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Dewey Decimal Number: 781.640266 Format: Bargain Price Label: Universe Manufacturer: Universe Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 960 Publication Date: February 07, 2006 Publisher: Universe Release Date: February 07, 2006 Studio: Universe Sales Rank: 1012947 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a highly readable list of the best, the most important, and the most influential pop albums from 1955 through 2003. Carefully selected by a team of international critics, each album is a groundbreaking work seminal to the understanding and appreciation of music from the 1950s to the present. Included with each entry are production details and credits as well as reproductions of original album cover art. Perhaps most important of all, each album featured comes with an authoritative description of its importance and influence. Among the critics involved in selecting the list are some of the best known music reviewers and commentators, including Theunis Bates (music writer for Time and urban editor at worldpop.com), Jon Harrington (staff writer at MTV), Seth Jacobson (writer for Dazed & Confused), as well as many others. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - While I love this book, everytime I notice one of my favorite albums isn't here...I see that Britney Spears made the cut...I mean, really? Other than a few ridiculous choices like that one, the selection here is amazing and the writing about each album is entertaining and very readable. There is world music included throughout, and although I haven't listened to any of those albums I think it is awesome that they were included. THE BEST part about this book is that there are full page pictures corresponding with different albums (My favorites being the ones for ... Read More Rating: - 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You DieI've been working my way through this book, listening to every album. The notion that people who do so would treat it as the be-all, end-all is ridiculous and insulting. It is an interesting list of important and influential albums. Not everything in this book is a masterpiece. Many of them don't come close. But they are important. The moment I decided I liked the approach this book takes is when I read the entry on the Electric Prunes, a thoroughly mediocre album which the book noted was highly ... Read More Rating:  - Great gift for the music loverThis isn't for all age groups, but was a perfect gift for the "hard to buy for" guy over 50. Rating:  - MOVE OUT OF THE 1960s, PLEASE.Fun reading, covering the decades from the 1950s into the 21st century, but I have some serious disagreements with many of the LPs listed here. The editors and authors are obviously baby-boomers who never got past the Summer of Love mentality. There are WAY TOO MANY releases from the late 60s that are fawned over. The Electric Prunes! Come On! And NOTHING by Ravi Shankar is a "must hear". Ravi's best release was the sperm that created Norah Jones. However, I do have ... Read More Rating:  - Profoundly misguided - authors lack understanding of Western Music HistoryThis guide is useless. Do not read it. The period it covers is highly over-rated. While some music from the last half of the 20th c. was important, most of this period can be disregarded. In 200 years no one will recognize Rolling Stones or Bob Dylan. The last half of the 20th c. was a mostly unredeemably coarse age for music. Mick Collins Browse for similar items by category: 
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