69 Love Songs (CD)

The story ass it that Stephin Merrit came up with the idea for 69 Love Songs while siting in an elegant midtown Manhattan gay piano bar. Go figure. This box set includes volumes 1,2 & 3, that featuring some of Merritt's most ambitious and diverse compositions to date. Includes a beautiful 76-page booklet and an interview with Stephin Merritt explaining the motivation behind every song.

Track List

1. Absolutely Cuckoo
2. I Don't Believe in the Sun
3. All My Little Words
4. A Chicken with It's Head Cut Off
5. Reno Dakota
6. I Don't Want to Get Over You
7. Come Back from San Francisco
8. The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
9. Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
10. The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be
11. I Think I Need a New Heart
12. The Book of Love
13. Fido Your Leash Is Too Long
14. How Fucking Romantic
15. The One You Really Love
16. Punk Love
17. Parades Go By
18. Boa Constrictor
19. A Pretty Girl Is Like
20. My Sentimental Melody
21. Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
22. Sweet-Lovin' Man
23. The Things We Did
24. Roses
25. Love Is Like Jazz
26. When My Boy Walks Down the Street
27. Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
28. Very Funny
29. Grand Canyon
30. No One Will Ever Love You
31. If You Don't Cry
32. You're My Only Home
33. (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy
34. My Only Friend
35. Promises of Eternity
36. World Love
37. Washington D.C
38. Long-Forgotten Fairytale
39. Kiss Me Like You Mean It
40. Papa Was a Rodeo
41. Epitaph for My Heart
42. Asleep and Dreaming
43. The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
44. The Way You Say Good-Night
45. Abigail Belle of Kilronan
46. I Shatter
47. Underwear
48. It's a Crime
49. Busby Berkeley Dreams
50. I'm Sorry I Love You
51. Acoustic Guitar
52. The Death of Ferdinad de Saussure
53. Love in the Shadows
54. Bitter Tears
55. Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget
56. Yeah! Oh Yeah!
57. Experimental Music Love
58. Meaningless
59. Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin
60. Queen of the Savages
61. Blue You
62. I Can't Touch You Anymore
63. Two Kinds of People
64. How to Say Goodbye
65. The Night You Can't Remember
66. For We Are the King of the Boudoir
67. Strange Eyes
68. Xylophone Track
69. Zebra