Never mind. I was able to refine my google search. I had some details wrong, but it was Arthur MacBride.
I couldn't believe it the first twenty times you told us, but it's starting to sink in now.
Riley ,'Lessons'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Typo Boy - Jan 12, 2014 11:33:36 am PST #5780 of 6436
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Amy - Jan 17, 2014 7:16:27 am PST #5781 of 6436
Because books.
Jerry Garcia website relaunched. Includes 15,000 hours of recorded music and 3,450 shows. Wow.
tommyrot - Jan 17, 2014 5:06:08 pm PST #5782 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This is fun: Music Timeline
A google thing where you can track the popularity of various music genres (or artists) from 1950 to the present.
eta: Huh. The Pixies' popularity definitely peaked with Doolittle: [link]
Kate P. - Jan 23, 2014 1:09:05 pm PST #5783 of 6436
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
O my Buffistas, does anyone (Hec?) have a recommendation for a good general (narrative) history of 20th-century pop and/or rock music? Everything I can find is either a textbook, an encyclopedia, or too focused on one genre or another. I'm surprised it's been this hard to find something, and I'm sure I must be overlooking an obvious title. Can anyone help?
DavidS - Jan 23, 2014 1:39:24 pm PST #5784 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
O my Buffistas, does anyone (Hec?) have a recommendation for a good general (narrative) history of 20th-century pop and/or rock music? Everything I can find is either a textbook, an encyclopedia, or too focused on one genre or another. I'm surprised it's been this hard to find something, and I'm sure I must be overlooking an obvious title. Can anyone help?
I've seen some titles like this out of Britain. The trend has gone away from macro overviews to micro monographs.
I'm sure Faber has something. Maybe Penguin. Let me poke around.
DavidS - Jan 23, 2014 1:43:27 pm PST #5785 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DavidS - Jan 23, 2014 1:44:58 pm PST #5786 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
A history of 20th Century Popular Music - an online resource.
DavidS - Jan 23, 2014 1:47:57 pm PST #5787 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jon B. - Jan 23, 2014 4:23:18 pm PST #5788 of 6436
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Not pop/rock music, but Alex Ross's "The Rest is Noise" is a really great read. [link]
Kate P. - Jan 23, 2014 4:35:02 pm PST #5789 of 6436
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Jon, that was the first one I thought of (and my library even has a copy), but when I looked at it more closely I saw it was mostly focused on classical works. I definitely want to read it myself, though.
David, thank you for those! The Melody Maker one could work. What I'm looking for is a book to add to my library's collection. I had a student come to me today looking for a book on the British Invasion -- it's for a research project, and he specifically needs at least a couple of books -- and we really didn't have much of use to him. So that highlighted for me an area of our collection that needs work. I have a few ideas for how to fill the gaps, but have been stumped when it comes to a general narrative overview of rock history.