The first issue (Spring, 2007) of Our Soundrack Project is an offset-printed freebie of above-average quality.

Eleven contributors describe eighteen different tracks, songs that marked pivotal moments in their lives or stand particularly vivid in memory. Catherine Lamoreux associates the Smoking Pope’s “Pretty Pathetic” with summer camp boy-craziness, for example, while Robyn Rieves waxes nostalgic about singing along to “Silly Love Love Songs” by Paul McCartney & Wings on the car radio with her mother. Alissa Nutting tells three stories of “Songs I’ve Listened to During Desperate Searches for Weed” (“Deathcrush” by Mayhem, “Tiny Cities Made of Ashes” by Modest Mouse, “More Than a Feeling” by Boston).

Excellent bus or subway reading for any pop-music listener born between 1972 and 1991.