31 songs that changed my life (Nick Hornby list)
By lucalucky
@lucalucky (1839)
Italy
November 11, 2006 5:46pm CST
The writer Nick Hornby (31 Songs, How To Be Good, About A Boy, High Fidelity and Fever Pitch) reveals the 31 songs that are the soundtrack of his life.
Have your personal list?
Nick Hornby's 31 songs:
1. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
2. Teenage Fanclub - Your Love is the Place That I Come From
3. Nelly Furtado - I'm Like a Bird
4. Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker
5. Rufus Wainwright - One Man Guy
6. Santana - Samba Pa Ti
7. Rod Stewart - Mama Been on My Mind
8. Bob Dylan - Can You Please Crawl Out of Your Window?
9. The Beatles - Rain
10. Ani DiFranco - You Had Time
11. Aimee Mann - I've Had It
12. Paul Westerberg - Born For Me
13. Suicide - Frankie Teardrop
14. Teenage Fanclub - Ain't That Enough
15. J. Geils Band - First I Look at the Purse
16. Ben Folds Five - Smoke
17. Badly Drawn Boy - A Minor Incident
18. The Bible - Glorybound
19. Van Morrison -Caravan
20. Butch Hancock & Marce LaCouture - So I'll Run
21. Gregory Isaacs - Puff the Magic Dragon
22. Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Reasons to be Cheerful, Part3
23. Richard and Linda Thompson - The Calvary Cross
24. Jackson Brownee - Late For the Sky
25. Mark Mulcahy - Hey Self-Defeater
26. The Velvelettes - Needle in a Haystack
27. O.V. Wright - Let's Straighten it Out
28. Royksopp - Royksopp's Night Out
29. The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
30. Soulwax - No Fun/Push It
31. Patti Smith Group - Pissing in a River
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4 responses
@Idlewild (6090)
• United States
22 Nov 06
Those are some damn fine choices, Hornsby has great taste (and very eclectic). Some of my favorites are on that list, though I'm embarrassed to admit I haven't heard of a few of the artists.
I can't really say any song or songs really "changed my life," though, as much as I like the idea that it could...
@lucalucky (1839)
• Italy
25 Nov 06
Thanks! Yes it is a good choice but so personally that everyone has a different one.
@fcrifcri (122)
• Italy
19 Dec 06
This is good. I know the writer, Nick Hornby, he writes a abook about songs list and girls list and now also a bokk about a lis of books. I haven't a song list of my life. It is too difficult to write. Music is soundtrack of our life but I cannot make a list of the best songs.
