false 2022-09-13 20:45:13 Quickies 2020 2020-05-15 2020-05-15 47 Electronic Folk Pop Synth-Pop 126773 2422392 07391c02-3db9-43a5-83a9-478f43a5bbb4 3ff72a59-f39d-411d-9f93-2d4a86413013 2cb91562-aebc-4ed4-8709-ab45dcbff3c0 /media/data/media4/Music/The Magnetic Fields/Quickies (2020)/folder.jpg The Magnetic Fields AlbumArtist The Magnetic Fields Artist The Magnetic Fields The Magnetic Fields 1 Castles of America 00:34 2 The Biggest Tits in History 02:12 3 The Day the Politicians Died 01:57 4 Castle Down a Dirt Road 01:47 5 Bathroom Quickie 00:46 6 My Stupid Boyfriend 02:01 7 Love Gone Wrong 02:13 8 Favorite Bar 01:12 9 Kill a Man a Week 00:59 10 Kraftwerk in a Blackout 01:49 11 When She Plays the Toy Piano 02:06 12 Death Pact (Let’s Make A) 00:17 13 I’ve Got a Date With Jesus 02:16 14 Come, Life, Shaker Life! 02:35 15 (I Want to Join a) Biker Gang 02:21 16 Rock ’n’ Roll Guy 02:33 17 You’ve Got a Friend in Beelzebub 01:13 18 Let’s Get Drunk Again (and Get Divorced) 01:15 19 The Best Cup of Coffee in Tennessee 02:07 20 When the Brat Upstairs Got a Drum Kit 01:52 21 The Price You Pay 01:52 22 The Boy in the Corner 00:55 23 Song of the Ant 00:43 24 I Wish I Had Fangs and a Tail 01:51 25 Evil Rhythm 01:47 26 She Says Hello 01:01 27 The Little Robot Girl 02:11 28 I Wish I Were a Prostitute Again 02:15 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.