Distant Plastic Trees

Distant Plastic Trees
Studio album by The Magnetic Fields
Released

1991 (UK, Japan)

1992 (US)
Length 36:18
Label

PoPuP (US)
Red Flame (UK)

RCA Victor (JP)
Producer Stephin Merritt
The Magnetic Fields chronology
Distant Plastic Trees
(1991)
The Wayward Bus
(1992)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
Robert Christgau[2]

Distant Plastic Trees is the debut studio album by American indie pop band The Magnetic Fields, released in 1991. It features lead vocals by Susan Anway.

Content

The song "Babies Falling" is a cover of a song by The Wild Stares.

Release

Merge Records reissued the album in 1994 as a double album compilation with the band's second album, The Wayward Bus. The song "Plant White Roses" was omitted from the Merge reissue.

Track listing

All tracks written by Stephin Merritt and sung by Susan Anway except where noted.

  1. "Railroad Boy" – 2:59
  2. "Smoke Signals" – 3:28
  3. "You Love to Fail" – 2:30
  4. "Kings" – 2:15
  5. "Babies Falling" – 3:18 (Steve Gregoropoulos/Fran Miller/Justin Burrill)
  6. "Living in an Abandoned Firehouse with You" – 3:58 (Merritt/Gage/Gil)
  7. "Tar-Heel Boy" – 2:26
  8. "Falling in Love with the Wolfboy" – 4:05
  9. "Josephine" – 3:08
  10. "100,000 Fireflies" – 3:20
  11. "Plant White Roses" – 4:52

Personnel

Additional personnel

References

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