Nick Hornby's 31 Songs

31 Songs (published in the Usa as Songbook) is a 2002 collection of 26 essays by English writer Nick Hornby about songs and (more often) the particular emotional resonance they carry for him. In the UK, Sony released a stand-alone Cd, A Selection of Music from 31 Songs, featuring 18 songs. The hardcover edition of Songbook, published in the Usa by McSweeney's and illustrated by Marcel Dzama, includes a Cd with 11 of the songs featured in the book.

01. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road

02. Teenage Fanclub - Your Love is the Place That I Come From

03. Nelly Furtado - I'm Like a Bird

04. Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker

05. Rufus Wainwright - One Man Guy

06. Santana - Samba Pa Ti

07. Rod Stewart - Mama Been on My Mind

08. Bob Dylan - Can You Please Crawl Out of Your Window?

09. The Beatles - Rain

10. Ani DiFranco - You Had Time

11. Aimee Mann - I've Had It

12. Paul Westerberg - Born For Me

13. Suicide - Frankie Teardrop

14. Teenage Fanclub - Ain't That Enough

15. J. Geils Band - First I Look at the Purse

16. Ben Folds Five - Smoke

17. Badly Drawn Boy - A Minor Incident

18. The Bible - Glorybound

19. Van Morrison -Caravan

20. Butch Hancock & Marce LaCouture - So I'll Run

21. Gregory Isaacs - Puff the Magic Dragon

22. Ian Dury & the Blockheads - Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3

23. Richard and Linda Thompson - The Calvary Cross

24. Jackson Browne - Late For the Sky

25. Mark Mulcahy - Hey Self Defeater

26. The Velvelettes - Needle in a Haystack

27. O.V. Wright - Let's Straighten it Out

28. Royksopp - Royksopp's Night Out

29. The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist

30. Soulwax - No Fun/Push It

31. Patti Smith Group - Pissing in a River

Hi Fidelity

High Fidelity is a 2000 film directed by Stephen Frears and starring John Cusack. The film is based on the 1995 British novel of the same name by Nick Hornby. After seeing the film, Hornby expressed his happiness with John Cusack's performance as Rob Gordon (changed from Rob Fleming in the book), saying, "At times, it appears to be a film in which John Cusack reads my book."

Soundtrack & More:

01. "you're gonna miss me", the thirteenth floor elevators

02. "i want candy", bow wow wow

03. "crocodile rock", elton john

04. "crimson and clover", joan jett and the blackhearts

05. "seymour stein", belle & sebastian

06. "jacob's ladder", rush

07. "walking on sunshine", katrina and the waves

08. "baby got going", liz phair

09. "little did i know", brother jt 3

10. "i'm wrong about everything", john wesley harding

11. "i can't stand the rain", ann peebles

12. "the river", bruce springsteen

13. "baby, i love your way", peter frampton

14. "jesus doesn't want me for a sunbeam", the vaselines

15. "cold blooded old times", smog

16. "on hold", edith frost

17. "hyena 1", goldie

18. "i'm gonna love you just a little more, babe", barry white

19. "always see your face", love

20. "soaring and boring", plush

21. "leave home", the chemical brothers

22. "four to the floor", john etkin-bell

23. "loopfest", toby bricheno and jan cryka

24. "who loves the sun", the velvet underground

25. "robbin's nest", illinois jacquet

26. "rock steady", aretha franklin

27. "suspect device", stiff little fingers

28. "dry the rain", the beta band

29. "we are the champions", queen

30. "i'm glad you're mine", al green

31. "your friend and mine", love

32. "shipbuilding", elvis costello

33. "tonight i'll be staying here with you", bob dylan

34. "get it together", grand funk railroad

35. "fallen for you", sheila nicholls

36. "oh! sweet nuthin'", the velvet underground

37. "this india", harbhajhn singh and navinder pal singh

38. "tread water", de la soul

39. "the moonbeam song", harry nilsson

40. "juice (know the ledge)", eric b. and rakim

41. "doing it anyway", apartment 26

42. "what's on your mind", eric b. and rakim

43. "good and strong", sy smith

44. "mendocino", sir douglas quintet

45. "inside game", royal trux

46. "the night chicago died", paper lace

47. "chapel of rest", dick walter

48. "most of the time", bob dylan

49. "i get the sweetest feeling", jackie wilson

50. "lo boob oscillator", stereolab

51. "the anti-circle", the roots

52. "everybody's gonna be happy", the kinks

53. "homespun rerun (cornelius remix)", high llamas

54. "hit the street", rupert gregson-williams

55. "let's get it on", marvin gaye

56. "i believe (when i fall in love it will be forever)", stevie wonder

57. "my little red book", love

58. "little latin lupe lu", mitch ryder / righteous brothers

59. "i just called to say i love you", stevie wonder

60. "leader of the pack", the shangri-las

61. "dead man's curve", jan & dean

62. "tell laura i love her", ray peterson

63. "one step beyond", madness

64. "you can't always get what you want", the rolling stones

65. "the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald", gordon lightfoot

66. "many rivers to cross", jimmy cliff

67. "angel", aretha franklin

68. "you're the best thing that ever happened to me", gladys knight