0013 - The 6ths

Another band of whom I have only the one song [actually, I have two - see update below].  The song is As You Turn To Go and it's not, as I thought before today, by the Magnetic Fields, but by the 6ths.

Listen to this - it's nice! - and prepare yourself for a brief trivia onslaught.

There's a good reason I thought this was The Magnetic Fields (apart from the obvious one that it sounds like the Magnetic Fields).  Stephen Merritt is the prolific songwriter who fronts/is the Magnetic Fields and the 6ths are a Stephen Merritt tribute band.  With a difference.

The 6ths have produced two albums of songs written by Merritt specifically for the two 6ths albums, and then sung by someone else.  This is spectacularly narcissistic, of course, but also kind of fun, and given that the man seems to write approximately 14 songs every single day, I suppose he needs someone to sing them.  Maybe.

 As You Turn to Go is sung by one-eyed Glaswegian (well, Paisley, but what's the difference?) musician/journalist Momus, real name Nick Currie, who is the cousin of Del Amitri frontman Justin Currie.

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Update: Well, it turns out that I do have another 6ths song, which had been incorrectly tagged.  The song is a cover of the Human League's Human, sung by the mighty Lloyd Cole, and is from a Human League tribute album, Reproductions. Unfortunately, it's really not very good.

The idea of Stephen Merritt's postmodern self-tribute band contributing a song to a tribute album to another band is causing a weakness in the spacetime continuum.  That Reproductions also features covers by Stephen Merritt and the Future Bible Heroes (another Merritt project) is causing a weakness in my will to carry on.