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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Random House; 3rd edition (October 27, 1992)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 838 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0679737294
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0679737292
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches

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Holly George-Warren is an award-winning writer, editor, producer, and music consultant. She has contributed to more than two dozen books about rock and roll, including The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock, and The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll. She's also written for the New York Times, the Village Voice, the Journal of Country Music, and Rolling Stone. Ms. George-Warren lives in upstate New York with her family.
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Excellent Service and great book!

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Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2011

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i replace this copy from 1 i sold a couple of years ago.this and all volumes of this boo from rolling stone magazine are awesome. collect them all.

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2017

Great book

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Totally ripped off by these people. This is an addendum to the book shown.

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mianfei

An introduction to the most mainstream of rock criticism

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2004

This book, I must confess, was a guide to listening (together with subsequent "Rolling Stone" reviews) for many years.

On the whole, it has many virtues: the arguments are very sensible, the writers appear to be very well-qualified, and the selection of music included is varied enough to satisfy most listeners - especially someone like me who was looking then for music from the 1980s to listen to. There is very little outright lying: indeed most of the album reviews are very clearly written and do indeed provide an accurate description of the music being written about - something I wish I was able to do far better.

However, this book's age gives it one fatal flaw: it does not understand the real impact of music over a long period. Many albums I bought on its recommendation have proved quite useless to me even if I understood the reasons (though my narrow perceptions at that time can in no way have helped me).

Moreover, some of the albums it recommends (or at least does not condemn) would be violently condemned by critics like Joe Harrington and David Keenan whose knowledge and intelligence certainly exceeds that of those critics in this book. It is to them that I now recommend one turn for really accurate music criticism - I recommend their list to people who do not know much about msuic all the time. However, with older music I was never into back in the 1990s the book is actually more helpful and accurate due to greater hindsight, though many albums of great value were not then reissued.

Thus, read with great caution: this is introductory, but good for that. there is better criticism - the problem is finding it and seeing for yourself.

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This 1992 Guide replaces the 1980 edition with completely new reviews by only four reviewers of the most important rock, pop, soul, country, reggae, jazz and blues albums stretching back into the pre-rock �n roll period and up to the end of 1991.
Designed to serve as a consumer guide for fans wanting knowledgeable assistance and a critical overview of artists� careers, this encyclopedic publication contains acts ranging from Abba to ZZ Top. Not quite all of them though; there is a definite slant towards the American scene and some lesser-known or cult stars from the UK are absent in these pages. That is because the editors had to restrict the entries to what was available in the United States at the time of US publication.
In addition to the alphabetical section on groups and individual artists, there are two further sections: one for Anthologies and one for Soundtracks.
It�s interesting to compare the numbers of albums by the greatest artists: Elvis comes in at 121, followed by James Brown at 88, Frank Zappa with 51, The Beatles and Bob Dylan with 36 each, while the Rolling Stones slot in at 35 and other favorites like the BeeGees and Bowie do well with 24 and 26 respectively.
Flipping through the pages amply rewards the peruser, often for the unexpected little tidbits: a band called Silly Wizard, dubbed �masters of classic Scottish folk� and the fact that Hound Dog was first recorded by Big Mama Thornton in 1954.
Grunge is well represented by Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soul Asylum, while World Music is a bit neglected: King Sunny Ade and Youssou N�Dour are there but no Salif Keita.
Still, one can establish the exact difference between Lisa Stansfield and Taylor Dane, and read all about important but obscure singer/songwriters Laura Nyro and Gram Parsons.
In the soundtrack section, I was pleased to see Saturday Night Fever and Thank God It�s Friday rated highly while Fame and Flashdance fared poorly.
Although I sometimes disagree with the critics� assessments, they always phrase it amusingly: Meat Loaf is dismissed as �schlock rock�!
Every entry is rated with a star-system from 1 to 5 just like here on amazon, although in any piece on artists with large oeuvres (like Elvis) the emphasis is rather on a general overview rather than a detailed discussion of every album.
I would say this is a worthwhile reference work to have at hand, but shouldn�t be considered the last word in music criticism.

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PGB

Somewhat useful. Very dated.

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Like any (hard copy) critiques of an ongoing genre, the material is automatically dated (1991). Contains probably too much brief coverage which would have been better if they'd not covered, say, jazz. The earlier editions of the Rolling Stone Record Guide (Marsh/Swenson) had a separate volume for jazz. There is also that nagging Rolling Stone factor - many of the reviews are fairly ridiculous. But so they've always been (look at the latest Top 500 albums! or the R&R Hall of Fame, in which RS is a major player). Still it can be useful overall and actually contains some little known (at least to me) tidbits. Just don't pay too much!

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Rolling Stone album Guide: Falsche Beschreibung

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Ich habe gar nicht bekommen was ich bestellt hatte. Kein jazz im Buch, habe nur die Nummer 2 bekommen, das Cover und die Beschreibung stimmen nicht. Aber für den Preis lohnt sich eine Rücksendung nicht. Schade. Normal bin ich mit Amazon.de immer zufrienden.

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