Nonesuch Records releases the Magnetic Fields 50 Song Memoir on March 3, 2017. The five-CD / five-LP set chronicles the 50 years of songwriter Stephin Merritts life with one song per year; it was produced by Stephin Merritt with additional production by Thomas Bartlett and Charles Newman. A complete track list follows. 50 Song Memoir is available in five-LP and five-CD editions including an extensive interview by Daniel Handler and facsimile handwritten lyrics by Merritt, and as a standalone bound book with a full-album download card.

Merritt began recording on his 50th birthday: February 9, 2015. Unlike his previous work, the lyrics on 50 Song Memoir are nonfictionin Merritts words, a mix of autobiography (bedbugs, Buddhism, buggery) and documentary (hippies, Hollywood, hyperacusis). As he says in the albums liner note interview with Handler, I am the least autobiographical person you are likely to meet. I will probably not write any more true songs after this than I did before, but its been interesting working on it.

TRACKLISTING

Disc 1
66 Wonder Where Im From
67 Come Back as a Cockroach
68 A Cat Called Dionysus
69 Judy Garland
70 Theyre Killing Children Over There
71 I Think Ill Make Another World
72 Eye Contact
73 It Could Have Been Paradise
74 No
75 My Mama Aint

Disc 2
76 Hustle 76
77 Life Aint All Bad
78 The Blizzard of 78
79 RocknRoll Will Ruin Your Life
80 London by Jetpack
81 How to Play the Synthesizer
82 Happy Beeping
83 Foxx and I
84 Danceteria!
85 Why I Am Not a Teenager

Disc 3
86 How I Failed Ethics
87 At the Pyramid
88 Ethan Frome
89 The 1989 Musical Marching Zoo
90 Dreaming in Tetris
91 The Day I Finally
92 Weird Diseases
93 Me and Fred and Dave and Ted
94 Havent Got a Penny
95 A Serious Mistake

Disc 4
96 Im Sad!
97 Eurodisco Trio
98 Lovers Lies
99 Fathers in the Clouds
00 Ghosts of the Marathon Dancers
01 Have You Seen It in the Snow?
02 Be True to Your Bar
03 The Ex and I
04 Cold-Blooded Man
05 Never Again

Disc 5
06 Quotes
07 In the Snow White Cottages
08 Surfin
09 Till You Come Back to Me
10 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
11 Stupid Tears
12 You Can Never Go Back to New York
13 Big Enough for Both of Us
14 I Wish I Had Pictures
15 Somebodys Fetish

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