1996

Michael over at Aging Spinsters has a few youtube videos up of The Magnetic Fields in 1996. Stephin is young and handsome and looks exactly as I remember him when I first discovered the band a year later, in 1997. I'm guessing that these videos are from the Get Lost tour, but, regardless, they pretty much epitomize why I have loved Stephin Merritt's work all of these years and why I think those first few albums were the most magical sounds of the last century.