很兴奋的想给这个东西写评介，开了文档后就不知从何下手了。心里被很多情绪涨得满满的，Nick Hornby的部部小说中的场景和对白一下子涌上来，有点害怕自己写出的介绍会不会糟蹋了这么些精彩的作品。 这张名为《31 Songs》的双CD音乐合辑，是英国现代作家尼克·宏比（Nick Hornby）自选的31首改变他一生的歌曲，2003年搭配其同名散文集发行。作为一位著名的作家和乐评人，他给人们的感觉和美国的著名编剧、导演和乐评人卡梅隆·克罗（Cameron Crowe，《几近成名》《香草天空》《伊丽莎白小镇》）很相似，都喜欢讲述青春迷惘和寻找方向的故事，都深受当代流行文化的浸淫，都有极佳的音乐品位和独立于世的生活态度。但跟克罗的美国摇滚情节不同的是，尼克·宏比深谙现代年轻人的生活节奏，并以精湛的英式幽默掳获读者的心。 Nick Hornby的几部作品，大都被搬上了大银幕，包括最初的《爱球如命》（Fever Pitch，电影版译名《极度狂热》 ，德鲁·巴里摩尔和吉米·法伦主演），和接下来的《非关男孩》（About a Boy，电影版译名《单亲插班生》，休·格兰特主演）和《失恋排行榜》（High Fidelity，电影版译名《高保真》，约翰·库萨克和杰克·布莱克主演），还有暂时没排上电影计划但同样精彩的《如何是好》（How to Be Good）和《漫漫脚下路》（A Long Way Down）。虽然题材涉及到体育、两性、音乐、伦理等多个方面，但无一不是娓娓的讲述着普通人的情感传奇。 《爱球如命》中的Lindsay，为了跟足球抢男友，逼着自己去看球赛；《非关男孩》中的Will，因为讨厌责任，所以只跟单亲妈妈约会；《失恋排行榜》中的Rob，会因为顾客跟他的音乐喜好不一样而把别人赶出自己的唱片店；有热爱《失恋排行榜》的狂热粉丝甚至千里迢迢去芝加哥寻找那个现实中不存在的浪漫又温暖的Championship Vinyl唱片店。而这本《31 Songs》的Songbook，更是很多爱音乐爱生活的乐迷心中的No.1 Guide Book，著名乐评人郝舫就说这本Songbook是他不离身的物品之一。 《31 Songs》是和Nick Hornby的同名散文集一起发行的，其中的曲目从Teenage Fanclub到Bruce Springsteen，从Nelly Furtado到Van Morrison，从Led Zeppelin到Aimee Mann，从Beatles到Bob Dylan，完全不用有对风格单一的担忧，真正的乐评人就绝不可能只听一种音乐。而Nick Hornby，从唱片到文学，从文学到胶片，他在不知不觉的兜兜转转中，就完成了一般人难以望其项背的成就。 01. Teenage Fanclub - Your love is the place I come from 02. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road 03. Nelly Furtado - I'm like a bird 04. Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker 05. Rufus Wainwright - One Man Guy 06. Santana - Samba Pa Ti 07. Rod Stewart - Mama You Been On My Mind 08. Bob Dylan - Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? 09. 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 and Marce LaCouture - So I'll Run 21. Gregory Isaacs - Puff the magic dragon 22. The Blockheads - Reasons to be cheerful Part 3 23. Richard & Linda Thompson - The Calvary Cross 24. Jackson Browne - Late for the sky 25. Mark Mulcahy - Hey Self Defeater 26. The Velvelettes - Needle in a Haystack 27. O.V. Wright - Lets straighten it out 28. Royksopp - Royksopp's Night Out 29. The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist 30. Soulwax - No fun / Push it 31. Patti Smith - Pissing in a river

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