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Recommend book of "must have" rock albums

I'm looking for a book that walks through a list of "must have" rock albums. I searched Amazon and Audiogon, but didn't see any strong opinions for a particular book.

Here's what I'd like to see:

1) A good decription of why this album is a "must have"
2) Decent pictures
3) Enough information to help me connect with this new-to-me material.
4) If an artist has mutiple great albums, give me some guidence on where to start.

Any suggestions?
128x128nrenter
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jazdoc
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I would suggest another idea: spend some time on Robert Christgau's site at http://www.robertchristgau.com. He is a highly admired rock critic who has written for the Village Voice among others.

His reviews are well-written and often very funny. He uses a grading system and it's pretty easy to figure out his tastes. He has books of his compilations of the best albums of the 70's, 80's and 90's. But the web site has all of this data with his reviews dating back to 1967.

Good luck and happy hunting!
chadnliz
3,736 posts
 
I bought a book for a bud in our audio club last Christmas or two and I think it was called 100 must have albums or 100 albums everyone should own or something like that from "Rolling Stone" it had some nice photos and a reviewers take on what made that album special and a must have.
timrhu
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