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The author of the national bestseller Love is a Mix Tape returns, with a different — but equally personal and equally universal — spin on music as memory. "No rock critic — living or dead, American or otherwise — has ever written about pop music with the evocative, hyperpoetic perfectitude of... read more
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People edit
- Rob Sheffield: the narrator and subject of this autobiography
- Duran Duran: Add a description of this character.
- David Bowie
- Paul Mccartney
- Morrissey
- Tracey
- Caroline
- Kelly Ryan
- Madonna
- Debbie Gibson
- Phil Oakey
- Harry
- Simon Le Bon
- Haysi Fantayzee
- John Taylor
- Ms. Calasta
- Duckie
- George Michael
- John Hughes
- Ann
- Paula
- Renee
- Gatsby
- Johnny Depp
- Lisa
- Kajagoogoo
- Paul Westerberg
- Ozzy
- Sherilyn
- Nick Rhodes
- Billy Idol
- Angela
- Stephen Patrick
- Bobby Brown
- Oates
- Michael Jackson
- Lou Reed
- Shaun
- Chaka Khan
- Boy George
Quotes edit
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“"And all these new rock stars were battling it out for my soul. Joe Strummer (my hero) urged me to fight war and intolerance. Prince (the Joe Strummer of Orgasms) urged me to join his sexual revolution. Men Without Hats warned me that friends that don't dance are no friends at all. Cyndi Lauper advised me to find a bunch of cool girls and follow them around and do whatever they told me to do, because girls just want to have fun and boys without girls are no fun at all. This was a lot of Weltanschauung for one little altar boy to take in."”
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As Oscar Wilde said, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man knows what a pleasure is.
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Every time she opened her mouth, it was like she gave birth to a litter of bitch-kitties.
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Sometimes the only way they come back is in a song. Sometimes the song is the green light at the end of the dock, a sign that the dream we’ve been chasing is already behind us, in the past. Sometimes when a girl goes away, the conversation doesn’t end. You keep talking to her, just in case she can hear.
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Being right is no advantage in the fight—if anything, it’s a piano on your back, making you pitifully easy to put in a headlock.
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It was basically a movie about a sad Muppet who thought he was David Bowie.
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When the good Lord was handing out brain soup, these guys must have shown up with a fork.
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The whole Bible read like one long episode of Three’s Company, with the people of God as Jack Tripper, always getting busted in a “two dates for the same night” episode, with God as the jealous cuckold dumping a drink over their heads.
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it never really occurred to me that love and music belonged in separate categories.
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“What do you call a masturbating cow?” “Beef stroganoff.”
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I yearned to cultivate decadence, without the hard work of actually doing anything decadent.
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First Sentence edit
If you ever step into the Wayback Machine and zip to the 1980s, you will have some interesting conversations, even though nobody will believe a word you say.
Table of Contents edit
1. The Go-Go's, "Our Lips Are Sealed"
2. David Bowie, "Ashes to Ashes"
3. Ray PArker Jr., "A Woman Needs Love"
4. The Rolling Stones, "She's So Cold"
5. The Human League, "Love Action"
6. Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark, "Enola Gay"
7. Culture Club, "I'll Tumble 4 Ya"
8. Hall & Oates, "Maneater"
9. Roxy Music, "More Than This"
10. Bonnie Tyler, "Total Eclipse of the Heart"
11. Haysi Fantayzee, "Shiny Shiny"
12. A Flock of Seagulls, "Space Age Love Song"
13. Chaka Khan, "I Feel For You"
14. Prince, "Purple Rain"
15. Paul McCartney, "No More Lonely NIghts"
16. Madonna, "Crazy For You"
17. The Replacements, "Left of the Dial"
18. The Smiths, "Ask"
19. The Psychedelic Furs, "Pretty in Pink"
20. Lita Ford, "Kiss Me Deadly"
21. Tone Loc, "Funky Cold Medina"
22. New Kids on the Block, "Hangin' Tough"
23. Big Daddy Kane, "Ain't No Half Steppin"
24. L'Trimm, "Cars With the Boom"
25. Duran Duran, "All She Wants Is"
Authors & Contributors edit
- Rob Sheffield (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Dutton
Country: USA
Publication Date: July 2010
ISBN: 978-0-525-95156-8
Page Count: 274
Publisher: Dutton
Country: USA
Publication Date: July 2010
ISBN: 978-0-525-95156-8
Page Count: 274
Awards edit
- Amazon Best of the Month (July 2010, #2)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: ML423.S537 A3 2010
- Dewey: 781.64092
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