Rob Sheffield is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine. In addition to writing music reviews and profile stories, Sheffield also writes the Pop Life column in the Mixed Media section of the magazine. His work has also been featured in The Village Voice and Spin. A native of Boston, Sheffield attended Yale and the University of Virginia, and is six foot five.
His first book, Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time (an excerpt of which was featured in the January 2007 issue of GQ), was released by Random House in January 2007. It received starred reviews in Publisher's Weekly and Library Journal.
What Is love? Great minds have been grappling with this question throughout the ages, and in the modern era, they have come up with many different answers. According to Western philosopher Pat Benatar, love is a battlefield. Her paisan Frank Sinatra would add the corollary that love is a tender trap. Love hurts. Love stinks. Love bites, love bleeds, love is the drug. The troubadours of our times agree: They want to know what love is, and they want you to show them. But the answer is simple: Love is a mix tape.
In the 1990s, when “alternative” was suddenly mainstream, bands like Pearl Jam and Pavement, Nirvana and R.E.M.—bands that a year before would have been too weird for MTV- were MTV. It was the decade of Kurt Cobain and Shania Twain and Taylor Dayne, a time that ended all too soon. The boundaries of American culture were exploding, and music was leading the way.
It was also when a shy music geek named Rob Sheffield met a hell-raising Appalachian punk-rock girl named Renée, who was way too cool for him but fell in love with him anyway. He was tall. She was short. He was shy. She was a social butterfly. She was the only one who laughed at his jokes when they were so bad, and they were always bad. They had nothing in common except that they both loved music. Music brought them together and kept them together. And it was music that would help Rob through a sudden, unfathomable loss.
In Love Is a Mix Tape, Rob, now a writer for Rolling Stone, uses the songs on fifteen mix tapes to tell the story of his brief time with Renée. From Elvis to Missy Elliott, the Rolling Stones to Yo La Tengo, the songs on these tapes make up the soundtrack to their lives.
Rob Sheffield isn’t a musician, he’s a writer, and Love Is a Mix Tape isn’t a love song- but it might as well be. This is Rob’s tribute to music, to the decade that shaped him, but most of all to one unforgettable woman.
一本以音乐和记忆开始的书。似乎在所有的记忆载体中,没有比歌儿更为持久牢靠又难以捉摸的了。或许因为直接的情绪触动,或许因为随处的不期而遇,歌儿总是在不经意间打开往昔的闸门。当我们要躲开一段记忆和经历时,那些过去的歌谣会像甩不脱的负赘,纠缠不休。比如,“乡...
評分一本以音乐和记忆开始的书。似乎在所有的记忆载体中,没有比歌儿更为持久牢靠又难以捉摸的了。或许因为直接的情绪触动,或许因为随处的不期而遇,歌儿总是在不经意间打开往昔的闸门。当我们要躲开一段记忆和经历时,那些过去的歌谣会像甩不脱的负赘,纠缠不休。比如,“乡...
評分沉迷于唱片、卡口带的当年......我像嗅觉灵敏的狗一样,能搜寻到每个去过的城市犄角旮旯里的尖货,并随之欣喜、失落和陶醉。这变成生活的全部。每天盯紧进货消息来源,准备出动,像满怀占有欲地盯着一个放荡而多情的情人,我不能让别人得到它!然后我发现自己住的房子太他妈小...
評分一本以音乐和记忆开始的书。似乎在所有的记忆载体中,没有比歌儿更为持久牢靠又难以捉摸的了。或许因为直接的情绪触动,或许因为随处的不期而遇,歌儿总是在不经意间打开往昔的闸门。当我们要躲开一段记忆和经历时,那些过去的歌谣会像甩不脱的负赘,纠缠不休。比如,“乡...
跟Bob的Playlist重閤度並不高,但心有戚戚感漸漸將閱讀催化成一場極受用的懷舊體驗。
评分跟Bob的Playlist重閤度並不高,但心有戚戚感漸漸將閱讀催化成一場極受用的懷舊體驗。
评分I grieve that grief can teach me nothing.
评分讀起來真沒感覺
评分把手機係統調成英文,發現網易雲的歌單果然還是"mix"!讀完。2018的flag總算少一個…
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