The Vinyl Countdown # 1775

The Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs (1999)

I heard about the album from reading reviews, an audacious, possibly absurd project. The Magnetic Fields released a triple-CD set called 69 Love Songs and the title was no clever trick. It did what it said on the box. I bought the CDs, imported them, and worked my way through this material. To me it was a writing…