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Title: I don't know these songs!
Review: I adore Nick Hornby. Everything else he has written I give 5 stars, and I could rave about those books without end. But unfortunately I recognized extremely few of the songs covered in this collection of his essays, and it kind of spoiled it for me.Now, I do realize that this is a fault of my own and not of the author. I think that this would have been a much more enjoyable book for me if I had been more familiar with the material.If you are considering reading this book, I would strongly advise perhaps downloading some of the songs or otherwise getting some ground on these artists before reading essays on their work. Even with an amazingly talented author like Hornby, you don't want to read 200 pages of essays when you have no background in the subject.
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