"50 Song Memoir" is the eleventh studio album by American indie pop band The Magnetic Fields, released on March 03, 2017 o the Nonesuch label. 50 Song Memoir is an autobiographical concept album that chronicles the first 50 years of songwriter Stephin Merritt's life, with one song for each year that he has lived. Stephin Merritt began recording on his 50th birthday on February 9, 2015. The album was produced by Merritt with additional production by Thomas Bartlett and Charles Newman. Merritt sings on all fifty tracks and plays more than one hundred instruments throughout. "50 Song Memoir" is the eleventh studio album by American indie pop band The Magnetic Fields, released on March 03, 2017 o the Nonesuch label. 50 Song Memoir is an autobiographical concept album that chronicles the first 50 years of songwriter Stephin Merritt's life, with one song for each year that he has lived. Stephin Merritt began recording on his 50th birthday on February 9, 2015. The album was produced by Merritt with additional production by Thomas Bartlett and Charles Newman. Merritt sings on all fifty tracks and plays more than one hundred instruments throughout. false 2024-01-22 17:24:29 50 Song Memoir 2017 2017-03-10 2017-03-10 32 Indie Pop Indie Rock Rock 126773 2278111 9d812089-052f-4f5d-a474-7448a6fd80d1 3ff72a59-f39d-411d-9f93-2d4a86413013 340817fa-49d5-4afb-b947-db4a9e7c9703 /media/data/media4/Music/The Magnetic Fields/50 Song Memoir (2017)/12 Vinyl 02/folder.jpg The Magnetic Fields AlbumArtist The Magnetic Fields Artist The Magnetic Fields The Magnetic Fields 1 ’76 Hustle 76 03:16 2 ’77 Life Ain’t All Bad 04:17 3 ’78 The Blizzard of ’78 03:17 4 ’79 Rock’n’Roll Will Ruin Your Life 02:59 5 ’80 London by Jetpack 02:59 6 ’81 How to Play the Synthesizer 03:07 7 ’82 Happy Beeping 03:12 8 ’83 Foxx and I 02:44 9 ’84 Danceteria! 03:09 10 ’85 Why I Am Not a Teenager 03:04 The Magnetic Fields (named after the André Breton/Philippe Soupault novel Les Champs Magnétiques) are an American band founded and led by Stephin Merritt. Merritt is the group's primary songwriter, producer, and vocalist, as well as frequent multi-instrumentalist. Merritt's lyrics are often about love and feature atypical or neutral gender roles, and are by turns ironic, tongue-in-cheek, bitter, and humorous. The band released their debut single "100,000 Fireflies" in 1991. The single was typical of the band's earlier career, characterized by synthesized instrumentation by Merritt, with lead vocals provided by Susan Anway (and then by Stephin Merritt himself, from the House of Tomorrow EP onwards). A more traditional band later materialized; it is now composed of Merritt, Claudia Gonson, Sam Davol, and John Woo, with occasional guest vocals by Shirley Simms. The band's best-known work is the 1999 three-volume concept album 69 Love Songs. It was followed in the succeeding years by a "no-synth" trilogy: i (2004), Distortion (2008), and Realism (2010). The band's latest album, Quickies, was released on May 29, 2020.