Books about your favorite bands

Books about your favorite bands

>Wouldn't It Be Nice: My Own Story by Eugene Landy

Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Rip It Up by Simon Reynolds are my favorite books about music.

the miles davis autobiography is based as FUCK

Most of the book is supported by other accounts of what happened in the 60s and 70s, the 80s and 90s stuff is embellished heavily to favor gene. I can't stand people who throw the baby out with the bathwater. This is an otherwise excellent book and (mostly) factual

>insert that one bullshit but good marilyn manson autobiography here

>act of creation

have we finally spotted a bigger beach boys superfan faggot than boom ding?

who the fuck is boom ding? sorry i haven't been to Sup Forums in years, the only guy i would talk to (read: knew their shit) about beach boys or psychedelic rock was capn die katz

relatively new trip i think, used to post fairly often but now he only posts with his trip to drop rare pics of the members of the band

i remember capn die katz, i miss him

whats the essential bb/bw book for all that pet sounds/smile knowledge?

catch a wave for general info about the band with a focus on brian, covers pet sounds well

look listen vibrate smile is probably the best book about smile

most beach boys books are honestly hot garbage so unless you're a hyper superfan there's no real reason to read more than two or three

hopefully the new brian wilson book is actually good

thanks mate

Definitely

the best in my collection at least if you're looking for a biography is catch a wave

i also recommend wouldn't it be nice, despite its controversy

look listen vibrate smile is cool for all the ads but has its flaws as well

if you really want to understand smile, i recommend the website "the zen interpretation of smile" which tries to picture smile as a zen koan. it references wouldn't it be nice as well as lots of books on zen buddhism and eastern spirituality

the david leaf beach boys book is usually still regarded as one of, if not the very best out there as an all around book on the beach boys as a band despite its age

there are loads of inaccuracies in look listen vibrate as well as typos, and it's a bit amateur but it really is about the only book on smile out there besides the 33 1/3, which i haven't read, but don't expect great things from

it's still full of interesting things that paint a picture of the time and quotes from the rest of the boys and journalists

most of all i think it's worth it for the jules siegel article "goodbye surfing, hello god"

the new book could be good, i'm really not sure how much of it brian is actually writing (or how much of his other books were really done by him either for that matter) but i'm interested, although i am also interested in reading the mike love book equally

Getting this shipped to me in a few days, hope its good.

I used to have a copy of the 33 1/3 on XO by Elliott Smith but I gave it away to a friend since I figured they would love it. I've been meaning to get my hands on another copy. They actually do a pretty amazing job of dissecting his lyrics (at least for the first few songs) and it's a really interesting read on how and why the popular image of Elliott was this mopey limp sad-sack guy writing sad songs about his life when XO was a direct contradiction to that in just about every way.

Has anyone read the one on Selected Ambient Works II? I've gotten really fucking into that album lately and I've heard the book is great.

Dude chill I was just joking

I inherited this from my mom. Published in 1964 as a Beatlemania cash-in. It's more merchandise than biography, but it's entertaining in a kitsch way.

The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved.

ebin meme friendo

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I've seen lots of people post this "ironically" but nobody actually explain why it's supposed to not be true.

The Beatles were a homogenous boyband that completely sold out and they made almost nothing worth talking about.

I've seen lots of people post this "unironically" but nobody actually explain why it's supposed to be true.