Top 10 Things Said at Last Night’s Magnetic Fields Show
10. Stephin Merritt: No requests please.
9. Claudia Gonson, introducing “I Looked All Over Town”: This is a song on the former album “I”
Merritt: It’s still an album
8. Stephin Merritt: Always take the earplugs out before you start to sing. Don’t forget.
7. Merritt, introducing “All Dressed Up in Dreams”) It’s not obscure. It was all over television. This was an American Eagle commercial I believe.
6. Gonson, on “2001: A Space Odyssey” theories: After the show, I’m going home and read the Internet
5. Merritt, after tuning his bouzouki: Close enough for folk or whatever this is.
4. Merritt: Remain in silence while we tune.
3. All: Three-way!
2. Merritt, after “Three-Way”: We really should have dedicated that song. What a missed opportunity.
1. Gonson: I saw “Black Sheep” last weekend.
Merritt: Now that you know what movies we’ve been seeing.. It’s just like a blog.
Gonson: Only much slower
SETLIST: When I’m Out of Town / No One Will Ever Love You / California Girls / The Abandoned Castle of My Soul / The Nun’s Litany / I Looked All Over Town / Epitaph for My Heart / I Don’t Believe You / Dreams Anymore / This Little Ukelele / All Dressed Up in Dreams / Zombie Boy // SECOND SET: Take Ecstacy With Me / Courtesans / Crows Everywhere / Too Drunk to Dream / The Book of Love / No River / Drive On, Driver / What a (expletive) Lovely Day / Yeah, Oh Yeah / It’s Only Time // ENCORES: Three-Way / As You Turn to Go / Grand Canyon
PHOTO: Magnetic Fields by Newsday's Ari Mintz.