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Music Criticism Books
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 4.10 — 15,901 ratings — published 2007
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,557 ratings — published 2025
Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 4.29 — 143 ratings — published 1990
The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,356 ratings — published 2015
Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,350 ratings — published 2003
Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,946 ratings — published 1987
Let it Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,471 ratings — published 2000
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,042 ratings — published 2001
The Cambridge History of Music Criticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines, and Tomorrow's Music Today (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.81 — 268 ratings — published
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 4.55 — 18,995 ratings — published 2017
Aja (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.56 — 412 ratings — published 2007
Another Green World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.86 — 798 ratings — published 2007
Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,550 ratings — published 2021
Shoot Out the Lights (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.50 — 113 ratings — published 2008
Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,349 ratings — published 2014
Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 4.05 — 690 ratings — published 2014
The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,910 ratings — published 2015
Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth: The Dark History of Prepubescent Pop, from the Banana Splits to Britney Spears (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.91 — 216 ratings — published 2001
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,016 ratings — published 2010
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 36,857 ratings — published 1996
I Hate Myself and Want to Die: The 52 Most Depressing Songs You’ve Ever Heard (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.60 — 911 ratings — published 2005
Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,705 ratings — published 2007
How Music Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 28,678 ratings — published 2014
Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,043 ratings — published 2011
Listen to This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,928 ratings — published 2010
When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.28 — 372 ratings — published 2010
Corn Flakes with John Lennon: And Other Tales from a Rock 'n' Roll Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 563 ratings — published 2009
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,564 ratings — published 2009
This Is Your Brain on Music (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 67,972 ratings — published 2006
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 954 ratings — published 2007
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,635 ratings — published 2005
Unknown Pleasures (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.72 — 886 ratings — published 2004
The Uncool: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as music-criticism)
avg rating 4.41 — 6,213 ratings — published 2025
Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.89 — 98 ratings — published 2020
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as music-criticism)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,300 ratings — published 2000
I Went Down To St. James Infirmary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.72 — 29 ratings — published 2008
20th Century Ambient (Genre: A 33 1/3 Series)
by (shelved 1 time as music-criticism)
avg rating 4.08 — 13 ratings — published
Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as music-criticism)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,904 ratings — published
Summertime: George Gershwin's Life in Music (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 61 ratings — published
We Take Care of Our Own: Faith, Class, and Politics in the Art of Bruce Springsteen (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as music-criticism)
avg rating 4.17 — 23 ratings — published
Popfad: Illuminate /// MOLTENO
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Popfad: Burn This City /// Chasing Tales
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Popfad: Chasing Shadows/// Lost//Youth
by (shelved 1 time as music-criticism)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Od Bacha Do Cagea (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as music-criticism)
avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 1977
Popfad: Suited /// Mild Horses
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Popfad: Lads Of Summer /// The Rec
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Popfad: The Man I Met /// Izi Phoenix
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Popfad: Winter Romance /// Midnight Run
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Popfad: Fixed Memory /// Glen Echo
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
“For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity—or even western creativity—but this assumption was seriously in error.”
― The Tri-Axium Writings
― The Tri-Axium Writings
“The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds”
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
