A Magnetic Fields Cover
The Magnetic Fields is a band around the multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer and frontman Stephin Merritt.
What makes the band, among other things, so special for me are the simple but idiosyncratic concepts that are behind/above most albums. In one of the last albums – 50 Song Memoir – Merritt wrote a song for every year of his, then, previous life.
The Book Of Love comes from an album with the promising name 69 Love Songs. There are, at that time still on three CDs, actually sixty-nine love songs on it.
Peter Gabriel covered this song, initially for the film soundtrack of Shall We Dance. Later, the song also appeared on his album Scratch My Back.
credits
released March 23, 2020
all instruments, mix and production – me vs. angels