June-17th-2003, 03:18 AM
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Nick Hornby's 31 Songs
The latest book by the author of "High Fidelity" and "About A Boy" is a series of essays about these 31 songs that have meant a lot to him:
1. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
2. Teenage Fanclub - Your Love is the Place That I Come From
3. Nelly Furtado - I'm Like a Bird
4. Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker
5. Rufus Wainwright - One Man Guy
6. Santana - Samba Pa Ti
7. Rod Stewart - Mama Been on My Mind
8. Bob Dylan - Can You Please Crawl Out of Your Window?
9. The Beatles - Rain
10. Ani DiFranco - You Had Time
11. Aimee Mann - I've Had It
12. Paul Westerberg - Born For Me
13. Suicide - Frankie Teardrop
14. Teenage Fanclub - Ain't That Enough
15. J. Geils Band - First I Look at the Purse
16. Ben Folds Five - Smoke
17. Badly Drawn Boy - A Minor Incident
18. The Bible - Glorybound
19. Van Morrison -Caravan
20. Butch Hancock & Marce LaCouture - So I'll Run
21. Gregory Isaacs - Puff the Magic Dragon
22. Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3
23. Richard and Linda Thompson - The Calvary Cross
24. Jackson Browne - Late For the Sky
25. Mark Mulcahy - Hey Self-Defeater
26. The Velvelettes - Needle in a Haystack
27. O.V. Wright - Let's Straighten it Out
28. Royksopp - Royksopp's Night Out
29. The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
30. Soulwax - No Fun/Push It
31. Patti Smith Group - Pissing in a River
I love Samba Pa Ti. Most of the others that I know would not have been my first choices by those artists (Dylan, Beatles, Van Morrison, Jackson Browne) and some of the artists (Zeppelin, Rod Stewart) are banished from any lists of mine. But most of these selections date from a time after I stopped paying close attention to pop music, so I just don't know them.
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June-17th-2003, 03:22 AM
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I'm all over this. I never entirely agree with him, but his writing on music always entertains me.
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June-18th-2003, 10:08 AM
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Columnated ruins domino
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I agree, some surprising and eclectic choices. Further, none, I believe, are even mentioned in High Fidelity. In that book, he mentions Aretha's "Angel" twice, and I thought he and I were soulmates because of that. Surprised there are no Beach Boys tunes on the list, and curious to see what he says about the Geils tune. Still, maybe after reading it I'll want to check out some of the newer stuff I don't know.
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June-18th-2003, 01:17 PM
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It should come with a CD!
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June-18th-2003, 01:21 PM
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poor folk's child
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Quote:
Originally posted by mone peterson
I should come with a CD!
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Feel free!
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June-18th-2003, 01:24 PM
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2007 Stanley Cup Champs
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Quote:
Originally posted by Uli
Feel free!
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Bastard! Hey Uli, I got the fiver. Thanks!
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June-18th-2003, 02:30 PM
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Most Loved JC User 2009®
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Rod Stewart is a low life, no talent, morally reprehensible, responsible for the decay of society, overplayed piece of sh**. Including him on a list like this invalidates this man as a human being.
Larry
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