The Magnetic Fields – The Charm Of The Highway Strip

Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Synth-pop
Year:	1994

Tracklist

		Lonely Highway	3:05
		Long Vermont Roads	3:26
		Born On A Train	3:45
		I Have The Moon	2:36
		Two Characters In Search Of A Country Song	3:32
		Crowd Of Drifters	3:35
		Fear Of Trains	3:14
		When The Open Road Is Closing In	3:38
		Sunset City	4:05
		Dust Bowl	2:19

Credits (3)

Sam Davol
Cello
Claudia Gonson
Management
Stephin Merritt
Written-By, Performer

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Image	,	–			In Your Collection, Wantlist, or Inventory	Version Details	Data Quality
	The Charm Of The Highway Strip CD, Album	Merge Records – MRG055	US	1994	US — 1994	Recently Edited
	The Charm Of The Highway Strip Cassette	Merge Records – MRG055c	US	1994	US — 1994	New Submission
	The Charm Of The Highway Strip CD, Album	Virgin – 7243 8 40944 2 3	Europe	1995	Europe — 1995	Recently Edited
	The Charm Of The Highway Strip CD, Album	Setanta – SETCD21	UK	1995	UK — 1995	New Submission
	The Charm Of The Highway Strip CD, Album, Reissue	Domino – REWIGCD 16	Europe	2004	Europe — 2004	Recently Edited
	The Charm Of The Highway Strip CD, Album, Reissue	Domino – 5020172	Australia	2004	Australia — 2004	Recently Edited
	The Charm Of The Highway Strip CD, Album, Reissue	Domino – REWIGCD 16	Europe	2004	Europe — 2004	New Submission
	The Charm Of The Highway Strip LP, Album, Reissue, 180g	Merge Records – MRG055LP	US	2008	US — 2008	Recently Edited
	The Charm Of The Highway Strip CD, Album, Repress	Merge Records – MRG055	US	2015	US — 2015	New Submission
	The Charm Of The Highway Strip LP, Album, Reissue, Yellow	Merge Records – MRG055LP	US	2017	US — 2017	New Submission
	The Charm Of The Highway Strip CD, Album, Reissue	Merge Records – MRG055	Europe	2019	Europe — 2019	New Submission
	The Charm Of The Highway Strip CD, Album	Merge Records – MRG055	Canada		Canada	New Submission
	The Charm Of The Highway Strip CD, Album, Repress	Merge Records – MRG 055, Merge Records – MRG055CD, Merge Records – MRG 055CD	US		US	New Submission
	The Charm Of The Highway Strip LP, Album, Reissue	Merge Records – MRG055LP	US		US

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Reviews

rivermind77 Apr 2, 2024
referencing The Charm Of The Highway Strip (LP, Album, Reissue, 180g) MRG055LP
This sounds amazing! Been listening to these guys forever and never on vinyl until right now! It's so much more!!! This was always one of my favorites from them too so very happy! Merritt's voice comes through so powerfully especially on Sunset City WOW!
arievandam Dec 22, 2023
referencing The Charm Of The Highway Strip (LP, Album, Reissue) MRG055LP
Wow this sounds so 3dimensional and has no right sounding this good for such a cheap record. Merge vinyl pressings have a tendency to make already great albums even greater and this is no exception. Beautiful.
Rudolf_Jouda Aug 12, 2023
referencing The Charm Of The Highway Strip (LP, Album, Reissue, 180g) MRG055LP
Completely agree with the comments about this pressing being very high quality.
esuttell Mar 16, 2022
referencing The Charm Of The Highway Strip (LP, Album, Reissue, 180g) MRG055LP
Really a fantastic pressing. If the production of the album itself is to your taste, you won't regret picking this pressing up.
zombie.modernist Jun 17, 2019
Edited 6 years ago
referencing The Charm Of The Highway Strip (LP, Album, Reissue, Yellow) MRG055LP
An excellent album, easily in the band's top 3. "69 Love Songs" is their breakout, but this is where everything clicks, the band is fully formed with Merritt's groggy vocals, depressing and subversive lyrics and layers of vintage synths. Ostensibly a riff on country-western music, it really feels more like synth rock record about longing and loneliness.

This variant is a straight repress of the earlier Merge issue, cut at Golden, pressed at RTI. It sounds quite good, but unlikely sourced from anything different than the CD was. I picked up a copy of this to replace my earlier pressing which was scratched out of the package. This sounds identical, and doesn't have any issues with surface noise despite the color.

Setup: SL-1700 / ATVM95ML / MoFi StudioPhono / SX-750 / ADS 500
gravbong Apr 13, 2019
referencing The Charm Of The Highway Strip (LP, Album, Reissue, 180g) MRG055LP
Just picked this up new in a shop, was pleased to see John Golden in the deadwax and it plays nice and quiet as you’d expect from RTI presses from this era. Perfect representation of the album on vinyl
hhjack Jul 20, 2015
referencing The Charm Of The Highway Strip (LP, Album, Reissue, 180g) MRG055LP
Great vinyl pressing and mix. I recommend grabbing this one before it's gone.