A review by balletbookworm
Songbook by Nick Hornby

5.0

Excellent collection of "columns" about specific songs Hornby likes and why he likes them or what those songs represent. I'm calling them columns since they are very much pre-cursors to his "Stuff I've Been Reading" columns in the Believer (which likely were starting up right as this book went to press).

This was a Christmas present last year from my dad, who got this from a rare book dealer and it still has the original CD in the back - which is good because Horny, like Rob Sheffield whose books I also like, has totally different musical taste than I do. I needed the song references.