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Musichound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Paperback – Import, January 1, 1998
byGary Graff; Daniel Durchholz(Author)
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Designed to help discriminating music lovers get the most for their money, "MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide" is the first in a series of guides which identify the most important or essential recordings in a particular genre.
- Print length1200 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSchirmer Books
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1998
- Dimensions2.25 x 7.75 x 9.5 inches
- ISBN-101578590612
- ISBN-13978-1578590612
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- Publisher : Schirmer Books
- Publication date : January 1, 1998
- Edition : 2nd
- Language : English
- Print length : 1200 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1578590612
- ISBN-13 : 978-1578590612
- Item Weight : 5.2 pounds
- Dimensions : 2.25 x 7.75 x 9.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,281,822 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #7,217 inRock Music (Books)
- #26,941 inMusic Theory, Composition & Performance (Books)
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- Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2002Each artist has a list of their major influences and who they influenced. I used this to quickly skim through and spot who I might be interested in. I was able to find hundreds of bands that I did not know but were pretty good. I usually did enjoy the stuff I thought I would from reading the book. This book led me to what I wanted.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 1999Format: PaperbackThis is the best music guide I have ever read. The book is accessible to all levels of readers and music buyers. It is written in a style that provides a great deal of information without feeling like a text book. Thanks!
- Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2010At the tail end of the 1990s, I was an extremely eager reader of music criticism and looked for any new artist in genres I was interested in at the time. I was very familiar withThe Rolling Stone Album Guide and the guides ofRobert Christgau but wondered whether music I at the time was finding interesting would be covered in better detail than I had found in those books.
When I first read "Musichound Rock: The Essential Album Guide" I had very much mixed feelings about it. On the one hand there was information about a great many artists who were and are not covered in much detail or at all in the previous record guides I had read. In many cases, I devoured this and wanted to find out more (I will confess without mentioning names that I feel with hindsight I was as so often rather reckless).
However, with hindsight I can find many faults with "Musichound Rock: The Essential Album Guide" and all other guides released by the firm. For one thing, their rating system is ridiculously inconsistent: for many artists they will rate albums much more highly than would be consistent, whilst others are rated much less so - and one cannot predict what they are going to do. For another, it is fair to say that my own experience shows that some of the artists included were dubious and that others, likeTalk Talk were not listened to carefully. The consequence is that the reader - and even me when I read the book - was left rather too far from the important part of the history of music and onto (relatively) modern threads therein that are frequently of little value. Some of the criticisms made of albums such asThe Serpent's Egg do not hold up to serious listening.
All in all, "Musichound Rock: The Essential Album Guide" is a rather dubious piece of work that might introduce you to bands not found in Rolling Stone or similar guides, but will do nothing to help one get a good grasp of music history. Moreover, it is seriously dated now. - Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2011I've housed this fat reference on my shelf for well over a decade now and have often enjoyed taking it down and flipping through at my leisure. The sheer breadth of the bands included is impressive. However, recently I looked up the entry on Depeche Mode and saw that their near-masterpiece "Violator" was assigned a one-star rating and dismissed as bland pop. There are many more examples of bizarrely misguided ratings in this volume, but that one seemed particularly egregious. Also, seeing as how this book was published 13 years ago, it's horribly out-of-date at best.
- Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 1999Format: PaperbackThis was the first album-review book I bought, and as such I had no basis for comparison, but looking back I have to admit, it's really pretty awful. Instead of reviewing an artist's discography album by album, we instead have scattershot recommendations of a few albums (perplexingly glossing over a group's best work at times), and then a section citing albums the reviewer considers "bad"--interestingly, all artists in this world seem to have exactly one or two albums that are "bad", and very often perfectly good albums are condemned. Also, there's the unfortunate supercilious dismissal of artists whom the reviewer personally has something against. And of course omissions abound.
I'll admit I got SOME useful information out of this, but you can to SO much better. Get the AMG Guide to Rock instead; it's a MUCH better book.
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- MOINETReviewed in the United Kingdom on June 8, 2023
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