100,000 Fireflies

100,000 Fireflies 100kfireflies.jpg single The Magnetic Fields Distant Plastic Trees Old Orchard Beach September 1991 Twee pop, indie pop 3:20 Harriet Records Stephin Merritt Stephin Merritt Long Vermont Roads 1993 "100,000 Fireflies" is the first single by the American indie pop band The Magnetic Fields, taken from their first studio album Distant Plastic Trees, released in 1991. It is known for its bleak, tongue-in-cheek lyrics and black humor100,000 Fireflies http://www.allmusic.com/song/100000-fireflies-t1389961 allmusic.com 17 December 2011 and for Susan Anway's sparse, soprano vocal performance.The Magnetic Fields - 100,000 Fireflies http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/seconds/the-magnetic-fields-100000-fireflies.htm Stylus magazine 4 June 1997 15 April 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20180618175422/https://www.avclub.com/stephin-merritt-1798207855 2018-06-18 The song saw play on alternative and college radio stations on its release and slowly grew into a cult classic, becoming "the ultimate staple" of indie mixtape culture during the 1990s.Twee as Fuck - The Story of Indie Pop http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/6176-twee-as-fuck/ Pitchfork 17 December 2011 28 February 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160228103927/http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/6176-twee-as-fuck/ dead Ryan H. Walsh described the song as mysterious and contradictory, with the sparse arrangement giving it an intimate feeling.Walsh Ryan H. The Magnetic Fields' '100,000 Fireflies' Sounds The Way Being Lonely Feels https://www.npr.org/2021/09/22/1039378616/the-magnetic-fields-100-000-fireflies-susan-anway-remembrance NPR 15 April 2025 22 September 2021 Because of its re-release in 1995 as part of the 2 for 1 Distant Plastic Trees/The Wayward Bus album, Glide magazine named it the second best modern rock song of the previous decade in 2004.20 Top Modern Rock Songs Of The Past Decade (1994-2004) http://www.glidemagazine.com/articles/51382/20-top-modern-rock-songs-of-the-past-decade-1994-2004.html Glide magazine 17 December 2011 Music critic Tom Ewing ranked the song at number 11 in his list of the "Top 100 Singles of the 90s", and said that, "for '100,000 Fireflies' everything is trebly and close, the drum reduced to a stern background thud and the song almost completely driven by the cycling, calliope-tinted keyboards and Amway’s cut-glass singing. Like the song and the situation it describes, the result is a perfect mix of intimacy with claustrophobia."Ewing Tom 11. THE MAGNETIC FIELDS – "100,000 Fireflies" http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/1999/12/11-the-magnetic-fields-100000-fireflies/ FreakyTrigger 8 January 2017 8 December 1999 References Category:1991 songs Category:1991 debut singles Category:The Magnetic Fields songs