"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
A wise and...
What interests Hornby? Songs, songwriters, everything, compulsively, passionately. Here is his ultimate list of 31 all-time favorite songs. And here are his smart, funny, personal essays about them, written with the love and care of a perfectly mastered mixed tape.
Here, Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs - most of them loved, some of them once loved, all of them significant to him. He begins with Teenage Fanclub's Your Love is the Place that I Come From and ends with Patti Smith's Pissing in a River, encompassing varied singers along the...