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Grunge Is Dead
- The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music
- By: Greg Prato
- Narrated by: Greg Prato
- Length: 22 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Grunge Is Dead weaves together the definitive story of the Seattle music scene through a series of interviews with the people who were there. Taking the form of an “oral” history, this books contains more than 130 interviews, along with essential background information from acclaimed music writer Greg Prato.
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Unlistenable
- By Dave Taste on 28-06-22
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Grunge Is Dead
- The Oral History of Seattle Rock Music
- Narrated by: Greg Prato
- Length: 22 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 01-11-21
- Language: English
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Smash!
- Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the '90s Punk Explosion
- By: Ian Winwood
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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A group biography of '90s punk rock told through the prism of Green Day, The Offspring, NOFX, Rancid, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, and more Two decades after the Sex Pistols and the Ramones birthed punk music into the world, their artistic heirs burst onto the scene and changed the genre...
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You're not punk and I'm telling everyone.
- By MR on 19-02-19
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Smash!
- Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the '90s Punk Explosion
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 20-11-18
- Language: English
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Kiss and Make-Up
- By: Gene Simmons
- Narrated by: Gene Simmons
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Exploding on the music scene in the early 1970s, the rock group KISS combined raw energy with theatrical showmanship—not to mention face painting! Founding member Gene Simmons—an outrageous star whose superlong tongue, legendary sexual exploits, and demonic makeup have made him a rock icon—recounts his own story as well as the history of the band. In KISS and Make-Up, Simmons shares a wild, shocking, and unbelievable tale about an immigrant boy from Israel who studied to be a rabbi but was saved by rock and roll and became one of the most notorious rock stars in the world.
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Kiss and Make-Up
- Narrated by: Gene Simmons
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 22-12-25
- Language: English
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Tales from the Dancefloor
- Manchester / The Warehouse Project / Parklife / Sankeys / The Haçienda
- By: Sacha Lord, Luke Bainbridge
- Narrated by: Sacha Lord
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall51
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The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Haçienda to The Warehouse Project. Tales From the Dance Floor is an electrifying journey into the heart of Manchester’s music culture with its most influential promoter. Over the past three...
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Shame making it political!
- By S PAYNE on 23-11-25
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Tales from the Dancefloor
- Manchester / The Warehouse Project / Parklife / Sankeys / The Haçienda
- Narrated by: Sacha Lord
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 11-04-24
- Language: English
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Great Piano Works Explained
- By: Catherine Kautsky, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Catherine Kautsky
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Original Recording
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The glorious repertoire for solo piano includes many of classical music’s most beloved masterpieces. In these 24 musically rich lectures, you’ll dig deeply into this magnificent tradition, in an in-depth exploration of the art of listening. With Professor Kautsky’s inspired guidance and expert playing, you’ll highlight key works of each composer, and unpack their structure, the musical materials that drive them, and the specific features that affect listeners so strongly, giving you a clear grounding in how to approach and hear this great music.
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Wonderful course
- By ML on 07-12-22
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Great Piano Works Explained
- Narrated by: Catherine Kautsky
- Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 07-10-22
- Language: English
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Inside Out
- A Personal History of Pink Floyd
- By: Nick Mason
- Narrated by: Nick Mason
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Abridged
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Overall198
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Performance165
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Nick has been fantastically involved throughout the production of this download, so that it has become something far more than simply an author reading his work. For once, we can genuinely say this audiobook comes complete with bells and whistles, not to mention some Arctic winds, Venetian canals, telephones, aeroplanes, and a squealing pig or two!
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Strangely Fascinating
- By Ben on 14-02-09
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Inside Out
- A Personal History of Pink Floyd
- Narrated by: Nick Mason
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 15-08-06
- Language: English
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Led Zeppelin IV
- Rock of Ages
- By: Barney Hoskyns
- Narrated by: Barney Hoskyns
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The revealing backstory of the album with no name that spawned 'When the Levee Breaks', 'Black Dog,' 'Stairway to Heaven', and 'Rock 'n' Roll'. Four tracks each side; eight killers, no fillers. This is how they did it.
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Led Zeppelin IV
- Rock of Ages
- Narrated by: Barney Hoskyns
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 28-04-14
- Language: English
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Medical Grade Music
- By: Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi
- Narrated by: Kavus Torabi, Steve Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall78
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Performance71
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The story of two outsiders and obsessives whose collision prompted an evangelistic alliance on the furthest frontiers of underground music. Steve Davis first met Kavus Torabi - guitarist with Gong, Guapo, Cardiacs and Knifeworld - in the mid-2000s at a gig by French underground rock legends Magma. Over the next few years, this unlikely duo's shared affinity for visionary psychedelic music would become the foundation of not only a firm friendship, but also the most infectiously inclusive broadcasting style since the much-mourned death of John Peel.
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This is a joyous book - wonderful musical memories and a stackful of new music recommendations ...
- By Zzorchering on 16-04-21
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Medical Grade Music
- Narrated by: Kavus Torabi, Steve Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 15-04-21
- Language: English
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Mark Kermode's Surround Sound
- The Stories of Movie Music
- By: Mark Kermode
- Narrated by: Mark Kermode
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall25
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Performance22
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This audiobook is read by the author and includes an exclusive Q&A between Mark Kermode and Jenny Nelson 'Brims with enthusiasm and joyful insight' – Richard Ayoade How can a film score make you cheer, shiver, cry or punch the air? How do directors communicate their musical vision to composers?...
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Ace!
- By Robert Fryer on 03-04-26
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Mark Kermode's Surround Sound
- The Stories of Movie Music
- Narrated by: Mark Kermode
- Length: 10 hrs
- Release date: 10-09-25
- Language: English
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Bach
- Music in the Castle of Heaven
- By: John Eliot Gardiner
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents’ house, where it hung for safety during World War II. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer's greatest living interpreters. The fruits of this lifetime's immersion are distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship but moving far beyond it.
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Great book .... terrible narration!
- By Rod288 on 02-04-16
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Bach
- Music in the Castle of Heaven
- Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 02-09-14
- Language: English
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Willie, Waylon, and the Boys
- How Nashville Outsiders Changed Country Music Forever
- By: Brian Fairbanks
- Narrated by: Tyler Darby
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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The tragic and inspiring story of the leaders of Outlaw country and their influence on today’s Alt-County and Americana superstars, tracing a path from Waylon Jennings’ survival on the Day the Music Died through to the Highwaymen and on to the current creative and commercial explosion of...
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Wonderful
- By MR NICHOLAS BALL on 17-05-26
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Willie, Waylon, and the Boys
- How Nashville Outsiders Changed Country Music Forever
- Narrated by: Tyler Darby
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 04-06-24
- Language: English
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David Bowie Made Me Gay
- 100 Years of LGBT Music
- By: Darryl W. Bullock
- Narrated by: Darryl W. Bullock
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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A groundbreaking book exploring the breadth of history of recorded music by and for the LGBT community and how those records influenced the evolution of the music we listen to today. From Sia to Elton John, from Billie Holiday to David Bowie, LGBT musicians have changed the course of modern music. But before their music - and the messages behind it - gained understanding and a place in the mainstream, how did the queer musicians of yesteryear fight to build foundations for those who would follow them?
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A superb history
- By N W. on 24-10-22
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David Bowie Made Me Gay
- 100 Years of LGBT Music
- Narrated by: Darryl W. Bullock
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 30-04-19
- Language: English
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Music as an Art
- By: Roger Scruton
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Roger Scruton is a polymath. He has written authoritatively on a huge range of subjects from the environment to wine, from cosmology to the Middle East. He is also an accomplished musician (organ and piano) and a composer of works including an opera and a song cycle. This is Scruton’s second major work on music for Bloomsbury - the first being Understanding Music (Continuum, 2009).
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Scruton is delightful as ever
- By Roger Marlow on 28-01-19
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Music as an Art
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 23-08-18
- Language: English
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Silhouettes And Shadows
- The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
- By: Adam Steiner
- Narrated by: Dom Coyote
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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An avant-garde pop album rich with tension and fear, 1980’s Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) marked a pivotal point in David Bowie’s career. Standing at the bleeding edge of the new decade between the experimental Berlin Trilogy (Low, Heroes, and Lodger) and 1983’s wildly successful...
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Silhouettes And Shadows
- The Secret History of David Bowie’s Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
- Narrated by: Dom Coyote
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 03-03-26
- Language: English
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Fire and Rain
- The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the Lost Story of 1970
- By: David Browne
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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January 1970: the Beatles assemble one more time to put the finishing touches on Let It Be; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young are wrapping up Déjà Vu; Simon and Garfunkel are unveiling Bridge Over Troubled Water; James Taylor is an upstart singer-songwriter who's just completed Sweet Baby James. Over the course of the next twelve months, their lives---and the world around them---will change irrevocably.
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Very interesting and informative
- By Jackie on 25-06-24
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Fire and Rain
- The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the Lost Story of 1970
- Narrated by: Sean Runnette
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 19-07-11
- Language: English
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How Black Music Took Over the World
- By: Melvin Gibbs
- Narrated by: Shamaan Casey
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents How Black Music Took Over the World by Melvin Briggs, read by Shamaan Casey Why do Bob Marley, John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin, and Nina Simone move us the way they do? What drives the soulful notes of the Delta blues? What makes Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter inescapably great?...
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How Black Music Took Over the World
- Narrated by: Shamaan Casey
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 04-06-26
- Language: English
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Rock & Roll Nightmares
- True Stories, Volume 2: True Crime & Strange Stories About Rock Stars
- By: Staci Layne Wilson
- Narrated by: Andy Garrison
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Rock & Roll Nightmares, Volume 1 scratched the sinister surface with tales of the 27 Club, rock ‘n’ roll suicides, plane crashes, curses, and more. Now the award-winning series continues with concert mayhem, a look at the “baby groupie” trend of the 1970s, Satanic panic, horrific home invasions, musicians who’ve died on stage, rockers who lived on borrowed time, gun-toting music producers, deadly DJs, and much more.
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the best rock book I've listened to for a while
- By Katie on 14-04-26
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Rock & Roll Nightmares
- True Stories, Volume 2: True Crime & Strange Stories About Rock Stars
- Narrated by: Andy Garrison
- Series: Rock & Roll Nightmares, Book 4
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 15-05-23
- Language: English
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Such Great Heights
- The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion
- By: Chris DeVille
- Narrated by: Chris DeVille
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive history of twenty-first-century indie rock—from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and St. Vincent—and how the genre shifted the musical landscape and shaped a generation. This program is read by the author. Maybe you caught a few exhilarating seconds of...
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Such Great Heights
- The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion
- Narrated by: Chris DeVille
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 26-08-25
- Language: English
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Inner City Pressure
- The Story of Grime
- By: Dan Hancox
- Narrated by: Ash Hunter
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018 ‘The definitive grime biography’ NME ’A landmark genre history’ Pitchfork This audiobook is narrated by Ash Hunter, stage and screen actor who is currently playing Hamilton in the West End production...
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So good. Full of throwbacks and insight
- By Amazon Customer on 05-12-21
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Inner City Pressure
- The Story of Grime
- Narrated by: Ash Hunter
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 17-05-18
- Language: English
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Revolution in the Head
- The Beatles’ Records and the Sixties
- By: Ian MacDonald
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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'The masterpiece The Beatles deserved' Vox 'The finest piece of Fabs scholarship ever published' MOJO Revolution in the Head goes to the heart of The Beatles – their records. Drawing on his unique knowledge and experience to 'read' their tracks, Ian MacDonald offers a detailed examination of...
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Revolution in the Head
- The Beatles’ Records and the Sixties
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 05-11-26
- Language: English
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