Distant Plastic Trees, released in 1991, is the first album by The Magnetic Fields, with the lead vocals of Susan Anway. Merge Records reissued the album in 1994 as a double album compilation with the band's second album, The Wayward Bus. The song "Plant White Roses" was omitted from the Merge reissue. The song "Babies Falling" is a cover of a song by The Wild Stares.