Annotation

The following artists made significant vocal contributions to the album, but are generally not considered regular members of the band; therefore, they currently have the "guest" attribute flagged on their performance ARs:
LD Beghtol, Dudley Klute and Shirley Simms.

Suboptimal AR credits:
Track 2, "It's a Crime": Chris Ewen plays all instruments and provides the backing track. (Currently credit as: guest performed by Chris Ewen.)
Track 15, "Blue You": Claudia Gonson provides whistling. (Currently credited as: other vocal performed by Claudia Gonson.)

Annotation last modified on 2010-04-24 04:01 UTC.

Tracklist

# Title Rating Length
  CD 1
11 Underwear
4 2:50
22 It’s a Crime
5 3:55
33 Busby Berkeley Dreams
3.5 3:37
44 I’m Sorry I Love You
3.5 3:06
55 Acoustic Guitar
3.5 2:38
66 The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
4.5 3:11
77 Love in the Shadows
4 2:54
88 Bitter Tears
4 2:51
99 Wi’ Nae Wee Bairn Ye’ll Me Beget
3.5 1:56
1010 Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
4.5 2:20
1111 Experimental Music Love
3 0:30
1212 Meaningless
4 2:08
1313 Love Is Like a Bottle of Gin
4.5 1:46
1414 Queen of the Savages
3.5 2:13
1515 Blue You
3.5 3:03
1616 I Can’t Touch You Anymore
4.5 3:06
1717 Two Kinds of People
4 1:10
1818 How to Say Goodbye
3.5 2:48
1919 The Night You Can’t Remember
4 2:18
2020 For We Are the King of the Boudoir
3.5 1:15
2121 Strange Eyes
4 2:02
2222 Xylophone Track
3.5 2:47
2323 Zebra
3.5 2:16

Relationships

arranger:
Chris Ewen (track 2)
Claudia Gonson (track 3)
composer:
Stephin Merritt (tracks 1–23)
guest accordion:
Daniel Handler (track 23)
guest harmonium:
LD Beghtol (track 22)
guest lead vocals:
LD Beghtol (tracks 8, 20)
Dudley Kludt (tracks 2, 15)
Shirley Simms (tracks 4, 21)
guest performer:
Chris Ewen (track 2)
guest theremin:
Chris Ewen (track 15)
guitar:
Claudia Gonson (track 10)
lead vocals:
Claudia Gonson (tracks 5, 10, 23)
Stephin Merritt (tracks 1, 3, 6–7, 9–14, 16–19, 22)
lyricist:
Stephin Merritt (tracks 1–23)
other vocals:
Claudia Gonson (track 15)
remasters:
Zebra by The Magnetic Fields (track 23)
ASIN:
Discogs:
recording of:
Acoustic Guitar (track 5)
Bitter Tears (track 8)
Blue You (track 15)
How to Say Goodbye (track 18)
It’s a Crime (track 2)
Meaningless (track 12)
Strange Eyes (track 21)
Two Kinds of People (track 17)
Underwear (track 1)
Xylophone Track (track 22)
Yeah! Oh, Yeah! (track 10)
Zebra (track 23)