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31 Songs |
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In "31 Songs" 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 way, such as Van Morrison and Nelly Furtado, and songs as different as "Thunder Road" and "Puff the Magic Dragon" (reggae style). Along the way, he discusses, among other things, guitar solos, llosing your virginity to a Rod Stewart song, singers whose teeth whistle and the sort of music you hear in the Body Shop. He also talks movingly and intelligently about other matters on which those songs impinge - his relationship with his autistic son, his limited but real capacity for spirituality - but the songs rather than Hornby and his life are his real subject. |
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