Discography Information

  1. Distant Plastic Trees -- This was released on Red Flame Records and is now out of print, but Merge Records has combined it with The Wayward Bus. However, "Plant White Roses" was left off, so you can find that track on The Long Secret compilation.
  2. 100,000 Fireflies 7" -- Backed with "Old Orchard Beach." Re-released with color artwork. Essentially a collector's item, since both of these songs can be found on Distant Plastic Trees/The Wayward Bus.
  3. Long Vermont Roads 7" -- Backed with "Alien Being" (also found on The House of Tomorrow EP) and the unreleased "Beach-a-Boop-Boop." First release featuring Stephin on vocals.
  4. "Crowd of Drifters" (Dr. Death's Volume 4: Marvels of Insect Life compilation) -- Susan sings this version (different from that on The Charm of the Highway Strip) on this album, also featuring: (1) And Siamese Urbain: Whale's Belly (2) Controlled Bleeding: The Turning (3) Magnetic Fields: Crowd of Drifters (4) Blackgirls: Translator (5) Johanna's House of Glamour: Dark Hour (6) A Flower Sermon: If God Is (7) Talisker Tale: IRA Zone (8) Talisker Tale: Colourtronix (9) Area: Green Light (10) Talisker Tale: Alone (11) Black Sea: Ballad of Johnny Firecloud (12) Critical Mass: Whirr (13) Beautiful Pea Green Boat: Nostalgia (14) M-1 Alternative: The Marvels of Insect Life Theme (15) Future Neighbors: Salty Sea (16) Handful of Snowdrops: Now, Then, and Forever (17) Psychic Surgery: Buddha (18) Psychic Surgery: Greeks And Romans (19) Mumbles: Two Clouds (20) Mumbles: Mother Harvest (21) Private Sector: The Argonauts (22) Halcyon Daze: Ragman (23) The Millions: Instrumental #2 (24) M-1 Alternative: Slumming (25) House of Usher: Bone Swami (26) Brothers Grimm: Stratosauras Tex (27) Critical Mass: Vacation (28) The Millions: Delicate Balance (29) Handful of Snowdrops: Terroir II (30) French B.: Je M'en Souviens (31) Fini Tribe: Monster In the House (32) Johanna's House of Glamour: The Unfolding (33) Hex: Antelope (34) M-1 Alternative: Diatom (35) Double Happiness: Cut (36) Delerium: Certain Trust (37) Leigh Gregory: Athea.
  5. The Wayward Bus -- The PoPuP release of this album is now out of print, but you can find it combined with Distant Plastic Trees on Merge Records.
  6. Distant Plastic Trees/The Wayward Bus -- Originally Distant Plastic Trees was released on Red Flame Records and The Wayward Bus was released on PoPuP Records. Merge combined these (the Susan Anway records) onto one disc (with a 4:32 silent track separating them), leaving off "Plant White Roses" (for some dumb reason) which can now be found on The Long Secret from Harriet Records.
  7. "100,000 Fireflies" (One Last Kiss compilation) -- Same version as on the CD, so no reason to buy unless you want the following songs: (1) Swirlies: Chris R. (2) Suddenly, Tammy!: Lamp (3) Lorelei: Mimesis (4) Veronica Lake: Daisy Kiss (5) The Magnetic Fields: 100,000 Fireflies (6) White Town: Hair Like Alain Delon (7) Honeybunch: Arm in Arm (8) Swirl: Helicopter (9) Our American Cousins: One Wish Too Many (10) Tree Fort Angst: You Should've Seen the One That Got Away (11) Crayon: All the Stars (12) Jane Pow: Shutdown (13) Whorl: I Love Her All the Time (14) Small Factory: Hey Lucille (15) Velocity Girl: My Forgotten Favorite (16) Courtney Love: Baseball Bat (17) Lilys: Any Several Sundays (18) Black Tambourine: We Can't Be Friends (19) Wimp Factor 14: Change of Address Kit.
  8. The House of Tomorrow EP -- Originally released as a 7", then released on CD due to popularity and lack of availability. The CD was originally released on Feel Good All Over, then it went out of print and was re-released by Merge with new cover artwork.
  9. Heaven in a Black Leather Jacket 7" -- Backed with "Rot in the Sun." The first 6ths release, with Robert Scott on vocals.
  10. "Plant White Roses" (Rows of Teeth compilation) -- Stephin's totally remade version of this song. Also on this album: (1) Lambchop: Or Thousands of Prizes (2) Rocket from the Crypt: UFO>UFO>UFO (3) Erectus Monotone: The Day the Sharks Flew (4) Polvo: Watch the Nail (5) Angels of Epistemology: The Charm (6) Metal Pitcher: Mental Picture (7) The Renderers: Million Lights (8) Pipe: Ashtray (9) Butterglory: Alexander Bends (10) Archers of Loaf: What Did You Expect? (11) Pure: Senseless (12) Bricks: You Shouldn't Have Smashed Your Guitar (13) Drive Like Jehu: Bullet Train to Vegas (14) Coral: Filling a Hole (15) Superchunk: Dance Lessons (16) Magnetic Fields: Plant White Roses (17) Breadwinner: Yard (18) Wwax: Counting Thoughts (19) Portastatic: Codes, Runes, Dunes (20) Squirrel Nut Zippers: You Are My Radio.
  11. "Strange Powers" (CMJ compilation) -- Same as album version, released with CMJ magazine.
  12. Holiday -- Originally released on Feel Good All Over, then re-released by Merge. The only difference (other than new artwork) is that the unnamed track 1 is now named "BBC Stereophonic Workshop."
  13. The Charm of the Highway Strip -- The second 1994 release.
  14. "The Abandoned Castle of My Soul" (The Long Secret Compilation) -- No reason to buy the album for this song, recorded in 1994 (which appears in unaltered form on The New Despair EP), but for "Plant White Roses" sung by Susan. Also on this (very excellent) album: (1) Vehicle Flips: Diplomacy, Home and Abroad (2) Twig: Lilac Ride (3) The Ampersands: My Favourite Jumper (4) The Mountain Goats: Duke Ellington (5) Six Cents and Natatlie: Quilting Bee (6) The Gothic Archies: The Abandoned Castle of My Soul (7) Pest 5000: Godsound (8) Weeping in Fits and Starts: Big Fish (9) Frank Boscoe and Karl Hendricks: Song for Tim and Alex (10) The Cat's Miaow: The Phoebe I Know (11) Fertile Vergin: My Three Suns (12) Tully Craft: Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid To Know About (13) Lotus Eaters: Whistles and Bells (14) Prickly: Hedgeclipping Song (15) The Extra Glenns: Process of Elimination (16) High Risk Group (17) The Magnetic Fields: Plant White Roses.
  15. "Plant White Roses" (The Long Secret compilation) -- The 1989 version sung by Susan Anway originally appearing on Distant Plastic Trees (later dropped on the Merge re-release). This compilation also features "The Abandoned Castle of My Soul" by The Gothic Archies (though that song appears on The New Despair EP). Also on this (very excellent) album: (1) Vehicle Flips: Diplomacy, Home and Abroad (2) Twig: Lilac Ride (3) The Ampersands: My Favourite Jumper (4) The Mountain Goats: Duke Ellington (5) Six Cents and Natatlie: Quilting Bee (6) The Gothic Archies: The Abandoned Castle of My Soul (7) Pest 5000: Godsound (8) Weeping in Fits and Starts: Big Fish (9) Frank Boscoe and Karl Hendricks: Song for Tim and Alex (10) The Cat's Miaow: The Phoebe I Know (11) Fertile Vergin: My Three Suns (12) Tully Craft: Pop Songs Your New Boyfriend's Too Stupid To Know About (13) Lotus Eaters: Whistles and Bells (14) Prickly: Hedgeclipping Song (15) The Extra Glenns: Process of Elimination (16) High Risk Group (17) The Magnetic Fields: Plant White Roses.
  16. All the Umbrellas in London 7" -- Backed with "Rats in the Garbage of the Western World."
  17. Get Lost -- The 1995 Magnetic Fields album.
  18. Why I Cry 7" -- Backed with the Young Marble Giants cover, "The Man Amplifier."
  19. Wasps' Nests -- The first release by this multi-singered band.
  20. Wasps' Nests 6 and 6/6ths Box Set -- A box set of all the songs on 7"s with an extra song, "Yet Another Girl," sung by Stuart Moxham. Also featured self-portraits of all the singers.
  21. "Hopeless" (Red Hot + Bothered compilation) -- Stephin's version of the song later sung by Claudia on Memories of Love. Stephin also sings this song on the Lonely Days EP, but this is a different vocal take (not sounding too different, but different nonetheless) and this CD contains the following (quite wonderful) songs: (1) Freedom Cruise: Sensational Gravity Boy (2) Built To Spill/Caustic Resin: Still Flat (3) Lisa Germano: The Mirror Is Gone (4) Noise Addict: Moutwash (5) Folk Implosion: Indierockinstrumental (6) The Verlaines: Some Fantasy (7) Liquorice: Little League (8) Babe the Blue Ox: Hazmats (9) Juicy: Mainland China (10) The Sea and Cake: The Fontana (11) Cradle Robbers: Sotto Voice (12) Jay Farrrar and Kelly Willis: Rex's Blues (13) Grifters: Empty Yard (14) East River Pipe: Miracleland (15) Heavenly: Snail Trail (16) Future Bible Heroes: Hopeless (17) Flying Nuns: Servicing Man (18) Gastr del Sol: Quietly Approaching.
  22. "Oh! What a Dream It Was" (Welcome To the Dollhouse soundtrack) -- Unreleased song featured on this now out of print album, which can now be found on the 12 Tales compilation. Also featuring: (1) Daniel Rey: Welcome to the Dollhouse (Theme) (2) Daniel Rey: Sweet Candy (3) Daniel Rey: Welcome to the Dollhouse (4) The Con Artists: Throb (5) Chris Temple: For Real (6) Daniel Rey: Happy Anniversary (7) Dana White and Mike Moran: Love Will Find a Way (8) Daniel Rey: A Veenu Shalom Aleichem (9) The Undead: Evening of Desire (10) The Con Artists: Masquerade (11) Future Bible Heroes: O! What a Dream It Was.
  23. Looming in the Gloom EP -- Released on They Might Be Giants' Hello Records Club, March 1996, which makes you buy all the other EP's released that month, adding up to $46. Only one song, "The Dead Only Quickly" (not The 6ths version), does not appear on The New Despair EP, but the mix of "City of the Damned" is also different. This is the track list: (1) The Abandoned Castle of My Soul (2) Your Long White Fingers (3) The Dead Only Quickly (4) In a Cave (5) City of the Damned.
  24. "Heroes" (Crash Course for the Ravers tribute) -- The cover of the David Bowie song on this tribute record, featuring: (1) Swell: Golden Years (2) Tree People: Andy Warhol (3) Capsise 7: Queen Bitch (4) Fernando: Jean Genie (5) Golden Delicious: Suffragette City (6) Quasi: Sound and Vision (7) Magnetic Fields: Heroes (8) J. Hell: Moonage Daydream (9) The Dambuilders: Boys Keep Swinging (10) King Black Acid: Always Crashing in the Same Car (11) Spurge: Width of a Circle (12) Hazel: It Ain't Easy (13) Vintilator: After All (14) Mercury Rev: The Sun Machine.
  25. "I Die You Die" (Random tribute) -- The Gary Numan cover on this two CD tribute record. Also featuring: (1) St. Etienne: Stormtrooper In Drag (2) Matt Sharp/Damon Albarn: We Have a Technical (3) Gravity Kills: Poetry and Power (4) Peck Slip: I Can't Stop (5) An Pierle: Are "Friends" Electric? (6) EMF: We Are Glass (7) The Magnetic Fields: I Die: You Die (8) Jesus Jones: We Are So Fragile (9) Posh: She's Got Claws (10) Earl Brutus: M.E. (11) Underdog: Films (12) Sukia: Me! I Disconnect From You (13) The Orb: Jo the Waiter (1) Kenickie: I'm an Agent (2) Jimi Tenor: Down in the Park (3) Moloko: Are "Friends" Electric? (4) Chris Holmes: Are "Friends" Electric (5) Towering Inferno: Metal (6) Dubstar: Everyday I Die (7) Amanda Ghost: Absolution (8) Deadsy: Replicas (9) Pop Will Eat Itself: Friends (10) Republica: Are "Friends" Electric? (11) Windscale: War Songs (12) Bis: We Are So Fragile (13) Dave Clarke: Cars.
  26. "Smoke and Mirrors" (Mrg100 compilation) -- Remixed by Mark Robinson and James Noble on this EP, sung by Stephin with Evelyn Hurley. Also featuring: (1) Superchunk: Eastern Terminal (2) Spent: Brighter Than Day (3) Butterglory: She's Got the Akshun! (4) Guv'ner: Your Majesty (5) The Magnetic Fields: Smoke and Mirrors (6) Lambchop: The Militant.
  27. "Hopeless" (A&F In Stereo compilation) -- An Ambercombie and Fich compilation, featuring the album version of "Hopeless."
  28. Memories of Love -- The first album by Future Bible Heroes.
  29. Lonely Days EP -- Features "Lonely Days" (same version as CD), "Hopeless" (Stephin's version, slightly different version from Red Hot + Bothered Stephin's version), "Love Is Blue" (an Andy Williams cover), "How To Get Laid In Japanese," and the instrumental, "Berlin on $10 a Day."
  30. The New Despair EP -- Adding three songs to the Looming in the Gloom EP and subtracting one, "The Dead Only Quickly." The mix of "City of the Damned" is different from the first EP also.
  31. I Don't Believe You 7" -- This version of the song is different from the one that eventually appears on the 2004 album i. Backed with "When I'm Not Looking, You're Not There." You can find this song in CD form on the compilation, All's Fair in Love and Chickfactor.
  32. "Lonely Days" (Diversion compilation) -- Same version as CD.
  33. "Two Characters In Search of a Country Song" (I Went Down soundtrack) -- Same as album version.
  34. "Lonely Days" (Mystique compilation) -- A remix by Charnock Richard.  Also featuring: (1) Beachwood Sparks: Sweet Julie Ann (2) Purple Ivy Shadows: Secret's Out (3) Garlands: Birds on the Make (4) Astrud: Personal Mi Fracaso (5) Fly Seville: Taj Mahal of America (6) Minstrels: Moorea (7) Sleepyhead: Pop Quiz (8) Guardian Angel (9) Push Kings: Last Summer (10) Egyptian Funk (11) Future Bible Heroes: Lonely Days (12) The Tyde: Doll of the Valley (13) Everything To Everyone (14) Barbara Brousal: I'll Say It (15) The Essex Green: Orchardton.
  35. "Le Tourbillion" (Pop Romantique compilation) -- In French, written by Bassiak and sung by Dudley Klute. Also featuring: (1) The Hang-Ups: Pardon (2) Ivy: L'Anamour (3) Luna: La Poupee Qui Fait Non (4) Air: Jeanne (5) The Apples in Stereo: Avril En Mai (6) Lloyd Cole: Si Tu Dois Partir (7) Heavenly: Nous Ne Sommes Pas De Anges (8) Godzuki: Contact (9) John Wesley Harding: Je Suis Venu Te Dire Que Je M'en Vais (10) Sukia: Zoooom! (11) Magnetic Fields: Le Tourbillion (12) The Ladybug Transistor: Puis-Je?
  36. "Take Ecstasy with Me" (Oh Merge compilation) -- Susan Anway sings this version, which is totally different from the original. Also featuring: (1) Ashley Stove: A Chocolate Crave (2) Beatnik Filmstars: Hypo-Boxing (3) East River Pipe: So Much Hate (4) Ganger: Blaufest (5) Guv'ner: Lucky Ladybug (6) The Karl Hendricks Rock Band: You're a Bigger Jerk Than Me (7) The Ladybug Transistor: Massachusetts (8) Lambchop: Up With People (live) (9) Mad Scene: Kokomo Joe (10) The Magnetic Fields: Take Ecstasy with Me (11) Neutral Milk Hotel: Engine (12) Pipe: Sheer Heart Attack (13) Portastatic: Easily Aroused (14) The Rock *A* Teens: What Took You So Long (15) Rocket from the Crypt: Man Down (16) Seaweed: Brand New Order (17) Shark Quest: Dancing Tooth (18) Spent: (I'll Clean Up) The Mess That You Are (19) Superchunk: Clover (20) The Third Eye Foundation: Semtex.
  37. "Love Is Blue" (Casablanca compilation) -- Same version as on CD.
  38. "Lonely Days" (Palm Pictures Sampler compilation) -- Same version as on CD.
  39. 69 Love Songs Box Set -- The 3 CD set, released in 1999, as a box set (with an interview booklet) as well as the three separate volumes.
  40. 69 Love Songs Volume 1 -- The first CD.  The complete collection is available as a box set.
  41. 69 Love Songs Volume 2 -- The second CD.  The complete collection is available as a box set.
  42. 69 Love Songs Volume 3 -- The third CD.  The complete collection is available as a box set.
  43. "If I Were a Rich Man" (Knitting on the Roof tribute) -- Stephin Merritt sings this banjo-driven Fiddler on the Roof song. The rest of the tribute is Knitting Room Factory regulars doing Fiddler tunes. Also featuring: (1) New Orleans Klezmer Allstars: Tradition (2) The Residents: Matchmaker (3) Magnetic Fields: If I Were a Rich Man (4) Uri Caine: Sabbath Prayer (5) Naftule's Dream: To Life (6) Dr. Eugene Chadbourne: Miracle of Miracles (7) Negativland: Tevye's Dream (8) Jill Sobule: Sunrise, Sunset (9) Hasidic New Wave: Wedding Celebration (10) Come: Do You Love Me? (11) David S. Ware: Far from the Home I Love (12) Elliot Sharp: Chava Ballet Sequence (13) Paradox Trio: Anatevka.
  44. I'm Lonely (And I Love It) EP -- All new songs and a remix of "Hopeless."
  45. Hyacinths and Thistles -- The second 6ths album.
  46. "Get Carter" (Reproductions tribute) -- Part of the Human League tribute album, this song by Stephin Merritt "Soundtrack Man" is featured along with Future Bible Heroes' version of "Don't You Want Me" and The 6ths' version of "Human" (not to mention Chris Ewan's band Hidden Variable and their version of "The Black Hit of Space." Also featuring: (1) Stephin Merritt "Soundtrack Man": Get Carter (2) Aluminum Group: Love Action (I Believe In Love) (3) Optiganally Yours: Empire State Human (4) Barcelona: Mirror Man (5) Future Bible Heroes: Don't You Want Me? (6) Ladytron: Open Your Heart (7) Baxendale: Keep Feeling (Fascination) (8) Superheroes/Superheroes: The Sound of the Crowd (9) Lali Puna: Together In Electric Dreams (10) Hidden Variable: The Black Hit of Space (11) Momus: I Am the Law (12) Clicks: Seconds (13) hollAnd: The Lebanon (14) Stars: Stay With Me Tonight (15) Garlands: Being Spoiled (16) The 6ths: Human.
  47. "Don't You Want Me" (Reproductions tribute) -- Part of the Human League tribute album, this song by Future Bible Heroes is featured along with Stephin Merritt "Soundtrack Man"'s version of "Get Carter" and The 6ths' version of "Human" (not to mention Chris Ewan's band Hidden Variable and their version of "The Black Hit of Space"). Also featuring: (1) Stephin Merritt "Soundtrack Man": Get Carter (2) Aluminum Group: Love Action (I Believe In Love) (3) Optiganally Yours: Empire State Human (4) Barcelona: Mirror Man (5) Future Bible Heroes: Don't You Want Me? (6) Ladytron: Open Your Heart (7) Baxendale: Keep Feeling (Fascination) (8) Superheroes/Superheroes: The Sound of the Crowd (9) Lali Puna: Together In Electric Dreams (10) Hidden Variable: The Black Hit of Space (11) Momus: I Am the Law (12) Clicks: Seconds (13) hollAnd: The Lebanon (14) Stars: Stay With Me Tonight (15) Garlands: Being Spoiled (16) The 6ths: Human.
  48. "Human" (Reproductions tribute) -- Part of the Human League tribute album, this song by The 6ths with singer Lloyd Cole is featured along with Stephin Merritt "Soundtrack Man"'s version of "Get Carter" and Future Bible Heroes' version of "Don't You Want Me?" (not to mention Chris Ewan's band Hidden Variable and their version of "The Black Hit of Space"). Also featuring: (1) Stephin Merritt "Soundtrack Man": Get Carter (2) Aluminum Group: Love Action (I Believe In Love) (3) Optiganally Yours: Empire State Human (4) Barcelona: Mirror Man (5) Future Bible Heroes: Don't You Want Me? (6) Ladytron: Open Your Heart (7) Baxendale: Keep Feeling (Fascination) (8) Superheroes/Superheroes: The Sound of the Crowd (9) Lali Puna: Together In Electric Dreams (10) Hidden Variable: The Black Hit of Space (11) Momus: I Am the Law (12) Clicks: Seconds (13) hollAnd: The Lebanon (14) Stars: Stay With Me Tonight (15) Garlands: Being Spoiled (16) The 6ths: Human.
  49. "All My Little Words" (Revolutions compilation) -- Same as album version.
  50. "Absolutely Cuckoo" (Someone Like You soundtrack) -- Same as album version.
  51. "Long-Forgotten Fairy Tale" (Sound Selection compilation) -- Same as album version.
  52. Eban and Charley -- Stephin Merritt's first release under his own name, and his first movie soundtrack.
  53. "O! What a Dream It Was" (12 Tales compilation) -- This is the same version of this non-album song that was featured on the Welcome to the Dollhouse soundtrack, which is now out of print. Also featuring: (1) Rasputina: Hunter's Kiss (2) Future Bible Heroes: O! What a Dream It Was (3) Flir: Lick (4) Cranes: Flute Song (5) Blistream Dream: Impossible Gardens (6) Creatures: Slipping Away (7) Violent Indiana: Purr la Perla (8) Miranda Sex: Andera Sempre (9) Russell Mills/David Sylvian: Room of Sixteen Shimmers (10) Livid Kittens: Flying (11) Devics: You Could Walk Forever (12) Legendary Pink Dots: The War of Silence.
  54. "Smile: No One Cares How You Feel" (Survive and Advance Vol. 1 compilation) -- The same song that appears on The Tragic Treasury. Also on this album: (1) Imperial Teen: Sugar (2) Radar Bros.: Silver Shoes (3) East River Pipe: Machine Man (4) Annie Hayden: Lonely and Lonely (5) Spoon: Small Stakes (6) Lambchop: The Puppy and the Leaf (live) (7) David Kilgour: Little Bird (8) Portastatic: Northern Sky (live) (9) Crooked Fingers: Hurricane (10) Ashley Stove: Amen Grasshopper (11) Destroyer: Chosen Few (12) The Gothic Archies: Smile: No One Cares How You Feel (13) The Ladybug Transistor: Nico Norte (live) (14) Spaceheads: Atmo (live).
  55. "I Don't Believe You" (All's Fair in Love and Chickfactor) -- The 7" version of this song, different from the one appearing on the i album. This is the place to get it in CD form.  Also on this album: (1) Pipas: Wells Street (2) Dump: Last Minute (3) Would-Be-Goods: Leave My Mind Alone (4) The Magnetic Fields: I Don't Believe You (5) The Pacific Ocean: I Tell You My Heart Could Split (6) Low: Those Girls (Song for Nico) (7) Shannon Wright: I Started a Joke (8) The Legendary Jim Ruiz: Ariel (9) The Pines: Kisses and Fog (10) The Clientele: Rain (11) April March: Mon Ange Gardien (12) Flare: Where's the Boy That I Once Knew? (13) The Aislers Set: Summer's Reprise (14) The Foxgloves: Daystar (15) Gilmore Tammy: Simple and Fragrant (16) Stuart Moxham: Save It (17) Marine Research: Capital L (18) Hercules featuring the Fan Modine: Hurricane (19) True Love Always: Mediterranean (20) Graeme Downes: Mastercontrol (21) The Cannanes with Steward: Astra.
  56. Eternal Youth -- The second Future Bible Heroes album.
  57. The Lonely Robot EP -- Remixes of various songs from Eternal Youth, plus new songs "The DJ from Outer Space" and "The Lonely Robot."
  58. Pieces of April -- This soundtrack is credited to Stephin Merritt, but it is actually a collection of older works by The Magnetic Fields and The 6ths combined with newer songs by those two bands, with one song credited to Stephin Merritt. The old songs are "Epitaph for My Heart," "I Think I Need a New Heart," and "The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side" by The Magnetic Fields and "As You Turn To Go" and "You You You You You" by The 6ths. The new songs are "All I Want To Know," "Dreams Anymore," Heather Heather," and "Stray With Me" by The Magnetic Fields and "One April Day" by Stephin Merritt. (Why this one song only is not credited to The Magnetic Fields is anyone's guess.)
  59. i -- The 2004 album featuring a new version of "I Don't Believe You" that's different from the 1998 7" single.
  60. "I Thought You Were My Boyfriend: Remixes" -- This isn't so much a single of the song (the original doesn't appear) as it is three remixes (one of which is semi-confusingly titled "Single Edit") by Rob Rivers.
  61. The Orphan of Zhao -- The complete musical from 2003 available through digital download.
  62. Peach Blossom Fan  -- The complete musical from 2004 available through digital download.
  63. My Life as a Fairy Tale  -- The complete musical from 2005 available through digital download.
  64. Showtunes -- A CD compilation of highlights from Stephin Merritt's three musicals -- The Orphan of Zhao, Peach Blossom Fan, and My Life as a Fairy Tale -- all of which are available in their entirety through digital download.
  65. "Mr. Punch" -- Part of a collection that pays tribute to the works of Neil Gaiman, in this case the book (and puppet) Mr. Punch.  Also featuring: (1) Rasputina: Coraline (2) ThouShaltNot: When Everyone Forgets (3) Tapping the Vein (featuring Greg Mackintosh of Paradise Lost): Trader Boy (4) Lunascape: Raven Star (5) Deine Lakaien: A Fish Called Prince (6) Thea Gilmore: Even Gods Do (7) Rose Berlin (featuring Dean Carcia of Curve): Coraline (8) Schandmaul: Magda Treadgolds Marchen (9) Hungry Lucy: We Won't Go (10) Voltair (with The Oddz): Come Sweet Death (11) Future Bible Heroes: Mr. Punch (12) Razed in Black: The Endless (13) The Cruxshadows: Wake the White Queen (14) Ego Likeness: You Better Leave the Stars Alone (15) Azam Ali: The Cold Black Key (16) Joachim Witt: Vandemar (17) Tori Amos: Sister Named Desire (Remastered Version).
  66. "The Meaning of Lice" -- Plague Songs features an artist doing a song for each plague in the book of Exodus.  Merritt handles the third plague, lice.  Also featuring: (1) Klashnekoff: Blood (2) King Creosote: Relate the Tale (3) Stephin Merritt: The Meaning of Lice (4) Brian Eno with Robert Wyatt: Flies (5) Laurie Anderson: The Fifth Plague (6) Cody ChesnuTT: Boils (7) The Tiger Lillies: Hailstones (8) Imogen Heap: Glittering Cloud (9) Scott Walker: Darkness (10) Rufus Wainwright: Katonah.
  67. The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events -- Collection of songs released on the Series of Unfortunate Events audio books as well as two bonus tracks: "Freakshow" (alternate song for The Carnivorous Carnival) and "We Are the Gothic Archies."
  68. Distortion -- The 2007 album.

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