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The Magnetic Fields
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Member Since1/7/2008
Band Websitehttp://www.houseoftomorrow.com
Band MembersStephin Merritt
Claudia Gonson – percussion/piano/vocals
Sam Davol – cello
John Woo – banjo/guitar
Sounds LikeTrains, Love songs, & the Moon

Also Available:


i
CD, Nonesuch, May 2004
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69 Love Songs
3CDs, Merge Sept. 1999
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Get Lost
CD, Merge Oct. 1995
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The House of Tomorrow
EP, Merge Jan. 1999
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Holiday
CD, Merge Jan. 1999
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The Charm of the Highway Strip
CD, Merge Apr. 1994
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The Wayward Bus/Distant Plastic Trees
CD, Merge Jan. 1995
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Record LabelNonesuch, Merge
Type of LabelMajor


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   About The Magnetic Fields
"Three-Way," the opening song on Distortion, introduces, in a deceptively exuberant blast of pop noise, the themes and obsessions of Magnetic Fields' eighth album. The lyrics simply consist of gleefully repeated exclamations, by male and female voices, of the song title. While "Three-Way" may summon images of Twister-like physical exertions in a situation where three is not a crowd, the subsequent material describes scenarios in which desire itself is twisted into dark, alluring shapes and love remains tantalizingly unrequited. Using a modest number of instruments, composer and producer Stephin Merritt creates a veritable wall of sound. He employs no synthesizers; instead, he generates waves of feedback that envelop every track like a spiky black gift-wrapping.

"I wanted to make a record of three-minute pop songs, then they turned into three-minute power-pop songs," Merritt explains. "The previous Magnetic Fields record had been self-consciously soft rock, with all the songs starting with the letter 'i.' The idea here was to make this record quickly and use the same instrumentation on every song. And if I had to use the same instrumentation all the time, what would I want it to sound like? Well, like the first Jesus and Mary Chain album! So I attempted to adapt the sound of Psychocandy to the orch-pop reality of the Magnetic Fields, where we have a pianist and a cellist. And the occasional accordionist."

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AUTOBAHN





Jul 4 2009 4:44 AM

Hi! AUTOBAHN new music video "All My Muscles" Kozo made 8mm Film HORRORmovie "CyberPunk" 2006 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M1-gwBSGTM Check it ! :)
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Jul 2 2009 3:03 PM

Perdidos, Aislados en el Universo
Sin Consciencia de lo que Somos
Vagamos en busca de nuestro Reencuentro con el AMOR.
Las ESFERAS PERFECTAS, Flotan en el ESPACIO
Danzando Armonicamente al compas
De la Suave Música
Que Emana del COSMOS.
TODAS, nos miran Apenadas
Esperando Nuestro DESPERTAR
Y Nuestro REGRESO.

Pomised Land of the South

Promised Land of The South. Painting by Gabriel Piñana

Much Love!!
Gabriel.
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Jun 30 2009 7:06 PM


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Jun 28 2009 11:25 AM

Bashful Trash





Jun 28 2009 9:50 AM

Dear MF,

My siblings and I are musicians, and we all love your music, so....when we all get together, we can't stop playing your songs! Our renditions of "Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side" and "All My Little Words" have, well...eventually precipitated our being dubbed "The Magnetic Finkels."
So there you go. You have some Jewish doppelgangers in New Jersey.

Hope you can play NYC again soon!

Love,
Bashful Trash (Dorit)
Murid Torre





Jun 21 2009 10:02 PM

Thanks for being my friends!
I really enjoy with your music.
You..re unique!
All the best
The Melodic Plague





Jun 21 2009 8:22 PM

I love your music!
It got me through many a dark night
thankyou for existing!
Jesús





Jun 20 2009 4:19 PM

Come to South America (Perú), please.
The Xurde´s





Jun 19 2009 8:32 AM

THAN..S FOR ADD FROM SPAIN

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Jun 18 2009 11:33 PM

sliden thru!
Codrin





Jun 18 2009 6:15 PM

Hello and thanks for the add! Trent Reznor introduced me to your music and I have to say it's really...special. Congratulations on your work, I hope you will continue to create such wonderful sounds!

Greetings and best wishes from Romania!
The Tires





Jun 18 2009 5:32 PM

Excited also!! love you guys to the max:)
Nenmar’s Revenge





Jun 18 2009 4:55 PM

Hey Thanks for the ADD! I'm a big fan!! Hey, I was always wondering, on some of your mid 90's work did your band ever use the Yamaha QY-70 to arrange? Thanks!
Eyes on the Sinner





May 15 2009 6:35 PM

Finally 5 new EOS songs online for listening and downloading!!!
Check it out or REPENT!

Join the EOS army
Lemmy





Apr 26 2009 5:35 PM

Your Geniusesazizzes
Cassieopia





Apr 25 2009 3:00 PM

"Grand Canyon" is the most beautiful song. It blows me away every time I hear it.
Jon-Michael





Apr 5 2009 12:42 PM

Back then, my favorite make-out spot was in the parking lot of a local nuclear power plant that was bathed in heavy orange floodlights at midnight. It was the overflow parking area and was really just a narrow little strip of unpaved dirt in front of an old chain link fence. When I used it, the ground was coated with blackened, refuse infused snow in the dire days of mid March. March has always been a month of dirty snow and staid sexual regrets around here, all the filth shines through like sunlight on shit then. In those grey days the snow by the roadsides is thick with layer upon layer of soot from all the passing cars, the banks are littered with the trash and cigarette butts thrown out from cars and by passers-by. I used to joke with *****, that enough sessions in that lot would give us nipples that could shoot putrid green beams of laser light, that we could use to slice apples, to make a kinder sort of "Mom's apple pie," a nuclear powered new way for an all American boy. These days, as his dissemblings and memories fade, I want to burrow into that dog urine soaked, soot covered snow to form a hovel and call it home, dreaming thick dreams of cocaine in transient Red Bull vans, with lush drag queens on a sultry Sunday night and frosty chocolate covered key lime pie, staving off the hunger pangs of hustler borne starvation, between daily fixes of stolen chili dogs from the 7-11.
Fleishmann





Apr 3 2009 12:14 PM

Nuevas canciones fleishmannianas.
Pásense a degustarlas con premura!!!
Sepiachord





Mar 31 2009 5:47 AM

Playlist for the Week Ending 3/29

Sad Bastard Book Club: This May Sound Perverse but That is the Sexiest Noose I've Ever Seen
Thunder in the Valley: Altar
Uncle Sinner: Pearline
Zera Marvel: Honeymoon
Smoldering Ashes: Barker
Sisters of Mercy: 1969
Cult with No Name: Feels So Good
Serendipity Musik: Curse of Beauty
Jughead: The Hockey Song
Adrian H & the Wounds: Murder in the Forest
Thomas Nola et son Orchestre: You See Its Fingernails
Life After Life: Marijuana
Fermata: Ablaze
Professor Gall: Creepy Old Haunts
Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys: Sacrilege
Foetus: Enter the Exterminator
The Doors: The Severed Garden (Adagio)
Sxip Shirey: Pandora
Jill Tracy: Torture
Jason Webley & Sxip Shirey: Crock
Magnetic Fields: Very Funny
The Bad Things: Drunken Doughboy
Ruby Throat: House of Thieves
Vermillion Lies: Global Warming
Scarlet Room: The Machine
Against Me!: Cavalier Eternal
Neko Case: This Tornado Loves You
Flogging Molly: What's Left of the Flag
Nouvelle Vague: I Melt with You
Bakelite 78: World's Fair Hotel
Christian Williams: To the Trees
Sepiachord





Mar 27 2009 6:15 AM

Playlist for the Week Ending 3/21

Camper Van Beethoven: Opening Theme
Alice Cooper: Mr and Misdemeanor
The Doors: Queen of the Highway (Jazz Version)
MePhI: Crystal Night
Sad Bastard Book Club: Eviction Party in the United State of Nebraska
Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys: Viktagraph
Smoldering Ashes: A Comedy of Arrows
Synthetic Dream Foundation with Hannah Fury: Trapeze
The Scarring Party: Eat Your Young
A.K.A.C.O.D.: Happiness
Aranis: Vala
Midnight Serenaders: Swing Brother Swing
Demonika and the Darklings: Hecate
Magnetic Fields: Bitter Tears
Elle Vanderbilt





Mar 18 2009 2:48 AM

Thanks for the add! Incredible music.
Northern Dream





Mar 17 2009 9:20 PM

Thanks for the add
best wishes
xxx
guido333





Mar 17 2009 5:45 PM

thanx so much for the add,you really made my day!!I'm so blown away by how good your music is and endures...i'm jonesin for something new...Best of luck to you all!!!thank you,thank you, thank you!!!
Irtisen





Mar 17 2009 5:34 PM

Hi dear friends!
Always loved you and always will.
And we want more!
SodaCan





Mar 17 2009 5:20 AM

Check out the new songs, blogs, and pics from SodaCan!
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