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Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a recording studio and start howling. He'd have sounded ...more

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I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and de...more

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We have all lived through that shriveling moment when a parent walks into a room and repeats, with sardonic disbelief, a couplet picked up from the st...more

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Dave and Serge...played the Fiddler's Elbow as if it were Giants Stadium, and even though it was acoustic, they just about blew the place up. They wer...more

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Years and years ago, I read a great interview with Jam and Lewis, the R&B producers, in which they described what it was like to be members of Prince'...more

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It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak...more

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And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get ...more

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To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one.

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There were only seven years between the first and last Beatles albums. That's nothing, seven years, when you think of how their hairstyles changed and...more

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A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talkshow host with an orange face... It didn't add u...more

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he was home on his own and listening to the sort of music he needed to listen to when he felt like this, music that seemed to find the sore spot in hi...more

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Some of my favorite songs: 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart' by Neil Young; 'Last Night I Dreamed That Somebody Loved Me' by the Smiths; 'Call Me' by A...more

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What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those ...more

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A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with 'Got To Get You ...more

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What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do a...more