![]() ![]() And it was music that would help Rob through a sudden, unfathomable loss. Music brought them together and kept them together. ![]() They had nothing in common, except that they both loved music. It was also a time when a shy music geek named Rob Sheffield met a hell-raising Appalachian punk-rock girl named Renee, who was way too cool for him but fell in love with him anyway. bands that a year before would have been too weird for MTV - were MTV. In the 1990s, when "alternative" was suddenly mainstream, bands like Pearl Jam and Pavement, Nirvana and R.E.M. But the answer is simple: love is a mix tape. ![]() The troubadours of our times agree that they want to know what love is, and they want you to show them. Love bites, love bleeds, love is the drug. Her paisan, Frank Sinatra, would add the corollary that love is a tender trap. According to Western philosopher Pat Benatar, love is a battlefield. What is love? Great minds have been grappling with this question throughout the ages, and in the modern era, they have come up with many different answers. ![]()
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