The Mojo Collection

by MOJO Magazine

Organised chronologically and spanning seven decades, The MOJO Collection presents an authoritative and engaging guide to the history of the pop album via hundreds of long-playing masterpieces, from the much-loved to the little known. From The Beatles to The Verve, from Duke Ellington to King Tubby and from Peggy Lee to Sly Stone, hundreds of albums are covered in detail with chart histories, full track and personnel listings and further listening suggestions. There's also exhaustive coverage of the soundtrack and hit collections that every home should have. Like all collections, there are records you listen to constantly, albums you've forgotten, albums you hardly play, albums you love guiltily and albums you thought you were alone in treasuring, proving The MOJO Collection to be an essential purchase for those who love and live music

Genres: Music, Nonfiction, History, Reference

1200 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2007

Reviews

[Stacey D · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great collection to have on my Kindle and open up to read from time to time. I use it as a bit of a reference book and have gotten some great album recommendations through it over the years

[Mr. Steven Thomson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading this book can seriously damage your hearing! It would probably be better if they just picked the best 1,000 albums without worrying too much about some obscurities, many of which turned out to be plain good or worse. The fact that albums like In A Silent Way, Countdown To Ecstasy or Tago Mago are absent does not seem right at all. Not enough jazz, too much hip hop. The authors obviously have a bit of a blind (or deaf) spot for Krautrock, and a few more recommendations not from UK/USA would have been nice. There are plenty good reggae albums that would merit being in the main part of the book. Everybody knows about a group called the Beatles, who were actually quite good, but their albums are usually overrated. We had six Beatles albums and one by Fela Kuti, which is not quite right.
Okay, I'll stop moaning now, there was some very good recommendations here, but I could write a book like this and you'll probably say it's the worst book you've ever read, but for me it would be just perfect!

[Peter · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the sort of book that you can dip into when you have a spare 5 minutes, or are between other books. It's useful as a reference book, and might put you onto albums or groups that you hadn't come across before.