69 Love Songs en Continuum 33 1/3

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La serie de libros que Continuum publica acerca de lps significativos en la historia del pop (Continuum 33 1/3 series; más info en este ¡blog! http://33third.blogspot.com/) aborda el 69 Love Songs de The Magnetic Fields. El Libro está escrito por LD Beghtol, si, el hombre de LD & The New Criticism y colaborador de The Magnetic Fields.

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69LS—A FIELD GUIDE is a fully illustrated history of the Magnetic Fields' 1999 triple-disc, 69 LOVE SONGS — an album that was afforded "classic" status by many upon its release. LD Beghtol's book is chatty, incestuous, funny, dark, digressive, sexy, maddening, and delightful in equal measures. It documents a vital and influential scene from the inside, involving ukuleles and tears, citations and footnotes, analogue drum machines, floods of cognac —oh, a crossword puzzle, too! The centre of the book is the secret history of these tuneful, acerbic, and sometimes heartbreaking songs of old love, new love, lost love, punk rock love, gay love, straight love, experimental music love, true love, blue love, and the utter lack of love that fill the album — as told by the album's creators, fans and critics, family and friends, imitators and naysayers, and heaps of others. This lavish little book (designed by the author) includes an extensive lexicon in the style of Ambrose Bierce’s “Devil's Dictionary," fascinating studio anecdotes and recording minutae, performance notes about the original-cast, full-album shows in New York and London, rare and unpublished images by offical TMF photgraphress Gail O'Hara and others, memorabilia, an introduction by noted music historian Ken Emerson, and much much more.