Thirty-something Rob Gordon, a former club DJ, owns a not-so-lucrative used record store in Chicago. He not so much employs Barry and Dick, but rather keeps them around as they showed up at the store one day and never left. All three are vinyl and music snobs, but in different ways.
Rob has a penchant for compiling top-five lists. The latest of these lists is his top-five break-ups, it spurred by the fact that his latest girlfriend, Laura, a lawyer, has just broken up with him. He believed that Laura would be the one who would last, partly as an expectation of where he would be at this stage in his life.
Rob admits that there have been a few incidents in their relationship which in and of themselves could be grounds for her to want to break up. To his satisfaction, Laura is not on this top-five list. Rob feels a need not only to review the five relationships, which go back as far as middle school when he was 12, and try to come to terms with why the woman, or girl as the case may be, left him, but also, in the words of Charlie Nicholson, number four on the list, "what it all means" for why he has ended up where he is, which is nowhere, personally or professionally, close to what he envisioned.
He also has to come to terms with what it means that Laura has moved on to Ian Raymond, a man for whom neither had any respect when they were together.
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High Fidelity
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You're Gonna Miss Me
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I Want Candy
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Crocodile Rock
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Crimson and Clover
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Seymour Stein
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Jacob's Ladder
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Neil Peart:
Writer
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Walking On Sunshine
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Baby Got Going
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Little Did I Know
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I'm Wrong About Everything
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I Can't Stand The Rain
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The River
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Baby, I Love Your Way
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Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam
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Cold Blooded Old Times
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On Hold
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Hyena 1
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I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Babe
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Always See Your Face
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Soaring and Boring
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Leave Home
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Loopfest
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Who Loves The Sun
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Robbin's Nest
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Rock Steady
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Suspect Device
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Dry The Rain
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We Are The Champions
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I'm Glad You're Mine
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Your Friend and Mine
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Shipbuilding
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Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
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Get It Together
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Oh! Sweet Nuthin'
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Tread Water
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The Moonbeam Song
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Juice (Know the Ledge)
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Doing It Anyway
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What's On Your Mind
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Good and Strong
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Mendocino
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The Inside Game
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The Night Chicago Died
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Chapel of Rest
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Most of the Time
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I Get The Sweetest Feeling
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Lo Boob Oscillator
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The Anti-Circle
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Everybody's Gonna Be Happy
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Homespin Rerun
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Hit the Street
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Let's Get It On
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I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)
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My Little Red Book
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You're Gonna Miss Me
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Roky Erickson:
Performer
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Jacob's Ladder
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Isobel Campbell:
Performer
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I'm Wrong About Everything
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John Wesley Harding:
Performer
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I Can't Stand The Rain
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Ann Peebles:
Performer
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I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Babe
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Barry White:
Performer
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Robbin's Nest
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Illinois Jacquet:
Performer
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I'm Glad You're Mine
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Al Green:
Performer
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Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
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Bob Dylan:
Performer
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Oh! Sweet Nuthin'
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Lou Reed:
Performer
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What's On Your Mind
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Eric B.:
Performer
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