Nick Hornby's High Fidelity portrayed an incredible love story...mostly love of music. The narrator's obsession with creating the perfect mix tape for any mood or occasion or person is a huge element in the book.
Though the narrator in Anecdotal finds plenty to obsess on other than Top Five Lists of songs, music plays a big role in the novel. Below are the songs mentioned directly (or sometimes hinted at) in the text. A few of the songs are woven into the plot of the book and directly impact the events of the story, but most of them are mentioned simply so that they can play as background music in the minds of readers during certain chapters.
Without further ado, the Soundtrack of Anecdotal...
SIDE 1
REM, "Fall on Me," Life's Rich Pageant
Air Supply, "Making Love Out of Nothing at All," Love
Songs: Air Supply
Sir Mix-a-lot, "Baby Got Back," Mack Daddy
James Taylor, "Fire and Rain," Greatest Hits
Sheryl Crow, "Safe and Sound," C'mon, C'mon
Elvis Presley, "Heartbreak Hotel," The Number
one Hits
Spinal Tap, "Hell Hole," This is Spinal Tap
Naked Eyes, "Always Something There to Remind Me,"
The Best of Naked Eyes
Pearl Jam, "Black," Ten
Pearl Jam, "Jeremy," Ten
Side 2
Tenacious D, Fuck Her Gently, Tenacious D
Metallica (with the SF Symphony), "Until It
Sleeps," S&M
Jimi Hendrix, "Foxy Lady," The Ultimate
Experience
Dave Matthews Band, "Satellite," Under the
Table and Dreaming
Cat Stevens, "Wild World," Very Best of Cat
Stevens
Coldplay, "Shiver," Parachutes
The Doors, "Light my Fire," Best of the Doors
Metallica (with the SF Symphony), "Wherever I May
Roam," S&M
Chemical Brothers, "Setting Sun," Dig Your Own Hole
Green Day, "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)," Nimrod
Green Day, "Longview," Dookie
(The black album cover is the soundtrack to the movie This is Spinal Tap. You really have to ask yourself, "How much blacker could this cover get?" And the answer is "None...none more blacker.")
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