10 Greatest Love Songs On The Magnetic Fields '69 Love Songs'

10. I Don’t Believe In The Sun

After the amuse-bouche that is Absolutely Cuckoo the album’s second track sets out it’s stall, prefiguring what is to come.

Yes, this is an album of love songs but we are not in for three hours of soppy, saccharine schmaltz.

Instead we’re in for songs that are dark, funny, laced with cynicism but still affecting. Songs about love that is transient and unrequited, about lovers that leave. All of that is apparent on I Don’t Believe In The Sun.

Merritt, morose in voice and word, finds himself lovelorn on a grand scale. “The noon to whom the poets croon has given up and died/astronomy will have to be revised.”

Its a theme that recurs throughout the album but this is one of the finest examples.