Product Description
The musical adventure of a lifetime. The most exciting book on music in years. A book of treasure, a book of discovery, a book to open your ears to new worlds of pleasure. Doing for music what Patricia Schultz—author of the phenomenal 1,000 Places to See Before You Die—does for travel, Tom Moon recommends 1,000 recordings guaranteed to give listeners the joy, the mystery, the revelation, the sheer fun of great music.
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1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die
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#1 by Timothy D. Hadley on April 19, 2010 - 12:53 am
It would not be possible to please everyone with this kind of list, no matter how hard one tried, but the compiler of this list has tried so hard to include “everything” that he has left out too many of the really “good things.”
For example, the problems in the rock-music area alone are enough to sink the book. Here Mr. Moon leaves out The Association, the Doobie Brothers, the Electric Light Orchestra, Peter Frampton, and many, many others–and includes such “Hall-of-Fame luminaries” (?) as Alejandro Escovedo, the Fugees, and the 13th-Floor Elevators.
Houston, we have a problem.
Any list-compiler who can’t do any better than this doesn’t deserve your money. Compile your own list.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by o dubhthaigh on April 19, 2010 - 1:22 am
For the intellectually incurious, a guide to one man’s opinions. For the rest of us, we’ll turn on the radio, check out Youtube and go to see live shows based on word of mouth. I hear tell he’s already working Volume 2. Jayzuz. As Lennon would say, “there’s a proper job.”
Rating: 2 / 5
#3 by Latino Loco on April 19, 2010 - 4:04 am
This book is a marketing product. It show you all comercial and well known albums. Witha little of research You can find compilations like that by on Internet and even better ones.
Why the author have not included many good and fundamental singers and albums. (Because they set a limit of 1000, or simply because they are not on top 1000 sells? Come on!)
An example of one of best albums on history not included:
Yma Sumac – Mambo
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by SilentFilmStar on April 19, 2010 - 4:18 am
Blah. What’s with the human tendency to organize, categorize, and analyze the fun out of everything?
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by Tod Newlin on April 19, 2010 - 6:54 am
The book came in an envelope just big enough for the book to be squeezed into. Because of this and through the less than delicate handeling system of the US Mail the packing was in VERY POOR condition which was transfered to the book it’s self. The condition of the book more than likely would have arrived in a “like new” condition if it were shipped in the appropriate packaging (larger padded envelope or a box) instead it arrived in a “visibly used” condition.
Rating: 3 / 5