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The Magnetic Fields are an American band founded and led by Stephin Merritt. Merritt is the group's primary songwriter, producer, and vocalist, as well as frequent multi-instrumentalist. The band is named after the André Breton/Philippe Soupault novel Les Champs Magnétiques. [1] The band released their debut single "100,000 Fireflies" in 1991.
The Magnetic Fields version is heard in the 2014 movie Extraterrestrial and was also used in the Fox series Lethal Weapon (season 3, episode 5 "Get The Picture") and the Netflix show Friends From College in 2019 (season 2, episode 7). Comedian Arthur Smith performs a version of it during Syd, his 2019 show about his late father.
69 Love Songs is the sixth studio album by American indie pop band the Magnetic Fields, released on September 14, 1999, by Merge Records. As its title indicates, 69 Love Songs is a three-volume concept album composed of 69 love songs, all written by Magnetic Fields frontman Stephin Merritt.
"The Book of Love" (The Magnetic Fields song), 1999, covered by Peter Gabriel "Book of Love", a song by Toya featuring Loon from the 2001 self-titled album, Toya "Book of Love", a 2015 song by Felix Jaehn
Pieces of April is the soundtrack to the film of the same name.Written by Stephin Merritt and performed by his various bands, it was released on November 4, 2003 on Nonesuch Records.
Merritt created and plays principal roles in the bands the Magnetic Fields, [6] the 6ths, the Gothic Archies and Future Bible Heroes. [5] He briefly used the name The Baudelaire Memorial Orchestra as an attribution for "Scream and Run Away", a song written for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, but further music was attributed to the Gothic Archies.
The House of Tomorrow EP is the third major release by The Magnetic Fields, and the first with Stephin Merritt as the main vocalist. Merge Records reissued it in 1996. The EP's five songs are built on both musical and vocal repetition, so much so that the sleeve reads "five loop songs" as a pun on "five love songs". [3]
50 Song Memoir is the eleventh studio album by American indie pop band The Magnetic Fields, released on March 10, 2017. 50 Song Memoir is an autobiographical concept album that chronicles the first 50 years of lyricist Stephin Merritt's life, with one song for each year that he has lived.