Can I borrow "Songbook" from you? I will swap you(as soon as I finish it) a Dylan biography by Robert Shelton which I just picked up. Unless you've read it, in which case I'll swap you something else.
Dylan for Hornby works for me-- the only reason I hadn't dropped it off for you before this is that I wanted to burn a companion CD.
We can swap briefcases at Mr. Ed's.
Thanks for the Nick Hornby. I read the "Pop Quiz" chapter, in which he listens to the Billboard Top Ten. Hilarious.
I loved that. The foul mouthed rappers who thank the deity, and the song that is apparently about carnal knowledge with a dog-- the truth is that pop has always been mostly rubbish-- growing up when we did we were exposed to an anomalous amount of stuff that aspired to something more. Sometimes this was done pretentiously, sometimes it might as well have been, and sometimes it was really, really good. When I go back through the Christgau books for the last three decades what strikes me is that the '70's were really a kind of golden age for rock'n'roll. It's no wonder I can hardly listen to the radio when CLA is in the car-- pop music has reverted to the place it was when I was eight or nine or twelve or so. There is still quality out there, but the channels that used to exist to help locate it have dried up. Who would read Rolling Stone to find something worth listening to today? Who would expect to find out about a band like Supersuckers by listening to the radio?
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