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Holiday (CD)

By: The Magnetic Fields (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Holiday (CD) Album By The Magnetic Fields (Artist)
1   BBC Radiophonic Workshop
2   Desert Island
3   Deep Sea Diving Suit
4   Strange Powers
5   Torn Green Velvet Eyes
6   Flowers She Sent And The Flowers She Said She Sent, The
7   Swinging London
8   In My Secret Place
9   Sad Little Moon
10   Trouble I've Been Looking For, The
11   Sugar World
12   All You Ever Do Is Walk Away
13   In My Car
14   Take Ecstasy With Me
 

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Title Note

The Magnetic Fields: Stephin Merritt.

Additional personnel includes: Sam Davol (cello); Johny Blood (tuba); Claudia Gonson.

Stephin Merritt has claimed that each of the first four Magnetic Fields albums has a specific and unique musical style. It is telling that HOLIDAY shares its name with Madonna's first major hit single, because the musical style on display here is early-'80s-style synth-dance-pop. Of course, in 1994, at the pinnacle of the post-grunge "alternative" era, few musics could have been more resolutely unfashionable. There's no doubt that the ever-contrary Merritt had this in mind all along.

In keeping with the escapist title and lighthearted music, Merritt's lyrics only occasionally-and then only lightly-touch upon his usual world-weary cynicism, as on the mournful "Deep Sea Diving Suit." Merritt pursues a more romantic path for most HOLIDAY, crooning the swooning "Take Ecstasy With Me" and "Strange Powers" with an uncharacteristic lightness of spirit. Chances are that it is all deeply ironic and bitter, but at least on the surface, HOLIDAY is sheer delight.

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