THE MAGNETIC FIELDS - VINYL BUNDLE

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• SIX Magnetic Fields studio albums on VINYL for ONE great price!
• Many albums reissued on 180-gram audiophile vinyl and available for the first time!
• 77 tracks showcasing the music of songwriter-producer-instrumentalist Stephin Merritt
• Four of the LPs include full album download
• Both DISTORTION and REALISM come with bonus CD of entire album

The Albums:

HOLIDAY
Holiday was originally released in 1994 by Feel Good All Over and subsequently reissued on CD by Merge in 1999. This reissue on 180-gram vinyl marks the album’s first appearance in LP format. The songs of Holiday are melodic and immediately accessible, but with a chilly tone and a predilection for odd noises and unexpected accents. Includes full album download.

THE CHARM OF THE HIGHWAY STRIP
The Magnetic Fields' classic Merge Records debut and fourth full-length album is presented here for the first time on 180-gram vinyl with beautiful artwork and full art euro-sleeve insert. Ten gothic country-pop road songs; kind of like if Yaz were from Oklahoma. It continues to be one of the band's most popular and best-selling records. Includes full album download.

GET LOST
Their classic 1995 full-length (first time available on vinyl) contains thirteen songs from the worst year of Stephin Merritt's life. One of the best selling records in the Merge catalog, the album is one of the crowning achievements of Merritt's long and varied career. Pressed on quality 180-gram audiophile vinyl and remastered and re-sequenced by Merritt himself. Includes full album download of entire album in its new sequence.

DISTORTION
The Magnetic Fields’ second Nonesuch release, features the brilliant melodies and wry lyrics that composer and band leader Stephin Merritt has long been praised for, but as the album title suggests, he serves them up with a twist. The songs are startlingly enveloped in layers of live feedback that recall the noisy pop provocations of legendary Scottish quartet The Jesus and Mary Chain. This vinyl edition also includes a bonus CD of the entire album and double sided color insert w/lyrics & credits.

REALISM
With no synths, no drum kits, and every instrument unplugged, the pristine Realism is the flip-side to the brash noise-pop of The Magnetic Fields' 2008 Distortion. With tongue only slightly in cheek, Merritt has taken to declaring Realism his "folk" album. This vinyl edition also includes a bonus CD of the entire album and double sided color insert w/lyrics & credits.

LOVE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
The band’s tenth full-length album is their first release of new material with Merge since 1999’s highly acclaimed 69 Love Songs. After putting out three synthesizer-free albums, the band returns to the signature mix of synth and acoustic sounds they established in the '90s with Merge releases such as The Charm of the Highway Strip and Get Lost. Includes full album download.

LP Track Listings:

HOLIDAY
Side A
1. BBC Radiophonic Workshop         
2. Desert Island         
3. Deep Sea Diving Suit          
4. Strange Powers         
5. Torn Green Velvet Eyes         
6. The Flowers She Sent And The Flowers She Said She Sent         
7. Swinging London     

Side B
1. In My Secret Place     
2. Sad Little Moon         
3. The Trouble I've Been Looking For         
4. Sugar World     
5. All You Ever Do Is Walk Away         
6. In My Car         
7. Take Ecstacy With Me


THE CHARM OF THE HIGHWAY STRIP
Side A
1. Lonely Highway         
2. Long Vermont Roads         
3. Born On A Train         
4. I Have The Moon         
5. Two Characters In Search Of A Country Song

Side B         
1. Crowd Of Drifters         
2. Fear Of Trains         
3. When The Open Road Is Closing In         
4. Sunset City         
5. Dust Bowl


GET LOST
Side A
1. With Whom To Dance         
2. Smoke And Mirrors         
3. All The Umbrellas In London         
4. Why I Cry         
5. Save A Secret For The Moon         
6. Don't Look Away         
7. Love Is Lighter Than Air 

Side B        
1. Famous         
2. The Desperate Things You Made Me Do         
3. You And Me And The Moon         
4. When You're Old And Lonely         
5. The Village In The Morning         
6. The Dreaming Moon


DISTORTION
Side A
1. Three-Way
2. California Girls
3. Old Fools
4. Xavier Says
5. Mr. Mistletoe
6. Please Stop Dancing
7. Drive on, Driver

Side B
1. Too Drunk to Dream
2. Till the Bitter End
3. I'll Dream Alone
4. The Nun's Litany
5. Zombie Boy
6. Courtesans


REALISM
Side A 
1. You Must Be Out of Your Mind
2. Interlude
3. We Are Having a Hootenanny
4. I Don't Know What to Say
5. The Dolls' Tea Party
6. Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree
7. Walk a Lonely Road

Side B
1. Always Already Gone
2. Seduced and Abandoned
3. Better Things
4. Painted Flower
5. The Dada Polka
6. From a Sinking Boat


LOVE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
Side A
1.  God Wants Us to Wait
2.  Andrew in Drag
3.  Your Girlfriend’s Face
4.  Born For Love
5.  I’d Go Anywhere with Hugh
6.  Infatuation (With Your Gyration)
7.  The Only Boy in Town
8.  The Machine in Your Hand

Side B
1.  Goin’ Back to the Country
2. I’ve Run Away to Join the Fairies
3. The Horrible Party
4. My Husband’s Pied-a-Terre
5. I Don’t Like Your Tone
6. Quick!
7. All She Cares About Is Mariachi