Songbook“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, from Songbook Songs, songwriters, and why and how they get under our skin… Songbook is Nick Hornby’s labor of love. A shrewd, funny, and completely unique collection of musings on pop music, why it’s good, what makes us listen and love it, and the ways in which it attaches itself to our lives—all with the beat of a perfectly mastered mix tape. |
Contents
Introduction Your Love Is The Place Where I Come From Teenage Fanclub 2 Thunder Road Bruce Springsteen 3 Im Like a Bird Nelly Furtado 4 H... | |
Mama You Been On My Mind Rod Stewart 8 Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? Bob Dylan 9 Rain The Beatles 10 You Had Time Ani DiF... | |
Aint That Enough Teenage Fanclub 15 First I Look At The Purse the J Geils Band 16 Smoke Ben Folds Five 17 A Minor Incident Badly Drawn B... | |
Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3 Ian Dury the Blockheads 23 The Calvary Cross Richard and Linda Thompson 24 Late for the Sky Jackson Browne ... | |
Frontier Psychiatrist the Avalanches 30 No FunPush It Soulwax 31 Pissing in a River the Patti Smith Group Discography | |
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