Books about Music, Artists and Vinyl Records
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Carole King's Tapestry - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Carole King's Tapestry is both an anthemic embodiment of second-wave feminism and an apotheosi...
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Patti Smith's Horses - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Described as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept w...
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LCD Soundsystem’s Sound Of Silver - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details When LCD Soundsystem broke up in 2011, they left behind a small but remarkable catalog of musi...
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Suicide's Suicide - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details New York City in the 1970s was an urban nightmare: destitute, dirty, and dangerous. As the cou...
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Miles Davis' Bitches Brew - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynami...
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The Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details The Jesus and Mary Chain's swooning debut Psychocandy seared through the underground and throu...
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Steely Dan's Aja - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Aja was the album that made Steely Dan a commercial force on the order of contemporaries like F...
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Elliott Smith's XO - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Many albums could be cited to support the claim that great suffering yields great art. Elliott ...
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Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Like all double albums, Songs in the Key of Life is imperfect but audacious. If its titular co...
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The Pixies' Doolittle - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details The Pixies have had a career unlike any other in alternative rock, disappearing as not-quite-th...
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Lou Reed's Transformer - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Transformer, Lou Reed's most enduringly popular album, is described with varying labels: it's o...
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Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Of all the recordings to emerge from the Athens-via-Denver collective called Elephant 6, Neutra...
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Blondie's Parallel Lines - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Blondie's Parallel Lines mixed punk, disco and radio-friendly FM rock with nostalgic influence...
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J Dilla's Donuts - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of record...
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Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Kanye West created the most compelling body o...
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Dinosaur Jr.'s You're Living All Over Me - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details 1985. Dinosaur, still without the Jr. Not hardcore anymore, but not yet anything else either. ...
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Radiohead's OK Computer - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Seemingly granted 'classic album' status within days of its release in 1997, OK Computer transf...
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Slayer's Reign in Blood - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Issued on America's premier rap label at the peak of the thrash metal movement, Slayer's contro...
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Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Breaking the global record for streams in a single day, nearly 10 million people around the wo...
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Devo's Freedom of Choice - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Finally, after all that waiting, The Future arrived in 1980. Ohio art-rockers Devo had plainly...
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Pavement's Wowee Zowee - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Pavement wrapped up at Easley Recording in Memphis. They mixed the tracks and recorded overdub...
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Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Christopher R. Weingarten provides a thrilling account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a s...
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The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Derided as one-hit wonders, estranged from their original producer and record label, and in sel...
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The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground and Nico - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than any other album. An...
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Nirvana's In Utero - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Though Nevermind was Nirvana's most commercially successful album, and the record that broke th...
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DJ Shadow's Endtroducing - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details What resonated about Endtroducing when it was released in 1996, and what makes it still resona...
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D’Angelo’s Voodoo - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Voodoo, D'Angelo's much-anticipated 2000 release, set the standard for the musical cycle ordai...
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Oasis' Definitely Maybe - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Oasis's incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire hi...
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Elvis Presley's From Elvis in Memphis - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details "I had to leave town for a little while--" with these words, Elvis Presley truly came home to ...
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Jeff Buckley's Grace - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details The power and influence of Grace increases with each passing year. Here, Daphne Brooks traces ...
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David Bowie's Low - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Los Angeles, 1976. David Bowie is holed up in his Bel-Air mansion, drifting into drug-induced ...
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Tom Waits' Swordfishtrombones - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Two entwined narratives run through the creation of Swordfishtrombones and form the backbone o...
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Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Joy Division's career has often been shrouded by myths. But the truth is surprisingly simple: ...
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Björk's Homogenic - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details In recent years, Björk's artistry has become ever more ambitious and ever more respected. With ...
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Black Sabbath's Master of Reality - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Black Sabbath's Master of Reality has maintained remarkable historical status over several gene...
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Massive Attack’s Blue Lines - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details In 1991, a loose-knit collective released a record called Blue Lines under the name Massive At...
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The Ramones' Ramones - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details What could be more punk rock than a band that never changed, a band that for decades punched ou...
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The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Pet Sounds is, rightly, one of the most celebrated pop albums ever released. It has also been ...
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Love's Forever Changes - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Conceived as the last testament of a charismatic recluse who believed he was about to die, 'For...
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Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Court and Spark is Joni Mitchell's most overt attempt at making a hit record, full of glossy p...
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Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Dusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield's beautiful and bizarre magnum opus, remains as fine a hybr...
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AC DC's Highway To Hell - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Released in 1979, AC/DC's Highway To Hell was the infamous last album recorded with singer Bon...
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The Modern Lovers' The Modern Lovers - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details From the "War on Hippies" to the Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, the story of Modern Lovers is a ...
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Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Electric Ladyland is one of the greatest guitar albums ever made. During the recording process,...
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Talking Heads' Fear of Music - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details It's the summer of 1979. A 15-year-old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Broo...
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Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Daydream Nation is the kind of gorgeous monstrosity (born of extremes, rife with difficulties, ...
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Slint's Spiderland - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Of all the seminal albums to come out in 1991-the year of Nevermind, Loveless, Ten, and Out of...
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PJ Harvey's Rid of Me: A Story - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Rid of Me joins Music From Big Pink by John Niven and Meat is Murder by Joe Pernice as one of ...
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