executed. And some of the lyrics. Oof. It sounds written for - maybe by? - middle school kids. The exemplar for me is "Like a Chicken with Its Head Cut Off" which contains an uncomfortably graphic description of the titular chicken. In a "love song." This might be the worst album on the list.

I do not like this album. The first part is decent but I really just hate Stephin Merrit's voice. It's grating and pretentious to me. Halfway through the second album I threw in the towel. I know a lot of folks love this album but I hate it. I feel like they had a decent album here but some editing would have made this an okay album.

Listened Before? N I'm sorry, I'm not interested in a 3-hour album with nearly 70 songs on it. Especially by a pretentious indie band. I listened to part of it but I'm not spending most of my day on this. What I heard of it was lots of mumbling and minimalist recording. No thanks. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: I Don't Want to Get Over You

Skräp

Today is the day where I finally get this one I've heard so much about. Conclusion: Terribly long and boring.

Who the fuck puts out an album with 69 songs.. No.

Trash. Utter trash.

Only got a few songs in. There were literally 69 songs and it didn't get off to a strong start.

Wow. This was bad. I can’t help thinking how this album was financially backed by someone or some group. To each his own and for me this was cringe worthy.

I'm sure all the good songs come later, but I tapped out at about 12.

The story behind the album is interesting but the actual album is not.

How many songs are in the list is enough to tell you what score this should get.

Banjo and folk, meets electronics. With some weird vocals added. Not my thing, sorry

Not gonna lie, got to the second song and thought about the album title. Looked at the album and realized it's probably literally 69 love songs and said no.

I skipped through the first couple songs, no way I’m sitting through almost 3 hours of this nonsense. I’m sure there are some good songs in there, but I’m not an indie pop synth listener so someone will have to direct me towards those tracks individually.

I could care less about this one. This reeks of pretension. (but I must throw in the obligatory, "Nice")

After a quick look at the track listing, not sure I am going to make it through all these songs..... Update -- I did not make it through all the songs.

Utter Shite

Weird. Bad vocals.WTF is this?

Don't like it

This album is apparently 4 discs at 2 hours and 52 minutes long. I'm livid, hahaha. It's also rife with mediocrity and laconic vocals. Sardonic social commentary, it's instrumental selections are all over the place. I feel like it had some nuggets of good musical ideas, but they just published ALL of their musical ideas in a single album. I'm being a jerk about it, and I kind of leaned into that. it probably isn't all that bad, but it came at terrible timing with how this endeavor feels a bit laborious right now.

what's with all these positive reviews I've stumbled upon, are you people mad? anyway, the 69 is overrated.

Nice. Also, no.

ganz schlimm. ich ha so 7 lieder usghalte und probiert wohlwollend si, bi the luckiest guy isch denn aber endgültig schluss gsi. s album gfallt mer gar nöd: langwiiligi harmonie und rhythme, er cha gar nöd singe, si wo spöter singt au nöd, er isch ständig z tüf und falsch und unfrei und si singt literally aalles ide bruststimm. au d giige hert verstimmt. d ukulele git en vibe vonere schlechte video-hintergrundmusig. d songs sind zudem vill z kitschig und z country-like. und denn sinds auno 69 songs, wer het sich das überleit: defür dasses lustig wär sind d lieder vill z ernst gmeint.

This album desperately needs weeding. Most of the songs are just weak. Others feel undercooked and would gain from having more time and effort spent on each of them. Music is repetitive, vocals go from bad to nice but as a whole this is unlistenable.

Dude, if you had made it like fifteen love songs, like "Book of Love" and the other good ones, sure, but...

There is absolutely NO reason for a shitty band to make 69 songs.

69 love songs too many!

Pretty interesting concept, but wow did I hate having such a long album, got stuck here for a while.

The music isn't *that* terrible, but fuck these guys for putting in zero effort to pare down this bloated mess of an "album."

the self indulgent final boss. there's absolutely no need to make people listen to 69 songs of drivel. its okay to edit sometimes !!!!

I'm not listening to 2h45min of "I-have-a-deep-voice-and-this-is-the-only-thing-that-separates-me-from-other-artists". Pretty boring album and songs

The definition of quantity over quality

Oh you know it’s just a little bit long of an album. If it was an hour long, it could be viewed in a more positive light. Lyrics were decent but 69 songs is crazy

What.the.serious.fuck.?. …this is why people hate Indie music… Ps: I did make it through 16 songs, but 69? Three discs? …of this? no.

WTF did I just listen to and how did it last 3 hours. There were some hints of a few good songs here but none really felt finished and unfortunately there weren't 3 good songs with some filler to fill out a 45 minute album there were 3 or 4 OK songs with 65 filler songs to fill out 3 hours. I guess from a this is something different standpoint I get putting it on the list but just didn't work for me.

Has to be a joke.

There is not a single chance in hell that I am listening to this ridiculous concept of an album a second time. I hardly even consider it to be a musical project at all because the music itself is so apparently not the main focus of the project. It's a "Oooh it's the sex number 🤣🤣🤣" joke where the music is ironic and not at all interesting

Quantity dies but equal quality

This is the first album on this list that I haven't fully listened to before giving my rating, and I don't intend to catch up later. 20 Songs in it is pretty clear what this is going to be: An excruciatingly long collection of fairly bad drafts. Not nice.

I got nearly an hour in before deciding this doesn’t deserve my time.

This album literally got me stuck for a month and a half. I started it a few times and couldn't make it thru. Finally I forced myself to sit all the way thru the 2hours and 53 minutes of this. This album is far to bloated for an artist of this caliber. The Beatles earned the White Album with their previous great albums, we could all tolerate some of the terrible songs on that album. The Magnetic Fields have not earned that leeway. This album could have been shrunk down to the 12 or 13 decent songs on it and made a solid album. Instead we get this self absorbed album of mostly nonsense and filler that should not have seen the light of day. This gets a 1 because of all these reasons. If you looked at the handful of good songs, this might have been a 3 or 4 star album. Instead it wastes your time.

Maybe they should've done 12 good songs rather than 69 middling/awful ones. Just because something hasn't been done before doesn't mean it should be.

1 out of 5. Sorry to say I didn't finish this one but I feel like I got the gist of it.

there is no reason this should be 3 hours

3 hours of strangeness.

I was dreading this album since I knew it was on the list, and so here we are. Unbelievably obnoxious in its length while not offering a single song good enough to warrant this project (I appreciate the commitment to the 69 bit though). People compliment Merritt’s lyricism, but these songs have lyrics more akin to the childish shallowness of a Moldy Peaches album than anything profound; it’s criminal this is on here when not a single Mountain Goats album makes the list. So yeah, didn’t like this album one bit. My friends used to get together and we’d spend a whole weekend writing and recording really dumb songs just for the sake of it: this album feels like that, just quantity over any quality. There’s some songs better than others (worst among them has to be the dreadful genre pastiches like the jazz and world music ones, they actually feel insulting to listen to) but as a collection I don’t ever want to listen to this again.

I tried, I really did. I listened to 25-30 songs. They all sucked. I couldn't handle listening to all 69. Not worthy of being on this list for me.

Is this a sick practical joke? Who is this made for? I can't imagine the type of person that sits and listens to this. I think this is almost experimental in a way that it's art is actually the subject? Or perhaps it's just a torture method? Who knows. I have no qualms with long art like this (Hell just last week I watched Satantango, a 7 1/2 hour Hungarian film) but it need to have a purpose, or at least not be a boring slog like this. 2/10 every once in a while an ok song would come along, only to be drowned out by 10 bad ones.

Gear: Moondrop Variations Artwork: 🕕🕘⬜ Production: 🙄🤔🤷 Music: 🎶😐💤 Rating: ♋︎(♋︎)/5

I tried, I really tried. But there is no way I could listen to the whole album. I hated the vocals and the songs were boring. Cheesy cliches “not for all the tea in china” “like a chicken with its head cut off”. Indie for the sake of Indie. Silly. Self indulgent.

This was terrible. Couldn’t make it past the first 15 songs.

How lame is the author? Theres barely enough good songs to fill an EP, much less this monstrosity. It's literally here because it makes the dumb haha 69 joke. Does the author of this book have a learning disability? Rating: 1.3

Warm sound, love the bass vocal. But a runtime of almost 3 hours is waay to much for this kind of music

Too long

I'm done! I'm finally fucking done with this album. I read the wikipedia "I decided I'd write one hundred love songs as a way of introducing myself to the world. Then I realized how long that would be. So I settled on sixty-nine" That's all you need to know. It sounds like someone came up with as many songs as he could and just published all of them, stream of consiousness style. Maybe there is a 2-3 star album in here but for not valuing the listeners time one iota this is a 1 star. I regret listening to all of it.

Usually for boring albums I would give it a 3 or a 2 for wasting my time. This is so boring and lasts 3 hours! Nobody should listen to this and it does not deserve to be on this list just because it has the funny number!

Some were fine, but way too long

No - not 3 hours mostly the same music. Imagine, you are listening to this on a kichen - radio -- this will bring you to suicide thoughts. Once again: who is responsible collecting the albums for the 1001 list ???

If you set out to make almost three hours of music, not all of it is going to be good. I really didn't mind some of it, even if the lyrics and rhyme schemes were sometimes repetitive, but there were a lot of duds and no diamonds in the rough. "How Fucking Romantic" was beyond horrible, "Punk Love" was just the same words and melody repeated a ton, and "Washington, D.C." was basically a joke song. At first I was thinking I’d give this 2 or (maybe) even 3 stars, but most of the decent songs are in the first half of the album, so the back half was all downhill.

This was so boldly bland and uninteresting that my main thought about halfway through was "Why is this still happening? Why did this collection deserve to be 3 hours long". The voices are flat and dull. The wordplay and wit barely exists. I get the feeling this might be beloved by people really into NPR, though. I didn't care for it at all.

If I'm going to listen to 69 love songs over 3 CDs I need them to be well sung and well played. Unfortunately... So... how to score this? -1 for excessive length, -1 for the poor vocals, -1 for the awful guitar work, -1 'cos the band seems to be simply "going through the motions". I'll stop there 'cos I can't give it less than 1.

This is a 3 disc album and I am more than good after listening to the first disc. I guess some people like this. I found it boring as shit musically. It's definitely poetic in delivery, an album of love songs title 69, but it's fuckin' garbage music. 0/5 if I could, but I'll have to settle for a 1/5. Get me the fuck out of here.

Too long.

I'd give this shit a 0 if I could.

first of all i aint listening to all that, second of all could it deserve a 2? sure. Did i take one off because the album is 2 hours and 45 minutes long? yes.

Schrecklich

yeah, nah...

This was a rollercoaster ride... I knew this album was coming up and figured I would hate it. But my first impressions weren't too bad. Maybe this was going to be okay? That lasted maybe five or six tracks in, then the rather weak jokes started to get tiring and fall flatter and flatter each time. By the end of the first disc I realised this was going to be an endurance test. By the end of the second disc I realised this sucked. By the end of the third disc... I wasn't sure what to even think anymore. I would say it dips in quality at the end, but it's already so bad, that a dip doesn't even make sense anymore. New words would need inventing to describe how awful this experience was. It's the kind of "good idea" that should only ever exist in someone's head, as trying to pull off feels like a massive mistake. There's very little in the way of music here, just lame jokes. The attempts at different genres are almost insulting in their childishness. The lyrics are just dumb, becoming more and more inane the further in you get. I get that it's all supposed to be quirky and amusing, but it really isn't, just ham-fisted wordplay that a nine-year old would be ashamed of. There was a bit of a "Mighty Wind" vibe early on, but where that works as a parody by being actually funny (and having some decent songs), this is just the same small set of jokes recycled ad nauseum. I think when I hit "Love is Like Jazz" (disc 2 track 2, probably one of the most annoying tracks) I had heard enough to have literally no surprises left for the (long) remainder of the album. The only positive I could find is that most of the songs are mercifully short, and there was always the hope that the next one might be better. That, and the fact that getting to the end of this was a relief beyond what I would have previously considered to be possible. Some reviewers have suggested a single album could have been salvaged from this mess; I disagree, there's nothing of any real merit here. One star.

Maybe there’s something decent in here but the first ten songs were forgettable.

i like the beat dont really understand the lyircs dosent really vibe with me i give it 1 out 5 dont recomend it.

Do you like love songs? If so, then this is the album for you! This album is literally only love songs, & I don't like that. I don't even like love songs in general! His voice is okay, it's a little raspy, & the songs are too short in my opinion. The instruments are also bad, and I usually like something about the albums, & I don't like anything about this one. So, that is why I recommend that you don't listen to this album. Ever.

Good lord what a chore. A few nice tracks, but dozens of filler tracks. Should've just picked the 12 best and called it a day

bin irgendwie froh chunt das album hüt, amne scheisstag woni viert stund gschlofe han, anstatt amne tag wos chönt versaue. d songs sind meistens sehr schön, aber afoch unglaublich viel. als ob mer sich do chönt en favorite uswähle. als ob öpper en überblick het. plus indie vocals moment. plus wieder e indie "band" wo im studio basically ein guy isch. es tönt jede song wie en letste sochli joke song ufme beatles album oder so. her majesty zum bispil. brudi 3 stund vo dem. sweet lovin man tönt wie wenn d talking heads de soundtrack zu animal crossing gesse hetted und denn usegschisse hetted. mengmol tönts afoch au wie plätscherndi synthis. wie het de siech so viem musig gschriebe und wie töned die 90er indie bands alli glich??? würkli afoch unmotivierte david bowie. so viel lieder?? ich check nöd wases söll. ich schrib 69 songs wo alli ähnlich töned? ich bin nonig mol fertig mit de zweite disc. phuck. gad möse chli beethoven lose zum cleanse

really man, REALLY?

Ni que fuera tan interesante como para durar 3hs

un real falo de proporciones astronómicas (no lo escuché pero voy a tomarme la licencia de juzgarlo de antemano)

- First of all: i was shocked when i looked at the fucking length of this album, they really have written 69 LOVE SONGS?! - favs while listening: unfortunately none, couldn’t bear more than one hour - i am currently 3 songs in and I don’t know if i like it or not, the vocals are really irritating me - The Guardian has a really fitting perception of the album: ‘69 Love Songs was a skip-to-the-hits album: it seemed to be a legendary album buried between brilliant song ideas left half-written‘ (28.08.2011) - honestly about the legendary and brilliant we could discuss but other than that i agree - also in what way are we supposed to enjoy a nearly 3hour long album with songs that just do not seem like they’ve written it for the sake of music but for writing 69 love songs? - seems like quantity over quality - its impossible to enjoy an album at this length and appreciate each song and they could have released a bunch of those songs spread across other albums - after reading the reviews on here I’ve come to the conclusion that this album is really a hit or miss for some. Either you like it or you really don’t - the book of love is okay; don’t like the vocals at all; ‘Book of love is long and boring‘ correct. - I can’t listen to this anymore its so annoying - I rarely would give 0/5 Stars but this album has successfully accomplished it (I don’t even know if you can do that on here) OVERALL: 1/5

I’m a little unsure how exactly to review this “album”. It’s a collection of too many songs. Between a lot of lazy instrumentation and the kind of vapid, almost meaningless lyrics you get from a guy writing 69 love songs in a row, it was genuinely a real chore to get through them all. This genuinely feels more like a self obsessed art piece far more than it feels like an actual music album created for enjoyable consumption. There’s some catchy hooks here and there, but god it’s few and far between. Hopefully this album will be as forgettable as I think it will. One star.

Couple were very interesting but way to long and too many weird songs for me.

3 hours! This damn album is almost 3 hours long, and I respect my time more than that. After about 5 songs, I realized this was not for me. The singer’s voice does change up a bit from song to song, just did not click with me. That’s when I decided I am not sitting here for 3 hours listening to his droning on about love. Take that and shove it up your…

I cannot call this noice and that burns me, like your time if you go through with this.

This is torturously long. If it was one of a three album series of these, it'd have a much higher score

Just no. What in the bloated mess is this? I'm not listening to all that. Get an editor. That goes for both the artist and the author of this list. 1 star.

I can barely bear 6 of em let alone 69

Couldn’t get through all 69

possibly the worst thing I have ever heard. not just the length but every single song was absolutely dreadful somehow I would rather listen to the Beatles

If "Fingertips" by They Might Be Giants were 2 hours and 45 minutes

69 songs they want me to listen to... Must be a prank? Is it a prank? Someone tell me it's a prank? I managed 13, I reasonable album size. No more.

De tering. Ik moet eerlijk zeggen dat de lengte van dit album de grond onder m'n voeten al volledig heeft weggeslagen voor ik eraan ben begonnen. Dit kan eigenlijk al niet meer goed eindigen. Ik kom hier om een albumpje per dag te luisteren, iets schijtlolligs te typen en alles wat ik al ken uit 1998 tot en met 2003 te beoordelen met 5 sterren met kul-argumenten die objectief klinken maar die helemaal uitgekleed eigenlijk altijd gewoon neerkomen op rooskleurige nostalgie. Met dit soort albums wordt het eerder een soort deeltijdopleiding die je opgedrongen wordt door het UWV of een andere semi-overheidsinstelling. Een niet heel geweldig zingende theatermaker die een carte blanche kreeg qua studiotijd, blijkbaar. Dit is vast een ontzettend leuk album als je er een werkstuk over moet maken en je pakt de teksten er als een boek bij op schoot, maar voor dat soort onzin heb ik geen tijd en geduld. Ik vind het maar een matige bedoeling en de totale lengte drukt daarbij ook nog eens stevig op m'n gemoed. Fido's leash is niet het enige wat too long is. Je kunt als je dit album samenvat in 10 tot 14 nummers een prima 3,5 ster album op tafel leggen. Dan zeggen we: 'Ah indie, leuk joh. Beetje pielen met een ukelele, lekker sfeervol, vrolijk. Beetje experimenteel. Prima album als je een keer je huis gaat poetsen met de deuren wagenwijd open.' Nu wordt het gewoon een 1. Je kunt in dezelfde tijd achter elkaar luisteren naar System of a Down - Toxicity, Green Day - Dookie, Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not en Pixies - Surfer Rosa. En dan hou je nog 7 gratis minuten over om de vaatwasser even uit en in te ruimen.

i hated this immediately, but unfortunately, a twisted compulsion to give every album a fair shake and listen to them in full means i have subjected myself to a shockingly self indulgent 3 hours of twee nick cave demos this is the worst album on the list so far by a wide margin. any jazz musician should be able to legally kill Stephin Merritt for Love Is Like Jazz. they would have played this at gitmo, but then they wouldn't have anybody left to torture after it killed everyone

After 45 mins I'm tapping out. Maybe I'll try to finish the whole 3 hours but I can't imagine its going to get any better.

Я не буду слушать альбом какого то пидора

Made it halfway before I had enough. Not nearly interesting enough for an hour and a half, let alone almost three!

Not for me

This one is just straight up wierdness. No likey. Make it stop.

rym 3.82 QUASI TRE ORE DI INDIE POP STIAMO SCHERZANDO PORCA MADONNA io mi ammazzo sono letteralmente 69 canzoni di merda odio questo chitarrino di merda odio la voce di entrambi odio il chamber pop con tutte le mie forze 1/5 questa non è musica questo è uno scherzo

'Drawn-out' would be the phrase I'd use. Funky and experimental in places, which was fun. But I will be avoiding for the foreseeable future for its length and many-a-headache-inducing song.

Maybe if they just picked the top 10 it would have had a chance.

Too long..songs blend together and I get tired of listening

Tough one. Didn't really listen to much of it, went through the most listened tracks and they really aren't my style. Not saying its bad, but just hard for me to listen through. I was debating on whether I should vote it 1 or 2 stars, but the sheer length of the album really puts me off (and most listeners so I've heard). Nice one Magnetic Fields but unfortunately just not for me.

Way too long for me.

I don’t know how I survived this. WHY SO LONG AND BORING?

Not my style of music

A 3 Hour Album that lives up to the title, but shouldn't. It's an interesting concept but it would have been better to have written all these songs & edited down to 10 good ones.

do you know what? good for you. great concept. but i'm going to keep it a stack, there's a reason why albums are usually 8 - 12 tracks. most of this was garbage and I only listened to half of it.

Oh quite literally 69 love songs. 3 hours long, first few songs sound wanky. There are probably some good tracks on here but I don't have the time and an principle this gets a 1

Yeah sorry. I ain't listening to 3 hours of this.

What the fuck is this shit? Not listening to a 69 song album that has a big 69 as the cover. Fuck that 0/10

i don’t have time to listen to 69 songs

I liked that each song told a story, but I wasn't a fan of the stories they told.

This wasn't it. Far too long to have any sort of rhythm or flow. Even if there were some songs that weren't bad they got lost in the slog that was this album. I do not plan on ever touching this album again. If the 3 disc's were all individual albums, I might have rated them higher but all together its a mess.

This album was so bad. If someone played this to me at a date I'd simply walk out. Possibly in contention for the worst jazz song in history. That bunny song was just straight weird ass hell. It's so full of itself while holding almost no genuine feelings of romance. It felt like a project the artist took on cause it sounded good on paper, but didn't stop to think about the end product. Who the hell wants to listen to 3 hours of this crap and how the hell did it make this list. 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

- Me after 5 minutes: "Some interesting stuff here." Me after 30 minutes: "Okay...I am done." Me after 60 minutes: "40 songs left to go?" Me after 65 minutes: "How are there now 42 songs left to go?" - A concept album is, by nature, always going to be a bit "much." But this just felt so self-indulgent, too. I was forcing myself to get through it. Cut this baby down to 45 minutes and you could have an amazing album. Instead it felt cloying and too clever for its own good. - One of the first times I have been turned off by the addition of synth.

Говно.

This is bad and long! Could not do the entire 3 hours.

Unbelievably boring indie hipster crap

I listened to 3 songs and then freaked out that there were 66 more and gave up

Nope. 2 hours and 40 minutes of 69 unremarkable songs. Scanned a few, couldn't be bothered. Not sure why its here.

Despite the wide variety of tracks, this album was downright annoying to get through at way too many points. I don't like the main guy's voice and the vocalist changes are no reprieve either (they're actually worse). Is this whole thing a joke? Not for me at all.

Started out like what is this...a guy trying to pump out simple love songs to set the record for most on one album? By the end of the 3rd disc, I still felt the same but the songs got a little better. Writing 69 love songs (# choice intended) is a feat but just cause someone does it, doesn't mean it should make a top album list. Def would be a better listen in a late night drag bar...

69 dull songs derivative of the Divine Comedy and Lloyd Cole.

1. No album should be this long.

Garbage

Looked at the album length and then immediately exited out of spotify

Get the fuck out of here with that shit Will I listen to again: 0%

Many critics accuse prog of being pretentious and for the most part they're right. (Looking at you ELP) Yet this is some of the most pretentious shit I've ever heard in my life yet the know-it-all writer that passes as a rock critic will praise this. Boring, self absorbed, bordering on narcissistic. Shut up!

Garbage. Can someone really make it through 3 hours of this?? 1/5

3 hours of half-baked demos. How is this... No. You know what? Nevermind.

I've really given it my best shot, but it's just not for me.

WHO WOULD RATE THIS?!?! About 4 songs that are ok. The rest is mental illness on toast. Who makes an album 2hrs and 30 odd minutes long. I listened to the lot trying to make sense but it just wound me up to be honest. The reviews are insane. Should have just called it 1000 albums to listen and leave this off.

this album is ass

This was so bland I could not even get through it. It sounds like a really poor imitation of Belle and Sebastian but with none of the charm.

Really? 3 hours of this. umm no

69 nice. And that’s the only nice thing about it. No way this deserves to be in the list unless one of the qualifiers was most torturous album. I think this one may be the worst one overall just due to the insane length and the varying genres and how inconsistent it sounds. I tried to listen to every song. Key word tried. But just make separate albums next time. And don’t include this in the list next time. 0.1/10

Haha, get it? Because sex number. Funny right? Pain in the ass album all from a childish idiotic idea. I can also write 69 songs if 20 are useless 1 minute interludes and the other 50 songs are similar to each other, almost indistinguishable in some cases. I would have generally given this album a 2 or 3 if it was normal length and not a whole bunch of fillers and repeated songs. There were some that you can enjoy, but in proportion they are minimal. 1 as a punishment score. Expected Marc rating: 2

Nope

This is WAY too long. When a mid song comes on if feels like a banger just becuase you are suffering so much.

1. cuckoo - 0 2. i dont believe in the zun - 0 3. all my little uuordz - 1 4. a chicken - 0 5. reno dakota - 0 6. i dont uuant to get over you - 1 7. come back - 0 8. the luckiezt guy - 0 9. bunny rabbitz - 0 10. the cactuz - 0 11. neuu heart - 1 12. book of love - 0 13. fido - 0 14. fucking romantic - 0 15. the one you really love - 1 16. punk love - 0 17. paradez go by - 0 18. boa conztrictor - 1 19. a pretty girl iz like - 0 20. zentimental melody - 0 21. nothing matterz - 0 22. zuueet loving man - 0 23. the thingz uue did - 24. rozez - 0 25. love iz like jazz - 1 26. uuhen my boy uualkz douun - 0 27. time enough - 0 28. very funny - 0 29. grand canyon - 0 30. no one uuill ever love you - 1.5 31. if you dont cry - 0 32. youre my only home - 0 33. not that crazy - 0 34. my only friend - 1 35. promizez of eternity - 0 36. uuorld love - 0 37. d.c. - 0 38. fairy tale - 0 39. kizz me - 0 40. papa uuaz - 0 41. my heart - 0 42. the zun - 0 43. azleep - 0 44. the zun goez douun - 0 45. the uuay you zay - 1 46. abigail - 0 47. i zhatter - 0 48. underuuear - 0 49. itz a crime - 0 50. buzby - 0 51. im zorry - 0 52. acouztic guitar - 0 53. the death of ferdinand - 0 54. love in the zhadouuz - 0 55. bitter tearz - 0 56. uuee bairn - 0 57. yeah oh yeah - 0 58. ezperimental muzic - 0 59. meaninglezz - 1 60. bottle of gin - 0 61. queen of the zavagez - 0 62. blue you - 1 63. cant touch you anymore - 1 64. tuuo kindz of people - 0 65. houu to zay goodbye - 0 66. the night - 0 67. king of boudouir - 0 68. ztrange eyez - 0 69. zylophone track - 0 70. zebra - 0

??????? Was ist das denn 😹 Jesus Es ist so seltsam 1

Too cringey and not good enough for me to listen through all two hours

I tried. I was determined to listen to them all and see if there was even a single good song, but then I got messed up where I was on the playlist in Spotify and I stopped. Most of them are boring, some of them are awful, and some are fine but not good. I heard at least half of them.

Så uendelig glad for at eg allerede har hørt detta i den andre generatoren, så eg aldri trenge å gjør da igjen

Erm….. Reno Dakota was fun, but this is a piss take album right? Bad enough it’s 3 hours long but this is such a mix of rubbish that I wish I could turn back the clock to get the time back that I wasted listening to this and full disclosure, those tracks that weren’t super short I started to listen to halfway before skipping so as to get through this. Shocking.

Well, YouTube music takes you through to My Generation by RMS. I haven't listened to that obviously, but after listening to 14 love songs I'm beginning to wish I had. I'm finding this album really annoying. They can both sing, the music is simple (like it's been knocked up in someone's bedroom on a bontempi kind of simple) but still quite good and varied. BUT 69 OF THEM!!!! F.O.Y.C. Makes me wonder how the hell the compiler of this list found it, and whether he included in a fit of pure sadism. If it was 15-20 love songs it would have probably got a high 2 to very low 3, but 69!....... I can only give it a very low 1.

Oh wow. Was interested by the concept but my interest soon disappeared. I tried to stick with it hoping to find some good songs, but no. I finished early. The irony of this is not lost on me.

Sorry not listening to a 2 hour album that’s a movie. Yeah yeah the time will pass anyway

I think I hate it. 1/5

They should have listen to their own lyrics because this album is long and boring. I listen to a couple of songs but no way am i listening to 3 hours. The book of love is an okey track but other than that this feels just like a boring joke about having 69 songs. Writing songs is not that hard, writing good ones are

Truly awful album.

I’m not listening to 69 love songs if they are sung by that voice.

3 hours of crap

I am shocked this album reached this list. Growing up, we were always taught that quality over quantity was always better. There's no way I'd be able to listen to this for 2 hours and 45 minutes without falling asleep or going insane. I had no enjoyment while listening.

Another slow type of album that I’m just not looking for. After listening to the songs, I do not think that any of them are worthy of being added to the playlist. So for now I give this album a low score on my list.

Actively didn't like - every song grated on me, either twee or boring which is strange as it had a really wide style of songs. however every one of them seemed to succeed in annoying me. Singer sounds like Divine Comedy' Neil Hannon but without the cheeky wink meaning it's dull vocals on top of annoying music 1.3

will ich mir echt nicht geben

Not quite "so bad that it's good" but maybe "so long that it's short" as I had to really force myself to carry on. Anyone who listens beyond "Love is like jazz" must be persuing some sort of vendetta against themselves.

Rubbish singing, rubbish lyrics, rubbish tunes, only thing I appreciated was the commitment to the number 69

It is just too long. There were a couple of okay songs in there and if it were condensed down to a normal album size it might have been okay. But there was far too much rubbish

Listened to all 2h50 of this stuff. Very average and as Yam said, very self indulgent The song lyrics aren’t always upbeat and the male singer doesn’t have range and is bad This was just not a good one, even as far as indie songs go. My least favourite was “love is like jazz”

Waste of 2+hrs of my life

Too long and too twee Tried to listen to this back in the day on pitchfork's recommendation and could not get through either

Trop long, trop cheesy, trop générique, non merci

I feel like John belushi, I want to smash these guitars and stop them from singing.

Too long, simple and lyrics that sound like a child wrote them. It is not smart, interesting or original....so, a no for me.

It so unjustifiably long.....

Holy fuck, this was a 2 hour and 53 minute death march. It definitely has 69 tracks with music and words and I genuinely believe it could be used as a torture instrument if someone had to listen on a loop. For the rest of you that share my experience, I will be starting an "I survived 69 Love Songs" support group that will meet Wednesday evenings in the basement of the Baptist church. Cookies, cakes, coffee, and tea will be served. In trauma, we stand together.

Ugh

I feel like this could be reduced to 10 songs.

Why write 10 love songs when you can write 69? Shame 65 of them are awful. 1.8

My hate for this knows know bounds. I had to search a picture of Stephin Merritt just so I could channel my disdain toward something. He looks, by the way, exactly like someone who would have the sheer audacity to not only create this atrocity, but to feel like he rightfully deserves the misguided critical acclaim that this car crash of a 3 hour misery tour received. The caricature of an out-of-touch, elitist liberal, created by angry hillbillies inciting comment wars on social media would listen to this, and then look for any possible opportunity to insufferably discuss it's "genius" with anyone bored enough to listen. As my other half so eloquently stated, it is the banana, duct taped to a wall, masquerading as "art". This isn't good. It's not creative, it's not groundbreaking. It's indulgent and grating. No stars. And a slap in the face. I don't care for whom, just a violent, open handed slap.

3 songs into 69…69!!! Hard no. Not into the singers voice, or love songs, so I’m not committing 172 minutes of my life to get through this album. Listen again: no Purchase for my collection: no Favourite Song:

2 uur en 45 minuten van deze schijt?

Ugh there are some nice tunes in there and I dig the indie pop aesthetic. But throwing in fillers to a 3 hour playtime is torture. I couldn’t finish it and ended up listening to John Mayer.

Tentativa patética de meter um conceito de safadeza no indie.

3+ hours? no thanks.

this album sucking its own dick

Not for me

True garbage. Not capt beefheart level but pretty bad. Why is it always the worst musicians who are the most pretentious

Awful

It was OK at first... can see this song in a snarky Indie rom-com etc... about 8 songs in I thought it was fine if a bit samey... how long left on this album.... another 61 songs! All basically the same! Musically not too bad but just why does this exist? Its not some amazing concept or a musical journey just an exercise in self-indulgence. Take the best 10 songs and you have a middle of the road album... I didn't need 7x that amount.

Self indulgent shit. There is no reason for this to be here. This is trash. All the hours. Nothing of value.

No jes on konsepti, mutta kuka oikeesti kuuntelee 69 biisiä, jotka on tehty vain tekemisen takia? Vitsikkäät tarinat vanhenee jo 30 min kohdalla

Kun biisinteosta tulee tékhne.

Ok

I get the concept but 3 hours of this crap. Come on. I thought this was a joke. The only joke was on me for listening to this crap. Never need to hear this again. 1/5

This got old after 40 minutes - I pity the fool who sat through all 3 hours0

Nope. 3 hours? Hard no. I couldn’t even manage through 3 songs. Trash.

Nothing about this was enjoyable. Deserves a zero. Ridiculous that this is on the list.

an album of bland indie love songs would generally be inoffensive enough to earn a 2, but the three hour run time makes this a crime against humanity

You think I’m going to listen to 69 songs?

Absolute shite

I ain’t listening to all that

This was rough to make it all the way through

An I being fucking punked?

3 hours long. Have some self respect and use your time better

too long.

What fresh hell is this?!

The audacity to think you can get away with 69 songs. I’ll say this, I listened to as many as I could but this guy or group seemed like they did not care in any of the songs. Monotone and reminded me of a drunk guy playing random songs at 2am at the bar. Did I miss something? This feels like the Fanny and Alexander of albums.

Almost 3 hours of mediocre songs.

Holy shit 3 hours of awful pretentious music. Nope. I listened to about 50 minutes and decided that was enough for me. It was not going to get any better.

There are 5 good songs on this album and 64 pieces of irritating garbage. Fuck this album.

I despise this record and it’s length

No

Eg e veldig glad i Jarre sin Magnetic Fields, men detta va bare ræl. Alt for langt og alt for klimprete og quirky og plagsomt. Nice antall sanga tho

Tällasta keskinkertasta alempaa höpöhöpöö en ala tunteja kuuntelee.

Man this album went on for way too long. Rare DNF

not bad but so fucking long

This is the first album from the list that I'm not going to finish listening to. I listened to almost one hour before I gave up. It's almost 3 hours and the songs are mostly the same except that they all tell a different story that requires a tremendous amount of effort from the listener. It's not an enjoyable experience.

Teenage poetry set to Bontempi organ. Indescribable rubbish.

These guys found 69 pretentious, self-indulgent ways to suck. This guy sounded like a moody Ian Curtis (THAT'S saying something, isn't it?), who occasionally let's his girlfriend, whom the rest of the band hates, sing.

I'm actually now dead inside. Someone resuscitate me. Like Ween had a lovechild with Peter Paul and Mary and had no sense of humor. Or like 72 acquaintances were like, hey everybody write a song that sounds completely like it should be on its own album and we'll turn it into an album that goes on forever and ever. I have deep regrets having exposed myself to this. I think this is a strong contender for the absolute worst album of all time! Perhaps that is its significance. Give me the worst of Frank Zappa. Give me Grateful Dead space all day. They Might Be Giants studio outtakes. Anything but this. Okay, on disk 2, perhaps it is telling that I fell for the track "No One Will Ever Love You". This is a great piece of music. By the time we get to Washington, D.C., I'm actually feeling a little offended. Honestly, how can you canonize my beloved city in such an audibly destructive manner? Rough.

I'm never going to go back and listen to the 41 songs from this album that I didn't get to a week ago, let's be honest. So I'll make an exception and review an album I didn't listen to all of. Because trust me, I'm confident I heard enough in the 20-something tracks I heard to judge this album. And what I heard I didn't care for. I don't care for the ridiculous and juvenile number of songs or album title. I don't care for the lead singer's voice. Or the other singers that pop up. And the songs just aren't very good. Many are bad. A lot of 1s and 2s, with a zero-star concept.

Maybe I was already pissed because I saw the length of this album. Maybe I was already annoyed because choosing to do 69 love songs is a terribly immature joke. Maybe I could have overcome those annoyances if it was good, but it wasn't.

Tedious. Way too long and dull.

Felt like an experimental album. Did not enjoy at all.

I’m not gonna listen to a 69 solo album the fuck?

Never heard of this band. Wasn't feeling it.

Literally 69 songs on here lol. Tried skimming through but was not feelin any of em.

Thanks, I hate it. I hate everything about this. The gimmicky premise, deadpan "singing", dumb lyrics, lazy melodies, nearly 3 hour play time, and even the immature 69 joke.

Ten album idealnie prezentuje to, że piosenki o miłości są proste do napisania i wszystkie brzmią podobnie. Miałem wrażenie że 3h słucham 1 utwór w pętli.

Get over yourself. This isn't an album that needs to exist. Release it as 3 albums if you want that many songs. No reason to waste time on this.

Nope

No love for this one

3 hours, really? Usually, when I listen to these long self-indulgent multi albums I find myself thinking that they would make great single albums if they could cut the filler. But I don't think you could make this better than 'good'. Sure, there are some nice songs, but no genius or stand out moments, so it just washed over me like a blanket of mediocre unmemorable mostly indie twiddlings. By the end, I was just glad it was over and I couldn't think of any moments I might want to go back and relisten to.

Demasiado largo. No escuché ninguna canción que vaya a pasar a la historia

Voi helvetin suuruudenhullut ei saatana... Kuuskytvitun yhdeksän rakkauslaulua ja melkeen kolme tuntii indiehelvettiä. Tää punkkari menee oksentamaan pienpanimo-olutta roskakatokseen. Ei vaan. Siis onhan tässä variaatiota! Tääl on vähän jazzahtavaakin tavaraa sekä sit tollasta syntikkapoppia ja countrya jne. Mut siis silti aivan älyttömän pitkä kokonaisuus. Ei oo mua varten ei sit todellakaan, vaikka osa teksteistä vaikutti aika hauskoilta. Kokonaisuus on vaan liian puuduttava että tätä jaksais ottaa kunnolla haltuun. 1/5

Awful

If anything it’s too many songs

Even if there was something here you can’t bury it in 3 hours of indie folk.

too many fillers

The opening lyrics of "The Book of Love" is "The book of love is long and boring"... kind of like this album. Imagine writing 69 songs and every one of them misses. 3/10.

I didn't mind this album at first...if it had been 10 songs I may have rated it higher. There was no need for 69 of these songs. Most of them feature off key vocals and instrumentation that made me feel like I was in a haunted Fun House. The longer it went on the more I grew to despise this album.

I understand that this album is poking fun at love songs, not love itself. And to its credit, some of the lyrics made me giggle. However, once again, the singing and music... Some tracks were great in both ways, but most tracks were grating in one way, the other, or both. This is a pretty strong "nope" for me. I'm going to leave this a strong 1 star (meaning, might be 2 stars under different circumstances).

oof, too much of that... skipped through a dozen or so tracks, not into it enough to sit through 3 hours worth ;-p

Unlistenable.

This album is the epitome of using 2000 words to express a point easily made in 300 words. Most songs are not worth listening to as they suffer from the problem of little quality. It feels as if both the backing tracks and lyrics were hastily conceived in 2 weeks, and although some songs may be enjoyable or even resonate deeply with you, it's fatiguing to try and find them in the mess.

Nope

69 loves songs! 2hrs52mins. I get that these were like anti love songs but it still went on for too long and it's the first album I havent completed

Songs sound unfinished. Could not get past the vocals. Lyrics could use work. Maybe a second listen is warranted, but first impression is not a good one

Not my style

Wow, this is unfinishable for me. It's like CAKE's evil twin. Or if the jokey opening to Portlandia was an album. The lyrics are terrible, the music is not interesting or pretty, and the vocals are bizarre at best. I made it through the first third, and I just don't deserve to have to do the rest.

What a stupid album

This album is at least 68 songs too long. Most of the tracks sound like they could have been composed and sang by a primary school band. Whoever finds this album enjoyable obviously hasn’t broadened their musical listening too much at all. El crapo! 1 Star!

Meh. Not my thing.

Si je pouvais mettre 0 je le ferais.

I would give it less if I could.

I am not a big fan at all, too long not too many songs that stick out