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Krautrock is not a music genre Krautrock is a way of life Its sonic diversity and global reach belie the common culture from where it emerged This is a band by band history In May 1945 the Allies defeated Nazi Germany putting an end to the European front of World...
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Trip hop described some of the 1990s best music and it was one of the decade s most revealing bad ideas This book chronicles the music and its leading artists packed with recommended listening essential tracks great remixes and under recognized albums Your playlists will soon be overflowing Spectrum Culture...
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This Is Hardcore is Pulp s cry for help A giant sprawling flawed masterpiece of a record the 1998 album manages to tackle some of the most inappropriate grown up issues of the day fame ageing mortality drugs and pornography and still come out crying and laughing on the other...
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Beginning in the late 1970s as an offshoot of disco and punk dance punk is difficult to define Also sometimes referred to as disco punk and funk punk it skirts overlaps and blurs into other genres including post punk post disco new wave mutant disco and synthpop This book explores...
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Daydream Nation is the kind of gorgeous monstrosity born of extremes rife with difficulties and mythic in proportion that can crush the will of the most resilient well intentioned listener if the necessary preparations haven t been made Matthew Stearns explores the album from a range of angles including a...
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In 20 Jazz Funk Greats Drew Daniel of the experimental band Matmos creates through both his own insights and exclusive interviews with the band an exploded view of the album s multiple agendas a series of close readings of each song shot through with a sequence of thematic entries on...
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Aja was the album that made Steely Dan a commercial force on the order of contemporaries like Fleetwood Mac the Eagles and Chicago A double platinum Grammy winning bestseller it lingered on the Billboard charts for more than a year and spawned three hit singles Odd then that its creators...
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In 1978 Siouxsie and the Banshees declared We don t see ourselves in the same context as other rock n roll bands A decade later and in the stark aftermath of a devastating storm the band retreated to a 17th century mansion house in the deracinated Sussex countryside to write...
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It s hard to think of a solo female recording artist who has been as revered or as reviled over the course of her career as Tori Amos Amy Gentry argues that these violent aesthetic responses to Amos s performance both positive and negative are organized around disgust the disgust...
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In the absence of love there is loneliness sorrow and desperation And that s where I come in Greg Dulli introducing When We Two Parted onstage in San Francisco Like no record before or since Gentlemen is fraught with the psychological warfare bedroom drama Catholic guilt reprehensible deception and uncleansable...
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Pet Sounds is rightly one of the most celebrated pop albums ever released It has also been written about pored over and analyzed more than most other albums put together In this disarming book Jim Fusilli focuses primarily on the emotional core of the album on Brian Wilson s pitch...
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Issued on America s premier rap label at the peak of the thrash metal movement Slayer s controversial Reign in Blood remains the gold standard for extreme heavy metal a seamless 29 minute procession of ten blindingly fast apocalyptic songs The first English book about Slayer explores the creation of...
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Words like inspiring expansive and moving are regularly used to describe Sigur Rós s and yet the only words heard on the record itself are a handful of meaningless nonsense syllables The album has no title or rather its title is no title just an empty pair of parentheses The...
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The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than any other album And remarkably it still sounds as fresh and challenging today as it did upon its release in 1967 In this book Joe Harvard covers everything from Lou Reed s lyrical genius to John Cale...
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The Stone Roses shows a band sizzling with skill consumed with drive and aspiration and possessing an almost preternatural mastery of the pop paradigm This book explores the political and cultural zeitgeist of England in 1989 and attempts to apprehend the magic ingredients that made The Stone Roses such a...
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It s the summer of 1979 A 15 year old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn A monotone voice it s the singer s announces into dead air in between songs The Talking Heads have a new album it s called Fear of Music...
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So much popular and scholarly has been written about the synthesizer Bob Moog and his brand name instrument and even Wendy Carlos the musician who made this instrument famous No one however has examined the importance of spy technology the Cold War and Carlos s gender to this critically important...
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Tracing the creation of Exile on Main Street from the original songwriting done while touring America through the final editing in Los Angeles Bill Janovitz explains how an album recorded by a British band in a villa on the French Riviera is pure American rock amp roll Looking at each...
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Posing more riddles than the average sphinx with its decipherable answers pointing somewhere dark Song Cycle was anything but passive I had already witnessed hippie bands playing with their backs to the hall so the thought of late 60s musicians being interested in their...
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Having designed Roxy Music as an haute couture suit hand stitched of punk and progressive music Bryan Ferry redesigned it He made Roxy Music ever dreamier and mellower reaching back to sadly beautiful chivalric romances Dadaist punk noise exited a kind of ambient soft soul entered Ferry parted ways with...
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One of the greatest double albums of the vinyl era Sign O the Times shows Prince at his peak Here Michaelangelo Matos tells the story of how it emerged from an extraordinary period of creativity to become one of the...
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Like all double albums Songs in the Key of Life is imperfect but audacious If its titular concern life doesn t exactly allow for rigid focus it s still a fiercely inspired collection of songs and one of the definitive soul records of the 1970s Stevie Wonder was unable to...
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The story behind the making of the album that signaled the descent of Sylvester Sly Stone Stewart into a haze of drug addiction and delirium is captivating enough for the cinema In the spacious attic of a Beverly Hills mansion belonging to John and Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and...
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Two entwined narratives run through the creation of Swordfishtrombones and form the backbone of this book As the 1970s ended Waits felt increasingly constrained and trapped by his persona and career Bitter and desperately unhappy he moved to New York in 1979 to change his life It wasn t working...
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Smile is not merely a great unfinished album but a living work of art that is all at once expansive indeterminate and resolutely pop In the early 1960s The Beach Boys rose from the suburbs of Hawthorne California to become emissaries of a post war American dream that fused middle...
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It s October 1977 and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio They re under siege Keith Richards s legal troubles after his arrest for heroin possession threaten the band s future and the broad consensus among rock aficionados is that the band will never again reach the...
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Oasis s incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire history of post fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless But this remarkable album was also a social document that came closer to narrating the collective hopes...
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Neil Young s Harvest is one of those strange albums that has achieved lasting success without ever winning the full approval of rock critics or hardcore fans Even Young himself has been equivocal describing it in one breath as his finest album dismissing it in the next as an MOR...
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In 1978 San Francisco a city that has seen more than its share of trauma plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it seemed almost demonic The battles over property taxes and a ballot initiative calling for a ban...
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Conceived as the last testament of a charismatic recluse who believed he was about to die Forever Changes is one of the defining albums of an era Here Andrew Hultkrans explores the myriad depths of Love s bizarre and brilliant record Charting...
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In 1968 the Flying Burrito Brothers released The Gilded Palace of Sin on A amp M Records selling a disappointing 400 000 copies Almost forty years later front man Gram Parsons is still spoken of with almost messianic reverence Patron saint of alt country emblazoned with a shining cross dead...
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This book marks the tenth anniversary of The Grey Album The online release and circulation of what Danger Mouse called his art project was an unexpected watershed in the turn of the century brawls over digital creative practice The album s suppression inspired widespread digital civil disobedience and brought a...
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Outside his native France the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one hit wonder lothario This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was Gainsbourg was an eclectic protean figure a Dadaist poète maudit Pop Artist libertine and anti hero...
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Highway 61 Revisited resonates because of its enduring emotional appeal Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal In Like a Rolling Stone his gleeful excoriation of Miss Lonely Edie Sedgwick Joan Baez a composite type fuses with the evocation of...
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In recent years Björk s artistry has become ever more ambitious and ever more respected With the release of her conceptual app album Biophilia in 2011 and a huge retrospective exhibition at New York s Museum of Modern Art coinciding with her most recent album Vulnicura in 2015 her status...
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If You re Feeling Sinister shows how Belle amp Sebastian transformed themselves over the space of a decade from a slightly shambolic cult secret into a polished highly entertaining mainstream pop group Along the way the book shows how the internet has revolutionized how we discover new music often at...
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Described as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll the original concept was rock and Rimbaud Horses belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does to the realm of musicology While Horses pays homage to the record s origins in...
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By June 1993 when Washington D C s Fugazi released their third full length album In on the Kill Taker the quartet was reaching a thunderous peak in popularity and influence With two EPs combined into the classic CD 13 songs and two albums 1990 s genre defining Repeater and...
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Pavement wrapped up at Easley Recording in Memphis They mixed the tracks and recorded overdubs in New York They took a step back and assessed the material It was a wild scene They had fully fleshed out songs and whispers and rumors of half formed ones They had songs that...
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Voodoo D Angelo s much anticipated 2000 release set the standard for the musical cycle ordained as neo soul a label the singer and songwriter would reject more than a decade later The album is a product of heightened emotions and fused sensibilities an amalgam of soul rock jazz gospel...
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In the spring of 1969 the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band s Trout Mask Replica a double album featuring 28 stream of consciousness songs filled with abstract rhythms and guttural bellows dramatically altered the pop landscape Yet even if the album did cast its radical vision...
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Transformer Lou Reed s most enduringly popular album is described with varying labels it s often called a glam rock album a proto punk album a commercial breakthrough for Lou Reed and an album about being gay And yet it doesn t neatly fit into any of these descriptors Buried...
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Breaking the global record for streams in a single day nearly 10 million people around the world tuned in to hear Kendrick Lamar s sophomore album in the hours after its release To Pimp a Butterfly was widely hailed as an instant classic garnering laudatory album reviews many awards and...
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Finally a brilliant exploration of the German rock band Can s 1971 album Tago Mago This hugely unique and influential album deserves close analysis from a fan rather than a musicologist Novelist Alan Warner details the concrete music we hear on the album how it was composed executed and recorded...
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New York City in the 1970s was an urban nightmare destitute dirty and dangerous As the country collectively turned its back on the Big Apple two musical vigilantes rose out of the miasma Armed only with amplified AC current Suicide s Alan Vega and Marty Rev set out to save...
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Of all the seminal albums to come out in 1991 the year of Nevermind Loveless Ten and Out of Time among others none were quieter both in volume and influence than Spiderland and no band more mysterious than Slint Few single albums can lay claim to sparking an entire genre...
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When Twin Peaks debuted on the ABC network on the night of April 8 1990 thirty five million viewers tuned in to some of the most unusual television of their lives Centered on an eccentric coffee loving FBI agent s investigation into the murder of a small town teen queen...
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When LCD Soundsystem broke up in 2011 they left behind a small but remarkable catalog of music On top of the genius singles and a longform composition for Nike there was a trilogy of full length albums During that initial run LCD Soundsystem and the project s mastermind James Murphy...
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