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DeathJag wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 28, 2023 1:23 pm

This is a book that all of us need to read, and I don't care how that sounds. This is a book by an award-winning music producer who became a neuroscientist, studying how the brain responds to music. There is also another neuroscientist author.

Really (really!) enjoying this one so far. (Worth noting that the author was Prince’s resident engineer for Purple Rain et al).

cestlamort wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 07, 2023 7:44 am

DeathJag wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 28, 2023 1:23 pm

This is a book that all of us need to read, and I don't care how that sounds. This is a book by an award-winning music producer who became a neuroscientist, studying how the brain responds to music. There is also another neuroscientist author.

Really (really!) enjoying this one so far. (Worth noting that the author was Prince’s resident engineer for Purple Rain et al).

It’s on my list once I get through the current backlog on my shelf!

The UK cover is way less fun

Steve Turner from Mudhoney has got a book coming out. Signed copies here (UK)

Just realised cafe royal have a book with a lot of offset content. I love their concept of street photography collections full stop. But this has made it even better.






Cafe Royal: The post-punk years (1987-1990)

stevejamsecono wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 29, 2022 8:39 am

A Beat Concerto by Paolo Hewitt about the Jam. Great great read if you're into the Jam.

Thanks for reminding me!
Read at 18, I wanted to be Weller
Must get another copy.

Other reads

Freaky Dancin - Bez

Eye Mind - Roky Ericson and the 13th Floor Elevators

This was an eye opener for me, I had previously read next to nothing on the TFE "my fave band of all time"or the culture "USA" that they had to navigate.

Recently finished the Peter Hook Hacienda book because its the one of his that I never read. Its good, but the New Order and Joy Division books are better, imo.

Reading the Stuart Braithwaite book right now and pretty into it so far!

Dr Tony Balls wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 27, 2023 6:00 am

Reading the Stuart Braithwaite book right now and pretty into it so far!

I was planning on getting that. Good to hear.

I’ve just started Rick Rubin’s book on creativity. It’s somewhere between How To Write One Song, a business book & Brian Eno’s diary. I love getting a feel for creative people’s thinking process.

Dr Tony Balls wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 27, 2023 6:00 am

Recently finished the Peter Hook Hacienda

The madchester scene was big in my clubbing days but I missed out checking the haccienda even though im only a bus ride away..

Was so much other nightlife at the time in manchester that was more my thing.
Still, the musical legacy this reigon spawned speaks for itself..

Hollies
Buzzcocks
The Fall
Joy Division
New Order
The Smiths
Stone Roses
Happy Mondays
Inspiral Carpets
The Verve
Oasis

"O Manchester, So much to answer for"

sal paradise wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 27, 2023 3:04 am

Just realised cafe royal have a book with a lot of offset content. I love their concept of street photography collections full stop. But this has made it even better.






Cafe Royal: The post-punk years (1987-1990)

That photo has a lot of my biggest influences all in one. My music is far from theirs in style, but I wouldn’t be who I am without Björk, SY, Nirvana and Einstürzende Neubauten. All of them made music that was very different from whatever I was into at the time (Nirvana being a very early distraction from Aerosmith for 9 year old me), and they all changed how I saw and approached music entirely.

I'm still working my way through the This is what it sounds like book and have already given it as gifts to a couple people. Really thought provoking.

I'm also reading Bobby Gillespie's Tenement Kid memoir and it is much better (and much more political) than I'd thought. Detailed and opinionated and surprisingly compelling. (I was never really into Primal Scream admittedly). For example, I didn't know he was in the Wake (who I only found out about when the LTM catalog was on eMusic's MP3 all-you-can-eat download buffet in the 00s).

cestlamort wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 07, 2023 8:42 am

I'm still working my way through the This is what it sounds like book and have already given it as gifts to a couple people. Really thought provoking.

Right?!! I am struggling still to read it because it is so thought-provoking. My mind just starts racing and I realize I haven't read a new word in 10 minutes!

Welp, I just had my heart ripped out, again, by Tim Gautreaux. "The Missing" is the book. Reading felt like listening to music flowing naturally like rain rivulets. His way with words is like a mix of Irish-style nostalgic and poetic, and gritty like an abandoned shack in the hard woods. It's amazing. He weaves these incomprehensibly complex images and feelings with the simplest syntax. The only other author that comes close is B. Traven. I've never been an "author completist" but for him, I'm going to read all his books (and B Traven's!). "Same Place, Same Time" is full of short stories that I felt physically. When I would finish the story I would have to stand up and hyperventilate, and talk to the cats about what kind of crazy story it was. I got the recommendation from Skip Simmons in the TAVA podcast.

DeathJag wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 28, 2023 1:23 pm

This is a book that all of us need to read, and I don't care how that sounds.
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I must've missed this the first time round. Ordered - and thanks!

I highly recommend Nabil Ayers' My Life in the Sunshine. A thought-provoking memoir about family, identity, and music. He was in bands, founded one of my favorite records stores (Sonic Boom), and is now the head of Beggars.
A kind and enjoyable book.

I was on holiday about month ago and finally got around to reading Miki's book...it was a great read: