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The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion
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Compiled by the staff and contributors of Mojo magazine, The Mojo Collection tells the stories behind the greatest albums of all time and the artists who made them.
Paperback, third edition, 868 pages
Published
October 6th 2003
by Canongate Books
(first published August 9th 2001)
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The non-Classical long-player had a good commercial run, and The MOJO Collection, compiled by writers for the UK-published MOJO Magazine, chronologically assembles more than 1,700 definitive LP titles from the format’s history. Using brief but informative essays to highlight each album’s artistic, commercial, cultural, and stylistic merits (or sometimes demerits!), the authors trace the popular LP’s rise (1950s), dominance (1960s-70s), decline (1980s), fall (1990s), and retro revival (2000s). Ad
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I'm going to mark this book as "read" as it's been sitting on this list for so long. In reality I'm embarked on a long project of collecting/listening to every album, starting with the jazz.
So far everything I've listened to from this book's recommendations has been great, without exception.
If you find yourself jaded with the music pushed at you by the music press and media in general give it a try, there's plenty here to make you smile!
So far everything I've listened to from this book's recommendations has been great, without exception.
If you find yourself jaded with the music pushed at you by the music press and media in general give it a try, there's plenty here to make you smile!
This is the kind of reference book that you could read forever, and at the rate I read, it may be forever... It's a very cool anthology of Mojo Magazine's choices for the greatest albums ever since the late 50s. Amazing music.
For the most part some great music. So much was left out of some decades and some very fine artists were not mentioned in most genres. Definitely a great rock reference guide. with a little jazz an blues thrown in.
If I could give it 6stars I would. Brilliant reference collection even if I don't agree with all of them.
Fans of the magazine already know the quality of the writing in the articles and reviews..
This book is a great resource for discovering music and building music collections.
This book is a great resource for discovering music and building music collections.
Jan 02, 2008
Johnny
rated it
it was amazing
Recommends it for:
rock nerds.
Recommended to Johnny by:
the ghost of Freddie Mercury
I am constantly reading this awesome reference book. All the rock and/or roll that you will ever need. Fuck yeah!
There are lots of cool facts in this book about musicians.
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