Dave Simpson says: I love Iggy Pop BUT...

I love Iggy Pop, but he must stop making music
"Iggy's records from the 70s, like The Idiot and Lust For Life, mean more to me than some of my own relatives. But Pop, please stop now..." [Guardian UK]

Love is a Mix Tape

Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time (Random House, 2007)

For anyone who's ever started a conversation by saying, "Let me make you a mixtape." For anyone who's ever received one. Music journalist Rob Sheffield's first book is a touching autobiography that delves deep into two things that really matter in this life: love and music. Through personal tragedy, and in its wake, Sheffield takes us on a journey defined in part by the various soundtracks that made it into his own life...one song at a time.

MOPEY - INDIE

MOPEY: I choose Merriam Webster's second definition...I give myself up to brooding.

INDIE: I am independent.

Mopey Indie - a term I'd use to describe the genre of music that most influenced my life. The melancholic side of post-punk and some of its offshoots, perfected in the early 1980s. This blog is a collection of random musings and finds by a fashion historian who lives and works in NYC. Maybe there are more mopey indies out there too.