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My dad always gets me an Amazon gift card for Christmas (using his air miles, I believe lol) so I'm once again trying to figure out what to do with that. Ordered a good number of books already, many for Kindle because they're cheap. These are all from deep cuts' YouTube video on music book recs, which feels a little basic but oh well:
Ocean of Sound: Ambient Sound and Radical Listening in the Age of Communication (David Troop)
As Serious as Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution 1957 to 1977 (Val Wilmer)
Comfortably Numb (alternatively Pigs Might Fly): the Inside Story of Pink Floyd (Mark Blake)
And then the one I bought in hardcover was Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music 1968 to the Present (JR Moores). There were some complaints in the Amazon reviews about a lot of acts getting left out of this tapestry, including MC5, Rainbow, Deep Purple, and so on, which I also find annoying because I think those are pretty important bands, (how do you leave out Rainbow, who originated Monsters of Rock, which later became Download Festival? How do you leave out MC5, who begat Rage Against the Machine?) But I imagine it will be a fun read nonetheless.
There was a book that came out this year called Major Labels that I'm looking at, which is sort of a broad history of pop music spanning seven genres (country, rock, punk, pop, hip hop, dance and r&b). Also looking at some Alex Ross stuff.
Any recs on a Grateful Dead book, specifically? I'm looking mainly at Playing with the Band and the Jerry book that his roadie wrote that I think they're basing that Jonah Hill movie on (Home Before Daylight).
These look like some great picks! Will have to look into some of them.
Do you want a good read or will a whimsical GD book do? The Very Best Dead Letters by Paul Grushkin is one of my favorites to own and look at again and again.
The books I have read and recommend from over the last year, music and non-music are as follows:
How to Write One Song--Jeff Tweedy How Music Works--David Byrne Talking to Strangers--Malcolm Gladwell Atomic Habits--James Clear Things Fall Apart--Chinua Achebe A Promised Land--Barack Obama Grant--Ron Chernow The Seat of the Soul--Gary Zukav The Tibetan Book of the Dead--Padmasambhava When Things Fall Apart--Pema Chodron How to Change Your Mind--Michael Pollan
I haven't read these this year, but I also love the "Found" series. As you can tell, I like also like some light hearted books to keep around and browse through. This series is one of my favorites.
EDIT: I should clarify the Found series by Davy Rothbart. Shit that people have found from around the world. Photos, letters etc. Touching stuff, shocking sometimes, funny.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
Post by piggy pablo on Dec 31, 2021 17:53:52 GMT -5
I was thinking about How to Change Your Mind. Have you read Botany of Desire? It's four chapters about humankind's history with/cultivation of apples, potatoes, cannabis, and tulips.
I was thinking about How to Change Your Mind. Have you read Botany of Desire? It's four chapters about humankind's history with/cultivation of apples, potatoes, cannabis, and tulips.
I have not, but I need to. I'll place it on the list. Thank you for the nudge.
In the same vein, Food of the Gods by McKenna is wonderful if you have not read that one.
So silly, I am looking through one of those Found books. I don't know why these tickle me so. These photos someone found in belongings abandoned in an apartment in NYC. Awwww.
We're all a mess of paradoxes. Believing in things we know can't be true. We walk around carrying feelings too complicated and contradictory to express. But when it all becomes too big, and words aren't enough to help get it all out, there's always music.
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Post by 3post1jack1 on Feb 15, 2022 18:31:58 GMT -5
super quick read, and i think necessary reading for anyone who enjoys modern crime drama. the book is 80% dialogue and the dialogue is brilliant. you can hear the cadence and tone of the voices in your head and it sounds just like every good crime TV show ever. feels like a pretty straight line from this to The Wire.
the story is pretty classic too. won't spoil it but you'll see it coming from a mile away because, again, you've heard some version of this story told over and over again.
I just finished Endless Endless by Adam Clair. If you really like the bands on Elephant 6 then I'd recommend it. Led Zeppelin by Bob Spitz was good. The Storyteller by Dave Grohl was my favorite out of those three though.
Didn't see it mentioned yet, and it's mostly NOT about music, but Michelle Zauner's book from last year is terrific.
I didn't go into the book as some massive Japanese Breakfast fan, but it's a book that is emotionally deep (life/death/loss/family) enough that you can't help but appreciate her music more. Even if she is booked at every single festival this year.
Last night I finished Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem trilogy. Started reading the series at the beginning of the month.
This series has been stuck in my head since I read it last summer. Masterful. Super worried that the GoT guys ruin this since it’s getting adapted for Netflix.
Read N.K. Jemison’s The Broken Earth trilogy over Xmas / January and really liked it as well. Another fantastic new SyFy / fantasy series.
Sorry if I already recommended this to you but "Rip It Up and Start Again: Post Punk 1978-1984" by Simon Reynolds is great.
Been thinking about that one. Working my way through Electric Wizards and a Pink Floyd bio (Comfortably Numb?), then probably going on to As Serious As Your Life.
Also gonna finish up Agents of Dreamland (sci-fi/horror) as a warm-up to the Southern Reach trilogy, which I got a couple months earlier than expected.
Read N.K. Jemison’s The Broken Earth trilogy over Xmas / January and really liked it as well. Another fantastic new SyFy / fantasy series.
the fifth season just came up in my library queue today. i think it was recommended to me by someone here, so i'm glad to hear you liked it as well.
I recommended the series to one of my reader friends and she read all 3 books in like 8 days so I haven’t heard any bad feedback. Each book in the series won the Hugo as well which is unheard of.
Been making my way through The Expanse books. More slowly than I'd like, but also doing the Demon Slayer manga and the Strugatsky bros novels. The thing I love about The Expanse is how consistent it is. Whatever Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck's creative process is it works really well and it's clear they had a well laid out map for where they were going. Impressive they were able to spit out a large 9 book, 4,500+ page story with a world as immersive and detailed as this one in only a decade. It makes a great companion piece to the show adaptation as well. I don't think one is better than the other, they complement each other well.
Been making my way through The Expanse books. More slowly than I'd like, but also doing the Demon Slayer manga and the Strugatsky bros novels. The thing I love about The Expanse is how consistent it is. Whatever Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck's creative process is it works really well and it's clear they had a well laid out map for where they were going. Impressive they were able to spit out a large 9 book, 4,500+ page story with a world as immersive and detailed as this one in only a decade. It makes a great companion piece to the show adaptation as well. I don't think one is better than the other, they complement each other well.
Expanse was a nice surprise. Really enjoyed the tech and signal warfare aspects. I remember trying the show briefly and not getting into it (visceral reaction to miller's fedora,) but once I finished Nemesis games I gave it another spin and liked it.
Been making my way through The Expanse books. More slowly than I'd like, but also doing the Demon Slayer manga and the Strugatsky bros novels. The thing I love about The Expanse is how consistent it is. Whatever Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck's creative process is it works really well and it's clear they had a well laid out map for where they were going. Impressive they were able to spit out a large 9 book, 4,500+ page story with a world as immersive and detailed as this one in only a decade. It makes a great companion piece to the show adaptation as well. I don't think one is better than the other, they complement each other well.
Expanse was a nice surprise. Really enjoyed the tech and signal warfare aspects. I remember trying the show briefly and not getting into it (visceral reaction to miller's fedora,) but once I finished Nemesis games I gave it another spin and liked it.
Yeah I've tried to turn a few people onto the show, and some had trouble getting through season 1. Miller is an awesome character despite his fedora, but the missing girl story arc doesn't juxtapose well on-screen with interplanetary spaceship battles. Just less exciting. Leviathan Wakes was a little better there balancing it out I think. Just finished Cibola Burn and starting Nemesis Games. I've heard that if you loved Cibola Burn, which I did, then you'll probably not really enjoy Nemesis Games.
The Expanse is great. Both the books and the show. I’ve read the first 7 books. I own the 8th and am waiting for the 9th to come out in paperback to buy so my full set is the same. I’ll read the last 2 books together.
Finished S6 of the Expanse on Amazon. Bummed that it’s “ending” but it’s a great 6 seasons.
The Expanse is great. Both the books and the show. I’ve read the first 7 books. I own the 8th and am waiting for the 9th to come out in paperback to buy so my full set is the same. I’ll read the last 2 books together.
Finished S6 of the Expanse on Amazon. Bummed that it’s “ending” but it’s a great 6 seasons.
I haven’t watched the final season so no spoilers but are they just ending on whatever book the show made it to? Not like condensing a bunch of stuff?
The Expanse is great. Both the books and the show. I’ve read the first 7 books. I own the 8th and am waiting for the 9th to come out in paperback to buy so my full set is the same. I’ll read the last 2 books together.
Finished S6 of the Expanse on Amazon. Bummed that it’s “ending” but it’s a great 6 seasons.
I haven’t watched the final season so no spoilers but are they just ending on whatever book the show made it to? Not like condensing a bunch of stuff?
Right. It adapts only the sixth book and one of the short stories in a somewhat rushed but still satisfactory way. They definitely leave it open to revisit down the road. There's the significant time jump between books 6 and 7 anyway so it could easily work.
+1 for both How to Change Your Mind and How Music Works. Currently reading Pollan’s latest, This Is Your Mind On Plants. It’s pretty good so far. And by that I mean I read a chapter two months ago and I don’t remember disliking it.
I'm in the middle of The Chitlin' Circuit and the road to rock n roll by Preston Lauterbach. It's about the rise of "black music"/entertainment in clubs in the south/midewest during segregation. where artists like early delta blues guys, sammy davis jr., little richard, etc. got their start and the network of promotors and talent bookers who established a sort of underground enterainment circuit. Great history with lots of first hand accounts, written by a guy from Memphis who also has some other great books about the history in memphis (beale street as a hub of black entrepreneurship and a biography of a photographer who covered the civil rights movement).
Post by piggy pablo on Feb 17, 2022 10:03:19 GMT -5
That sounds super interesting.
I was reading Black Vinyl White Powder over Thanksgiving. It's about the history of pop music in England, written by Simon Bell who was the manager of the Yardbirds at one point. You might like it. I need to pick it back up and finish it.
Currently, I’m reading Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann. It’s about the oil rush in Oklahoma in Osage territory in the early 20th century and how the Osage Indians became the wealthiest people per capita but then started mysteriously dying and how the newly created FBI under J Edgar Hoover investigated it.
Currently, I’m reading Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann. It’s about the oil rush in Oklahoma in Osage territory in the early 20th century and how the Osage Indians became the wealthiest people per capita but then started mysteriously dying and how the newly created FBI under J Edgar Hoover investigated it.
Soon to be a Scorcese movie! And Jason isbells in it.
feel like this was posted about elsewhere but can't remember where.
anyway sanderson had a $1,000,000 goal and has raised $26,806,062 from this kickstarter.
EDIT: oh cool i didn't know kickstarters embedded here.
so this is fun. do to the overwhelming success of the kickstarter, sanderson and his team decided to back every single publishing related kickstarter on kickstarter. someone on reddit added it up and it looks like he backed about 317 projects.
excerpt from Sona Movsesian's new book. i'm going to have to read this.
I listened to the audiobook, so worth it. There's a part where Sona describes herself annoying her coworkers in British accents and she actually does the accents while narrating, would recommend that version if possible
