Books about Music, Artists and Vinyl Records
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Pulp's This Is Hardcore - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details This Is Hardcore is Pulp's cry for help. A giant, sprawling, flawed masterpiece of a record, t...
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The Who's The Who Sell Out - 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 the U.S. in January 1968, The Who Sell Out was, according to critic Dave Marsh, a ...
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The Byrds' The Notorious Byrd Brothers - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details By the time Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, and Michael Clarke entered the studio t...
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A Tribe Called Quest's People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details One of the finest hip-hop albums ever made, A Tribe Called Quest's debut record (featuring sto...
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Portishead's Dummy - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details An album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead's Du...
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The Replacements' Let It Be - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details One of the greatest moments of College Rock in the 1980s, Let It Be had a huge impact on the fa...
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The Stone Roses' The Stone Roses - 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 Stone Roses shows a band sizzling with skill, consumed with drive and aspiration and posses...
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Brian Eno's Another Green World - 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 serene, delicate songs on Another Green World sound practically meditative, but the album ...
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Television's Marquee Moon - 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 kids in their early twenties walk down the Bowery on a spring afternoon, just as the propri...
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Flying Burrito Brothers' The Gilded Palace of Sin - 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 1968, the Flying Burrito Brothers released The Gilded Palace of Sin on A&M Records,selli...
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Angelo Badalamenti's Soundtrack from Twin Peaks - 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 Twin Peaks debuted on the ABC network on the night of April 8, 1990, thirty-five million ...
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Throbbing Gristle's Twenty Jazz Funk Greats - 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 20 Jazz Funk Greats Drew Daniel (of the experimental band Matmos) creates-through both his o...
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James Brown's Live at the Apollo - 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 this remarkable book, Douglas Wolk brings to life an October evening in 1962, at the Apollo ...
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Nas's Illmatic - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Nas was playing a role on Illmatic, even if it was himself. By constructing this persona, Nas ...
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Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica - 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 spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's Trou...
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My Bloody Valentine's Loveless - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details Loveless remains an enigma, 15 years after its release - an album so influential and groundbrea...
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The Band's Music from Big Pink - 33 1/3
BookOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price$25.00$25.00 - $25.00Current price $25.00| /Description Release details "Music From Big Pink is a moving book that succeeds not just in vividly evoking its time and p...
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Wire's Pink Flag - 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 contrast with many of their punk peers, Wire were enigmatic and cerebral, always keeping a d...
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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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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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