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  • Apr 28, 2020

    one my things i wanna do more of during my quarantine is read, so whats some good books?

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    EuroNymous

    one my things i wanna do more of during my quarantine is read, so whats some good books?

    you talking like biographies or theory or s***

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    Apr 28, 2020
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    Synopsis

    you talking like biographies or theory or s***

    not music theory

    more history or biographies about music

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    Apr 28, 2020

    b

  • Apr 29, 2020
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    33 1/3 if you’re interested in particular albums

  • EuroNymous

    one my things i wanna do more of during my quarantine is read, so whats some good books?

    If you wanna read some bios/memoirs, checkout Chronicle by Bob Dylan and Life by Keith Richards. Very interesting reads.

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    Apr 29, 2020
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    HopOffMySackDawg69

    33 1/3 if you’re interested in particular albums

    what album does it talk about

  • EuroNymous

    what album does it talk about

    Tons and tons. It’s a series of books that focus on acclaimed albums.

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    EuroNymous

    what album does it talk about

    Pretty sure MBDTF is one of them

    EDIT: yep it is

    amazon.com/Kanye-Wests-Beautiful-Twisted-Fantasy/dp/1623565421

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    Apr 29, 2020
    HopOffMySackDawg69

    Pretty sure MBDTF is one of them

    EDIT: yep it is

    https://www.amazon.com/Kanye-Wests-Beautiful-Twisted-Fantasy/dp/1623565421

    i saw the list i might cop for the albums i love

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    Right On: From Blues To Soul In Black America
    The History Of The Blues: The Roots, The Music, The People
    The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia

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    Apr 29, 2020
    Mulder

    Right On: From Blues To Soul In Black America
    The History Of The Blues: The Roots, The Music, The People
    The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia

    very interesting

  • Apr 29, 2020

    Gucci mane autobiography is good

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    HopOffMySackDawg69

    Pretty sure MBDTF is one of them

    EDIT: yep it is

    https://www.amazon.com/Kanye-Wests-Beautiful-Twisted-Fantasy/dp/1623565421

    author spends a whole chapter just s***ting on Yeezus which kinda makes me wanna not read it still have it lying around tho

    Quality really varies from book to book, they're all by different authors...

    I enjoyed the one I've read about the Twin Peaks soundtrack though and the one about Trout Mask Replica was great

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    beflygelt

    author spends a whole chapter just s***ting on Yeezus which kinda makes me wanna not read it still have it lying around tho

    Quality really varies from book to book, they're all by different authors...

    I enjoyed the one I've read about the Twin Peaks soundtrack though and the one about Trout Mask Replica was great

    F*** really? Never read it myself so I didn’t know that. Trout Mask Replica definitely sounds like an interesting album to be book worthy. Ik Beefheart was a pretty abusive guy and treated his band like s***, but never got into detail with it.

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    Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña, and Richard Fariña

    the best I've read yet. Really evokes an era and how folk (a genre I hadn't particularly cared for b4) really changed music massively in the late 50s/60s. The Farina/Dylan friendship/rivalry makes it really fun to read and the author is real for illuminating the kinda underplayed female side of the story too

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    HopOffMySackDawg69

    F*** really? Never read it myself so I didn’t know that. Trout Mask Replica definitely sounds like an interesting album to be book worthy. Ik Beefheart was a pretty abusive guy and treated his band like s***, but never got into detail with it.

    yea i was gonna get mbdtf one and i found that out, i might ok computer one

    edit: i read its poor so i decided pick couple different ones

    picked up

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    donuts (apparently this is one best ones)
    selected ambient vol2

  • EuroNymous

    yea i was gonna get mbdtf one and i found that out, i might ok computer one

    edit: i read its poor so i decided pick couple different ones

    picked up

    dummy
    donuts (apparently this is one best ones)
    selected ambient vol2

    Oooooooooooo those sound like interesting reads. All 3 are such classic albums

  • Our Band Could Be Your Life is a good book about punk in the 80’s. Each chapter covers a different band: Black Flag, Big Black, Mission of Burma, the Minutemen, Mudhoney, Beat Happening, Butthole Surfers, Hüsker Dü, the Replacements, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Dinosaur Jr and Sonic Youth.

  • OP
    May 5, 2020

    Bump

    i finally got around buying gucci mane and how music became free

    if you got any other books which relate to music leave them down here

  • OP
    May 6, 2020

    bump any more recommendations

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    As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957–1977

    In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American culture. Placing the achievements of African-American artists such as Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sun Ra in their broader political and social context, Wilmer evokes an era of extraordinary innovation and experimentation that continues to inspire musicians today. As vital now as when it was first published in 1977, As Serious As Your Life is the essential story of one of the most dynamic musical movements of the twentieth century.

    allaboutjazz.com/as-serious-as-your-life-black-music-and-the-free-jazz-revolution-1957-1977-ed-blackwell-by-ian-patterson.php