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Generally favorable reviews- based on 77 Ratings
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Positive: 62 out of 77
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Mixed: 3 out of 77
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Negative: 12 out of 77
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alexfJul 25, 2007A wonderful album.
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RajS.Jul 5, 2007One of the top 5 albums of the 90's.
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DavidC.Jan 16, 2008Completely amazing album. Probably one of the best pop album in the 90's. Very clever lyrics.
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JimFeb 4, 2008Rolling Stone is wrong again. A great album
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KonstantinosA.Feb 21, 2002If one album in the world deserves a 10 this is it!... Best album of 2000!
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DenisDMar 25, 2005Greatest album of the nineties
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MarkNApr 18, 2005Absolutely breathtaking.
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AliCJul 14, 2005Utterly extraordinary, a truly genre transcending, and enormous masterpiece. Surely the best value CD ever released?
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JoseSFeb 2, 2006Just Great!
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GaryS.Mar 27, 2006monumental
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AnthonySJun 27, 2005the last great album of the 20th century in my books!
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[Anonymous]Jul 27, 2007I need a cigarette! That's how good this album is
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WayneW.Jan 17, 2008This album is just a fun album to listen to. Stephin Merritt writes incredible lyrics!
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JohnP.Apr 15, 2008Lyrically brilliant and beautifully structured from start to finish. One of the most relevant and ambitious albums of the 90s, and a must-have for anybody who prides themselves as having good taste in music.
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GaryO.Nov 17, 2007Absolutely supreme.
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Nov 21, 2011Amazing. Among my favourite albums of all time. Stephin Merritt is a prolific songwriter. There are so many gems on this album. It's a must haveâ
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Mar 29, 2017A work of great scope, bookending a decade of brilliant music by Stephin Merritt. A case can certainly be made that The Magnetic Fields were the greatest band of the 90s.
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Dec 12, 2021He jumps styles of music effortlessly, all the while managing to pull things together with touching and inventive lyrics
Awards & Rankings
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Alternately recalling the best work of Blondie, Leonard Cohen, Depeche Mode, and dozens more, 69 Songs About Love is a sprawling masterpiece of White Album-like proportions.
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Merritt's compositions have a tossed-off, barely produced quality and are held together by sturdily constructed melodies that hark back to Eighties synth poppers like Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark.
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Stephin Merritt's most ambitious as well as fully realized work to date, a three-disc epic of classically chiseled pop songs that explore both the promise and pitfalls of modern romance through the jaundiced eye of an irredeemable misanthrope.