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danelleeb 's review for:
Love Is a Mix Tape
by Rob Sheffield
This book written by a music journalist, so it's not going to be the next great Amerian novel, but it's a great book. It's the story of his obsession with music and his wife, who he lost after only 5 years of marriage. The story of he and his wife is funny, sad, sincere. The story of his loss is sad, confusing, heartbreaking. I often wondered if there were other people out there who were so connected to music - songs that reminded you of people, of times, of places, and this book proved there are those people out there.
The most surprising thing about it is that it made me horribly nostalgic for the nineties. Those were the years of my adolescence. I remember making the mix tapes from the weekly top 40. I remember KLF. I was reassured when I read and found that I was not the only person who could remember everything about the day that Kurt Cobain died. (Where I was, who I was with, what was said...). I think back and wonder how I lived through those years without realizing exactly how important they were for music, for girls, for everything indie. We had zines, we had mixed tapes, I listened to L7 and Bikini Kill.
My favorite part of the book was when they were psyched to go to a Pavement concert - because they wanted to see what they looked like. Do you remember that? Before the internet was huge when there was a little band on an indie label that you knew the songs but wouldn't be able to pick them out of a crowd? Or to find that it was really a guy singing & not a girl? I suddenly feel the urge to go listen to some Ace of Base and Soundgarden or to make my 90's mix...
The most surprising thing about it is that it made me horribly nostalgic for the nineties. Those were the years of my adolescence. I remember making the mix tapes from the weekly top 40. I remember KLF. I was reassured when I read and found that I was not the only person who could remember everything about the day that Kurt Cobain died. (Where I was, who I was with, what was said...). I think back and wonder how I lived through those years without realizing exactly how important they were for music, for girls, for everything indie. We had zines, we had mixed tapes, I listened to L7 and Bikini Kill.
My favorite part of the book was when they were psyched to go to a Pavement concert - because they wanted to see what they looked like. Do you remember that? Before the internet was huge when there was a little band on an indie label that you knew the songs but wouldn't be able to pick them out of a crowd? Or to find that it was really a guy singing & not a girl? I suddenly feel the urge to go listen to some Ace of Base and Soundgarden or to make my 90's mix...