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The Magnetic Fields

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Years Active
1990 – present (32 years)
Founded In
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
The Magnetic Fields is a New York-based group fronted by Stephin Merritt. Recent albums released under the name "The Magnetic Fields" usually consist of music in a 1980s style underlying clever lyrics which are often heavily ironic. While synth-pop often forms the foundation of their music, The Magnetic Fields' music borrows from many other styles, notably , and . The band was originally formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1990 by friends Merritt and (percussionist/pianist/vocalist) Claudia Gonson. While 1991's Distant Plastic Tre… read more
The Magnetic Fields is a New York-based group fronted by Stephin Merritt. Recent albums released under the name "The Magnetic Fields" usually consist of music in a 1980s style underlying clever lyrics which are often heavily ironic. While synth-pop often forms the foundati… read more
The Magnetic Fields is a New York-based group fronted by Stephin Merritt. Recent albums released under the name "The Magnetic Fields" usually consist of music in a 1980s style underlying clever lyrics which are often heavily ironic. While synth-pop often forms the foundation of their music, The Magnetic Fields' music borrows from many oth… read more

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Top Tracks

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1 Play track 69 Love Songs The Book of Love
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 1,989 listeners
2 Play track 69 Love Songs All My Little Words
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 1,586 listeners
3 Play track 69 Love Songs I Don't Want to Get Over You
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4 Play track Holiday Strange Powers
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5 Play track 69 Love Songs I Think I Need A New Heart
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6 Play track 69 Love Songs Absolutely Cuckoo
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7 Play track 69 Love Songs Epitaph for My Heart
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8 Play track 69 Love Songs A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
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9 Play track 69 Love Songs The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
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10 Play track Love at the Bottom of the Sea Andrew In Drag
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Albums

  1. 338,729 listeners

    7 Sep 1999 · 69 tracks

    69 Love Songs
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  2. 146,260 listeners

    3 May 2004 · 14 tracks

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  3. 131,307 listeners

    27 Sep 1994 · 14 tracks

    Holiday
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  4. 119,161 listeners

    10 Jan 2008 · 13 tracks

    Distortion
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