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| Author: | milchman [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 9:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Top 5 music related biographies |
Top 5 music related biographies 5) Hellfire ... Nick Tosches Biography of Jerry Lee Lewis 4) I Was A Teenage Punk Rocker ... Andy Blade Autobiography 3) Renegade ... Mark E. Smith Autobiography 2) Man Enough To Be A Woman ... Jayne County Autobiography 1) Tearing Down The Wall Of Sound ... Mick Wall Biography of Phil Spector |
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| Author: | Bola [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 2:10 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Top 5 music related biographies |
That Mark E Smith autobiography is a great read. I will also add: Julian Cope - Head On (Autobography) Deborah Curtis - Touching From A Distance (biography of Ian Curtis) Nick Fish - Industrial Evolution (biography of Cabaret Voltaire) Tony Wilson - 24 Hour Party People (autobiography/Factory Records History) John Peel/Sheila Ravenscroft - Margrave Of The Marshes (Autobiography/Biography) |
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| Author: | KevW [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 2:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Top 5 music related biographies |
Not just because I like the band, but because it's a cracking book: Spacemen 3 (& The Birth Of Spiritualized) by Erik Morse Also Look! Listen! Vibrate! Smile! by Dominic Priore (written about the recording of The Beach Boys' 'Smile' album) Agree with the Margrave Of The Marshes shout Thank You For The Days by Mark Radcliffe The Stone Roses & The Resurrection Of British Pop by John Robb |
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| Author: | Bola [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 3:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Top 5 music related biographies |
| Author: | milchman [ Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:05 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Top 5 music related biographies |
A few recommendations that didn't make my top 5. Black Monk Time ... Eddie Shaw & Anita Klemke Autobiography/The Monks Be My Baby ... Ronnie Spector Autobiography Where Dead Voices Gather ... Nick Tosches Biography of Emmett Miller The Life & Times Of Little Richard ... Charles White The Legendary Joe Meek ... John Repsch Violence Girl ... Alice Bag Autobiography A Disfunctional Success ... Eric Goulden Autobiography of Wreckless Eric Uptight ... Victor Brockis & Gerald Malanga Biography of The Velvet Underground A Fistful Of Gitanes ... Sylvie Simmons Biography of Serge Gainsbourg I've had Eye Mind by Phil Drummond (biography of Roky Erickson & The 13th Floor Elevators) on my shelf for ages, but haven't got round to reading it yet and am also keen to read Growing Old Disgracefully by Alan Lakey (biography of The Pretty Things), but it's out of print and 2nd hand copies are quite pricey. High expectations of both of those. |
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| Author: | marg [ Tue Feb 25, 2014 10:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Top 5 music related biographies |
Just Kids - Patti Smith Chronicles - Dylan Bedsit Disco Queen - Tracy Thorn Things The Grandchildren Should Know - Mark Everett I tried hard to like Falling and Laughing: The Restoration of Edwin Collins - written by his Missus. It's a pity it didn't come from his own quill. |
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| Author: | Bovine Juice [ Tue Feb 25, 2014 10:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Top 5 music related biographies |
I enjoyed ones by Luke Haines, Louise Wener, Julian Cope, Marc Almond and Billy Bragg |
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| Author: | marg [ Tue Feb 25, 2014 10:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Top 5 music related biographies |
What about Morrissey - did he succeed in converting any of you to vegetarianism? I thought about it for a second. Well, probably not even that long. |
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| Author: | Bovine Juice [ Tue Feb 25, 2014 10:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Top 5 music related biographies |
I have it on the shelf and it'll probably remain there because everybody who has read it has panned it for being self indulgent bitter tripe, desperately in need of a good edit (or any kind of an edit!). He apparently comes across as the sad old rambling drunk who sits in the corner and regales anyone within earshot of some uninteresting anecdote... repeatedly. |
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| Author: | milchman [ Tue Feb 25, 2014 11:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Top 5 music related biographies |
Autobiography by Morrissey – digested read John Crace reduces the much-hyped reminiscences of the Smiths singer and tortured vegetarian enigma to an intensely poetic 600 words http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/o ... ested-read Very highly recommended! |
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| Author: | marg [ Wed Feb 26, 2014 12:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Top 5 music related biographies |
He's all spleen save for the odd nods of affection towards the matriarchs in his life. A spectacularly disappointing read in which he himself appears detached from the subject via tedious references to himself in the third person. That eerie tale of his night ride in the Dales give me a shiver though. |
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| Author: | SPT [ Wed Feb 26, 2014 8:24 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Top 5 music related biographies |
This actually probably covers my top 5. Apart from Our Band Could Be Your Life, which is great, and hugely expensive in back catalogue purchases if you like properly gods 80s hardcore/alternative rock. It inspires you to get the lot. |
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| Author: | Johnny Anarchy [ Wed Feb 26, 2014 3:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Top 5 music related biographies |
Liked the Cope and Yorkston books, and Eye Mind is still on my reading pile. Other great books - Mike Barnes: Captain Beefheart - the biography Rob Jovanovic: Big Star - the Story of Rock's Forgotten Band Bill Sykes: Sit Down, Listen To This - The Roger Eagle Story Charlie Louvin: Satan Is Real John Sinclair: Guitar Army |
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| Author: | Trev [ Wed Feb 26, 2014 5:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Top 5 music related biographies |
I can recommend these (not strictly biographies, but whatever) Grit Noise and Revolution - The Birth of Detroit Rock N Roll - David A. Carson Women Make Noise (Girl bands from Motown to the Modern) - ed. Julia Downes Sweet Soul Music (Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom) - Peter Guralnick Our Band Could Be Your Life (Scenes from the American indie underground 1981-1991) - Michael Azerrad Where Have All The Good Times Gone (The Rise and Fall of the Record Industry) - Louis Barfe |
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| Author: | Johnny Anarchy [ Thu Feb 27, 2014 9:43 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Top 5 music related biographies |
| Author: | SPT [ Fri Feb 28, 2014 9:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Top 5 music related biographies |
Am halfway through Vic Galloway's account of the various Fence folk. Interesting in a low-key way. |
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| Author: | marg [ Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Top 5 music related biographies |
What say the soundsxpers of Robert Forster's 10 Rules of Rock and Roll? |
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| Author: | SPT [ Mon Mar 10, 2014 2:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Top 5 music related biographies |
Ah, well. I haven't read it yet. I did hear him reading bits at the Latitude festival around the time it came out. I remember him desparing at AC/DC. I was erm, in a festivally frame of mind (as in beer festivally) so went with a few others to say hello after. I tried to explain that I was something of an AC/DC fan, for whom winning a copy of 16 Lovers Lane helped broaden my musical tastes, but that it was perfectly possible to like both. His expression was, quite justifiably, equal parts pity, despair, bafflement and "You're telling me this because..?" - so I slunk away. I'll check if it's cheap on the kindle... |
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| Author: | SPT [ Fri Aug 22, 2014 2:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Top 5 music related biographies |
Just got a new kindle (after, in a typical Soundsxp piece of buffoonery, sitting on the old one while camping which destroyed the screen). Picked up this JAMC biog for 99p http://www.amazon.co.uk/Barbed-Wire-Kis ... 1846972493 So far so not bad. There's a little bit much in the way of "imbibing of tinctures", but it's enthusiastic about what they did without falling into the trap of taking the band too seriously. |
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| Author: | Bovine Juice [ Fri Aug 22, 2014 4:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Top 5 music related biographies |
SoundsXP piece of buffoonery? Only Westie is capable of such nonsense, providing huge amounts of alcohol has been consumed. |
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