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Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut
Rob Sheffield
3.54 AVERAGE
219 reviews for:
Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut
Rob Sheffield
3.54 AVERAGE
funny
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
reflective
fast-paced
I really enjoy reading Sheffield. Love is a Mixtape was sweet, funny, and heartbreaking, and this book has those same elements. Remembering events and people through music associations. I have my own associations to a lot of these songs and listened to others through Sheffield's perspective. It was fun to go back and check out these musicians. It also fit right in with my current Roxy Music obsession. I wonder if there's a good writer out there now that can do for teenage/early adulthood in the 90's what Sheffield and Klosterman do for the 80's...
"...bringing people together is what music has always done best."
"By the time you're an adult, you're used to seeing friends disappear into their five-year plans. They drop out to get married, have babies, go to grad school, get divorced. They start a band or enter the penal system. They vanish for years at a time - some come back, some don't. Some of them yo wait or and some you let go. Sometimes the only way they come back is in a song."
"Jonathan Richman once said he formed a band because he was lonely."
"My ears rang all the way home and I didn't want them to stop. It made me want to go start something."
"It was a summer. A year later, there was another one. the world has lots of summers, whether you choose to show up for them or not."
"...bringing people together is what music has always done best."
"By the time you're an adult, you're used to seeing friends disappear into their five-year plans. They drop out to get married, have babies, go to grad school, get divorced. They start a band or enter the penal system. They vanish for years at a time - some come back, some don't. Some of them yo wait or and some you let go. Sometimes the only way they come back is in a song."
"Jonathan Richman once said he formed a band because he was lonely."
"My ears rang all the way home and I didn't want them to stop. It made me want to go start something."
"It was a summer. A year later, there was another one. the world has lots of summers, whether you choose to show up for them or not."
A fun, humorous, memoir about coming of age in the '80s, with the music of that era serving primarily as background. The book is much in the same vein as Chuck Klosterman's "Fargo Rock City", only focusing on New Wave and pop rather than hair metal. Like Klosterman, I give Sheffield credit for coming clean about the questionable music he liked in the '80s (not as if my musical taste back then was any better).
If you were a teenager or young adult in the '80s, you'll enjoy this book. As someone who was a shy and awkward teen during that decade, I particularly identified with Sheffield's tales of being a loveless, gawky nerd.
If you were a teenager or young adult in the '80s, you'll enjoy this book. As someone who was a shy and awkward teen during that decade, I particularly identified with Sheffield's tales of being a loveless, gawky nerd.
There's a couple good essays in here, but the Duran Duran thread is a little weak and still Sheffield returns to it. I enjoyed several of the 80s references, however.
Sheffield probably liked this one more than anyone else.
Sheffield probably liked this one more than anyone else.
It's not [book=Love Is A Mixtape], but man oh man oh man I love the way Sheffield writes about music.
I love Rob Sheffield's writing. This book made me laugh out loud on numerous occasions and subject my husband to the reading of passages.
You know a book is good when someone mentions wrestling and you have to pull out the book and read out loud the wrestling anecdotes.
Rob Sheffield's becoming a favorite of mine. Loved this one and truly enjoyed the references.....