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Driving today, I chased a wiltingly average NPR folk band with The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs (well, excerpts of it, anyway) and reflected on the difference.

Here it is: when you listen to the latter, it won't easily be ignored, whereas the former begs to be. When the latter is playing there is the palpable sense that someone else is in the car with you, that something remarkable is happening.

This seems essential.