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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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Dec 12, 2021He jumps styles of music effortlessly, all the while managing to pull things together with touching and inventive lyrics
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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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Aug 20, 2015
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Feb 6, 2015t takes a few listens to pull everything together, but given the immense scope, it's striking how few weak tracks there are. It's no wonder Stankonia consolidated OutKast's status as critics' darlings, and began attracting broad new audiences: its across-the-board appeal and ambition overshadowed nearly every other pop album released in 2000.
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Aug 12, 2013
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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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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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JimFeb 4, 2008Rolling Stone is wrong again. A great album
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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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DavidC.Jan 16, 2008Completely amazing album. Probably one of the best pop album in the 90's. Very clever lyrics.
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GaryO.Nov 17, 2007Absolutely supreme.
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[Anonymous]Jul 27, 2007I need a cigarette! That's how good this album is
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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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GaryS.Mar 27, 2006monumental
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JoseSFeb 2, 2006Just Great!
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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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AnthonySJun 27, 2005the last great album of the 20th century in my books!
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MarkNApr 18, 2005Absolutely breathtaking.
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DenisDMar 25, 2005Greatest album of the nineties
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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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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.