1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die (1,000 Before You Die)
by Tom Moon
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Author: Tom MoonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-04
ISBN: 076113963X
Number of pages: 992
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
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Book Review: Very Poorly Arranged!
Summary: 2 Stars
Although the information included is rather good, I cannot rate this any better because it is presented in a useless fashion for me. If all I wanted to do was browse through this book at random, it would be just fine that the recordings are arranged alphabetically by artist/composer.
But I want to find essential recordings in various genres, and this book will not conveniently help me do that. This 1,000+ page book has a 14-page genre index in the back, but it is difficult and tedious to flip from there to the listings over and over. For example, if you want to read about the best blues albums, the genre index lists 48 of them - but you'll need to flip to 48 different pages scattered throughout the book to find them all.
In one 4-page stretch we go from The Clash to Van Cliburn to Jimmy Cliff to Patsy Cline; in another we go from Professor Longhair to Prokofiev to Propellerheads to Public Enemy. I think so much more thought should have gone into how people would actually use a book like this. It's very unfortunate that such a potentially good resource is so uselessly arranged.
Summary of 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die (1,000 Before You Die)
The musical adventure of a lifetime. The most exciting book on music in years. A book of treasure, a book of discovery, a book to open your ears to new worlds of pleasure. Doing for music what Patricia Schultz-author of the phenomenal 1,000 Places to See Before You Die-does for travel, Tom Moon recommends 1,000 recordings guaranteed to give listeners the joy, the mystery, the revelation, the sheer fun of great music.This is a book both broad and deep, drawing from the diverse worlds of classical, jazz, rock, pop, blues, country, folk, musicals, hip-hop, world, opera, soundtracks, and more. It's arranged alphabetically by artist to create the kind of unexpected juxtapositions that break down genre bias and broaden listeners' horizons- it makes every listener a seeker, actively pursuing new artists and new sounds, and reconfirming the greatness of the classics. Flanking J. S. Bach and his six entries, for example, are the little-known R&B singer Baby Huey and the '80s Rastafarian hard-core punk band Bad Brains. Farther down the list: The Band, Samuel Barber, Cecelia Bartoli, Count Basie, and Afropop star Waldemer Bastos.
Each entry is passionately written, with expert listening notes, fascinating anecdotes, and the occasional perfect quote-"Your collection could be filled with nothing but music from Ray Charles," said Tom Waits, "and you'd have a completely balanced diet." Every entry identifies key tracks, additional works by the artist, and where to go next. And in the back, indexes and playlists for different moods and occasions.
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