The Magnetic Fields is a band led by the New York City singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt. Albums released by Merritt under the name "The Magnetic Fields" usually consist of synth-pop music in a 1980s style underlying clever lyrics, often about love, that are sometimes ironic, sometimes bitter and sometimes celebratory. While The Wayward Bus and Distant Plastic Trees (now available together as a compilation) are sung by Susan Anway, all subsequent albums are principally sung by Merritt himself. Nickname: Big Apple Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Synthpop is a style of popular music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. ... Rock is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars, and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles, however saxophones have been omitted from newer subgenres of rock music since the 90s. ... The terms alternative rock and alternative music[1] (also simply called alternative) were coined in the 1980s to describe punk rock-inspired bands on independent record labels that didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ... This article is about the year. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Merge Records is an indie-rock record label based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ... Nonesuch Records is currently a Warner Bros. ... Stephin Merritt (2006) Stephin Merritt (born 1966) New York is a singer-songwriter. ... Claudia Gonson Claudia Gonson is an American musician, current manager and drummer for The Magnetic Fields. ... Nell is a 1994 movie starring Jodie Foster as a young woman raised by her mother in an isolated cabin who has to face other human beings for the first time. ... Nickname: Big Apple Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... The term singer-songwriter refers to performers who both write and sing their own material. ... Stephin Merritt (2006) Stephin Merritt (born 1966) New York is a singer-songwriter. ... 33â…“ LP vinyl record for The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour album from the 1960s. ... Synthpop is a style of popular music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. ... Music is a form of art and entertainment or other human activity that involves organized and audible sounds and silence. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Love is a profound feeling of tender affection for or intense attraction to another. ... Irony is a literary or rhetorical device in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says, and what is understood. ... The Wayward Bus is the second album by The Magnetic Fields, and the last to feature Susan Anway as singer. ... Distant Plastic Trees is the first album by The Magnetic Fields. ...

The band began as Merritt's studio project, with Merritt playing all instruments. With the help of friend Claudia Gonson, who had played in Merritt's band The Zinnias during high school, a live band was assembled in Boston, where Merritt and Gonson lived, to play Merritt's compositions. The band's first live performance was at TT the Bear’s Place in Boston, MA in 1991 where they played to a sparse audience expecting to see Galaxie 500 spinoff Magnetophone. The live performance sounded nothing like the recordings, which continued to be true for the band until recent years when the two sounds—studio and live—began to converge. Claudia Gonson Claudia Gonson is an American musician, current manager and drummer for The Magnetic Fields. ... Alternative meanings: Boston (disambiguation) The 18th_century Old State House in Boston is surrounded by tall buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries. ... 1989s On Fire Galaxie 500 was a seminal guitar band from the late 1980s who were heavily influenced by the late Velvet Underground. ... Magnétophone are an electronic / art-rock band originating from Birmingham UK, comprised of Matt Huish Saunders (b. ...

The Magnetic Fields

Their most significant, popular, and critically-acclaimed album to date is the triple album 69 Love Songs. It showcased Merritt's powerful songwriting abilities and the group's musicianship, demonstrated by the employment of unorthodox instrumental arrangements (including ukulele, banjo, accordion, cello, mandolin, piano, flute, xylophone, Marxophone, and various percussion instruments, in addition to their usual setup of synthesizers, guitars, and effects). The album also features guest vocalists Shirley Simms, Dudley Klute, LD Beghtol and bandmember Claudia Gonson—each of whom sings lead on six songs as well as various backing vocals—plus Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket) on accordion, and longtime collarator Christopher Ewen (of Future Bible Heros as guest arranger/synthesist. Violinist Ida Pearle makes a brief cameo on the popular Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side. taken from http://www. ... taken from http://www. ... 69 Love Songs is a three-volume concept album by The Magnetic Fields. ... In music, an arrangement loosely describes rewriting a piece of pre-existing music for a specific set of instruments or voices, often in harmony or with additional original material. ... Ukulele The ukulele (Ê»ukulele in Hawaiian and standard Hawaiian English; pronounced , or the Anglicised ), or uke, is a fretted string instrument which is, in its construction, essentially a smaller, four-stringed version of the guitar. ... Old 6-string zither banjo For other uses, see Banjo (disambiguation) The banjo is a stringed instrument of African American origin, early or original examples sometimes being called the gourd banjo. One African banjo predecessor is called the Akonting. ... A 24-bass piano accordion An accordion is a musical instrument of the handheld bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as squeezeboxes. ... A cello The violoncello, almost always abbreviated to cello (the c is pronounced as the ch in cheese), is a stringed instrument and a member of the violin family. ... Carved and round backed mandolins (front) A mandolin is a small, plucked, stringed musical instrument, descended from the mandora. ... A grand piano, with the lid up. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Xylophone in Bali 1937 The xylophone (from the Greek meaning wooden sound) is a musical instrument in the percussion family which probably originated in Indonesia (Nettl 1956, p. ... The Marxophone is a musical instrument that has four sets of chord strings (Cmajor, Gmajor, Fmajor and D7) to be strummed with the left hand and two octaves of double melody strings (Cmiddle - C) which are struck by metal hammers activated by the right hand. ... A percussion instrument can be any object which produces a sound by being struck with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. ... A synthesizer (or synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument designed to produce electronically generated sound, using techniques such as additive, subtractive, FM, physical modelling synthesis, or phase distortion. ... Different kinds of guitars The guitar is a fretted and stringed musical instrument, used in a wide variety of musical styles, and is also widely known as a solo classical instrument. ... LD Beghtol (born 1964, Fort Campbell, KY) is a musician, designer and writer. ... Claudia Gonson Claudia Gonson is an American musician, current manager and drummer for The Magnetic Fields. ... Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970 in San Francisco), is an American author, screenwriter, and accordionist. ... Lemony Snicket is both a pseudonym for author Daniel Handler and a character in Handlers childrens book series A Series of Unfortunate Events. ... Categories: Manhattan neighborhoods | Stub ...

The album i continues Merritt's love of the concept album, with each of the 14 songs beginning with the letter (in the case of half the songs' titles, the pronoun) "I". The liner notes claim the album was made without synthesizers. The correct title of this article is i. ... The Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe album, one of the first concept albums In popular music, a concept album is an album which is unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical (Shuker 2002, p. ...

It was announced that the band is at the studio recording and that the new album to be released through Nonesuch with a target release of spring 2007. [1]

Members

• Stephin Merritt
• Claudia Gonson – percussion/piano/vocals (and group manager)
• Sam Davol – cello
• John Woo – banjo/guitar

Past contributors include the singers Susan Anway, Dudley Klute, Shirley Simms, and LD Beghtol, as well as instrumentalists Daniel Handler and Chris Ewen. Stephin Merritt (2006) Stephin Merritt (born 1966) New York is a singer-songwriter. ... Claudia Gonson Claudia Gonson is an American musician, current manager and drummer for The Magnetic Fields. ... A percussion instrument can be any object which produces a sound by being struck with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration. ... A grand piano, with the lid up. ... Ercole de Roberti: Concert, c. ... A cello The violoncello, almost always abbreviated to cello (the c is pronounced as the ch in cheese), is a stringed instrument and a member of the violin family. ... Old 6-string zither banjo For other uses, see Banjo (disambiguation) The banjo is a stringed instrument of African American origin, early or original examples sometimes being called the gourd banjo. One African banjo predecessor is called the Akonting. ... Different kinds of guitars The guitar is a fretted and stringed musical instrument, used in a wide variety of musical styles, and is also widely known as a solo classical instrument. ... LD Beghtol (born 1964, Fort Campbell, KY) is a musician, designer and writer. ... Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970 in San Francisco), is an American author, screenwriter, and accordionist. ...

Discography

Distant Plastic Trees Release Date: Image File history File links Distant_Plastic_Trees. ... Distant Plastic Trees is the first album by The Magnetic Fields. ... 1991	The Wayward Bus Release Date: 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links The_Wayward_Bus. ... The Wayward Bus is the second album by The Magnetic Fields, and the last to feature Susan Anway as singer. ... 1992	The House of Tomorrow (EP) Release Date: 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Image File history File links The_House_of_Tomorrow. ... The House of Tomorrow EP is the third major release by The Magnetic Fields, and the first to feature Stephin Merritt as main vocalist. ... An extended play or EP, is the name given to vinyl records or CDs which are too long to qualify as singles but too short to qualify as albums. ... 1992	Holiday Release Date: 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Image File history File links The_magnetic_fields_holiday_album_cover. ... Holiday is the third full album from The Magnetic Fields. ... 1994
The Charm of the Highway Strip Release Date: 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Image File history File links MagneticFields-Charm. ... The Charm of the Highway Strip is the fourth studio album by The Magnetic Fields, released in 1994. ... 1994	Get Lost Release Date: 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... Image File history File links Get_Lost. ... Get Lost is an album by The Magnetic Fields, released in 1995. ... October 24, 1995	69 Love Songs Release Date: October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links This image is of a music album or single cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the album or the artist(s) which produced the music in question. ... 69 Love Songs is a three-volume concept album by The Magnetic Fields. ... September 7, 1999	i Release Date: September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Old Farts by the Sometimes-United Nations. ... Image File history File links TheMagneticFields-i. ... The correct title of this article is i. ... May 4, 2004 Peak Chart Position: May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... #152 (Billboard 200)

The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. ...

See also

• Stephin Merritt
• The 6ths
• The Gothic Archies
• Future Bible Heroes

Stephin Merritt (2006) Stephin Merritt (born 1966) New York is a singer-songwriter. ... The 6ths is a band created by Stephin Merritt, also the prime mover behind The Magnetic Fields, The Gothic Archies and Future Bible Heroes. ... The Gothic Archies are a novelty band featuring Stephin Merritt, more famously of The Magnetic Fields (a band which Lemony Snickets literary and social representative, Daniel Handler, is also occasionally involved in). ... Future Bible Heroes is the coolest band name I have ever heard. ...

External links

• The House of Tomorrow - The official site of Stephin Merritt, The Magnetic Fields, Future Bible Heroes, The 6ths, and The Gothic Archies