>>129250902>Cass Elliot's father's brother's cousin's wife's sister's high school friend's priest's pen pal just happened to be a jeep driver in the air force. COINCIDENCE? I think not!Wow. Shocking, brave, hard-hitting investigative journalism right there Mr. McGowan. Also it's time for your meds.
>>129250960haven't read this book but considering the British government's role in Britpop (speculated) ,and the CIA's role in American abstract expressionism* (confirmed), it's not a too much of a stretch*often erroneously referred to as 'modern art'
>>129251000>the British government's role in Britpop (speculated)...by a man who fried his brains on acid 40 years ago
>>129250960I agree although it is interesting Mama Cass had two boyfriends(at the same time) who were both drug dealers who might have been intelligence agents of some description - that’s what they claimed anyway. They were also involved with a guy who was killed by the Manson Family- they might have even known them.I’d advise CHAOS - it’s not strictly speaking a music book but it goes into these matters a lot. And the author actually tries to prove his claims and doesn’t speculate. It might actually be a greater book than people realized since he found documents on MKUltra that weren’t publicly known before.
>oh cool a book thr->its the same autist shilling that one stupid book once againthis fucking shit website is BURIED, we only lose posters, i havent read a single new poster in ages, lets close this POS board forever man
>>129251103then leave
>>129251111kys fed piece of shit
>>129251152Oh course he isn’t a fed- fool
>>129250902I liked reading it, the whole thing is online.it's interesting to think about and just reading about the scene is cool but yeah it's all circumstantial, evidence is not anything he's concerned with, just allegations. he also thinks the moon landing was fake.I reread Please Kill Me every now and then.when it comes to himself, Legs says he invented the word Punk as it refers to rock, but this is false. however, that part of the book is just a few paragraphs and for everything else he employs conflicting interviews that call out each-others' bullshit so it's cool for that.
>>129251315to add, w/r/t the perennial "did he do it?" threads here on this board, there's a whole chapter about Sid and Nancy told by people that actually knew them and who were actually at their hotel room party that night.
>>129251315Dave McGowan said several times he was gonna do a punk/new wave book too but obviously that wouldn't happen
>ON WALPURGISNACHT OF 1967>THE NEXT DAY, JUST TWO DAYS SHY OF HITLER'S BIRTHDAY>HIS MILITARY SERVICE BEGAN ON ALEISTER CROWLEY'S BIRTHDAY
1. This book is sad as fuck.2. If you’re prone to medical anxiety, I might skip this one.3. Fuck copyright and IP law.4. Your favourite producer’s favourite producer was clearly autistic, just like his buddies Madlib and Questlove and his disciple Kanye.
>>129251641i NEED a book similar to weird scenes that's about glowie/occult shit in the new wave scene and/or the 00s-current day. NEEEED. x only talks about hollywood. boooring, i only care about the music business.
Joel's BJM book is sad, poetic, hilarious and god tier entertaining, good insight into life in a broke psych rock band full of schizo junkies, Joel is a natural writer and storyteller with a great turn of phrase
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>>129250902this is pretty important
I want this Muslimgauze book so bad.
>>129250902>Based on several years' worth of exclusive interviews and unprecedented access to all three bands' personal archives, 'England's Hidden Reverse' is the first, definitive, biography of Nurse With Wound, Coil and Current 93.
>>129252974same author wrote this too. the definitive nirvana/kurt book.
>>129250902written by /ourguy/ big daddy Ott
I've read a lot of hip hop books over the years, but not only is this one the most comprehensive by a wide margin, it's also the best written
>>129250902>>129250902Fairly good and quite important book, however the author has a few shit takes about the music itself in an attempt to shoehorn the theories he presents. Mostly he assumes that bands who weren't longtime professional musicians necessarily write shitty music or couldnt be responsible for writing them. This is demonstrably not the case with a few of the bands he mentions. The fact that so many people just lift this assumption are regurgitate it endlessly is rather tiresome.
>>129252303after Bizzare Ride, the Pharcyde's follow up album was greatly anticipated. my friend in college radio got the advance single "Runnin' '' and let me borrow it to make a tape. I was like "what's it like?!"and she said " ... ... it's... real different "and that was how I heard Dilla the first time.
the Jandek book:https://corwoodindustries.com/product/0127/
>>129250902i read his serial killer boook and it was entertaining but a lot of stretching. takes the least substantiated information and crafts a theory around it. i expect this book to be the same. interested in his moon stuff though.
>>129251010He's not wrong though, Maybe you should try it.
I really enjoyed picrel.
>>129251152>ree you're a fed for posting books about notorious 9/11 truther David McGowannon-sequitur
>>129252570This but for hardcore punk. I want to see if my theory on the CIA funding Revolution Summer was legit. Need some hard-hitting investigative journalism.
>>129253226Thanks for the rec
>>129252992Another good one
>>129252974I had this on paperback years ago
>>129252303He was clearly a victim of medical racism.If you have lupus and pass the brown paper bag test, you will not die from it.
>>129254967>>129252570Anything along these lines?>>129253226Very good. Almost sort've like the above, but only because that scene was full of larpers.
>>129254125>my friend in college radio got the advance single "Runnin' '' and let me borrow it to make a tapeFucking kino. Being able to just Google a song and listen to it within seconds is so soulless.
People shitting on this book for being far fetched may as well claim all the fucked up cults boomers also joined at around the same time in the 60s and 70s were not as wild and messed up as they matter of factly were.
>>129254238He was not strecthing anything. And you know that. Programmed to Kill is an insane book because nothing in it can actually be debunked. Its one of the most meticulously well sourced things I have ever read. I have it.
>>129250902The whole thrust of this is that the quote-unquote serious New Left failed because glowies devised counterculture, no?Sounds like cope to me. And it goes to show that some leftists are nerds and some like to party.
>>129250902i think my favourite books were music biographies. Is that an indicator of low iq
>>129250960And don't doubt for a second they didn't try to sweep that under the rug
>>129252974Great book, even if you don't care about a particular band/bands. For example, I never want to check out Beat Happening but the chapter was very interesting.
true norwegian black metal. it's mostly a photography book but it has loads of iconic images from the scene. i got the first edition signed by peter beste. not sure if it's still in print
>>129250902story of factory records
>The whole thrust of this is that the quote-unquote serious New Left failed because glowies devised counterculture, no?>Sounds like cope to me. And it goes to show that some leftists are nerds and some like to party.
This was an interesting book I found years and years ago at Barnes & Noble. Covers everything from Bjork to Merzbow and in between.
>>129259241>With a Foreword by Robert Fripp
lowkey goated…
>>129250902Tim Drage's (Cementimental) "Harsh Noise Graphic Novel."
>>129259337more
>>129259349Hey, that looks just as annoying as harsh noise sounds! He did a good job.
>>129250902Lisa Suckdog's book is really awesome. Tales of G.G. Allin & Costes among others.
>>129250902Blew my mind to be desu. Too much weirdness to be ignored.
>>129259387Sorry about that.
>>129259509No need to apologize, I was just being an ass. People like different things and honestly it looks like he achieved what he wanted with that book.
Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni Tutti.Chronicles her time in Throbbing Gristle and beyond.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31868331-art-sex-music
"Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys" by Viv Albertine of The Slits.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19246471-clothes-clothes-clothes-music-music-music-boys-boys-boys
>>129259401baste taste, anon
>>129259286Akashic Books is based.
>>129259937>Gina Gershon’s preorder package for her new memoir AlphaPussy is now available!You ain't kidding.
The Unwound Book:>"Unwound: 1991 - 2091"https://unwound.bandcamp.com/merch/unwound-1991-2091>Even now, a third of the way into Unwound’s self-proposed centennial, the idea seems ridiculous. Perhaps more absurd is that to commemorate Unwound’s 2023 reunion we’ve compiled a 252-page, clothbound tome covering their first eleven years as a band. In addition to over 100 photographs and ephemeral miscellany, David Wilcox’s extensive liner notes have been re-edited and expanded into a cohesive narrative, with an illuminating recent conversation with Sara Lund and Justin Trosper to bring greater context to their 20 year hiatus and reconciliation. Unwound: 1991-2091 was printed in edition of 2000 copies and will only be sold at their live dates and right here.
>>129251315>he also thinks the moon landing was fake.And he was right
Elementary, yes...but covers the impact of architecture on music. Great for young folks and plebs alike.
>>129250902>NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Storiesby Jeff Alulis, NOFX, Billy Joe Armstrong (Foreword)>NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories is the first tell-all autobiography from one of the world's most influential and controversial punk bands. Fans and non-fans alike will be shocked by the stories of murder, suicide, addiction, counterfeiting, riots, bondage, terminal illness, the Yakuza, and drinking pee. Told from the perspective of each of the band's members, this book looks back at more than thirty years of comedy, tragedy, and completely inexplicable success.
>>129260235good one
>Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckleyhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43588.Dream_Brother
>Nick Drake: Remembered for a While>The authorised companion to the music of Nick Drake, compiled, composed and edited by Cally Callomon and Gabrielle Drake, with contributions from Nick's friends, critics, adherents, family and from Nick Drake himself.>Remembered For A While is not a biography. It is, rather, an attempt to cast a few shards of light on Nick Drake the poet, the musician, the singer, the friend, son and brother, who was also more than all of these. We hope it will accompany all those in search of an elusive artist, whose haunting presence defies analysis.
>>129250960All the bands from the 60s were just dicking around And cia are also rich kids dicking around the one is dicking around with the guitar the other is dicking around with dictators and governments
>>129260467Misread the title as "Dream Theater" at first
>>129256113>medical racismWhat a disingenuous phrase. Not at all suspect.
>>129250902Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youthby David Browne>Sonic Youth’s distinctive, uncompromising sounds have provided a map for innumerable musicians who followed, from ’90s groundbreakers like Nirvana and Pavement to current faves like the Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. More than perhaps any other act, Sonic Youth has brought “fringe” art to the mainstream, helping spawn an alternative arts scene that prospers to this day: a world of punk rock, underground films and comics, experimental music, conceptual art, contemporary classical compositions, and even fashion. In Goodbye 20th Century, David Browne tells the full glorious story of “the Velvet Underground of their generation,” an account based on extensive research, fresh interviews with the band and those who have worked with them (from Glenn Branca and Lydia Lunch to Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze), and unprecedented access to unreleased recordings and documents. This is a richly detailed portrait of an iconic band and the times they helped create.if you've already read the SY chapter in this book >>129252974 then you may not need this one.
>>129250902Banned in D C: Photos and Anecdotes from the DC Punk UndergroundCovers the whole Washington DC hardcore scene / Dischord records & more of that.
I also loved her documentary "The Punk Singer" too. >A look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the “riot grrrl” movement of the 1990s.https://letterboxd.com/film/the-punk-singer/
>>129261361>>129261267>>129260251>>129259401>>129251315Speaking of punk/post-punk books, this one is essential:>Punk's raw power rejuvenated rock, but by the summer of 1977 the movement had become a parody of itself. RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN is a celebration of what happened next.>Post-punk bands like PiL, Joy Division, Talking Heads, The Fall and The Human League dedicated themselves to fulfilling punk's unfinished musical revolution. The post-punk groups were fervent modernists; whether experimenting with electronics and machine rhythm or adapting ideas from dub reggae and disco, they were totally confident they could invent a whole new future for music.
>>129261361Who taught this woman how to read and write?!
>>129261504>The FallOn that subject, this is a good read but more of a detective story than a music biography.>Ever been thrown off the bus in the middle of a Swedish forest or asked to play at one of the UK's biggest music festivals with musicians you've just met who are covered in blood? If so you've probably been in The Fall. Dave Simpson made it his mission to track down everyone who has ever played in Britain's most berserk, brilliant group. He uncovers a changing Britain, tales of madness and genius, and wreaks havoc on his own life.
Melissa from Montreal
>>129261618nice. ive been meaning to read this.
This came in mail today. Is it good?
>>129254181I'm halfway through this right now and its a funny read but I wish they got a little deeper on the music and not just the rampant autism
Peter Hook's books on Joy Division, The Hacienda, and especially New Order are really entertaining
>>129261504more punk books:Under the Big Black Sun is an interesting collection of stories with Joe Doe Narrating and chapters by Exene Cervenka, jane Wiedlin, Mike Watt and Henry Rollins.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25898106-under-the-big-black-sun>Under the Big Black Sun explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk as it’s never been told before. Authors John Doe and Tom DeSavia have woven together an enthralling story of the legendary west coast scene from 1977-1982 by enlisting the voices of people who were there.
>>129250902Everyone should read this.
>>129250902Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rockby Jesse Jarnow
Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records by Jim Ruland >A no-holds-barred narrative history of the iconic label that brought the world Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, and more, by the co-author of Do What You Want and My Damage.
>>129262060I read this and the Marilyn Manson book when I was a teenager in the 90's
>>129250902My fav book
This one is usually quite polarizing. I enjoyed it though. I actually went to highschool with the authors cousin. The movie was however dogshit.
I have a first edition of this, which I obtained by shoving it down my pants, covering it with my winter coat and walking out of Tower Books . which was difficult, because it's a really big book. I could only get one corner in my waistline.
Very good ref for 50s-60s music.
>>129250902people shit on this book but I read the electric kool aid acid test when I was like 17 and the only thing I got out of it was the grateful dead were obviously getting their LSD and money from the CIA innitially and the west coast hippies and east coast intellectual psyops weren't connected on a lower level. It would be probably nearly a decade before I ever heard of McGowan, and I was a hippie at the time and until I was nearly 30. Nobody who's serious about the grateful dead/phish/psychedelic concerts would deny the influence of the intelligence apparatus. The fact that skinny underage troons on /mu/ screech until their face turns blue that >there's nothing to be found! is hysterical. Everyone knows. We just don't care that much.
Got any Reggae books?
>>129263119You must be the most insufferable person anyone will ever speak with>but I'm actually 1/16 blackI'm sure you are. Anyway have a songhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec_k2CaLtcA
>>129263139its not my picture i found it on google, im just asking for recommendations on roots/ reggae / dub /dancehall whatever books
>>129263192It looks like you already found it then bro, why are you asking a bunch of kpop trannies and a handful of metalheads/hippies?
>>129262652I always read the movie as intentionally unreliable and overly fantasised and romanticised because there’s so much bullshit, Chinese whispers and false information from the early scene anyway. I think a lot of people watch it and think it’s meant to be 1:1. Anyway, the book is a good read. Lots of good lit from that scene. Have you ever read the scans of Dead’s letters online? Very cool, and quite sad.
>>129263220good point
>>129263220because people like to talk to other people in message boards since they might find stuff thats more obscure or not readily available online, you discourse and community disrupting COCKSUCKING FED NIGGER TRASH HOPE YOU KILL YOURSELF SOON
>>129263279Yeah bro I'm sure /mu/ is just overflowing with people fascinated with the origin, history and methodology of jamaican pothead music. Even though the only people who have ever posted about it on this board is fucking me and nico tranny furiously insisting he was the only person who listened to it after I posted it in his threads for a month. That guy is -going- to get an answer, it won't be the books he posted, and it certainly won't be you frantically googling something in a transparent autistic fit to keep acting the way you do and post a book you have and will never read/read.
>>129263300Yeah bro I'm sure /mu/ is just overflowing with people fascinated with the origin, history and methodology of 50s housewife pop. Even though the only people who have ever posted about it on this board is fucking Mitch Miller schizo and nico tranny furiously insisting he was the only person who listened to it after I posted it in his threads for a month.see i can do that too
>>129263139https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh-RqDIj-vw
>>129252303>3. Fuck copyright and IP law.It's not your music fuck off
>>129263119>>129263139>>129263192>>129263279>>129263300>>129263688since no ones is sharing recommendation and instead just arguing, heres one to start with.
>>129263727
some grunge books
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>>129263977bonus Steve Turner>>129263983
>>129263119I have this one
>>129263300Not him but why are you so mad?
>>129264801I am so over Led Zeppelin, man.
>>129260235I really liked the chapter about how sound recording changed the way music is played
>>129263300kek what got this incel's panties in a twist?
>>129257777His account of the Richard Speck killings alone gets a fuck ton of details wrong.
>>129250902Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial MusicS. Alexander Reed>"Industrial" is a descriptor that fans and critics have applied to a remarkable variety of the oildrum pounding of Einstürzende Neubauten, the processed electronic groans of Throbbing Gristle, the drumloop clatter of Skinny Puppy, and the synthpop songcraft of VNV Nation, to name just a few. But the stylistic breadth and subcultural longevity of industrial music suggests that the common ground here might not be any one particular sound, but instead a network of ideologies. This book traces industrial music's attitudes and practices from their earliest articulations--a hundred years ago--through the genre's mid-1970s formation and its development up to the present and beyond.>Taking cues from radical intellectuals like Antonin Artaud, William S. Burroughs, and Guy Debord, industrial musicians sought to dismantle deep cultural assumptions so thoroughly normalized by media, government, and religion as to seem invisible. More extreme than punk, industrial music revolted against the very ideas of order and it sought to strip away the brainwashing that was identity itself. It aspired to provoke, bewilder, and roar with independence. Of course, whether this revolution succeeded is another question.
>>129250902Is this book well researched?
>>129269609if "it came to me in a dream" counts then yeah
>>129269884I was gonna make a "it came to me in a dream" joke but I haven't read the book. Neat!
>>129263977It's very good.
>>129261504I own this>>129262208and this
>>129262652and this too>>129269307and this too
>>129271004>>129271356>>129271370nice :)
>>129250902Brilliant book in the history of DJ ing.
>>129254908what is it about?
>>129252992It looks like this only had 1,000 copies made and never had a PDF (official or otherwise) made. It's a shame, been listening to his stuff on an off for many years and I'd love to read this
>>129271741I like this one because it is meticulous in scope and detail, and meticulously researched, like a textbook. it's definitive but long and plodding at times.it goes from the literal beginning (the early days of radio, where you could first present pre-recorded music instead of broadcasting only live performances.) it goes up until Metalheadz era d&b and the first daft punk album.
>>129250902>inb4 he made it all upDon't care, still great
best /mu/ thread in months, probably years
>>129274661A low bar
>>129274323i was gonna post this one
>>129274661agreed. there are so many gems itt
I’m not sure whether they were ever published in English, but they are considered by many to be the bible of electronic music, covering everything from what could be regarded as the first electronic musical instruments in the 1920s with the Intonarumori, up to the publication date of the second book in 2018.
saw it posted but ill post it again, diff cover. monolithic undertow, an anthropological/musicologist/psychonaut history of drone. from ancient mantras to dude weed lmao crushing 1 hour 2 note riffs. a p nice read.
>>129277486bayzed
from Mr. Bailey.......Improvisation: Its Nature And Practice In MusicDerek Bailey>Derek Bailey's Improvisation , originally published in 1980, and here updated and extended with new interviews and photographs, is the first book to deal with the nature of improvisation in all its forms--Indian music, flamenco, baroque, organ music, rock, jazz, contemporary, and "free" music. By drawing on conversations with some of today's seminal improvisers--including John Zorn, Jerry Garcia, Steve Howe, Steve Lacy, Lionel Salter, Earle Brown, Paco Peña, Max Roach, Evan Parker, and Ronnie Scott--Bailey offers a clear-eyed view of the breathtaking spectrum of possibilities inherent in improvisational practice, while underpinning its importance as the basis for all music-making.
>>129252946>Incredible String Bandhell yeah
>>129261631She is gorgeous ......
>>129252570This but with rave culture
>>129254112Care to expand upon that with some examples?
>>129259608>>129259717been needing to read these two
>>129250902One of my favorite /mu/ books about a great obscure musician
>>129278719
>>129250902if you want to learn some theoryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zEyD8poo2g
>>129252303https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Charnas
>>129265144sad
>>129252303cry evrytim material
>>129254648I read this as a teenager. sucks that dave had to leave the band. his drumming is part of what makes the early pearl jam sound so iconic.
>>129260021I want this thing so bad.
>>129287790looks like it's still available on their bandcamp via numero grouphttps://unwound.bandcamp.com/merch/unwound-1991-2091
>>129253226I was going this one. Hmppphf~I managed to get a copy on Abebooks for like $20. I MIGHT try to get David to sign it later this year. It's one of my prized possessionsI can't find pic related at a price that doesn't make me want to cry, but it's a bit shit anyways (I think this guy's interpretations are straight up wrong, even silly) so it's fine
>>129287826you gonna see tibet live?
They're selling this shit for $600 dollars. Can somebody please just do another edition??>>129263222The movie's fun and while I don't hate Varg, he pisses me off sometimes with his anti-Med and pro-injun-posting so I like to see him humbled
>>129287836If I can save enough to make it to Berlin with my bf in fall. I already got the tickets.I'll resell them if I can't do it. Tibet might be the only artist still producing music that I really like and I want to see him in person before he retires or passes away or something
>>129264801I really need to get around to reading this.
so, I heard about this reading an old Option mag interview with Thurston and Mike D, and Thurston told him "dude you really need to read that fucking book."I read the first couple chapters at a friend's house and it was really good, it starts with the french Situationist International events.
>>129287393>early pearl jammusic by midwits, for midwits
>>129264801In Through the Out Door was supposed to have been released prior to the Knebworth shows, but the usual delays prevented this, as well as the three-song EP Jimmy had wanted to do. Instead, In Through the Out Door came out in the late summer and promptly saved the American record industry from pandemic bankruptcy. The previous year, impressed by the enormous media attention lavished on the New Wave bands, the record companies had gone out and signed young musicians who barely knew how to play their instruments. Only a few of these bands—the Sex Pistols and the Clash, for example—had enough rebellious attitude and animal magnetism to overcome the fact they couldn't really play. In America nobody bought these records. The suburban kids, who had once purchased millions of rock records and pumped up the music business into a multibillion-dollar industry, hated the punks and detested New Wave. What they wanted was Led Zeppelin and its clones—Black Sabbath, Heart, Cheap Trick, and Foreigner (which was actually more a clone of the ever popular Bad Company). In the high schools, the New Wave fashions and the punk ideology were for losers and nerds. In the high schools of the late 1970s, Led Zeppelin and the Pittsburgh Steelers, in the words of writer David Owen, "drifted together in a vague continuum of big money, fast cars, and prestige." At a time when American record stores were empty of customers. In Through the Out Door brought so. many kids into the shops that the badly slumped industry: got a huge boost overnight as the Zeppelin customers began buying other hard rock bands as well. Trade publications like Billboard ran articles implying that Led Zeppelin had rescued the entire pop music business from an early oblivion.
>>129260900>Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic YouthIncredibly boring book because whatever you think of their music, they were, and continue to be, extremely boring people.
>>129271863NTA but I read it a few years ago and loved it but my memory is somewhat spotty. Basically it's about drone and the concept of drone and how various artists have used drone as a means of forming a bedrock of music
>>129263119if you haven't read catch a fire then by all means do.
>>129278719kraftwerk were good, but penguin good? idk
>>129277697Too bad she has my sister's name
>>129250902I love dis nigga. I think PtK is structured a lot better than this book tho.
>>129295495this is a great one
