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Peak Human
- What We Can Learn from History’s Greatest Civilizations
- By: Johan Norberg
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
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All golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth; yet no two are the same. Their beliefs, societies and place in the wider world all vary. Despite this, all previous golden ages have ended, whether it be because of external pressures or internal fracturing; too much hubris or too little wariness.
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Norberg is back!
- By Dennis on 01-06-25
By: Johan Norberg
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The Last Great Dream
- How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties
- By: Dennis McNally
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
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Fascinating, far-reaching, and definitive, THE LAST GREAT DREAM is the ultimate guide to a generation-defining countercultural movement, an Underground 101 course for newcomers and aficionados alike.
By: Dennis McNally
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Songs in the Key of MP3
- The New Icons of the Internet Age
- By: Liam Inscoe-Jones
- Narrated by: Gemma Lawrence, Liam Inscoe-Jones, Rori Hawthorn, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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In Songs in the Key of MP3: The New Icons of the Internet Age, Liam Inscoe-Jones explores five contemporary artists who broke the old rules of sound, style and the music industry at large: Devonté Hynes (of Blood Orange), FKA Twigs, Oneohtrix Point Never, Earl Sweatshirt and SOPHIE. Each began their careers as obscure outsiders but, over time, they helped to re-shape pop culture in their image. Through these five extraordinary figures and an eclectic supporting cast of dozens more, Inscoe-Jones paints a picture of the sonic landscape of the last ten years.
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Anatomy of the Voice
- An Illustrated Guide for Singers, Vocal Coaches, and Speech Therapists
- By: Theodore Dimon Jr, G. David Brown - illustrator
- Narrated by: Max Newland
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
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This book is the first to explain, in clear and concise language, the anatomy and mechanics of the mysterious and complex bodily system we call the voice. Beautifully illustrated with more than 100 detailed images, Anatomy of the Voice guides voice teachers and students, vocal coaches, professional singers and actors, and anyone interested in the voice through the complex landscape of breathing, larynx, throat, face, and jaw.
By: Theodore Dimon Jr, and others
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Waiting for Britney Spears
- A True Story, Allegedly
- By: Jeff Weiss
- Narrated by: Jeff Weiss, Mel Bouzad, Sedona Soluoshon
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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America, 2003: A country at war, its shiny veneer beginning to crack. Von Dutch and The Simple Life dominate. And on the cover of every magazine, a twenty-one-year-old pop star named Britney Spears. Tracking her every move for a third-tier gossip rag in Los Angeles was an unknown young writer taking whatever job he could while pursuing his distant literary dreams. He'd instead become an eyewitness to the slow tragedy of a changing nation, represented in spirit by “the coy it-girl at the end of history.”
By: Jeff Weiss
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Tearing Down the Orange Curtain
- How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World
- By: Nate Jackson, Daniel Kohn
- Narrated by: Marc Worden
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
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In Tearing Down the Orange Curtain, journalists Nate Jackson and Daniel Kohn explore the trajectory of punk and ska from their humble beginnings to their peak popularity years, where their cultural impact could be felt in music around the world. Delving deep into the personal and professional lives of bands like Social Distortion, The Adolescents, The Offspring, and their ska counterparts No Doubt, Sublime, Reel Big Fish, Save Ferris, and more, this book gives listeners a deeper look into the very human stories of these musicians.
By: Nate Jackson, and others
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Peak Human
- What We Can Learn from History’s Greatest Civilizations
- By: Johan Norberg
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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All golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth; yet no two are the same. Their beliefs, societies and place in the wider world all vary. Despite this, all previous golden ages have ended, whether it be because of external pressures or internal fracturing; too much hubris or too little wariness.
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Norberg is back!
- By Dennis on 01-06-25
By: Johan Norberg
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The Last Great Dream
- How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties
- By: Dennis McNally
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Fascinating, far-reaching, and definitive, THE LAST GREAT DREAM is the ultimate guide to a generation-defining countercultural movement, an Underground 101 course for newcomers and aficionados alike.
By: Dennis McNally
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Songs in the Key of MP3
- The New Icons of the Internet Age
- By: Liam Inscoe-Jones
- Narrated by: Gemma Lawrence, Liam Inscoe-Jones, Rori Hawthorn, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In Songs in the Key of MP3: The New Icons of the Internet Age, Liam Inscoe-Jones explores five contemporary artists who broke the old rules of sound, style and the music industry at large: Devonté Hynes (of Blood Orange), FKA Twigs, Oneohtrix Point Never, Earl Sweatshirt and SOPHIE. Each began their careers as obscure outsiders but, over time, they helped to re-shape pop culture in their image. Through these five extraordinary figures and an eclectic supporting cast of dozens more, Inscoe-Jones paints a picture of the sonic landscape of the last ten years.
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Anatomy of the Voice
- An Illustrated Guide for Singers, Vocal Coaches, and Speech Therapists
- By: Theodore Dimon Jr, G. David Brown - illustrator
- Narrated by: Max Newland
- Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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This book is the first to explain, in clear and concise language, the anatomy and mechanics of the mysterious and complex bodily system we call the voice. Beautifully illustrated with more than 100 detailed images, Anatomy of the Voice guides voice teachers and students, vocal coaches, professional singers and actors, and anyone interested in the voice through the complex landscape of breathing, larynx, throat, face, and jaw.
By: Theodore Dimon Jr, and others
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Waiting for Britney Spears
- A True Story, Allegedly
- By: Jeff Weiss
- Narrated by: Jeff Weiss, Mel Bouzad, Sedona Soluoshon
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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America, 2003: A country at war, its shiny veneer beginning to crack. Von Dutch and The Simple Life dominate. And on the cover of every magazine, a twenty-one-year-old pop star named Britney Spears. Tracking her every move for a third-tier gossip rag in Los Angeles was an unknown young writer taking whatever job he could while pursuing his distant literary dreams. He'd instead become an eyewitness to the slow tragedy of a changing nation, represented in spirit by “the coy it-girl at the end of history.”
By: Jeff Weiss
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Tearing Down the Orange Curtain
- How Punk Rock Brought Orange County to the World
- By: Nate Jackson, Daniel Kohn
- Narrated by: Marc Worden
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In Tearing Down the Orange Curtain, journalists Nate Jackson and Daniel Kohn explore the trajectory of punk and ska from their humble beginnings to their peak popularity years, where their cultural impact could be felt in music around the world. Delving deep into the personal and professional lives of bands like Social Distortion, The Adolescents, The Offspring, and their ska counterparts No Doubt, Sublime, Reel Big Fish, Save Ferris, and more, this book gives listeners a deeper look into the very human stories of these musicians.
By: Nate Jackson, and others
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Lowside of the Road - A Life of Tom Waits
- By: Barney Hoskyns
- Narrated by: Nick Landrum
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
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With a career spanning over fifty years, Tom Waits remains one of rock’s great enigmas; a chameleon-like survivor who, like Bob Dylan and Neil Young, has achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider mystique. Lowside of the Road, by Barney Hoskyns, offers a unique, affectionate and penetrating portrait of Waits spanning from Closing Time to Orphans, and beyond. Based on extensive research and deep critical insight, Hoskyns' definitive account of Waits' life and work is an outstanding exploration of this notoriously private artist and performer.
By: Barney Hoskyns
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Hollywood Dream
- The Thunderclap Newman Story
- By: Mark Wilkerson, Pete Townshend -foreword
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
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Thunderclap Newman stunned the music world in the summer of 1969 with the success of their wonderfully odd debut single "Something In The Air", which ousted none other than the Beatles from the top of the charts. They followed up with an LP described by Nik Cohn as "one of the finest, most truly bizarre albums of the era" before disintegrating just a few months after its release. This is the story of one of the most unlikely combos in popular music history, and of the four disparate characters who formed its core.
By: Mark Wilkerson, and others
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Miles Davis' Bitches Brew
- By: George Grella Jr.
- Narrated by: Jamie Smith
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
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Bitches Brew is still one of the most astonishing albums ever made in either jazz or rock. Seeming to fuse the two, it actually does something entirely more revolutionary and open-ended: blending the most avant-garde aspects of Western music with deep grooves, the album rejects both jazz and rock for an entirely different idea of how music can be made.
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Oasis' Definitely Maybe
- 33 1/3
- By: Alex Niven
- Narrated by: Matt Haynes
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
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Alex Niven charts the astonishing rise of Oasis in the mid 1990s and celebrates the life-affirming, communal force of songs such as “Live Forever,” “Supersonic,” and “Cigarettes & Alcohol.” In doing so, he seeks to reposition Oasis in relation to their Britpop peers and explore one of the most controversial pop-cultural narratives of the last thirty years.
By: Alex Niven
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Kate Bush's Hounds of Love
- 33 1/3
- By: Leah Kardos
- Narrated by: Maria Nicola Johnson
- Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
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This book charts the emergence of Kate Bush in the early-to-mid-1980s as a courageous experimentalist, a singularly expressive recording artist and a visionary music producer. Track-by-track commentaries focus on the experience of the album from the listener’s point of view, drawing attention to the art and craft of Bush’s songwriting, production and sound design.
By: Leah Kardos
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The Vinyl Diaries
- Sex, Deep Cuts, and My Soundtrack to Queer Joy
- By: Pete Crighton
- Narrated by: Pete Crighton
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
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Pete Crighton came of age in the early/mid 1980s in the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Growing up in Toronto, he was terrified that his friends and schoolmates would find out that he was “different” at a time when being gay felt like a death sentence. His only comfort was music, the songs a balm to his painful adolescence. Struggling to make sense of his sexuality and fear of the disease stifled Crighton as a sexual being. Instead of exploring sex, he began curating a massive music library.
By: Pete Crighton
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Radiohead's OK Computer
- 33 1/3
- By: Dai Griffiths
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
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Seemingly granted ‘classic album’ status within days of its release in 1997, OK Computer transformed Radiohead from a highly promising rock act into The Most Important Band in the World – a label the band has been burdened by (and has fooled around with) ever since. Through close musical analysis of each song, Dai Griffiths explores the themes and ideas that have made this album resonate so deeply with its audience, and argues that OK Computer is one of the most successfully realized CD albums so far created.
By: Dai Griffiths
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Playlist Profits
- Get Paid to Promote Your Songs While Growing a Fanbase
- By: Chris Greenwood
- Narrated by: Chris Greenwood
- Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
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Playlist Profits isn’t about chasing trends, buying fake streams, or dropping another song into the void. It’s about building an unstoppable machine that grows your career while you sleep. Inside this book, you'll discover a proven roadmap that helped me (Manafest) hit over 130 million Spotify streams, land Super Bowl placements, & build a real fanbase—not bots, not luck, but a system.
By: Chris Greenwood
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Duran Duran's Rio
- 33 1/3
- By: Annie Zaleski
- Narrated by: Susan Althens
- Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
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In the '80s, the Birmingham, England, band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade's music and culture. No album represented this rip-it-up-and-start-again movement better than the act's breakthrough 1982 LP, Rio. A cohesive album with a retro-futuristic sound—influences include danceable disco, tangy funk, swaggering glam, and Roxy Music's art-rock—the full-length sold millions and spawned smashes such as "Hungry Like the Wolf" and the title track.
By: Annie Zaleski
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Doc Watson: A Life in Music
- American Music: New Roots
- By: Eddie Huffman
- Narrated by: David Lee Garver
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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Arthel "Doc" Watson (1923-2012) is arguably one of the most influential musicians Appalachia has ever produced. A musician's musician, Doc grew up on a subsistence farm in the North Carolina mountains during the Depression, soaking up traditional music and learning to play guitar even though he was blind. Full of fascinating stories—from Doc's first banjo made from his grandmother's cat to the founding of MerleFest—this promises to be the definitive biography of the man and how he came to be synonymous with roots music in America and shows how his influence is still felt in music today.
By: Eddie Huffman
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Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope
- 33 1/3
- By: Ayanna Dozier
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
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The question of control for Black women is a costly one. From 1986 onwards, the trajectory of Janet Jackson’s career can be summed up in her desire for control. Control for Janet was never simply just about her desire for economic and creative control over her career but was, rather, an existential question about the desire to control and be in control over her bodily integrity as a Black woman.
By: Ayanna Dozier
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Britney Spears's Blackout
- 33 1/3
- By: Natasha Lasky
- Narrated by: Rachel Jacobs
- Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
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Britney Spears barely survived 2007. She divorced her husband, lost custody of her kids, went to rehab, shaved her head and assaulted a paparazzo. In the midst of her public breakdown, she managed to record an album, Blackout. Critics thought it spelled the end for Britney Spears’ career.
By: Natasha Lasky
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David Bowie's Low
- 33 1/3, Book 26
- By: Hugo Wilcken
- Narrated by: Shea Taylor
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
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Bowie has long been haunted by the angst-ridden, emotional work of the Die Brucke movement and the Expressionists. Berlin is their spiritual home, and after a chaotic world tour, Bowie adopts this city as his new sanctuary. Immediately he sets to work on Low, his own expressionist mood-piece.
By: Hugo Wilcken
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Nirvana's In Utero
- 33 1/3, Book 34
- By: Gillian G Gaar
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
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Though Nevermind was Nirvana's most commercially successful album, and the record that broke them—and the grunge phenomenon—internationally, In Utero has increasingly become regarded as the band's best album, both by the critics and the band members themselves. Instead of sticking to the "grunge pop" formula that made Nevermind so palatable to the mainstream, Nirvana chose instead to challenge their audience, producing an album that the band's creative force, Kurt Cobain, said truly matched his vision of what he had always wanted his band to sound like.
By: Gillian G Gaar
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Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland
- 33 1/3
- By: John Perry
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
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Electric Ladyland is one of the greatest guitar albums ever made. During the recording process, Jimi Hendrix at last had time and creative freedom to pursue the sounds he was looking for. In this remarkable and entertaining book, John Perry gets to the heart of Hendrix's unique talent—guiding the listener through each song on the album, writing vividly about Hendrix's live performances, and talking to several of Hendrix's peers and contemporaries.
By: John Perry
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Fantasies of Nina Simone
- By: Jordan Alexander Stein
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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In Fantasies of Nina Simone, Jordan Alexander Stein examines the space between our collective and individual fantasies about Simone the performer, civil rights activist, and icon, and her own fantasies about herself. Stein outlines how Simone gave voice to personal fantasies through releasing dozens of covers of her white male contemporaries.
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Talking Heads' Fear of Music
- 33 1/3, Book 86
- By: Jonathan Lethem
- Narrated by: Keith Brown
- Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
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Jonathan Lethem treats Fear of Music (the third album by the Talking Heads, and the first produced by Brian Eno) as a masterpiece—edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky, and fun. He scratches obsessively at the album's songs, guitars, rhythms, lyrics, packaging, downtown origins, and legacy, showing how Fear of Music hints at the directions (positive and negative) the band would take in the future.
By: Jonathan Lethem
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Madvillain's Madvillainy
- 33 1/3
- By: Will Hagle
- Narrated by: Curtis Michael Holland
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
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This book celebrates Madvillainy as a representation of two genius musical minds melding to form one revered supervillain. A product of circumstance, the album came together soon after MF DOOM's resurgence and Madlib's reluctant return from avant-garde jazz to hip-hop.
By: Will Hagle
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Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
- 33 1/3
- By: John Cavanagh
- Narrated by: Philip Battley
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
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Through a series of interviews with a wide range of people connected to Pink Floyd in their earliest days (including Nick Mason, Peter Jenner, Jenny Fabian, Storm Thorgerson, Duggie Fields and Peter Whitehead), John Cavanagh paints a vivid picture of how this remarkable debut album was created. He brings to life the stories behind each track, as well as Pink Floyd's groundbreaking live performances of the time.
By: John Cavanagh
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Fleetwood Mac's Tusk
- 33 1/3, Book 77
- By: Rob Trucks
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
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Here, Rob Trucks talks to Lindsey Buckingham, as well as members of Animal Collective, Camper Van Beethoven, the New Pornographers, Wolf Parade, and the USC Trojan marching band in order to chart both the story and the impact of an album born of personal obsession and a stubborn unwillingness to compromise.
By: Rob Trucks
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Bob Dylan
- Jewish Roots, American Soil
- By: Harry Freedman
- Narrated by: Todd Almond
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Bob Dylan arrived in New York one winter morning in 1961. His music and spirit would go on to capture the hearts and minds of a generation, but what no one knew then was that, like so many before him, Dylan was concealing his Jewish origins. For Harry Freedman, Dylan’s roots are the key to grasping how this complete unknown burst onto the scene and reinvented not only himself, but popular music. The instinct for escape and reinvention has defined Dylan’s long career.
By: Harry Freedman
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Never - De autobiografie
- By: Rick Astley
- Narrated by: Thijs Miedema
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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'In Never schetst Astley zijn eigen merkwaardige rise and fall and rise, deels als ooggetuigenverslag van de eigthies-popcultuur, deels als muzikale zedenschets van het digitale tijdperk.' OOR 'Ik had me met beroemd zijn niet erg op mijn gemak gevoeld, maar ná het beroemd zijn wist ik niet wat ik met mezelf aan moest. Oppervlakkig gezien was ik enorm opgelucht dat ik van de hele toestand af was. Het was alsof ik vrijgelaten was.
By: Rick Astley
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The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique
- 33 1/3, Book 30
- By: Dan LeRoy
- Narrated by: Stacy Carolan
- Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
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Derided as one-hit wonders, estranged from their original producer and record label, and in self-imposed exile in Los Angeles, the Beastie Boys were written off by most observers before even beginning to record their second album—an embarrassing commercial flop that should have ruined the group's career. But not only did "Paul's Boutique" eventually transformed the Beasties from a fratboy novelty to hiphop giants, its sample-happy, retro aesthetic changed popular culture forever.
By: Dan LeRoy
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Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- 33 1/3
- By: Kirk Walker Graves
- Narrated by: Torian Brackett
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
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Swallowing the chaos wrought by his public persona and digesting it as a grandiose allegory of self-redemption, Kanye sublimates his narcissism to paint masterstroke after masterstroke on MBDTF, a 69-minute hymn to egotistical excess. Sampling and ventriloquizing the pop music past to tell the story of its future–very much a tale of our culture's wish for unfettered digital ubiquity–MBDTF is the album of its era, an aesthetic self-acquittal and spiritual autobiography of our era’s most dynamic artist.