"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 2025-02-02 05:01:00 50 Song Memoir 2017 2017-03-10 2017-03-10 151 Indie Pop Indie Rock Rock 126773 2278111 bd7de75d-3587-49ec-a07f-2e2c825d3538 3ff72a59-f39d-411d-9f93-2d4a86413013 340817fa-49d5-4afb-b947-db4a9e7c9703 /media/data/media4/Music/The Magnetic Fields/50 Song Memoir/folder.jpg The Magnetic Fields The Magnetic Fields 1 1 ’66 Wonder Where I’m From 02:45 1 2 ’67 Come Back as a Cockroach 02:35 1 3 ’68 A Cat Called Dionysus 02:48 1 4 ’69 Judy Garland 03:18 1 5 ’70 They’re Killing Children Over There 02:38 1 6 ’71 I Think I’ll Make Another World 02:57 1 7 ’72 Eye Contact 02:56 1 8 ’73 It Could Have Been Paradise 03:08 1 9 ’74 No 02:56 1 10 ’75 My Mama Ain’t 03:01 2 1 ’76 Hustle 76 03:16 2 2 ’77 Life Ain’t All Bad 04:17 2 3 ’78 The Blizzard of ’78 03:17 2 4 ’79 Rock’n’Roll Will Ruin Your Life 02:59 2 5 ’80 London by Jetpack 02:59 2 6 ’81 How to Play the Synthesizer 03:07 2 7 ’82 Happy Beeping 03:12 2 8 ’83 Foxx and I 02:44 2 9 ’84 Danceteria! 03:09 2 10 ’85 Why I Am Not a Teenager 03:04 3 1 ’86 How I Failed Ethics 02:57 3 2 ’87 At the Pyramid 03:09 3 3 ’88 Ethan Frome 02:24 3 4 ’89 The 1989 Musical Marching Zoo 03:07 3 5 ’90 Dreaming in Tetris 03:21 3 6 ’91 The Day I Finally… 02:21 3 7 ’92 Weird Diseases 03:10 3 8 ’93 Me and Fred and Dave and Ted 03:09 3 9 ’94 Haven’t Got a Penny 02:54 3 10 ’95 A Serious Mistake 03:11 4 1 ’96 I’m Sad! 02:12 4 2 ’97 Eurodisco Trio 03:16 4 3 ’98 Lovers’ Lies 03:07 4 4 ’99 Fathers in the Clouds 02:52 4 5 ’00 Ghosts of the Marathon Dancers 03:06 4 6 ’01 Have You Seen It in the Snow? 02:53 4 7 ’02 Be True to Your Bar 03:36 4 8 ’03 The Ex and I 02:59 4 9 ’04 Cold‐Blooded Man 03:06 4 10 ’05 Never Again 03:16 5 1 ’06 “Quotes” 02:17 5 2 ’07 In the Snow White Cottages 02:52 5 3 ’08 Surfin’ 02:48 5 4 ’09 Till You Come Back to Me 02:30 5 5 ’10 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 03:04 5 6 ’11 Stupid Tears 02:46 5 7 ’12 You Can Never Go Back to New York 03:13 5 8 ’13 Big Enough for Both of Us 03:04 5 9 ’14 I Wish I Had Pictures 03:08 5 10 ’15 Somebody’s Fetish 03:40