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Popular Music Books
Popular Music Books
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This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (Hardcover)
by Daniel J. Levitin (shelved 520 times as music)
avg rating 3.83 — 39,038 ratings — published 2006
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Hardcover)
by Oliver Sacks (Goodreads Author) (shelved 500 times as music)
avg rating 3.84 — 35,721 ratings — published 2007
High Fidelity (Paperback)
by Nick Hornby (shelved 434 times as music)
avg rating 3.94 — 113,720 ratings — published 1995
Chronicles, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by Bob Dylan (shelved 393 times as music)
avg rating 4.00 — 27,683 ratings — published 2004
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (An Evergreen book)
by Legs McNeil (shelved 390 times as music)
avg rating 4.18 — 20,459 ratings — published 1996
Life (Hardcover)
by Keith Richards (shelved 376 times as music)
avg rating 3.82 — 47,163 ratings — published 2010
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by Alex Ross (shelved 357 times as music)
avg rating 4.18 — 10,158 ratings — published 2007
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 (Paperback)
by Michael Azerrad (shelved 355 times as music)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,834 ratings — published 2001
Love is a Mix Tape (Hardcover)
by Rob Sheffield (shelved 334 times as music)
avg rating 3.82 — 27,151 ratings — published 2007
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (Paperback)
by Lester Bangs (shelved 237 times as music)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,935 ratings — published 1987
The Dirt: Confessions Of The World's Most Notorious Rock Band (Paperback)
by Tommy Lee (shelved 229 times as music)
avg rating 4.17 — 17,002 ratings — published 2001
Songbook (Paperback)
by Nick Hornby (shelved 227 times as music)
avg rating 3.58 — 10,575 ratings — published 2002
A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by Jennifer Egan (Goodreads Author) (shelved 226 times as music)
avg rating 3.63 — 107,981 ratings — published 2010
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (Hardcover)
by Rachel Cohn (shelved 202 times as music)
avg rating 3.77 — 57,966 ratings — published 2006
Scar Tissue (Paperback)
by Anthony Kiedis (shelved 200 times as music)
avg rating 4.04 — 28,839 ratings — published 2004
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (Paperback)
by Chuck Klosterman (shelved 195 times as music)
avg rating 3.84 — 23,678 ratings — published 2005
Miles: The Autobiography (Paperback)
by Miles Davis (shelved 181 times as music)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,099 ratings — published 1989
Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota (Paperback)
by Chuck Klosterman (shelved 181 times as music)
avg rating 3.76 — 11,168 ratings — published 2001
Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain (Hardcover)
by Charles R. Cross (shelved 181 times as music)
avg rating 4.02 — 17,071 ratings — published 2001
The Beatles Anthology (Hardcover)
by The Beatles (shelved 177 times as music)
avg rating 4.43 — 12,630 ratings — published 2000
Hammer of the Gods (Paperback)
by Stephen Davis (shelved 176 times as music)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,529 ratings — published 1985
Cash (Paperback)
by Johnny Cash (shelved 172 times as music)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,584 ratings — published 1997
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by Gayle Forman (shelved 172 times as music)
avg rating 4.00 — 130,959 ratings — published 2009
What to Listen for in Music (Revised Edition)
by Aaron Copland (shelved 170 times as music)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,175 ratings — published 1939
The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star (Hardcover)
by Nikki Sixx (shelved 158 times as music)
avg rating 4.09 — 16,514 ratings — published 2005
The Long Hard Road Out of Hell (Paperback)
by Marilyn Manson (shelved 158 times as music)
avg rating 3.84 — 16,763 ratings — published 1998
Where She Went (If I Stay, #2)
by Gayle Forman (shelved 155 times as music)
avg rating 4.19 — 71,794 ratings — published 2010
Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division (Paperback)
by Deborah Curtis (shelved 152 times as music)
avg rating 3.87 — 5,650 ratings — published 1995
Journals (Paperback)
by Kurt Cobain (shelved 149 times as music)
avg rating 3.91 — 9,413 ratings — published 2002
Slash (Hardcover)
by Slash (shelved 148 times as music)
avg rating 3.89 — 12,689 ratings — published 2007
I am Ozzy (Hardcover)
by Ozzy Osbourne (shelved 144 times as music)
avg rating 4.07 — 13,305 ratings — published 2009
The Beatles: The Biography (Paperback)
by Bob Spitz (shelved 142 times as music)
avg rating 4.13 — 9,668 ratings — published 2005
England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond (Paperback)
by Jon Savage (shelved 138 times as music)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,540 ratings — published
I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie (Paperback)
by Pamela Des Barres (shelved 136 times as music)
avg rating 3.66 — 12,140 ratings — published 1987
Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut (Hardcover)
by Rob Sheffield (shelved 133 times as music)
avg rating 3.58 — 10,233 ratings — published 2010
Shakey: Neil Young's Biography (Paperback)
by Jimmy McDonough (shelved 126 times as music)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,787 ratings — published 2002
Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground New Edition (Paperback)
by Michael Moynihan (shelved 126 times as music)
avg rating 3.76 — 4,125 ratings — published 1998
Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag (Paperback)
by Henry Rollins (shelved 124 times as music)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,055 ratings — published
Revolution In The Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties (Paperback)
by Ian Macdonald (shelved 118 times as music)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,086 ratings — published 1994
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (Paperback)
by Chuck Klosterman (shelved 115 times as music)
avg rating 3.74 — 61,403 ratings — published 2003
Juliet, Naked (Hardcover)
by Nick Hornby (shelved 115 times as music)
avg rating 3.48 — 28,177 ratings — published 2009
Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll (Paperback)
by Greil Marcus (shelved 114 times as music)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,280 ratings — published 1975
The Real Frank Zappa Book (Paperback)
by Frank Zappa (shelved 114 times as music)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,611 ratings — published 1989
How Music Works (Hardcover)
by David Byrne (shelved 114 times as music)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,251 ratings — published 2012
Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (Paperback)
by Sara Marcus (Goodreads Author) (shelved 111 times as music)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,688 ratings — published 2010
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by Greil Marcus (shelved 110 times as music)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,183 ratings — published 1989
Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana (Paperback)
by Michael Azerrad (shelved 108 times as music)
avg rating 3.90 — 5,418 ratings — published 1993
Five Flavors of Dumb (Hardcover)
by Antony John (Goodreads Author) (shelved 108 times as music)
avg rating 3.96 — 11,119 ratings — published 2010
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (Paperback)
by Jeff Chang (shelved 105 times as music)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,733 ratings — published 2005
Just Listen (Hardcover)
by Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author) (shelved 103 times as music)
avg rating 4.11 — 134,734 ratings — published 2006
“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
― Friedrich Nietzsche
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