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“You Must Be Out Of Your Mind” by The Magnetic Fields
From the album Realism (2010)
“You Must Be Out Of Your Mind” by The Magnetic Fields appears on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2010 and 2025. It was first released in 2010 on the album Realism. Its best result is #61 on The Current Top 89 Songs of 2010. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #403 indie & aaa song of 2010 and #8,214 indie & aaa song of all time.
"You Must Be Out of Your Mind" comes from Realism, the ninth studio album by the Magnetic Fields, released on Nonesuch in January 2010, and Stephin Merritt wrote it. Merritt called Realism his folk album and built it as the mirror image of 2008's Distortion: mostly acoustic where that record went for noise pop, with no traditional drum kit, no synthesizers, and only one electric guitar on the whole album, saved for "The Dada Polka".
He thought of the two records as a pair and toyed with calling them True and False, and Realism completed the band's no-synth trilogy alongside Distortion and 2004's i. Merritt named Joshua Rifkin, the arranger behind the Judy Collins albums In My Life and Wildflowers, as a guiding influence.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 61 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2010 | 88 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 856 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
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