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Well, you could have belonged to Steve Earle The Magnetic Fields – Acoustic Guitar
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Now getting to the point of talking to intimate objects, the narrator answers her guitar’s complaints by reminding it of how easy a life it has. This guitar could have been owned by “Copperhead Road” singer Steve Earle, who apparently plays with no mercy.
Somebody stop him, he’s abusing that poor thing.
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Illustrated by Paul Smith
It's like a 60's movie
You know the one I mean The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth
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Them from the top of the Brill Building? The Magnetic Fields – Epitaph for My Heart
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The Brill Building is an office building located at 1619 Broadway on 49th Street in Manhattan.
The building is a big part of the early rock'n'roll lore of the 1950s and 1960s because it was possible for an artist to write, record and promote a record on different floors of the same building. Legendary songwriters like Carole King, Burt Bacharach, and Neil Diamond had written the era’s biggest hits in that building.
Stephin Merritt apparently wishes that the ashes of his musical heart be flung from the top of this historic building. Fitting!
In the album interview booklet, Merritt said:
My favorite part is ‘singing fling,’ I love it when syllables rhyme in a row.
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“10” is a film starring Dudley Moore who plays an aging sexist looking for his perfect “10” of a woman.
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Nine is a Broadway musical based on Fellini’s 8½
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Federico Fellini’s masterpiece, 8½ stars Marcello Mastroianni who plays the film director Guido who retreats into his memories and fantasies in this semi-autobiographical film.
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Apparently the narrator’s love life has always been strangling her because she’s empathetic to the idea of her mother killing her!