“I still haven't finished unpacking - by the time I do, it'll be time to move again.” — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“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
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
It was in that bubble after Vatican II when it seemed like the best time ever to grow up Catholic. It was… — 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
“I was too young to know adult life is full of accidents and interrupted moments and empty beds you climb into and… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“….For instance, I hated Pearl Jam at the time. I thought they were pompous blowhards. Now, whenever a Pearl Jam song comes… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that 'Buncha Losers' comedies speak to tough times. The massive unemployment of the Reagan years gave us 'Taxi,'… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
The 2000s were the time when bromance became a kind of love that dared to speak its name. As a high-water mark… — 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… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived.… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“It started off as a playful fantasy we talked about. Then the fantasy became a plan, the way fantasies sometimes do, and… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with—nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape.… — 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
“I suck at fighting. I have never really learned how to talk and be mad at the same time. If I have… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“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… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“Her universe is such a big place full of so many galaxies-100 billion of them with 100 billion stars apiece which means… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“Everything was changing, that was obvious. The world was so full of music, it seemed we could never run out. ’Twas bliss… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I get sentimental over the music of the '90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I'm concerned, the… — 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
“Trying to live in the past didn't work for me, and it's only now that I fully realize I'm incredibly lucky it… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“I thought, There is nowhere else in the universe I would rather be at this moment. I could count the places I… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“We want to freeze the perfect moment, hold on to it, at least long enough to understand it. But it dances on… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
“At that moment, I knew she was the girl for me. Of course, we'd already been going out for a few weeks,… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the… — 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
