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More copies of this ISBN:Songbookby Nick Hornby
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:From the New York Times bestselling author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and How to be Good.
"All I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do." What interests Nick Hornby? Songs, songwriters, everything, compulsively, passionately. Here is his ultimate list of 31 all-time favorite songs. And here are his smart, funny, and very personal essays about them, written with all the love and care of a perfectly mastered mixed tape... Review:"Anyone who has read Nick Hornby's work knows that the man is a fan in the best sense. He's enthusiastic, he's knowledgeable...and he's not afraid to let you in on weird little trade secrets..." Jeff Baker, The Oregonian Review:"A collection of music-as-metaphor essays...like a diary in mix-tape form." Entertainment Weekly Review:"A joyful mediation of 31 of Hornby's favorite pop songs." Capital Times Review:"The whole subculture, all those mournful guys to whom the sound of record-store bin dividers clicking by is almost music enough, should love Songbook, yet so should anyone interested in great essays, or in the delicate art of being funny, or in how to write about one's feelings in such a way that other people will actually care." San Francisco Chronicle Review:"Delivered in a hugely enjoyable, invisible prose that does in words what Hornby's tunesmiths do with sound. He writes good." Time Out London Review:"A small, singular, delightful collection [about] the power of songs to bind people culturally and to reach deeply into the human spirit, bending the heart into new shapes with new potential." New York Times Book Review Review:"When Hornby writes about his enthusiasms and how they intertwine with his life, he's amusing and inspiring." Rolling Stone Review:"Intimate, funny and wise... Hornby at his most persuasive." Observer Review:"Strange, but at year's end, what reminded me of how much I love rock and pop was a book about rock and pop. Nick Hornby's Songbook is a sort of musical autobiography in which he writes, among so many other things, that the first time About a Boy meant anything to him was when he heard the sound track to the movie based on his own book." Dallas Observer Synopsis:"All I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do" -Nick Hornby What interests Nick Hornby? Songs, songwriters, everything, compulsively, passionately. Here is his ultimate list of 31 all-time favorite songs. And here are his smart, funny, and very personal essays about them, written with all the love and care of a perfectly mastered mixed tape... Description:Discography p. [201]-206. About the AuthorNick Hornby is the author of the bestselling novels High Fidelity and About a Boy, as well as the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the editor of the short story collection Speaking with the Angel. In 1999, he was the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters E. M. Forster Award. He lives in north London. Table of ContentsSong essays : Your love is the place where I come from / Teenage Fanclub — Thunder road / Bruce Springsteen — I'm like a bird / Nelly Furtado — Heartbreaker / Led Zeppelin — One man guy / Rufus Wainwright — Samba pa ti / Santana — Mama, you been on my mind / Rod Stewart — Can you please crawl out your window / Bob Dylan — Rain / The Beatles — You had time / Ani DiFranco — I've had it / Aimee Mann — Born for me / Paul Westerberg — Frankie Teardrop / Suicide — Ain't that enough / Teenage Fanclub — First I look at the purse / J. Geils Band — Smoke / Ben Folds Five — A minor incident / Badly drawn boy — 505 0 Glorybound / The Bible — Caravan / Van Morrison — So I'll run / Butch Hancock and Marce LaCouture — Puff the magic dragon / Gregory Isaacs — Reasons to be cheerful, part 3 / Ian Dury and the Blackheads — Calvary cross / Richard and Linda Thompson — Late for the sky / Jackson Browne - Hey self-defeater / Mark Mulcahy — Needle in a haystack / The Velvelettes — Let's straighten it out / O.V. Wright — Rèoyskopp's night out / Rèoyskopp — Frontier psychiatrist / The Avalanches — No fun/ push it / Soulwax — Pissing in a river / Patti Smith. Album essays: It's a Mann's world — Alternative Earle — Sweet mistery — Entertainers — Pop quiz.
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