Songbook
By: by Nick Hornby ; illustrated by Marcel Dzama of Canada.
Contributors: Dzama, Marcel.
Publisher: McSweeney's Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: Popular music -- History and criticism; Rock music -- History and criticism
Notes: A collection of essays on 31 of the author's favorite songs and songwriters.
CD includes songs by: Teenage Fanclub, The Bible, Aimee Mann, Rufus Wainwright, Rod Stewart, Badly Drawn Boy, Ben Folds Five, Mark Mulcahy, Ani DiFranco, and Paul Westerberg.
LC copy lacks CD.
Table of contents: title: Your love is the place that I come from / Teenage Fanclub; title: Thunder road / Bruce Springsteen; title: I'm like a bird / Nelly Furtado; title: Heartbreaker / Led Zeppelin; title: One man guy / Rufus Wainwright; title: Samba pa ti / Santana; title: Mama, you been on my mind / Rod Stewart; title: Can you please crawl out your window / Bob Dylan; title: Rain / The Beatles; title: You had time / Ani DiFranco; title: I've had it / Aimee Mann; title: Born for me / Paul Westerberg; title: Suicide / Frankie Teardrop; title: Ain't that enough / Teenage Fanclub; title: First I look at the purse / J. Geils Band; title: Smoke / Ben Folds; title: A minor incident / Badly drawn boy; title: Glorybound / The Bible; title: Caravan / Van Morrison; title: So I'll run / Butch Hancock and Marce LaCouture; title: Puff the magic dragon / Gregory Isaacs; title: Reasons to be cheerful / Ian Dury; title: Calvary cross / Richard and Linda Thompson; title: Late for the sky / Jackson Browne - Hey self-defeater / Mark Mulcahy; title: Needle in a haystack / The Velvettes; title: Lets' straighten it out / O.V. Wright; title: Royskopp's night out / Royskopp; title: Frontier psychiatrist / The Avalanches; title: No fun/ push it / Soulwax; title: Pissing in a river / Patti Smith.