What album should you buy next? The guide profiles the work of 1,999 rock/pop artists and groups. Broad coverage includes classic, reissue, alternative, world, and modern rock.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I like it.,
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This review is from: Musichound Rock: The Essential Album Guide (Paperback)
Sure, album guides can always be criticized for one reason or another. Someone's left out, someone rated your favorite album too low, an album you hate is rated too high, etc. But the bottom line on "Musichound Rock" is that it does what it does very well. Nice scope of coverage. Nice writing. Nice pictures. Nice value. (This book weighs more than my first child and costs quite a bit less!!) Get the idea? Then get the book.
12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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none too good, I fear...,
By GeoX "GeoX" (Men...Of...The...Sea!) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Musichound Rock: The Essential Album Guide (Paperback)
This 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.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Liked it at first, but soon learnt better,
This review is from: Musichound Rock: The Essential Album Guide (Musichound Essential Album Guides) (Paperback)
At 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 with The Rolling Stone Album Guide and the guides of Robert 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, like Talk 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 as The 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.
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