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Heavy rotation : twenty writers on the albums that changed their lives / edited by Peter Terzian.

1st ed.

New York : Harper Perennial, ©2009.

xiii, 297 pages ; 21 cm

In Heavy Rotation, twenty of our most acclaimed contemporary writers pay homage to the record albums that inspired them. Benjamin Kunkel remembers how the Smiths' Queen Is Dead transformed him into an adolescent Anglophile. Pankaj Mishra describes how a bootleg cassette of ABBA's Super Trouper evoked a world far from his small Indian village. Kate Christensen relives her years as an aspiring novelist in Brooklyn listening to Rickie Lee Jones's Flying Cowboys. And Joshua Ferris recalls his head-banging passion for Pearl Jam's Ten. Exploring music from the Talking Heads to the Hedwig and the Angry Inch soundtrack, this extraordinary anthology is a moving, funny, uplifting, and unforgettable celebration of the unique and essential relationship between life and music.

Rock music -- History and criticism.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Music and literature.

Terzian, Peter.

Still ill : The Smiths : The queen is dead / Benjamin Kunkel -- What Annie knew : Annie soundtrack / Sheila Heti -- The quiet one : The Beatles : Meet the Beatles / Alice Elliott Dark -- What you've done to my world : Fugazi : Fugazi / Mark Greif -- Tiny big dreams : Talking Heads : Remain in light / John Haskell -- O black and unknown bards : American primitive, vol. 2 : Pre-war revenants, 1897-1939 / John Jeremiah Sullivan -- Beautiful noise : Kate Bush : The sensual world / Stacey D'Erasmo -- Mental chickens : Topless women talk about their lives soundtrack / Todd Pruzan -- Elegy for a discarded album : Pearl Jam : Ten / Joshua Ferris -- I love to listen to : Eurythmics : Savage / Daniel Handler -- Am I getting warmer? : the B-52's : The B-52's / Clifford Chase -- How to be a girl : Pretenders : Pretenders / Lisa Dierbeck -- Blues for a semester abroad : Gloria Estefan : Mi tierra / Asali Solomon -- Three weeks in the summer : Joni Mitchell : Blue / Colm Tóibín -- Northern exposure : ABBA : Super trouper / Pankaj Mishra -- A rodeo girl on Broadway : Rickie Lee Jones : Flying cowboys / Kate Christensen -- No mod cons : The Who : Quadrophenia / James Wood -- Just like me : The Jackson 5 : Greatest hits / Martha Southgate -- Nine lives : Miaow : Priceless innuendo / Peter Terzian -- Bewigged : Hedwig and the angry inch original cast recording / Claire Dederer.

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