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Distant Plastic Trees Studio album by The Magnetic Fields Released January 1994 (reissue) Length 36:18 Label Red Flame (UK)
Merge Records (reissue)
RCA Victor (JP)
PoPuP (US)
MRG075Producer Stephin Merritt The Magnetic Fields chronology Distant Plastic Trees
(1991)The Wayward Bus
(1992)Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic link
Robert Christgau [1]
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Distant Plastic Trees is the 1991 debut album by The Magnetic Fields, featuring the lead vocals of Susan Anway. Merge Records reissued the album in 1994 as a double album compilation with the band's following release, The Wayward Bus. The song "Plant White Roses" was omitted from the Merge reissue.
The song "Babies Falling" is a cover of a song by The Wild Stares.
The Merge reissue includes a silence of four minutes and thirty-three seconds before "Railroad Boy" which could be an unlisted cover of John Cage's silent piece, 4′33″.
Track listing
All tracks written by Stephin Merritt except where noted.
- "Railroad Boy" – 2:59
- "Smoke Signals" – 3:28
- "You Love to Fail" – 2:30
- "Kings" – 2:15
- "Babies Falling" – 3:18 (Steve Gregoropoulos/Fran Miller/Justin Burrill)
- "Living in an Abandoned Firehouse with You" – 3:58 (Merritt/Gage/Gil)
- "Tar-Heel Boy" – 2:26
- "Falling in Love with the Wolfboy" – 4:05
- "Josephine" – 3:08
- "100,000 Fireflies" – 3:20
- "Plant White Roses" – 4:52
Personnel
- Stephin Merritt - songwriting, instrumentation and production
- Susan Anway - lead vocals
- Ken Michaels - engineering
- Wendy Smith - album cover
- Art Daly - insert photo
References
- ^ Christgau, Robert. "The Magnetic Fields". Robert Christgau. http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=865.
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