Observer Music Monthly the 50 greatest music books ever

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anhhh

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this thread could be in art, literature, etc. i know...

seems like many writers that work there didn't get in the list (mr. reynolds, mr. morley, mr. gillett,... but charles shaar murray is there so....

check: here, here, also here and the rest

(by the way, music books = biography books about rock stars ?)
 
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gek-opel

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if you read the end piece at the bottom it says that they excluded all books written by their own contributors... ie- Reynolds, Morely et al....
 
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gek-opel said:
if you read the end piece at the bottom it says that they excluded all books written by their own contributors... ie- Reynolds, Morely et al....
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Oh yeah! and i was shootin' my mouth off about that earlier. wotta prick :eek:
 
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Logos

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gek-opel said:
if you read the end piece at the bottom it says that they excluded all books written by their own contributors... ie- Reynolds, Morely et al....
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Whats the point of that? Its not like British journalism isn't full of nepotism anyway. And the 'reason' they gave is pathetic.
 
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gek-opel

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It does seem stoopid, especially as they end up with a pretty dire looking list as an end result...
 
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gek-opel said:
It does seem stoopid, especially as they end up with a pretty dire looking list as an end result...
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yes, the more i think about it - its bollox, isn't it? why bother assembling a list like that when you're deliberately excluding some top-drawer tomes? its typical of that none-competitive stance you see so often...no one can be seen to 'lose' or be offended, so just remove them altogether. wank.
 
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big satan

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they should of included joe carducci's book as that's the best writing on rock that i've ever read. greil marcus is a twat, and didn't that Our Band Could Be Your Life book get written off by all the bands azzerad wrote about?
 
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Rachel Verinder

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Robbie Williams' biography is apparently the third greatest music book ever written.

Val Wilmer's As Serious As Your Life is conspicuous by its absence.

I think that tells us all we need to know about this latest sponsored exercise in deliberate idiocy.
 
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Rambler

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"There was always the danger that the list would veer towards the canonical"

... at the bottom of a list entitled "the 50 greatest music books ever".

ROFL doesn't come close.
 
subvert47

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I don't fight, I run away
4. England's Dreaming by Jon Savage
Faber, 1991

ok :)


35. This is Serbia Calling by Matthew Collin
Serpent's Tail, 2001

bah. Altered State is much better.
(and MC has written stuff for the Observer)
 
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