Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers On The Albums That Changed Their Lives

Author

Peter Terzian

Heavy rotation is a book that celebrates the record albums that have inspired twenty of the most acclaimed contemporary writers. The writers discuss how the album has changed their lives and how it has inspired them. Some of the albums discussed in the book are the Smiths' "Queen Is Dead," ABBA's "Super Trouper," Rickie Lee Jones' "Flying Cowboys," Pearl Jam's "Ten," the Talking Heads' "Fear of Music," and the "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" soundtrack.

Colm T*ib*n on Joni Mitchell James Wood on The Who Stacey D'Erasmo on Kate Bush Daniel Handler on Eurythmics Lisa Dierbeck on the Pretenders Clifford Chase on the B-52s . . . and other writers on the soundtracks of their livesIn Heavy Rotation, twenty of our most acclaimed contemporary writers pay homage to the record albums that inspired them. Benjamin Kunkel remembers how the Smiths' Queen Is Dead transformed him into an adolescent Anglophile. Pankaj Mishra describes how a bootleg cassette of ABBA's Super Trouper evoked a world far from his small Indian village. Kate Christensen relives her years as an aspiring novelist in Brooklyn listening to Rickie Lee Jones's Flying Cowboys. And Joshua Ferris recalls his head-banging passion for Pearl Jam's Ten. Exploring music from the Talking Heads to the Hedwig and the Angry Inch soundtrack, this extraordinary anthology is a moving, funny, uplifting, and unforgettable celebration of the unique and essential relationship between life and music.