This fun-to-read, easy-to-use reference is the most thorough guide to rock, pop and soul album recording ever produced, compiled by dozens of top music critics. Performers are profiled alphabetically, with recordings listed chronologically and rated.
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Rating more than 15,000 records by 2500 performers, the All Music Guide to Rock: The Best CDs, Albums & Tapes-Rock, Pop, Soul, R&B and Rap, edited by All Music Guide (AMG) series creator Michael Erlewine, along with Vladimir Bogdanov and Chris Woodstra, is the latest addition to the AMG series. Featuring brief reviews by noted music critics, listings that include bootlegs, imports and out-of-print albums, as well as "Music Maps" charting recent subgenres in popular music, this guide presents a broad spectrum of information on a wide array of popular music. (Miller Freeman, $24.95 ISBN 0-87930-376-X)
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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The All Music Guide to Rock reviews the entire spectrum of recorded rock, pop, soul, R&B, and rap music. The listings also include unique bootleg recordings, import-only releases, important out-of-print albums, and lesser-known "cult" artists. Brief biographical profiles of each of the 2,500 artists and groups are provided, conveniently alphabetized and identified by genre. Each performer's selected top CDs, albums and tapes are then listed chronologically, and concisely reviewed and rated by noted music critics and journalists who write for publications such as Rolling Stone, Spin, CD Review, Option, Pulse, Request, and many others. Essays chart the historical development of numerous sub-genres, bootlegs, fanzines, independent labels, producers, reissues, singer/songwriters, session musicians, and more. -- Midwest Book Review
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this is the one,
By Indiana "mike" (usa) - See all my reviews
This review is from: All Music Guide to Rock (Amg All Music Guide Series) (Paperback)
The amg books are quite exceptional but this one is really something. There are a few omissions I noted (Rotary Connection and Fanny)yet the proof is in the pudding. Prove it to yourself by finding an artist with several works you have a view on and see what their writer says...often the observations are right on whether you fully agree or not. The reviews and bios are quite interesting, and it is a volume to get lost in...a real treasure. A few artists will get more attention than you might like, but it leaves all other volumes like it in the dust.
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Last month, this book paid my electric bill...,
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This review is from: All Music Guide to Rock (Amg All Music Guide Series) (Paperback)
I've found the "All Music Guide" to be such a useful research tool, that I start lapsing into an "info-mercial-esque" tone when I begin extolling its virtues: "Hi. My name is Alan, and I'm a freelance music writer. When I'm assigned to write about a band that I know next-to-nothing about, I always turn to the 'All Music Guide'. This mammoth music encyclopedia is not only useful, but a ton o' fun! Let's say that I need a quick factoid about some rock group that I despise--like, I dunno, The Scorpions. I just pull out my 'AMG', turn to page 329, and voila; I quickly learn that Scorp's, co-founder Michael Schenker quit the band in 1973 to join fellow metal-meisters UFO. Wow...UFO! But they don't call it the 'All Music Guide' for nothin'; flip over to page 1351, and you'll find incisive reviews of almost every available record by legendary jazz saxophonist/heroin addict Art Pepper. If you only buy one music research book this year, make it 'All Music Guide'." In all seriousness, this thing has saved me hours of net-surfing, in addition to helping me avoid a few hundred research sojourns to Tower Records trying to find out what year Buddy Guy's first record was released.
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