Discography
Information
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- "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.
- 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.
- 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.
- "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.
- 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.
- Heaven
in a Black Leather Jacket 7" -- Backed with "Rot in the
Sun." The first 6ths release, with Robert Scott on
vocals.
- "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.
- "Strange Powers" (CMJ
compilation) -- Same as album version, released
with CMJ magazine.
- 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."
- The
Charm of the Highway Strip -- The second 1994 release.
- "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.
- "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.
- All
the Umbrellas in London 7" -- Backed with "Rats in the
Garbage of the Western World."
- Get
Lost -- The
1995 Magnetic Fields album.
- Why I Cry
7" --
Backed with the Young Marble Giants cover, "The Man
Amplifier."
- Wasps'
Nests -- The
first release by this multi-singered band.
- 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.
- "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.
- "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.
- 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.
- "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.
- "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.
- "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.
- "Hopeless"
(A&F In Stereo compilation) -- An
Ambercombie and Fich compilation, featuring the album
version of "Hopeless."
- Memories
of Love --
The first album by Future Bible Heroes.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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.
- "Lonely Days" (Diversion
compilation) -- Same version as CD.
- "Two
Characters In Search of a Country Song" (I Went Down
soundtrack) -- Same as album version.
- "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.
- "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?
- "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.
- "Love Is Blue"
(Casablanca compilation) -- Same version as on
CD.
- "Lonely Days" (Palm
Pictures Sampler compilation) -- Same version as
on CD.
- 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.
- 69
Love Songs Volume 1 -- The first CD. The complete
collection is available as a box set.
- 69
Love Songs Volume 2 -- The second CD. The complete
collection is available as a box set.
- 69
Love Songs Volume 3 -- The third CD. The complete
collection is available as a box set.
- "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.
- I'm Lonely (And I Love It) EP
-- All new songs and a remix of "Hopeless."
- Hyacinths and Thistles --
The second 6ths album.
- "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.
- "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.
- "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.
- "All My Little Words"
(Revolutions compilation) -- Same as album
version.
- "Absolutely Cuckoo"
(Someone Like You soundtrack) -- Same as album
version.
- "Long-Forgotten Fairy
Tale" (Sound Selection compilation) -- Same
as album version.
- Eban and Charley --
Stephin Merritt's first release under his own name, and
his first movie soundtrack.
- "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.
- "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).
- "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.
- Eternal
Youth -- The second Future Bible Heroes album.
- The
Lonely Robot EP -- Remixes of various songs from
Eternal Youth, plus new songs "The DJ from
Outer Space" and "The Lonely Robot."
- 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.)
- i
-- The 2004 album featuring a new version of "I
Don't Believe You" that's different from the 1998
7" single.
- "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.
- The Orphan of Zhao -- The complete musical
from 2003 available through digital download.
- Peach Blossom Fan -- The
complete musical from 2004 available through digital download.
- My Life as a Fairy Tale -- The
complete musical from 2005 available through digital download.
- 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.
- "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).
- "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.
- 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."
- Distortion -- The 2007 album.
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