Zack: I have previously established my opinions on double
albums, namely that an artist should never, ever make one. So I’m going to
assume any readers can guess my thoughts on a triple album. Hint: This isn’t a
situation where a negative multiplied by a negative makes a positive. It is
pure subtraction. Over the course of this entire 3-hour behemoth, I gave 10
songs 5 stars. In terms of raw numbers, that’s incredible. But then you realize
that that is 14.5% of the total album. 69 Love Songs leaps around stylistically,
sometimes following up a country-esque love ballad with a synthy pop song. And
I am totally fine with that. If you’re trying to create an album about love
songs, you can’t ignore the fact that people have used different genres to
perform such songs since basically music was invented. I liked songs from all
sorts of genres on this record. The problem was that I had to sift through so
much other stuff to get to the songs I liked. It was daunting. I broke the
listening up between two
sessions, and I left both feeling equally exhausted. Love songs shouldn’t be so
tiring.
Favorite Tracks: How to Say Goodbye; Come Back
from San Francisco; No One Will Ever Love You
Emily: Listening to this album was a
marathon. I broke it up over three sessions over the course of two weekends
(with several little breaks in the middle), and I still feel exhausted. 69 Love
Songs feels like an entire discography, but it's just one overloaded album.
There are certainly some lovely songs on here, but they get overshadowed by everything
else. At a certain point it's just self-indulgent to pack an album
to the gills with minute-long novelty tracks to get to your requisite 69 songs.
A better approach would have been to cut it down to 12 Really Good Love Songs,
and leave the 69-based snickering in the studio.
Favorite Tracks: I Don't Want to Get Over You;
No One Will Ever Love You; I Can't Touch You Anymore
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