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General Discussion => MUSIC => Topic started by: Stab n Kill on May 07, 2023, 07:48:49 AM
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Any books ya’ll might recommend?
This music leaves stains, the complete story of the misfits - knowing how private Danzig can be, much respect to this author for writing this book
Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones - More then any other recording session, I wish I could have been a fly in the room during this era of music
Biography of a Phantom: A Robert Johnson Blues Odyssey: compelling
Please Kill Me - I assume a lot of people had read it. It’s the type of book that can easily be revisited.
Everybody loves our town
Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements
The One and Only: Peter Perrett, Homme Fatale - what a life
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This is a great read for fans of punk & black flag
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Also really enjoy Marvin Gaye's biography
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Also, if you go and check out the No Dogs in Space instagram, they've been posting all of Carolina's reading lists for her research for each band.
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Scar Tissue. Anthony Keidis from RHCP autobiography, remember reading it and being blown away. Dudes lived a wild life and made it through the other side. Highly recommend, good read.
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I read that book and hated it. Keides really needs to get off his own dick and the state of Californias too
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This is a great read for fans of punk & black flag
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Also really enjoy Marvin Gaye's biography
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Can’t recommend Get In The Van enough. Also the reason I have an intense fear of jerusalem crickets now.
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trouble boys puts all other music books to shame. it’s one of the best narratives ever committed to book form.
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U-god's book is fantastic. My mom and I both love it. His talent for storytelling in his verses translates incredibly well to telling his life story through a book. He's got a fascinating life story both in and outside of Wutang and the book gives a very interesting insight to the situations that prevented him from getting as much as the other members of Wu. I was always a big fan of his but this book made me respect him even more. He also provides a very great look into Wutang's story as whole as well. I'd recommend this book to any Wutang fan and possibly even non Wutang fans
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I don't read much but music books are my favourites:
-Girl in a band: Kim Gordon/Sonic Youth
-Things The Grandchildren Should Know: Mark Oliver Everet / EELS
-Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock
I am very interested in reading about Emo/Hardcore but I never found anything in Europe, hopefully someone can recommend me a good title.
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If anybody wants to read something that's a bit more based in music theory, then Joseph Schloss book on sample based hip hop the best I've read :)
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This one was really good
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White line fever the Lemmy book is so good, like hearing him talk to you about his band’s.
Motörhead definitely got shortchanged when finding their labels.
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i really enjoyed Mutations by Sam McPheeters of born against
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I hear this mark E smith book is great. Hope to read it soon
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i really enjoyed Mutations by Sam McPheeters of born against
Mutations is so good. I'd love a book on the history of Fort Thunder.
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Der Klang Der Familie - A good book about the fall of the Berlin wall and rise of the techno scene over there.
Bass Culture : When Reggae Was King - sick documentation of early sound system culture
Simon Reynolds - Energy Flash : A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture
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In my opinion Lexicon Devil is the best punk rock ‘interview’-style book. Really gets into how weird, creative and unique the LA punk scene was before hardcore came in.
Straight Life by Art Pepper is a classic jazz autobiography. Gritty as hell.
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Fargo Rock City is one of the funniest books I have read. It's part memoir/part love letter to the 80's hair metal scene. Chuck Klosterman is hilarious. If you grew up in the 80's and loved or hated hair metal, I highly recommend it.
Beastie Boys Book has lots of great stories. The audiobook is worth checking out. The cast of narrators is incredible.
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We Never Learn: The Gunk Punk Undergut, 1988–2001 by Eric Davidson (New Bomb Turks).
Copied from it's wiki page:
"The book covers a specific sub-culture of punk and garage rock, which Davidson refers to as "Gunk Punk." It features true stories about The White Stripes, The Oblivians, Billy Childish, The Gories, The Hives, Jay Reatard and more.
The book also touches on the importances of independent labels like Norton Records, Crypt Records and In the Red Records."
There's an extended edition that came out some years later. I'd say it's somewhat like Please Kill Me of the garage punk rock culture, with a lot less junkies.
Sean Wood of The Spits is on the cover.
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I'm about half way through the newly published "This Must Be The Place" by Jesse Rifkin. I find it to be dull. I was excited to pick it up, after reading the reviews for it in the Times. However, I cannot recommend it.
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A colleague who got to know of my obsession of The Fall one lunch break offered to lend me his copy of The Fallen: Life in and Out of Britain's Most Insane Group by Dave Simpson.
Really good read for any fellow The Fall fans as there's a lot of in-depth conversations with the ex-members and plenty of insight to those random tid bits.
Definitely need to get onto the one written by MES himself.
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I highly recommend England's hidden reverse be David Keenan if you have only the slightest interest in the Uk industrial / power electronics / transgressive music scene around Nurse with Wound, Coil or Throbbing Gristle.
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do what you want: the story of bad religion. got it for like $12 and love it
the storyteller: by dave ghrol. super good.