Is it possible to share your life with someone who has a record collection incompatible with your own? Perhaps, if you constantly listen to songs that talk about breakups and romantic disappointments, misery and loneliness, your life becomes chaotic?

For Rob Fleming, a 35-year-old pop addict and owner of a record store on the brink of bankruptcy, these questions urgently demand answers. The woman he loved left him: if she comes back to him, will he love her as much as he does now that he misses her and feels rejected? Will he continue to live in this tiny apartment filled with vinyl records and CDs, or should he finally grow up, live in a normal house, build a family, and find a more respectable job?

The hardest thing for Rob is to stop evaluating the situations in his life strictly in terms of a top 5, without any compromise. Even Rob's breakups compose a top 5, like the best pop songs of all time, like the best songs that talk about death.

Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition