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Showtunes

by Stephin Merritt

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of 455,735

14,695
2000's

of 265,982

3,748
2006

of 33,755

634

Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.

Overall Rating: 2.3426 Showtunes is ranked overall as 2.3426 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 2.6575 Showtunes has an avg. critic score of 2.6575 out of 4 stars

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All Music Guide

Some will be left wondering just what the hell Merritt is up to -- those poor sad kids who hung on every post-rock word of the Magnetic Fields records as if Merritt's abandoned them. And then, of course, there are the rest of you who will be delighted, puzzled, and intrigued by the sheer originality of this recording. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

DVD visuals would help, but it still beats Andrew Lloyd Webber

Entertainment Weekly

With his mutable chamber-rock group the Magnetic Fields, Stephin Merritt's witty, wordy songwriting has always suggested a talent for musical theater. ...more

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NOW Magazine

The album is absurd, confusing (the random sequencing can be a bitch if you're trying to follow individual plots), hilarious (only Merritt could pen a libretto titled What A Fucking Lovely Day!) and bloody brilliant. ...read the complete review at NOW Magazine

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musicOMH.com

Each of these tracks - the duelling-banjo Train Song; the elegiac And He Would Say - is really perfectly formed, beautifully satisfying in structure alone. ...read the complete review at musicOMH.com

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