The author of the national bestseller Love is a Mix Tape returns, with a different-but equally personal and equally universal- spin on music as memory.  "No rock critic-living or dead, American or otherwise-has ever written about pop music with the evocative, hyperpoetic perfectitude of Rob Sheffield."  So said Chuck Klosterman about Love is a Mix Tape, Sheffield's paean to a lost love via its soundtrack. Now, in Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, Sheffield shares the soundtrack to his eighties adolescence.  When he turned 13 in 1980, Rob Sheffield had a lot to learn about women, love, music and himself, and in Talking to Girls About Duran Duran we get a glimpse into his transformation from pasty, geeky "hermit boy" into a young man with his first girlfriend, his first apartment, and a sense of the world. These were the years of MTV and John Hughes movies; the era of big dreams and bigger shoulder pads; and, like any all-American boy, this one was searching for true love and maybe a cooler haircut. It all here: Inept flirtations. Dumb crushes. Deplorable fashion choices. Members Only jackets. Girls, every last one of whom seems to be madly in love with the bassist of Duran Duran.  Sheffield's coming-of-age story is one that we all know, with a playlist that any child of the eighties or anyone who just loves music will sing along with. These songs-and Sheffield's writing-will remind readers of that first kiss, that first car, and the moments that shaped their lives.

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Années 1990. Pearl Jam, Pavement, Nirvana, Beck et BjArk imposent un son nouveau A une culture américaine en pleine mutation. Rob Sheffield, un grand timide passionné de rock, rencontre Renée, une furie punk des Appalaches. Deux êtres que tout oppose hormis la musique. C'est elle, en effet qui les réunit, et c'est elle qui va rythmer leur histoire d'amour, devenir leur paysage intime. C'est elle qui aidera Rob à surmonter la disparition brutale de Renée. Rob Sheffield nous raconte cette histoire d'amour trop vite interrompue à partir de sa "bande originale", les K7 que lui et Renée enregistraient l'un pour l'autre. Des K7 pour l'amour, d'autres pour se faire la gueule, des K7 pour les jours radieux, d'autres pour les jours de pluie.Livre à la BO exceptionnelle, d'Elvis à Missy Elliott, des Rolling Stones à Yo La Tengo, de Léonard Cohen à Pavement, Bande originale est surtout une magnifique chanson d'amour. On nous aura rarement fait comprendre avec autant d'émotion combien la musique est inséparable de nos vies, comment elle rythme nos jours, leurs harmonies et leurs dissonances.

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Once upon a time I was falling apart. Now I'm always falling in love. Pick up the microphone. When Rob Sheffield moved to New York City in the summer of 2001, he was a young widower trying to start a new life in a new town. Behind, in the past, was his life as a happily married rock critic, with a wife he adored, and a massive collection of mix tapes that captured their life together. And then, in a flash, all he had left were the tapes. Beyoncé , Bowie, Bon Jovi, Benatar .

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