Cassell 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

lo compre como regalo para un amigo amante de la musica, y quedo muy contento, es un libro excelente para ojear por ratos y aprender un poco más de tus albunes favoritos y descubrir otros nuevos, y por supuesto para presumir de tu conocimiento con los demas ;)

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Mooi boek met veel afbeeldingen van covers en artiesten (vaak vullen ze ook een pagina). Met 900+ A5 pagina's is het een geweldig boek om je smaak te verruimen. Het boek is in het Engels. Helaas zitten er wat deukjes in de kaft door de te ruime doos met één stukje vulpapier.

Please note: This review comes from a middle-age male who likes POP music and has an interest in chart history. I like all types of music, from soul/motown/stax through to drum and bass! The book is north of 950 pages with an index for artist and index for albums, making it easy to navigate. The book is presented in chronological order and segregated into decades. The book can be read from cover to cover, or simply handpick a few albums like I am, to read the page and further investigate online. With streaming services, youtube, google, etc, it is easy to follow up with these albums as they are mostly mainstream. The album pages contain detailed notes including the year of the album release, publishing label, tracklist, and credits where available. I have decided to choose pages at random to work through, making a note of my progress using a spreadsheet. Wish me luck!

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a critical chronological collection of albums, spanning 50 years of music from 1955 to 2005. It features reviews from 90 international music journalists. Each album has a detailed description of its importance and influence which are accompanied with insights, trivia, and some track listings. The book is illustrated with over 1000 images of album covers, bands, and artists. There are excellent album, artist, and general indexes in this huge 960 page hardcover book. My only criticisms of the book are that it includes mostly Rock CDs (no classical and minimal blues, country, jazz, and pop) and that greatest hits compilations are excluded. This is a great book and I agree with many of the selections. In fact, 291 of the titles appear on my genre lists of 1222 top CDs at [...] The general editor, Robert Dimery, is a writer and editor who has worked for numerous magazines, including Time Out and Vogue. The preface is by Michael Lydon, a founding editor of Rolling Stone.