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Here's a bunch of short essays inspired by Nick Hornby's Songbook. Which, if you haven't read it, is a really fun book. He assays about 30 songs, nearly half of which appear on the accompanying CD, breaking down why they matter. Not that they're his favorite songs, necessarily, or even his favorites by a given artist, just songs that were there at a particular point in his life.
I'm not sure if any or all of the contributor's are McSweeney's folks, but every blurb I've read has been very well done. Hornby himself writes about a personal fave, Ryan Adams' "Oh My Sweet Carolina." Also, the one about Richard Marx's "Hazard" is effing rad.