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The Book of Love (The Magnetic Fields song)

"The Book of Love" is a song written by Stephin Merritt and attributed to The Magnetic Fields, an American indie pop group founded and led by him. "The Book of Love" appears on Magnetic Fields' three-volume concept album 69 Love Songs, which contains 69 tracks described as "love songs", 23 tracks in each of the three volumes. The three-volume album was released in 1999, with "the Book of Love" appearing in volume 1 as track number 12.

"The Book of Love"

September 7, 1999

April 1999

Polar West, Mother West, Polar Mother, and Sonics

Indie rock, indie pop, lo-fi, baroque pop

2:42

Merge

Stephin Merritt

January 30, 2010

2009

3:53 ("The Book of Love")
3:58 ("Not One of Us")

Stephin Merritt "The Book of Love"
Peter Gabriel ("Not One of Us")

March 23, 2015

2014–2015

14:21

Good Soldier / Believe
Sony (distribution)

January 2, 2015

2014

3:15

Good Soldier / Believe

Stephin Merritt

The Peter Gabriel cover version was featured in during the series finale, "My Finale".

Scrubs

The Peter Gabriel cover version was also used in the 2004 movie, .

Shall We Dance?

Gabriel's version was used in the American TV series in the episode "Tweek x Craig".[15]

South Park

In 2014, contestant Sequoia LaDeil sang it during the knockout phase in season 4 of The Voice of Germany broadcast on ProSieben and Sat.1

It appears in the 2014 movie .

Extraterrestrial

In July 2015, Zoë sang it on the finale of the German The Voice Kids, a singing contest for children of 8 to 14 years old.

In September 2015, Dutch contestant Jasper van Aarst sang it during the Blind Auditions of season 6 of The Voice of Holland becoming part of Team Anouk.

performed the song during the Nurse's Ball on the American soap opera General Hospital

James Patrick Stuart

The Magnetic Fields version was used in episode 7 of season 2 of the Netflix show Friends From College in 2019.

The comedian Arthur Smith performs a version of it during Syd, his 2019 show about his late father.

It appeared in its original form in "Get The Picture" (sn. 3, ep. 5) of Fox's Lethal Weapon.

It is also the source of the title of the film in which the song is prominent, starring Simon Baker, Frances O'Connor, and Gregory Smith.

Book of Love

Title of Nicola Yoon's young adult romance Instructions for Dancing taken from the song.