I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. Without her to talk to, there was nothing to say.
Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.
Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of a life.
But God is the best song any Beatle wrote about religion, with all due respect to George’s My Sweet Lord. Both were produced by Phil Spector the same year—with Ringo on drums. (Talk about ecumenical.)...
But if you listen to outtakes from the sessions, you can hear the Beatles worked out harmonies for Eight Days a Week—beautiful harmonies, in fact. Yet they cut the harmonies and sang in unison, to mak...
But for me, if we're talking about romance, cassettes wipe the floor with MP3s. This has nothing to do with superstition, or nostalgia. MP3s buzz straight to your brain. That's part of what I love abo...
24. The Rutles, Cheese and Onions (1978) A legend to last a lunchtime. The Rutles were the perfect Beatle parody, starring Monty Python’s Eric Idle and the Bonzos’ Neil Innes in their classic mock-doc...
Sometimes you can feel like you’re experiencing some of the most honest, most intimate moments of your life, while butchering a Hall & Oates song at 2 a.m. in a room full of strangers.
[H]e asked Renee, What does rock and roll have today that it didn’t have in the sixties? Renee said, Tits, which in retrospect strikes me as not a bad one-word off-the-dome answer at all. The nineties...
Trying to live in the past didn't work for me, and it's only now that I fully realize I'm incredibly lucky it didn't. Because it would have been all too sad to miss out on right now. That would have t...
Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on with you.
Some people like to make workout tapes and take them to the gym, but I can’t fathom why. Any music I hear in a gym is ruined forever.
Problems that don't get fixed, situations that neither get resolved nor go away, and annoyances you live with year by year--that's the engine knock of a long-running relationship.
Listening to it now is like a personally guided tour through my past.
It’s not human to let go of love, even when it’s dead. We expected one of these monthlyanniversaries to be the Final Goodbye. We figured that we’d said all our goodbyes, and given up all the tears we...
I made a new friend in the summer of 1999 who wore a rubber band around her wrist with Paul Westerberg’s name written on it. Her favorite song was Unsatisfied and she gave the song back to me, without...
I always envied my friends who had older siblings who could guide them through the teenage wasteland.
He sang about girls in space-why not? That's where all the cool girls were. (They weren't where I could find them, that was for sure.)
Girls take up a lot of room. I had a lot of room for this one.
Anything can be a love song as long as two people care about it.
