Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, And What I Listened to
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In the 1990s, when “alternative” was suddenly mainstream, bands like Pearl Jam and Pavement, Nirvana and R.E.M.—bands that a year before would have been too weird for MTV- were MTV. It was the decade of Kurt Cobain and Shania Twain and Taylor Dayne, a time that ended all too soon. The boundaries of American culture were exploding, and music was leading the way.
It was also when a shy music geek named Rob Sheffield met a hell-raising Appalachian punk-rock girl named Renée, who was way too cool for him but fell in love with him anyway. He was tall. She was short. He was shy. She was a social butterfly. She was the only one who laughed at his jokes when they were so bad, and they were always bad. They had nothing in common except that they both loved music. Music brought them together and kept them together. And it was music that would help Rob through a sudden, unfathomable loss.
In Love Is a Mix Tape, Rob, now a writer for Rolling Stone, uses the songs on fifteen mix tapes to tell the story of his brief time with Renée. From Elvis to Missy Elliott, the Rolling Stones to Yo La Tengo, the songs on these tapes make up the soundtrack to their lives.
Rob Sheffield isn’t a musician, he’s a writer, and Love Is a Mix Tape isn’t a love song- but it might as well be. This is Rob’s tribute to music, to the decade that shaped him, but most of all to one unforgettable woman.
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"Wenn wir sterben, werden wir zu Songs, und wir werden uns gegenseitig hören und uns erinnern." Ich glaube ich habe noch kein vergleichbares Buch mit dem Thema Trauer gelesen. So ehrlich, so leicht, so ungekünstelt. Ich mochte es wirklich sehr und die Verknüpfung zur Musik war besonders. Das Cover sagt schon alles aus. Love IS a mix tape und im Leben geht es tatsächlich um Liebe, Leid und laute Musik! Glaubt ihr nicht? Dann lest das Buch. Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass sich jemand, der schon einmal getrauert hat, in diesem Buch nicht wiederfindet.
Description
In the 1990s, when “alternative” was suddenly mainstream, bands like Pearl Jam and Pavement, Nirvana and R.E.M.—bands that a year before would have been too weird for MTV- were MTV. It was the decade of Kurt Cobain and Shania Twain and Taylor Dayne, a time that ended all too soon. The boundaries of American culture were exploding, and music was leading the way.
It was also when a shy music geek named Rob Sheffield met a hell-raising Appalachian punk-rock girl named Renée, who was way too cool for him but fell in love with him anyway. He was tall. She was short. He was shy. She was a social butterfly. She was the only one who laughed at his jokes when they were so bad, and they were always bad. They had nothing in common except that they both loved music. Music brought them together and kept them together. And it was music that would help Rob through a sudden, unfathomable loss.
In Love Is a Mix Tape, Rob, now a writer for Rolling Stone, uses the songs on fifteen mix tapes to tell the story of his brief time with Renée. From Elvis to Missy Elliott, the Rolling Stones to Yo La Tengo, the songs on these tapes make up the soundtrack to their lives.
Rob Sheffield isn’t a musician, he’s a writer, and Love Is a Mix Tape isn’t a love song- but it might as well be. This is Rob’s tribute to music, to the decade that shaped him, but most of all to one unforgettable woman.
Book Information
Posts
"Wenn wir sterben, werden wir zu Songs, und wir werden uns gegenseitig hören und uns erinnern." Ich glaube ich habe noch kein vergleichbares Buch mit dem Thema Trauer gelesen. So ehrlich, so leicht, so ungekünstelt. Ich mochte es wirklich sehr und die Verknüpfung zur Musik war besonders. Das Cover sagt schon alles aus. Love IS a mix tape und im Leben geht es tatsächlich um Liebe, Leid und laute Musik! Glaubt ihr nicht? Dann lest das Buch. Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass sich jemand, der schon einmal getrauert hat, in diesem Buch nicht wiederfindet.