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50 Song Memoir
The Magnetic Fields
Released: 2017
- Genre
- Folk
- Style
- Folk
- Label
- Nonesuch
- Format
- Album
"50 Song Memoir" is the eleventh studio album by American indie pop band The Magnetic Fields, released on March 03, 2017 o the Nonesuch label. 50 Song Memoir is an autobiographical concept album that chronicles the first 50 years of songwriter Stephin Merritt's life, with one song for each year that he has lived. Stephin Merritt began recording on his 50th birthday on February 9, 2015. The album was produced by Merritt with additional production by Thomas Bartlett and Charles Newman. Merritt sings on all fifty tracks and plays more than one hundred instruments throughout.
Track List
1'66 Wonder Where I'm From
2'67 Come Back as a Cockroach
3'68 A Cat Called Dionysus
4'69 Judy Garland
5'70 They're Killing Children Over There
6'71 I Think I'll Make Another World
7'72 Eye Contact
8'73 It Could Have Been Paradise
9'74 No
10'75 My Mama Ain't
1'76 Hustle 76
2'77 Life Ain't All Bad
3'78 The Blizzard of '78
4'79 Rock'n'Roll Will Ruin Your Life
5'80 London by Jetpack
6'81 How to Play the Synthesizer
7'82 Happy Beeping
8'83 Foxx and I
9'84 Danceteria!
10'85 Why I Am Not a Teenager
1'86 How I Failed Ethics
2'87 At the Pyramid
3'88 Ethan Frome
4'89 The 1989 Musical Marching Zoo
5'90 Dreaming in Tetris
6'91 The Day I Finally…
7'92 Weird Diseases
8'93 Me and Fred and Dave and Ted
9'94 Haven't Got a Penny
10'95 A Serious Mistake
1'96 I'm Sad!
2'97 Eurodisco Trio
3'98 Lovers' Lies
4'99 Fathers in the Clouds
5'00 Ghosts of the Marathon Dancers
6'01 Have You Seen It in the Snow?
7'02 Be True to Your Bar
8'03 The Ex and I
9'04 Cold‐Blooded Man
10'05 Never Again
1'06 “Quotes”
2'07 In the Snow White Cottages
3'08 Surfin'
4'09 Till You Come Back to Me
5'10 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
6'11 Stupid Tears
7'12 You Can Never Go Back to New York
8'13 Big Enough for Both of Us
9'14 I Wish I Had Pictures
10'15 Somebody's Fetish
