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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (Hardcover)
by Daniel J. Levitin (shelved 120 times as music)
avg rating 3.61 — 3,576 ratings — published 2006
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Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (Paperback)
by Michael Azerrad (shelved 113 times as music)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,114 ratings — published 2001
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (Paperback)
by Legs McNeil (shelved 113 times as music)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,957 ratings — published 1996
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Chronicles: Volume One (Paperback)
by Bob Dylan (shelved 102 times as music)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,642 ratings — published 2004
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Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time (Hardcover)
by Rob Sheffield (shelved 96 times as music)
avg rating 3.73 — 5,946 ratings — published 2007
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by Oliver W. Sacks (shelved 96 times as music)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,384 ratings — published 2007
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High Fidelity (Paperback)
by Nick Hornby (shelved 91 times as music)
avg rating 3.97 — 20,394 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 85 times as music)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,202 ratings — published 1988
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by Alex Ross (shelved 67 times as music)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,951 ratings — published 2007
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Rip It Up and Start Again (Paperback)
by Simon Reynolds (shelved 64 times as music)
avg rating 4.09 — 609 ratings — published 2005
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Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (Paperback)
by Chuck Klosterman (shelved 62 times as music)
avg rating 3.76 — 6,195 ratings — published 2005
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No One Here Gets Out Alive (Paperback)
by Daniel Sugerman (shelved 60 times as music)
avg rating 3.66 — 2,001 ratings — published 1980
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Fargo Rock City : A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota (Paperback)
by Chuck Klosterman (shelved 57 times as music)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,000 ratings — published 2001
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Songbook (Paperback)
by Nick Hornby (shelved 56 times as music)
avg rating 3.56 — 2,436 ratings — published 2002
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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band (Paperback)
by Tommy Lee (shelved 55 times as music)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,294 ratings — published 2001
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Hammer of the Gods (Mass Market Paperback)
by Stephen Davis (shelved 50 times as music)
avg rating 3.73 — 762 ratings — published 1985
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Journals (Paperback)
by Kurt Cobain (shelved 42 times as music)
avg rating 3.72 — 819 ratings — published 2002
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The Beatles Anthology (Hardcover)
by George Harrison (shelved 42 times as music)
avg rating 4.53 — 745 ratings — published 2000
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Heavier Than Heaven : A Biography of Kurt Cobain (Hardcover)
by Charles R. Cross (shelved 38 times as music)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,034 ratings — published 2001
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Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by Greil Marcus (shelved 38 times as music)
avg rating 3.95 — 861 ratings — published 1989
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Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground New Edition (Paperback)
by Michael Moynihan (shelved 38 times as music)
avg rating 3.76 — 671 ratings — published 1998
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Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (Hardcover)
by Rachel Cohn (shelved 38 times as music)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,038 ratings — published 2006
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Clapton: The Autobiography (Hardcover)
by Eric Clapton (shelved 37 times as music)
avg rating 3.53 — 2,283 ratings — published 2007
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The Long Hard Road Out of Hell (Paperback)
by Marilyn Manson (shelved 36 times as music)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,490 ratings — published 1998
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Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll: Fourth Edition (Paperback)
by Greil Marcus (shelved 36 times as music)
avg rating 4.08 — 342 ratings — published 1975
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Cash: The Autobiography (Paperback)
by Johnny Cash (shelved 35 times as music)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,927 ratings — published 1997
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Miles (Paperback)
by Miles Davis (shelved 35 times as music)
avg rating 4.22 — 908 ratings — published 1990
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Shakey: Neil Young's Biography (Paperback)
by Jimmy Mcdonough (shelved 35 times as music)
avg rating 4.09 — 564 ratings — published 2002
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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 — 563 ratings — published 2005
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Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Paperback)
by Chuck Klosterman (shelved 32 times as music)
avg rating 3.71 — 16,740 ratings — published 2003
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The Beatles: The Biography (Paperback)
by Bob Spitz (shelved 32 times as music)
avg rating 4.11 — 948 ratings — published 2006
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Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis & Joy Division (Paperback)
by Deborah Curtis (shelved 32 times as music)
avg rating 3.74 — 556 ratings — published 1996
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What to Listen for in Music (Paperback)
by Aaron Copland (shelved 32 times as music)
avg rating 3.77 — 280 ratings — published 1939
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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 — 790 ratings — published 1994
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Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana (Paperback)
by Michael Azerrad (shelved 31 times as music)
avg rating 3.80 — 563 ratings — published 1993
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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 3.85 — 401 ratings — published 2003
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Perfect from Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life (Hardcover)
by John Sellers (Goodreads author) (shelved 30 times as music)
avg rating 3.07 — 446 ratings — published 2007
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Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic (Paperback)
by Jim Derogatis (shelved 30 times as music)
avg rating 3.70 — 378 ratings — published 2000
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I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie (Paperback)
by Pamela Des Barres (shelved 29 times as music)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,141 ratings — published 1987
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England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond (Paperback)
by Jon Savage (shelved 28 times as music)
avg rating 4.03 — 375 ratings — published 1991
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Wilco: Learning How to Die (Paperback)
by Greg Kot (shelved 27 times as music)
avg rating 3.72 — 339 ratings — published 2004
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The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star (Hardcover)
by Nikki Sixx (shelved 27 times as music)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,644 ratings — published 2005
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Scar Tissue (Paperback)
by Anthony Kiedis (shelved 26 times as music)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,510 ratings — published 2004
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The Real Frank Zappa Book (Picador Books)
by Frank Zappa (shelved 26 times as music)
avg rating 4.18 — 508 ratings — published 1989
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Rock On: An Office Power Ballad (Paperback)
by Dan Kennedy (shelved 26 times as music)
avg rating 3.36 — 831 ratings — published 2008
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The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years 1962-1970 (Paperback)
by Mark Lewisohn (shelved 25 times as music)
avg rating 4.51 — 164 ratings — published 1993
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The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes = The Invisible Republic (Paperback)
by Greil Marcus (shelved 24 times as music)
avg rating 3.86 — 313 ratings — published 1998
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (Paperback)
by Jeff Chang (shelved 24 times as music)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,010 ratings — published 2005
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Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation (Paperback)
by Philip Norman (shelved 23 times as music)
avg rating 3.83 — 398 ratings — published 1981
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We Got the Neutron Bomb : The Untold Story of L.A. Punk (Paperback)
by Marc Spitz (shelved 23 times as music)
avg rating 3.78 — 372 ratings — published 2001
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"If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagerise or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall."
— Morrissey
— Morrissey
"Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read."
— Frank Zappa (The Real Frank Zappa Book)
— Frank Zappa (The Real Frank Zappa Book)
