One of my ever increasing number of exes told me once that she liked The Magnetic Fields so I tried to listen to them and didn’t get very far. I think last Saturday I posted a song by them entirely different than this one.

Trent Reznor set up a blip.fm playlist dedicated to Magnetic Fields (available as of 4/20/09 and probably will be for a week maybe) and the selection of songs he picked is pretty good, so I went ahead and listened to Holiday and came away from it fairly impressed but feeling like I always do: none of this will really land in my mix of daily music because it just sticks out like such a sore thumb.

Between the genius lyrics, the Marvin The Paranoid Android vocals, and the syrupy 80′s synth influence, where am I going to put that?

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This song makes me think about how I probably made my ex feel sometimes.