The Wayward Bus (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = The Wayward Bus
Type = Album
Artist = The Magnetic Fields


Released = 1992
January 1994 (reissue)
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Length = 28:39
Label = Feel Good All Over

Merge Records (reissue)
MRG075
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* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wzfxlfdehcqp link]
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Last album = "Distant Plastic Trees" (1991)
This album = "The Wayward Bus" (1992)
Next album = "The House of Tomorrow" (1992)

"The Wayward Bus" is the 1992 second album by The Magnetic Fields, and the last to feature Susan Anway as the band's lead vocalist. In 1994, the album was reissued by Merge Records as a double album compilation with the band's 1991 debut "Distant Plastic Trees".

The front cover was painted by Prefab Sprout's Wendy Smith.

Track listing

All tracks written by Stephin Merritt.
#"When You Were My Baby" – 2:43
#"The Saddest Story Ever Told" – 2:12
#"Lovers from the Moon" – 2:52
#"Candy" – 2:32
#"Tokyo Á Go-Go" – 3:12
#"Summer Lies" – 2:59
#"Old Orchard Beach" – 2:54
#"Jeremy" – 3:01
#"Dancing in Your Eyes" – 2:56
#"Suddenly There Is a Tidal Wave" – 3:18
#"4'33"" - 4:32 (included in the 1995 reissue with Distant Plastic Trees)

Personnel

*Stephin Merritt
*Susan Anway – vocals
*Johnny Blood – tuba, horns
*Sam Davol – cello
*Claudia Gonson – cocktail drums

Trivia

*The title of the album is taken from the John Steinbeck novel of the same name.
*The song "Jeremy" features lyrics referencing Isadora Duncan. Years later, occasional Magnetic Fields contributor Daniel Handler would write the children's novels "A Series of Unfortunate Events" in which two characters named Isadora and Duncan Quagmire appear. Stephin Merritt (as The Gothic Archies) would subsequently write a soundtrack of songs based on the book series.