Writing The 100 Greatest Rock'n'Roll Songs Ever was a labor of love. Written while on Sabbatical leave from my day job, it is one listener's snapshot of the genre, from the mid-'50's to the present, filtered through my personal life experiences. My purpose for writing this book was to acknowledge the major role that the music has played in my life. My wish for the reader is to stimulate memories of your own favorite songs and of the rock'n'roll vernacular and experiences shared by many of us.
Story of a young naval officer who becomes entranced by a magical island and its strange inhabitants and deserts his ship and crew to save his paradise from destruction.
Were you ever driving down the road and a song comes on the car radio that instantly gives you goose bumps, transporting you to a time and a place and a scene about which you hadn't thought in decades? You adjust the volume higher and sing along at the top of your lungs, oblivious to the traffic around you. Well, if that's the case, snap out of it, put your hands on the wheel, and watch where you're driving! And when you pull over, you'll surely want to check out this book.
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). VH1 sent ballots to over 700 musicians, songwriters, disc jockeys and radio programmers and asked them to vote on the 100 greatest songs of rock and roll. The results were shown in a much-publicized feature, and selections from that show are here in this awesome collection of the best and most influential rock songs of all time! Songs are arranged by their ranking with artists listed, and include: All Along the Watchtower * American Pie * Blowin' in the Wind * Born to Run * California Dreamin' * Fire and Rain * Good Vibrations * Hey Jude * Hotel California * I Heard It Through the Grapevine * Imagine * In the Midnight Hour * Jump * Layla * Light My Fire * Like a Rolling Stone * London Calling * Louie, Louie * Maggie May * My Generation * No Woman No Cry * Proud Mary * Respect * Roxanne * Smells like Teen Spirit * Stand by Me * Start Me Up * Tangled Up in Blue * Walk This Way * We Are the Champions * Wild Thing * Yesterday * and more.
(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). VH1 sent ballots to over 700 musicians, songwriters, disc jockeys and radio programmers and asked them to vote on the 100 greatest songs of rock and roll. The results were shown in a much-publicized feature, and selections from that show are here in this awesome collection of the best and most influential rock songs of all time! Songs are arranged by their ranking with artists listed, and include: All Along the Watchtower * American Pie * Blowin' in the Wind * Born to Run * California Dreamin' * Fire and Rain * Good Vibrations * Hey Jude * Hotel California * I Heard It Through the Grapevine * Imagine * In the Midnight Hour * Jump * Layla * Light My Fire * Like a Rolling Stone * London Calling * Louie, Louie * Maggie May * My Generation * No Woman No Cry * Proud Mary * Respect * Roxanne * Smells like Teen Spirit * Stand by Me * Start Me Up * Tangled Up in Blue * Walk This Way * We Are the Champions * Wild Thing * Yesterday * and more.
(E-Z Play Today). VH1 sent ballots to over 700 musicians, songwriters, disc jockeys and radio programmers and asked them to vote on the 100 greatest songs of rock and roll. The results were shown in a much-publicized feature, and selections from that show are here in this awesome collection of the best and most influential rock songs of all time! Songs are arranged by their ranking with artists listed, and include: All Along the Watchtower * American Pie * Blowin' in the Wind * Born to Run * California Dreamin' * Fire and Rain * Good Vibrations * Hey Jude * Hotel California * I Heard It Through the Grapevine * Imagine * In the Midnight Hour * Jump * Layla * Light My Fire * Like a Rolling Stone * London Calling * Louie, Louie * Maggie May * My Generation * No Woman No Cry * Proud Mary * Respect * Roxanne * Smells like Teen Spirit * Stand by Me * Start Me Up * Tangled Up in Blue * Walk This Way * We Are the Champions * Wild Thing * Yesterday * and more.
Not too far away from the flea markets, dusty attics, cluttered used record stores and Ebay is the world of the vinyl junkies. Brett Milano dives deep into the piles of old vinyl to uncover the subculture of record collecting. A vinyl junkie is not the person who has a few old 45s shoved in the cuboard from their days in high school. Vinyl Junkies are the people who will travel over 3,000 miles to hear a rare b-side by a German band that has only recorded two songs since 1962, vinyl junkies are the people who own every copy of every record produced by the favorite artist from every pressing and printing in existance, vinyl junkies are the people who may just love that black plastic more than anything else in their lives. Brett Milano traveled the U.S. seeking out the most die-hard and fanatical collectors to capture all that it means to be a vinyl junkie. Includes interviews with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Peter Buck from R.E.M and Robert Crumb, creator of Fritz the cat and many more underground comics.
The legendary critic and author of Mystery Train “ingeniously retells the tale of rock and roll” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Unlike previous versions of rock ’n’ roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs and dramatizes how each embodies rock ’n’ roll as a thing in itself, in the story it tells, inhabits, and acts out—a new language, something new under the sun. “Transmission” by Joy Division. “All I Could Do Was Cry” by Etta James and then Beyoncé. “To Know Him Is to Love Him,” first by the Teddy Bears and almost half a century later by Amy Winehouse. In Marcus’s hands these and other songs tell the story of the music, which is, at bottom, the story of the desire for freedom in all its unruly and liberating glory. Slipping the constraints of chronology, Marcus braids together past and present, holding up to the light the ways that these striking songs fall through time and circumstance, gaining momentum and meaning, astonishing us by upending our presumptions and prejudices. This book, by a founder of contemporary rock criticism—and its most gifted and incisive practitioner—is destined to become an enduring classic. “One of the epic figures in rock writing.”—The New York Times Book Review “Marcus is our greatest cultural critic, not only because of what he says but also, as with rock-and-roll itself, how he says it.”—The Washington Post Winner of the Deems Taylor Virgil Thomson Award in Music Criticism, given by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers
Commemorating Bruce Springsteen's twenty-five years as a recording artist, here is a panoramic view of his career in a form never seen before. This is the complete collection of Bruce Springsteen's recorded lyrics, illustrated with hundreds of never-before-published images from some of rock & roll journalism's greatest photographers, including Annie Leibovitz, David Gahr, Lynn Goldsmith, Bruce Weber, and many others. From Jim Marchese's informal backstage shots during the European leg of the 1980 The River tour to Neal Preston's amazing documentation of the Born in the U.S.A. days to Pam Springsteen's portraits showing a side of the musician rarely seen by the public, this is the most intimate look at Bruce Springsteen ever published. The photos and lyrics are accompanied by original commentary by Springsteen, in which he reflects on the songs, the performances, and the quarter-century career that for many defines the American dream. In words and in pictures, here is the one book no Bruce Springsteen fan can afford to be without.
