"I'm Stephin Merritt and this is my autobiography in 50 songs, one for each year of my life. It's mostly love and music, so don't dig for much of a storyline. And if things get mellower as 50 looms, that's life"--Container.
5 audio discs (154 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 in 4 3/4 in digital optical audio file CD audio
Other Title:
Fifty song memoir
Notes:
Interview between Stephin Merritt and Daniel Handler, and song lyrics (94 unnumbered pages), included in container Compact disc Performed by Magnetic Fields, with assisting musicians
Contents:
'66: Wonder Where I'm From (2:44) '67: Come Back as a Cockroach (2:34) '68: A Cat Called Dionysus (2:46) '69: Judy Garland (3:17) '70: They're Killing Children Over There (2:36) '71: I Think I'll Make Another World (2:56) '72: Eye Contact (2:55) '73: It Could Have Been Paradise (3:06) '74: No (2:56) '75: My Mama Ain't (3:01) '76: Hustle 76 (3:16) '77: Life Ain't All Bad (4:15) '78: The Blizzard of '78 (3:15) '79: Rock'n'Roll Will Ruin Your Life (2:58) '80: London by Jetpack (2:58) '81: How to Play the Synthesizer (3:06) '82: Happy Beeping (3:10) '83: Foxx and I (2:29) '84: Danceteria! (3:09) '85: Why I Am Not a Teenager (3:12) '86: How I Failed Ethics (2:58) '87: At the Pyramid (3:09) '88: Ethan Frome (2:23) '89: The 1989 Musical Marching Zoo (3:06) '90: Dreaming in Tetris (3:21) '91: The Day I Finally... (2:19) '92: Weird Diseases (3:10) '93: Me and Fred and Dave and Ted (3:08) '94: Haven't Got a Penny (2:53) '95: A Serious Mistake (3:13) '96: I'm Sad! (2:12) '97: Eurodisco Trio (3:15) '98: Lovers' Lies (3:06) '99: Fathers in the Clouds (2:51) '00: Ghosts of the Marathon Dancers (3:05) '01: Have You Seen It in the Snow? (2:51) '02: Be True to Your Bar (3:34) '03: The Ex and I (2:59) '04: Cold-Blooded Man (3:05) '05: Never Again (3:19) '06: "Quotes" (2:17) '07: In the Snow White Cottages (2:51) '08: Surfin' (2:47) '09: Till You Come Back to Me (2:29) '10: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (3:03) '11: Stupid Tears (2:45) '12: You Can Never Go Back to New York (3:12) '13: Big Enough for Both of Us (3:03) '14: I Wish I Had Pictures (3:07) '15: Somebody's Fetish (3:45)
