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Con 11 votos:
2.16 KISS ME LIKE YOU MEAN IT
"'He's always right, He's always patient / I pinch myself â It's like I'm dreaming it / He says, come here baby and kiss me like you mean it'
If you're selective in quoting from the lyrics of Kiss Me Like You Mean It, you can almost see how a jewelry company, Helzberg Diamonds, came to use the song as backing for a TV commercial.
Meanwhile in the 69 Love Songs booklet, Stephin Merritt says the song is "more about a B & D (bondage and domination) relationship".
The title was also appropriated by Chris Chibnall for the title of his 2001 play, though there was no further connection (and, yes, Chibnall confirmed separately that he took the title from The Magnetic Fields and not from the Air Supply song with the same title).
mym adds: I like the subversiveness of this song, the Christian imagery and language suddenly switched to individual arousal. "
Con 9 votos:
2.10 (CRAZY FOR YOU BUT) NOT THAT CRAZY
"In which the singer details many things he is crazy enough to do, but never reveals the implicit request that he is not crazy enough to carry out.
'You were my glass menagerie / Did you not find that odd'
In Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie, the collection of little glass animals that the main character keeps and fusses over are an expression of her own fragility and the imaginary world that she creates to hide in.
'I performed acts of devotion / as if you were Ganesh'
Ganesh is a Hindu elephant-headed god, known as as the Remover of Obstacles, the god of domestic harmony and success. He is still the focus of festivals and worship."
Con 5 votos:
1.1 ABSOLUTELY CUCKOO
"Written with an eye on being the opening track on the album in a couple of senses: firstly, Absolutely Cuckoo is one of the vestiges of the early conceit to have the whole album run in alphabetical order (Zebra, the final track on Volume 3 is obviously another). Secondly, the first lines â 'Don't fall in love with me yet / We only recently met' â could be heard as an address to the listener.
This is one of a couple of songs that have two parts, both of which are sung by Stephin Merritt on the recorded version. "The character being cuckoo could be multiple personalities," says Stephin in the 69 Love Songs booklet. In live performance, where it would be impractical for one person to sing both parts because of the lack of breathing opportunities, Claudia Gonson takes one of the parts. (The other song where this happens is Wi' Nae Wee Bairn Ye'll Me Beget.) "
2.7 NO ONE WILL EVER LOVE YOU
"No One Will Ever Love You is, in Stephin Merritt's account, an attempt to distil Fleetwood Mac's Tusk album into a single song. This applies not just to the composition and arrangement, but to the lyrics as well, which are obliquely styled to hint at desires, passions and tensions without ever quite naming them ('Where is the madness that you promised me?').
Stephin was at one time lined up to write a book on Tusk as part of Continuum's 33â
series but this did not happen for reasons unknown.
In live performance of the song, Stephin has been known to introduce singer Shirley Simms as Shirley Nicks. "
3.12 MEANINGLESS
"'Yes yes yes how deliciously meaningless
Yes yes yes effervescently meaningless
Yes yes yes it was beautifully meaningless
Yes yes yes it was profoundly meaningless
Yes yes yes definitively meaningless
Yes yes yes comprehensively meaningless
Yes yes yes magnificently meaningless
Yes yes yes how incredibly meaningless
Yes yes yes unprecedentedly meaningless
Yes yes yes how mind-blowingly meaningless
Yes yes yes unbelievably meaningless
Yes yes yes how infinitely meaningless'
In the 69 Love Songs booklet, Stephin Merritt explains he was hoping to conjure 26 lines like the above for the fadeout of this song, with qualifiers running from A to Z, right up to 'zealously meaningless'. He didn't.
'Ha ha ha it was totally meaningless'
LD Beghtol adds:
This contains a reference to Psychedelic Furs vocalist Richard Butlerâs trademark sneering "Ha ha ha!â from the song India and others. I'm a terriffic Furs fan (especially the eponymous first album and Forever Now) and Stephin and I have often discussed why and how they were good, and why and when they sucked. So that line is Stephin's sly homage to '80s icon, Mr Butler."
