“Listening to it now is like a personally guided tour through my past.” — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Sometimes great tunes happen to bad times, and when the bad time is over, not all the tunes get to move on… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“It’s a fundamental human need to pass music around, and however the technology evolves, the music keeps moving.” — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Thanks for existing, R.E.M. It's hard to overstate how much these guys changed everything, creating an entire rock audience in their own… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Thank you for the music, Sleater-Kinney. This gang of three was the best American punk rock band ever. Ever. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“The radio tape puts you right back in the original time and place when you first heard the songs. You are there,… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I will always love the Clash, because I loved them so much when I was fourteen, and I love how you can… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“For all karaoke freaks around the nation, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” is one of those sacred anthems. It’s the kind of… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
It was R.E.M. who showed other Eighties bands how to get away with ignoring the rules - they lived in some weird… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
The key thing about LCD Soundsystem is that people always wanted this band to exist. For years, it was glaringly obvious that… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I've played the song for a lot of people who respond, 'Hmmmm, this is interesting,' but in a way it's more like… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“It was just a temporary technological mutation designed to do the same thing music always does, which is allow emotionally warped people… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“The country singers understand. It’s always that one song that gets you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“The Replacements made me feel a little less scared, because they made good imaginary friends. They looked like a band that would… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I thought, there is nowhere else in the universe I would rather be at this moment... There is nowhere else I could… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“Girls are the White Album and they all have Revolution 9's. They have all that stuff you wish you could edit out.… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“What I get out of karaoke is a little weirder than mere musical competence. It's a love ritual that keeps me coming… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?"… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“The reality of boy-girl life gets harsh, but in my fantasy, the music keeps them together.” — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I've built my whole life around loving music. I'm a writer for 'Rolling Stone,' so I am constantly searching for new bands… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy,… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“There are millions of songs in the world, and millions of ways to connect them into mixes. Making the connections is part… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Nothing connects to the moment like music. I count the music to bring me back, or more precisely, to bring her forward. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic 'Baker Street' has to… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share
“I suck at fighting. I have never really learned how to talk and be mad at the same time. If I have angry words… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share
Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share
“I had never gotten the hang of dating — I was always going to be somebody who either had a girlfriend or didn't.” — Rob Sheffield Copy Share
The hottest trash-disco star in the world: Ke$ha! She has a lot in common with Kiss, actually, even spelling her name with a dollar… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share
“on the 11th of every month my friend elizabeth would say, "well we made it through another month. so do we get her back… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share
“What doesn't kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share
“But when you're a teenage boy, you can be narrow-minded about things that are girlie, things that are frivolous, things that are pop. Boys… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share
“I've never heard of anybody getting rid of their prized Exile postcards, much less actually writing on them and sending them through the mail… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share
It's always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you. — Rob Sheffield Copy Share
“By the time you're an adult, you're used to seeing your friends disappear into their five-year plans. They drop out to get married, have… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share
“Last fall, I was sitting at the kitchen table of two friends who have been together since 1972. They tell me a story about… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share
Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share
“You're in a physical landscape you share with this bizarre and fundamentally alien creature, not alien because she's female but alien because you're a… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share
