50 Song Memoir

Album by The Magnetic Fields

50 Song Memoir is a 2017 five-disc concept album by the Magnetic Fields on Nonesuch Records, comprising 50 tracks—one for each year of songwriter Stephin Merritt’s life from 1966 to 2015. It centres on autobiographical themes and spans indie pop and chamber/synth-pop styles.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    ’66 Wonder Where I’m From
    2:44
  2. 2.
    ’67 Come Back as a Cockroach
    2:34
  3. 3.
    ’68 A Cat Called Dionysus
    2:46
  4. 4.
    ’69 Judy Garland
    3:17
  5. 5.
    ’70 They’re Killing Children Over There
    2:36
  6. 6.
    ’71 I Think I’ll Make Another World
    2:57
  7. 7.
    ’72 Eye Contact
    2:55
  8. 8.
    ’73 It Could Have Been Paradise
    3:07
  9. 9.
    ’74 No
    2:57
  10. 10.
    ’75 My Mama Ain’t
    3:01

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    ’76 Hustle 76
    3:16
  2. 3.
    ’77 Life Ain’t All Bad
    4:16
  3. 4.
    ’78 The Blizzard of ’78
    3:15
  4. 5.
    ’79 Rock’n’Roll Will Ruin Your Life
    2:58
  5. 6.
    ’80 London by Jetpack
    2:58
  6. 7.
    ’81 How to Play the Synthesizer
    3:06
  7. 8.
    ’82 Happy Beeping
    3:10
  8. 9.
    ’83 Foxx and I
    2:43
  9. 10.
    ’84 Danceteria!
    3:09
  10. 11.
    ’85 Why I Am Not a Teenager
    3:07

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    ’86 How I Failed Ethics
    2:58
  2. 4.
    ’87 At the Pyramid
    3:10
  3. 5.
    ’88 Ethan Frome
    2:24
  4. 6.
    ’89 The 1989 Musical Marching Zoo
    3:06
  5. 7.
    ’90 Dreaming in Tetris
    3:21
  6. 8.
    ’91 The Day I Finally…
    2:20
  7. 9.
    ’92 Weird Diseases
    3:10
  8. 10.
    ’93 Me and Fred and Dave and Ted
    3:08
  9. 11.
    ’94 Haven’t Got a Penny
    2:53
  10. 12.
    ’95 A Serious Mistake
    3:13

Disc 4

  1. 4.
    ’96 I’m Sad!
    2:12
  2. 5.
    ’97 Eurodisco Trio
    3:15
  3. 6.
    ’98 Lovers’ Lies
    3:06
  4. 7.
    ’99 Fathers in the Clouds
    2:52
  5. 8.
    ’00 Ghosts of the Marathon Dancers
    3:05
  6. 9.
    ’01 Have You Seen It in the Snow?
    2:51
  7. 10.
    ’02 Be True to Your Bar
    3:34
  8. 11.
    ’03 The Ex and I
    2:59
  9. 12.
    ’04 Cold‐Blooded Man
    3:06
  10. 13.
    ’05 Never Again
    3:19

Disc 5

  1. 5.
    ’06 “Quotes”
    2:17
  2. 6.
    ’07 In the Snow White Cottages
    2:52
  3. 7.
    ’08 Surfin’
    2:47
  4. 8.
    ’09 Till You Come Back to Me
    2:29
  5. 9.
    ’10 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
    3:03
  6. 10.
    ’11 Stupid Tears
    2:45
  7. 11.
    ’12 You Can Never Go Back to New York
    3:12
  8. 12.
    ’13 Big Enough for Both of Us
    3:04
  9. 13.
    ’14 I Wish I Had Pictures
    3:07
  10. 14.
    ’15 Somebody’s Fetish
    3:45

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