The Magnetic FieldsBest The Magnetic Fields Albums Ranked
8.0
Avg Score
23
Opinions
13
Albums
9
Reviewers
Summary from 23 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated The Magnetic Fields’s catalog across 13 albums from 23 opinions, with an overall average of 8.0/10. The top-rated The Magnetic Fields album is 69 Love Songs (1999) with a 9.0/10 average from 5 ratings, followed by 50 Song Memoir and Distortion. The discography on Rate.fm spans 1994 to 2020. Nothing Matters When We're Dancing ranks as the highest-rated The Magnetic Fields song on Rate.fm with a 10.0/10 average.
50 Song Memoir
“Stephin Merritt revisits his past and overcomes his sense of irony on a bravura five-disc set”
50 Song Memoir
“Obvious though it may be, it’s impossible to avoid comparing ‘50 Song Memoir’ to The Magnetic Fields’ previous multi-disc opus ‘69 Love Songs’. Yet, both albums’ blunt titles barely scratch the surface at just how wide Stephin Merritt’s scope is as a writer when faced with a single subject. The notoriously cagey Merritt tackles his life with trademark wit here, but also uncharacteristic candour, ”
69 Love Songs
“There's only one question that really needs to be asked of *69 Love Songs*: is it a brilliant masterpiece or merely very, very good? The title alone is enough to send music geeks the world over into a foamy-mouthed, epileptic frenzy. 69 songs equals 3 CDs equals nearly three solid hours of new Magnetic Fields material-- think of it! That's more than some notable bands released in their entire exis”