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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (Hardcover)
by Daniel J. Levitin (shelved 127 times as music)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,784 ratings — published 2006
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (Paperback)
by Legs McNeil (shelved 122 times as music)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,100 ratings — published 1996
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (Paperback)
by Michael Azerrad (shelved 115 times as music)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,188 ratings — published 2001
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Chronicles: Volume One (Paperback)
by Bob Dylan (shelved 110 times as music)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,810 ratings — published 2004
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by Oliver W. Sacks (shelved 105 times as music)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,651 ratings — published 2007
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time (Hardcover)
by Rob Sheffield (shelved 101 times as music)
avg rating 3.74 — 6,194 ratings — published 2007
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High Fidelity (Paperback)
by Nick Hornby (shelved 99 times as music)
avg rating 3.97 — 21,298 ratings — published 1995
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung: The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N'Roll (Paperback)
by Lester Bangs (shelved 86 times as music)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,255 ratings — published 1988
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by Alex Ross (shelved 71 times as music)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,044 ratings — published 2007
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No One Here Gets Out Alive (Paperback)
by Daniel Sugerman (shelved 65 times as music)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,118 ratings — published 1980
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Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (Paperback)
by Chuck Klosterman (shelved 65 times as music)
avg rating 3.76 — 6,512 ratings — published 2005
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Rip It Up and Start Again (Paperback)
by Simon Reynolds (shelved 64 times as music)
avg rating 4.08 — 638 ratings — published 2005
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Songbook (Paperback)
by Nick Hornby (shelved 61 times as music)
avg rating 3.55 — 2,558 ratings — published 2002
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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band (Paperback)
by Tommy Lee (shelved 60 times as music)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,392 ratings — published 2001
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Fargo Rock City : A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota (Paperback)
by Chuck Klosterman (shelved 60 times as music)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,190 ratings — published 2001
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Hammer of the Gods (Mass Market Paperback)
by Stephen Davis (shelved 54 times as music)
avg rating 3.73 — 781 ratings — published 1985
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The Beatles Anthology (Hardcover)
by George Harrison (shelved 44 times as music)
avg rating 4.52 — 797 ratings — published 2000
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Journals (Paperback)
by Kurt Cobain (shelved 43 times as music)
avg rating 3.72 — 869 ratings — published 2002
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Heavier Than Heaven : A Biography of Kurt Cobain (Hardcover)
by Charles R. Cross (shelved 43 times as music)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,126 ratings — published 2001
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Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground New Edition (Paperback)
by Michael Moynihan (shelved 43 times as music)
avg rating 3.76 — 701 ratings — published 1998
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Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (Hardcover)
by Rachel Cohn (shelved 43 times as music)
avg rating 3.79 — 6,463 ratings — published 2006
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Cash: The Autobiography (Paperback)
by Johnny Cash (shelved 41 times as music)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,006 ratings — published 1997
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Clapton: The Autobiography (Hardcover)
by Eric Clapton (shelved 39 times as music)
avg rating 3.51 — 2,365 ratings — published 2007
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by Greil Marcus (shelved 39 times as music)
avg rating 3.94 — 905 ratings — published 1989
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The Long Hard Road Out of Hell (Paperback)
by Marilyn Manson (shelved 39 times as music)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,580 ratings — published 1998
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Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll: Fourth Edition (Paperback)
by Greil Marcus (shelved 38 times as music)
avg rating 4.05 — 360 ratings — published 1975
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The Beatles: The Biography (Paperback)
by Bob Spitz (shelved 37 times as music)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,013 ratings — published 2005
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Miles (Paperback)
by Miles Davis (shelved 37 times as music)
avg rating 4.21 — 963 ratings — published 1990
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Shakey: Neil Young's Biography (Paperback)
by Jimmy Mcdonough (shelved 36 times as music)
avg rating 4.07 — 593 ratings — published 2002
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Paperback)
by Chuck Klosterman (shelved 34 times as music)
avg rating 3.71 — 17,541 ratings — published 2003
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Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (33 1/3)
by Kim Cooper (Goodreads author) (shelved 34 times as music)
avg rating 3.85 — 587 ratings — published 2005
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I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie (Paperback)
by Pamela Des Barres (shelved 34 times as music)
avg rating 3.67 — 1,200 ratings — published 1987
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Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division (Paperback)
by Deborah Curtis (shelved 34 times as music)
avg rating 3.74 — 593 ratings — published 1996
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Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana (Paperback)
by Michael Azerrad (shelved 34 times as music)
avg rating 3.81 — 592 ratings — published 1993
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Perfect from Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life (Hardcover)
by John Sellers (shelved 32 times as music)
avg rating 3.08 — 458 ratings — published 2007
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What to Listen for in Music (Paperback)
by Aaron Copland (shelved 32 times as music)
avg rating 3.76 — 292 ratings — published 1939
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Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic (Paperback)
by Jim Derogatis (shelved 31 times as music)
avg rating 3.68 — 398 ratings — published 2000
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Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag (2nd Edition)
by Henry Rollins (shelved 31 times as music)
avg rating 4.15 — 809 ratings — published 1994
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Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader (Paperback)
by Lester Bangs (shelved 30 times as music)
avg rating 3.86 — 418 ratings — published 2003
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Scar Tissue (Paperback)
by Anthony Kiedis (shelved 30 times as music)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,674 ratings — published 2004
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England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond (Paperback)
by Jon Savage (shelved 30 times as music)
avg rating 4.03 — 391 ratings — published 1991
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The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star (Hardcover)
by Nikki Sixx (shelved 30 times as music)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,723 ratings — published 2005
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Wilco: Learning How to Die (Paperback)
by Greg Kot (shelved 29 times as music)
avg rating 3.71 — 353 ratings — published 2004
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The Real Frank Zappa Book (Picador Books)
by Frank Zappa (shelved 28 times as music)
avg rating 4.17 — 537 ratings — published 1989
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Bound for Glory (Plume)
by Woody Guthrie (shelved 27 times as music)
avg rating 4.15 — 675 ratings — published 1969
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The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes = The Invisible Republic (Paperback)
by Greil Marcus (shelved 27 times as music)
avg rating 3.85 — 326 ratings — published 1998
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The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years 1962-1970 (Paperback)
by Mark Lewisohn (shelved 26 times as music)
avg rating 4.51 — 181 ratings — published 1993
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Rock On: An Office Power Ballad (Paperback)
by Dan Kennedy (shelved 26 times as music)
avg rating 3.35 — 851 ratings — published 2008
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (Paperback)
by Jeff Chang (shelved 25 times as music)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,039 ratings — published 2005
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We Got the Neutron Bomb : The Untold Story of L.A. Punk (Paperback)
by Marc Spitz (shelved 24 times as music)
avg rating 3.78 — 390 ratings — published 2001
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"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on."
— John Keats
— John Keats
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"If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience."
— John Cage
— John Cage
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The Light and The Music -- A Lord and Lady Myth of Oesha
1 chapters — updated Aug 06, 2008 10:52AM — 30 people liked it
1 chapters — updated Aug 06, 2008 10:52AM — 30 people liked it
