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In Reply to: Library... posted by ASHRA on January 5, 2007 at 20:52:15:
I have many dozens of reference works on music, bios of musicians, treatises, etc. Frankly, I'm as much a book hound as I am a music hound - there are bookshelves in every room of our home except the bathrooms (but we keep current magazines there). I keep the music-related tomes shelved together.The most useful one I have is "The Green Book of Songs By Subject," which is my number one research stop for my weekly radio program. It's great fun just to page through, too.
Right now, my personal favorite "fun" book to browse is "1000 Record Covers" by Michael Ochs (of the Michael Ochs Archives), a Taschen Books issue. It is exactly what is says it is - a nicely-printed collection of 1000 record covers, mostly from the USA, but with a sprinkling of other nations throughout. The best thing about it is the way Ochs arranged it - it's almost stream-of-consciousness. Covers are not grouped by artist, chronology, genre, or the other ways we vinyl dweebs usually sort our stuff. He groups them together based on similarities in the images, sometimes quite apparent, sometimes very subtle. Themes sometimes develop over a series of pages - kind of a six-degrees-of-separation game. You open it up to a random page, and before you know it, you're deep in the rabbit hole. To top it all off, the paperback is very reasonably priced and good quality - I picked it up for a handful of magic beans at a Borders.
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- Re: Library... - radiodaddy 21:21:10 01/05/07 (1)
- Ochs for me too for the reasons you list. (nt) - Revolver66 07:28:12 01/06/07 (0)
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