"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."
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.
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!
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!
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.
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
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
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!!!
