his band credits our beloved claudia gonson as live drumer. i picked up their lone cd entitled "time trials'. this is fairly affable janglepop, featuring short...
went ahead and picked up the Random CD. You were right, the MF song is unique. I don't recall how the Numan song went, but Merrit's stands on its own. With its...
i<br>i was wondering if anyone knows anything about stephin's partner in future bible heroes, christopher ewen. is he involved with any other projects? ...
ep. i think what gets me most about abba is that at high volume, songs like "dancing queen" actually make the romm seem to shimmer a bit. fascinating actually....
an (like this one). try to order a cd called "doot doot" by freur.<br>these guys were composed of several members of underworld in around 1984. the record is...
esss...the spending-yet-another-friday-night-<br>in-a-small-box-of-room soundz of the formidable<br>bill callahan, the only other lyrical genius<br>qualified...
elcome Tasha,<br><br>I'm not sure why Holiday was put out of print, but I do know that Merge is going to reissue it, along with "House of Tomorrow" (the one I...
i everyone<br>(i'm new). <br>i was lucky enough to see the magnetic fields in san francisco this year, and i am a big fan of all of stephin merrit's music......
think we can all agree that stephin is utterly unique. that being said , however, check out "east river pipe" and to a certain extent, "sparklehorse" for a ...
can think of one band that works in the same "terrain" as Stephin Merrit. The band is Smog, and just like the MF's, it's the work of one man who goes by the...
n my experience, no other bands are working the same terrain as Mr. Merrit, though I'd like to point out that the song "Hope" off the new R.E.M. album sounds a...
ou can actually e-mail Claudia Gonson & ask her yourself about the possible release dates of the new Mag. Fields & 6ths albums (CGonson@...) - I haven't ...
've seen the magnetic fields three times in the last 6 months, and their new material is absolutely incredible!! I think many of the songs are from the new...
created a Magnetic Fields web page about two years ago, though it was only up for a few months at a time because of web space problems. Now that I'm working,...
mm. I think it is tough to find similar sounds as in carbon copies. But Yo La Tengo has a similar tendancy to layer tons of sounds, blending lots of different...
hough it may not seem so there are other artists i would lump together with merrit<br>depends what you want similar<br>there are many indie pop bands that...
hough it may not seem so there are other artists i would lump together with merrit<br>depends what you want similar<br>there are many indie pop bands that...
have searched and have had no real luck in finding any band that bears similarity to Magnetic Fields (well okay, 6ths, Gothic Archies & FBH aside). Is Mr. ...
actually havent heard the bowie cover but i have a copy of random and i love it. its a good cd alltogether especially w/ the magnetic fields. its a good cover....
he songs you mentioned, plus a few others (Mata Hari, Lindy Lou, & Isn't It Romantic) should be out next year on either the next M.F. record (tenatively titles...
surprised myself recently. I was asked to list my ten favorite bands of all time... The M.Fields ended up at number one. The songs are impossibly catchy,...
ell I haven't heard the track yet, I have such a hard time buying comps for only one track and few of the other bands interest me. Still I've heard great ...
've seen the Magnetic Fields a couple of times live, and they've played a few songs that other audience members seemed to know, but I can't find the songs on...
'm considering getting the Gary Numan cover CD Random, and wondered how MF's song "I Die: You Die" is.<br>If it's as good as their "Heroes" cover on the Bowie ...
know that it is out of print and being re-released next year...but if anyone out there has an extra copy they wanna get rid of, or has seen one anywhere, ...
ello to all you Magnetic Fields fans! I wanted to start this up because Stephin Merrit is the only artist I have found that I so consistantly enjoy. Sure some...