The Magnetic Fields – 50 Song Memoir (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

The Magnetic Fields – 50 Song Memoir (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:30:58 minutes | 1,62 GB | Genre: Alternative Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nonesuch

Merritt began recording on his 50th birthday: February 9, 2015. Unlike his previous work, the lyrics on 50 Song Memoir are nonfiction—in Merritt’s words, “a mix of autobiography (bedbugs, Buddhism, buggery) and documentary (hippies, Hollywood, hyperacusis).” As he says in the album’s liner note interview with his friend, the author Daniel Handler, “I am the least autobiographical person you are likely to meet. I will probably not write any more true songs after this than I did before, but it’s been interesting working on it.” In addition to his vocals on all 50 songs, Merritt plays more than 100 instruments on 50 Song Memoir, ranging from ukulele to piano to drum machine to abacus. In concert, the music will be played and sung by a newly expanded Magnetic Fields septet in a stage set featuring 50 years of artifacts both musical (vintage computers, reel-to-reel tape decks, newly invented instruments), and decorative (tiki bar, shag carpet, vintage magazines for the perusal of idle musicians). The seven performers each play seven different instruments, either traditional (cello, charango, clavichord) or invented in the last 50 years (Slinky guitar, Swarmatron, synthesizer). The stage extravaganza will be directed by the award-winning Jose Zayas (Love in the Time of Cholera, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter).

Tracklist:
01. The Magnetic Fields – ’66: Wonder Where I’m From (02:45)
02. The Magnetic Fields – ’67: Come Back as a Cockroach (02:35)
03. The Magnetic Fields – ’68: A Cat Called Dionysus (02:48)
04. The Magnetic Fields – ’69: Judy Garland (03:18)
05. The Magnetic Fields – ’70: They’re Killing Children Over There (02:38)
06. The Magnetic Fields – ’71 I Think I’ll Make Another World (02:57)
07. The Magnetic Fields – ’72: Eye Contact (02:56)
08. The Magnetic Fields – ’73: It Could Have Been Paradise (03:08)
09. The Magnetic Fields – ’74: No (02:56)
10. The Magnetic Fields – ’75: My Mama Ain’t (03:01)
11. The Magnetic Fields – ’76: Hustle 76 (03:16)
12. The Magnetic Fields – ’77: Life Ain’t All Bad (04:17)
13. The Magnetic Fields – ’78: The Blizzard of ’78 (03:17)
14. The Magnetic Fields – ’79: Rock’n’Roll Will Ruin Your Life (02:59)
15. The Magnetic Fields – ’80: London by Jetpack (02:59)
16. The Magnetic Fields – ’81: How to Play the Synthesizer (03:07)
17. The Magnetic Fields – ’82: Happy Beeping (03:12)
18. The Magnetic Fields – ’83: Foxx and I (02:44)
19. The Magnetic Fields – ’84: Danceteria! (03:09)
20. The Magnetic Fields – ’85: Why I Am Not a Teenager (03:04)
21. The Magnetic Fields – ’86: How I Failed Ethics (02:57)
22. The Magnetic Fields – ’87: At the Pyramid (03:09)
23. The Magnetic Fields – ’88: Ethan Frome (02:24)
24. The Magnetic Fields – ’89: The 1989 Musical Marching Zoo (03:07)
25. The Magnetic Fields – ’90: Dreaming in Tetris (03:21)
26. The Magnetic Fields – ’91: The Day I Finally… (02:21)
27. The Magnetic Fields – ’92: Weird Diseases (03:10)
28. The Magnetic Fields – ’93: Me and Fred and Dave and Ted (03:09)
29. The Magnetic Fields – ’94: Haven’t Got a Penny (02:54)
30. The Magnetic Fields – ’95: A Serious Mistake (03:11)
31. The Magnetic Fields – ’96: I’m Sad! (02:12)
32. The Magnetic Fields – ’97: Eurodisco Trio (03:16)
33. The Magnetic Fields – ’98: Lovers’ Lies (03:07)
34. The Magnetic Fields – ’99: Fathers in the Clouds (02:52)
35. The Magnetic Fields – ’00: Ghosts of the Marathon Dancers (03:06)
36. The Magnetic Fields – ’01: Have You Seen It in the Snow? (02:53)
37. The Magnetic Fields – ’02: Be True to Your Bar (03:36)
38. The Magnetic Fields – ’03: The Ex and I (02:59)
39. The Magnetic Fields – ’04: Cold-Blooded Man (03:06)
40. The Magnetic Fields – ’05: Never Again (03:16)
41. The Magnetic Fields – ’06: Quotes (02:17)
42. The Magnetic Fields – ’07: In the Snow White Cottages (02:52)
43. The Magnetic Fields – ’08: Surfin’ (02:48)
44. The Magnetic Fields – ’09: Till You Come Back to Me (02:30)
45. The Magnetic Fields – ’10: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (03:04)
46. The Magnetic Fields – ’11: Stupid Tears (02:46)
47. The Magnetic Fields – ’12: You Can Never Go Back to New York (03:13)
48. The Magnetic Fields – ’13: Big Enough for Both of Us (03:04)
49. The Magnetic Fields – ’14: I Wish I Had Pictures (03:08)
50. The Magnetic Fields – ’15: Somebody’s Fetish (03:40)

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