| | 31 Songs |  | Author: Nick Hornby
Publisher: Penguin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 114652
Media: Paperback
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.8
ISBN: 0141013400
Dewey Decimal Number: 781
EAN: 9780141013404
ASIN: 0141013400
Publication Date: June 28, 2003
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 college radio's greatest hits August 18, 2003
3 out of 18 found this review helpful
Obscure pop ditties, that don't merit the space. Pseudo-deep analyses of trash. Where's the real music? I realise mr. Hornby has been brought up on British and American angst-rock. He's never heard of classical music, never played one jazz-record, never set his foot in a world music store. How narrow-minded can you get in your musical taste? Well, you have a hard time competing with mr. Hornby. We need to get this bloke to a doctor and there he would be given a shot of real music - this would improve his writing and loosen his imagination and take him a little further from the football field and the pub-philosophy he's into. OK, his books are great fun and maybe this book is not intended to be taken too seriously either. It's just that these are all songs that were played once too often in the dorm by would be writers at the university campus.
 Hornby's best book yet? July 22, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Pleasantly surprised by this, after reading a some very sniffy newspaper reviews. Like Fever Pitch, it is not necessary to like Arsenal FC or any of the songs he writes about here to enjoy. Hornby does for music writing what he did for football writing - giving it an emotional perspective rarely explored before.
 One for the Music Fan July 16, 2003
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been a music fan since the 60's, and Nick Hornby has written about the music from a fan's viewpoint, expressing eloquently and passionately his thoughts about rock and pop which I've mused about over the years.
I'd love to see a sequel published, with the author this time writing about some of the more mainstream songs which he has loved over the years.
you don't have to love music but..... June 19, 2003
You might be forgiven for thinking that Nick Hornby's latest is a glorifed music review. Far from it. Some of the most memorable moments of this peice of work provide a sometimes funny and occasionally moving insight into the places that these songs take Hornby, as the songs provide a point of reference backdrop to his life.It's no High Fidelilty-and is not meant to be. But those who loved 'Fidelity' and really related to the record shop guy will enjoy the accounts of inspiration, good times and traumatic ones set against Hornby's 31 song soundtrack.
 What a Waste! June 4, 2003
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
I love High Fidelity and Fever Pitch. I've read them several times, the writing is fantastic, the imaginery achingly accurate and he is still the leader in the thirty something genre he spauned. However this book in self indulgent nonsense. This could lead to a dangerous flood of "31 Songs" by far less interesting people.
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