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Life and Loss, One Song at a Time
Crown
January 2007
On Sale: January 2, 2007
240 pages
ISBN: 1400083028
EAN: 9781400083022
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
What Is love? Great minds have been grappling with this
question throughout the ages, and in the modern era, they
have come up with many different answers. According to
Western philosopher Pat Benatar, love is a battlefield. Her
paisan Frank Sinatra would add the corollary that love is a
tender trap. Love hurts. Love stinks. Love bites, love
bleeds, love is the drug. The troubadours of our times
agree: They want to know what love is, and they want you to
show them. But the answer is simple: Love is a mix tape. In the 1990s, when “alternative” was suddenly mainstream,
bands like Pearl Jam and Pavement, Nirvana and R.E.M.—bands
that a year before would have been too weird for MTV- were
MTV. It was the decade of Kurt Cobain and Shania Twain and
Taylor Dayne, a time that ended all too soon. The boundaries
of American culture were exploding, and music was leading
the way. It was also when a shy music geek named Rob Sheffield met a
hell-raising Appalachian punk-rock girl named Renée, who was
way too cool for him but fell in love with him anyway. He
was tall. She was short. He was shy. She was a social
butterfly. She was the only one who laughed at his jokes
when they were so bad, and they were always bad. They had
nothing in common except that they both loved music. Music
brought them together and kept them together. And it was
music that would help Rob through a sudden, unfathomable loss. In Love Is a Mix Tape, Rob, now a writer for Rolling Stone,
uses the songs on fifteen mix tapes to tell the story of his
brief time with Renée. From Elvis to Missy Elliott, the
Rolling Stones to Yo La Tengo, the songs on these tapes make
up the soundtrack to their lives. Rob Sheffield isn’t a musician, he’s a writer, and Love Is a
Mix Tape isn’t a love song- but it might as well be. This is
Rob’s tribute to music, to the decade that shaped him, but
most of all to one unforgettable woman.
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