The Magnetic Fields - All My Little Words

"I could make you pay and pay but I could never make you stay."

Album: 69 Love Songs (6th album)
Genre: Indie Folk, Chamber Folk
Recorded: 
Album Release: September 7th 1999
Single Release:
Length: 2:47
Producer: Stephin Merritt
Vocalist: LD Beghtol
Label: Merge Records

Official Audio


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Charts, Streams & Sales

Spotify: Over 19 million
YouTube Music: Over 4 million

Instruments

Includes: banjo, cello, guitar,

Details

• The simplicity of the lyrics are a deliberate attempt to parody the uneding deluge of songs about love and heartbreak that dominate the charts. The excessive length of '69 Love Songs' works to the same end, as if the songwriter is proving how easy it is to write such works.    
  
  
• Stephin Merritt wrote the album in a dingy gay bar in New York called Dick's. Dick's is a great name for a gay bar because it is, quite literally, full of dicks.
  
  
• '69 Love Songs' was inspired by the theatrical works of Stephen Sondheim.

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