10 Greatest Love Songs On The Magnetic Fields '69 Love Songs'
9. A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
Many pop singers have given us songs about all the things they want to do in the bedroom. Prince built a career on it. Gleefully exhorting their skills between the sheets, they list the many positions, sensations and orgasms they plan to deliver, all night long. Their alleged sexual prowess is almost intimidating.
In one stanza of this song, Stephin Merritt makes all that rock star braggadocio look slightly silly. “We don’t have to be stars that explode in the night,” he assures the listener, “Or electric eels under the covers/We don’t have to be, anything quite so unreal, let’s just be lovers.”
It’s not very rock and roll but it’s warm, witty, honest and charming. You could put this song on a playlist for someone you fancy without feeling you’ve given yourself too much to live up to.