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Stephin Merritt's Love Song Playlist

Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields brings you an hour of hand-picked love songs. It's all love, love, love… and little a bit of death 'to keep it spicy'.

Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields brings you an hour of hand-picked love songs. Its all love love love… and little a bit of death "to keep it spicy".

Stephin Merritt is the songwriter and principal singer of The Magnetic Fields. The band are currently touring their 1999 magnum opus 69 Love Songs on its 25th anniversary, so to mark the occasion, Stephin has picked some more of his favourite songs about love from the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Roy Harper and the Gap Band.

1 hour

Last on

Thu 8 Aug 2024 00:00

Music Played

  • The Magnetic Fields

    Love Is Like A Bottle Of Gin

  • Ella Fitzgerald

    Stone Cold Dead In The Market (feat. Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five)

  • Bull Moose Jackson & Tiny Bradshaw's Orchestra

    Big Ten Inch Record

  • Clementine Valentine

    I'm Not Saying

  • Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood

    Sand

  • Brute Force

    No Olympian Height

  • Julie London

    Yummy, Yummy, Yummy

  • Strawberry Alarm Clock

    Pretty Song From Psych-Out

  • Dana Gillespie

    Dead

  • The Blades of Grass

    I Love You Alice B. Toklas

  • Roy Harper

    Another Day

  • Jorge Socarras & Patrick Cowley

    I Never Want To Fall In Love

  • Dalek I Love You

    Destiny (Dalek I Love You)

  • The Gap Band

    You Dropped A Bomb On Me

  • The Chills

    House With a Hundred Rooms

  • Mozart Estate

    Pretty Boy

  • Pet Shop Boys

    You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You're Drunk

  • Broadcast

    Come On Let's Go

  • Chris Knox

    Not Given Lightly

Broadcast

  • Thu 8 Aug 2024 00:00