The Magnetic Fields Discography & Songs

Album

1991 Distant Plastic Trees

1 Railroad Boy
2 Smoke Signals
3 You Love to Fail
4 Kings
5 Babies Falling
6 Living in an Abandoned Firehouse With You
7 Tar‐Heel Boy
8 Falling in Love With the Wolfboy
9 Josephine
10 100,000 Fireflies
11 Plant White Roses

1992 The Wayward Bus

1 When You Were My Baby
2 The Saddest Story Ever Told
3 Lovers From the Moon
4 Candy
5 Tokyo Á Go-Go
6 Summer Lies
7 Old Orchard Beach
8 Jeremy
9 Dancing in Your Eyes
10 Suddenly There Is a Tidal Wave
11 Railroad Boy
12 Smoke Signals
13 You Love to Fail
14 Kings
15 Babies Falling
16 Living in an Abandoned Firehouse With You
17 Tar-Heel Boy
18 Falling in Love With the Wolfboy
19 Josephine
20 100,000 Fireflies

1994 The Charm of the Highway Strip

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
6 Crowd of Drifters
7 Fear of Trains
8 When the Open Road Is Closing In
9 Sunset City
10 Dust Bowl

1994 Holiday

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
8 In My Secret Place
9 Sad Little Moon
10 The Trouble I’ve Been Looking For
11 Sugar World
12 All You Ever Do Is Walk Away
13 In My Car
14 Take Ecstasy With Me

1995 Get Lost

1999 69 Love Songs

1 Absolutely Cuckoo
2 I Don’t Believe in the Sun
3 All My Little Words
4 A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
5 Reno Dakota
6 I Don’t Want to Get Over You
7 Come Back From San Francisco
8 The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
9 Let’s Pretend We’re Bunny Rabbits
10 The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be
11 I Think I Need a New Heart
12 The Book of Love
13 Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long
14 How Fucking Romantic
15 The One You Really Love
16 Punk Love
17 Parades Go By
18 Boa Constrictor
19 A Pretty Girl Is Like…
20 My Sentimental Melody
21 Nothing Matters When We’re Dancing
22 Sweet‐Lovin’ Man
23 The Things We Did and Didn’t Do
1 Roses
2 Love Is Like Jazz
3 When My Boy Walks Down the Street
4 Time Enough for Rocking When We’re Old
5 Very Funny
6 Grand Canyon
7 No One Will Ever Love You
8 If You Don’t Cry
9 You’re My Only Home
10 (Crazy for You but) Not That Crazy
11 My Only Friend
12 Promises of Eternity
13 World Love
14 Washington, D.C.
15 Long‐Forgotten Fairytale
16 Kiss Me Like You Mean It
17 Papa Was a Rodeo
18 Epitaph for My Heart
19 Asleep and Dreaming
20 The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
21 The Way You Say Good‐Night
22 Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
23 I Shatter
1 Underwear
2 It’s a Crime
3 Busby Berkeley Dreams
4 I’m Sorry I Love You
5 Acoustic Guitar
6 The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
7 Love in the Shadows
8 Bitter Tears
9 Wi’ Nae Wee Bairn Ye’ll Me Beget
10 Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
11 Experimental Music Love
12 Meaningless
13 Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin
14 Queen of the Savages
15 Blue You
16 I Can’t Touch You Anymore
17 Two Kinds of People
18 How to Say Goodbye
19 The Night You Can’t Remember
20 For We Are the King of the Boudoir
21 Strange Eyes
22 Xylophone Track
23 Zebra

1999 69 Love Songs, Volume 1

1999 69 Love Songs, Volume 2

1 Roses
2 Love Is Like Jazz
3 When My Boy Walks Down the Street
4 Time Enough for Rocking When We’re Old
5 Very Funny
6 Grand Canyon
7 No One Will Ever Love You
8 If You Don’t Cry
9 You’re My Only Home
10 (Crazy for You but) Not That Crazy
11 My Only Friend
12 Promises of Eternity
13 World Love
14 Washington, D.C.
15 Long‐Forgotten Fairytale
16 Kiss Me Like You Mean It
17 Papa Was a Rodeo
18 Epitaph for My Heart
19 Asleep and Dreaming
20 The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
21 The Way You Say Good‐Night
22 Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
23 I Shatter

1999 69 Love Songs, Volume 3

2004 i

2008 Distortion

2010 Realism

2012 Love at the Bottom of the Sea

2017 50 Song Memoir

1 ’66 Wonder Where I’m From
2 ’67 Come Back as a Cockroach
3 ’68 A Cat Called Dionysus
4 ’69 Judy Garland
5 ’70 They’re Killing Children Over There
6 ’71 I Think I’ll Make Another World
7 ’72 Eye Contact
8 ’73 It Could Have Been Paradise
9 ’74 No
10 ’75 My Mama Ain’t
1 ’76 Hustle 76
2 ’77 Life Ain’t All Bad
3 ’78 The Blizzard of ’78
4 ’79 Rock’n’Roll Will Ruin Your Life
5 ’80 London by Jetpack
6 ’81 How to Play the Synthesizer
7 ’82 Happy Beeping
8 ’83 Foxx and I
9 ’84 Danceteria!
10 ’85 Why I Am Not a Teenager
1 ’86 How I Failed Ethics
2 ’87 At the Pyramid
3 ’88 Ethan Frome
4 ’89 The 1989 Musical Marching Zoo
5 ’90 Dreaming in Tetris
6 ’91 The Day I Finally…
7 ’92 Weird Diseases
8 ’93 Me and Fred and Dave and Ted
9 ’94 Haven’t Got a Penny
10 ’95 A Serious Mistake
1 ’96 I’m Sad!
2 ’97 Eurodisco Trio
3 ’98 Lovers’ Lies
4 ’99 Fathers in the Clouds
5 ’00 Ghosts of the Marathon Dancers
6 ’01 Have You Seen It in the Snow?
7 ’02 Be True to Your Bar
8 ’03 The Ex and I
9 ’04 Cold‐Blooded Man
10 ’05 Never Again
1 ’06 “Quotes”
2 ’07 In the Snow White Cottages
3 ’08 Surfin’
4 ’09 Till You Come Back to Me
5 ’10 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
6 ’11 Stupid Tears
7 ’12 You Can Never Go Back to New York
8 ’13 Big Enough for Both of Us
9 ’14 I Wish I Had Pictures
10 ’15 Somebody’s Fetish

Single

1991 100,000 Fireflies

1992 Long Vermont Roads

1995 All the Umbrellas in London

1995 Why I Cry

1998 I Don’t Believe You

2004 I Thought You Were My Boyfriend

2007 California Girls

2008 Three-Way

2008 Please Stop Dancing

2012 Andrew in Drag

2012 Quick!

2017 ’83: Foxx and I

2017 ’81: How to Play the Synthesizer

EP

1992 The House of Tomorrow