There is a good likelihood you or somebody you understand has borrowed a line or two from 69 Love Songs, the beloved, three-volume album launched by The Magnetic Fields in 1999. Lyrics from frontman Stephin Merritt‘s usually comical and affecting opus to courting and romance have wound up in all the things from movie and TV reveals to like letters and marriage vows. Now on tour for the album’s twenty fifth anniversary, the band stopped by the Desk to share greater than a half-dozen songs from throughout the gathering.
Battling a head chilly, Merritt cradled a stuffed animal by the efficiency (a white cat you possibly can spot sitting on the Desk in a variety of Tiny Desk units). “I do not really know whose cat that is,” he advised the gang, as he crooned a number of fan favorites, together with “The E-book of Love,” “I Do not Need to Get Over You” and “Come Again from San Francisco.”
The band, that includes the whole unique lineup, carried out with out drums and an nearly completely acoustic set, aside from Sam Davol’s electrical cello.
SET LIST
- “Roses”
- “All My Little Phrases”
- “Reno Dakota”
- “Come Again from San Francisco”
- “I Do not Need to Get Over You”
- “For We Are the King of the Boudoir”
- “Kiss Me Like You Imply It”
- “The E-book of Love”
MUSICIANS
- Stephin Merritt: vocals
- Sam Davol: electrical cello
- Shirley Simms: ukulele, vocals
- Claudia Gonson: vocals
- John Woo: acoustic guitar
- Chris Ewen: acoustic piano
- Anthony Kaczynski: acoustic guitar, vocals
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Robin Hilton
- Director/Editor: Maia Stern
- Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell
- Host/Collection Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant, Kara Body, Mitra I. Arthur
- Audio Engineer: Hannah Gluvna
- Photographer: Alanté Serene
- Tiny Desk Group: Ashley Pointer, Hazel Cills
- Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Collection Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
