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Radiohead's OK Computer
- 33 1/3
- By: Dai Griffiths
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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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.
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Radiohead's OK Computer
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Robbie Williams
- Facing the Ghosts
- By: Paul Scott
- Narrated by: John Last
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Abridged
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From his school days in Stoke -on-Trent to his years in Take That, his battle with drink and drugs and the song that 'saved his life', this is the most intimate and well balanced portrait of this excitingly unpredictable showman to date. This Sunday Times bestseller has become the definitive account of Robbie Williams life.
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Unimpressive
- By Christine Lancaster on 16-01-26
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Robbie Williams
- Facing the Ghosts
- Narrated by: John Last
- Length: 1 hr and 58 mins
- Release date: 24-02-10
- Language: English
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Walk This Way
- Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever
- By: Geoff Edgers
- Narrated by: Geoff Edgers
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Washington Post national arts reporter Geoff Edgers takes a deep dive into the story behind “Walk This Way,” Aerosmith and Run-DMC's legendary, groundbreaking mashup that forever changed music. The early 1980s were an exciting time for music. Hair metal bands were selling out stadiums, while...
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Walk This Way
- Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever
- Narrated by: Geoff Edgers
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 05-02-19
- Language: English
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Krautrock
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- By: Marshall Gu
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Krautrock is not a music genre. Krautrock is a way of life. Its sonic diversity and global reach belie the common culture from where it emerged. This is a band-by-band history. Krautrock explores the history and methodology of the genre, charting its influences and innovations, its more mainstream acts (like Faust, Kraftwerk, and Can) as well as the less universally known (including Harmonia, Popol Vuh, Embryo, and Ash Ra Tempel), and how the genre developed in post-war Germany and what it means to today's listeners.
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Krautrock
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Narrated by: Adam Sims
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Length: 4 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 29-04-25
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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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.
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Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Philip Battley
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Magnum Opus
- The Unbelievable 15-Year Saga of Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy
- By: James Greene Jr.
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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By 1993, Guns N' Roses had hit practically every benchmark possible for a rock n' roll band. Their eight-year journey included an explosive and game-changing debut record, a self-indulgent but even more successful double album release, a handful of raucous global tours, and various front page controversies over their lyrics, drug addictions, and lead singer Axl Rose's rattlesnake temper. The most captivating part of the Guns N' Roses story was just beginning, however.
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Magnum Opus
- The Unbelievable 15-Year Saga of Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 08-01-26
- Language: English
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Minimalist Music
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- By: George Grella Jr.
- Narrated by: Ryan Wilson
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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Minimalism as a genre is best defined not by any style or flavor but by its means. A still young genre with ancient roots, minimalism is much less any kind of style than a practice, a manner of making music. Reviving those means and applying them to contemporary sounds and experiences, the pioneers of minimalism created a new and avant-garde music that immediately communicated its power to listeners of all kinds.
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Minimalist Music
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Narrated by: Ryan Wilson
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 30-04-26
- Language: English
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Exploring American Folk Music
- Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States
- By: Kip Lornell
- Narrated by: Michael Rene Zuzel
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States reflects the fascinating diversity of regional and grassroots music in the United States. The book covers the diverse strains of American folk music - Latin, Native American, African, French-Canadian, British, and Cajun - and offers a chronology of the development of folk music in the United States. A chapter includes detailed information about the roots of hip hop.
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Exploring American Folk Music
- Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States
- Narrated by: Michael Rene Zuzel
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 12-11-14
- Language: English
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The Strat in the Attic
- Thrilling Stories of Guitar Archaeology
- By: Deke Dickerson, Jonathan Kellerman - introduction
- Narrated by: Deke Dickerson
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Guitar sleuth and music-history detective Deke Dickerson tells the true tales behind 48 rare-guitar and amplifier finds that will make any player or collector green with envy. Finding that holy grail of a guitar stashed away beneath a bed, in a closet, in the dusty corner of a guitar shop, or up...
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Very interesting
- By p f mendes on 15-08-23
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The Strat in the Attic
- Thrilling Stories of Guitar Archaeology
- Narrated by: Deke Dickerson
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 25-10-22
- Language: English
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Where We Come From
- Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain
- By: Aniefiok Ekpoudom
- Narrated by: Aniefiok Ekpoudom
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Journalist Aniefiok Ekpoudom travels the country to paint a compelling portrait of the dawn, boom and subsequent blossoming of UK rap and grime. Taking us from the heart of south London to the West Midlands and South Wales, he explores how a history of migration and an enduring spirit of resistance have shaped the current realities of these linked communities and the music they produce. These sounds have become vessels for the marginalised, carrying Black and working-class stories into the light.
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A beautiful listen 🫶
- By Anonymous on 03-02-24
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Where We Come From
- Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain
- Narrated by: Aniefiok Ekpoudom
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 16-01-24
- Language: English
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The Way It Was
- My Life with Frank Sinatra
- By: Eliot Weisman
- Narrated by: David Aston Reese
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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A candid and eye-opening inside look at the final decades of Sinatra's life told by his longtime manager and friend, Eliot Weisman. By the time Weisman met Sinatra in 1976, he was already the Voice, a man who held sway over popular music and pop culture for forty years, who had risen to the...
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Fascinating insight and entertaining
- By Ben E. on 06-12-20
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The Way It Was
- My Life with Frank Sinatra
- Narrated by: David Aston Reese
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 24-10-17
- Language: English
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Oasis' Definitely Maybe
- 33 1/3
- By: Alex Niven
- Narrated by: Matt Haynes
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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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.
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Oasis' Definitely Maybe
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Matt Haynes
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Fallopian Rhapsody
- The Story of the Lunachicks
- By: The Lunachicks, Jeanne Fury
- Narrated by: The Lunachicks, Jeanne Fury
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Dive into this no-holds-barred group autobiography of the critically acclaimed feminist punk-rock group, The Lunachicks—featuring never-before-seen materials from the band's private archive. Fallopian Rhapsody: The Story of the Lunachicks is a coming-of-age tale about a band of NYC teenagers...
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great
- By John Williams (Artist) on 31-08-22
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Fallopian Rhapsody
- The Story of the Lunachicks
- Narrated by: The Lunachicks, Jeanne Fury
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 01-06-21
- Language: English
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The Bastard Instrument: A Cultural History of the Electric Bass
- Tracking Pop
- By: Brian F. Wright
- Narrated by: James Michael Shetler
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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The Bastard Instrument chronicles the history of the electric bass and the musicians who played it, from the instrument’s invention through its widespread acceptance at the end of the 1960s. Although their contributions have often gone unsung, electric bassists helped shape the sound of a wide range of genres, including jazz, rhythm & blues, rock, country, soul, funk, and more.
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The Bastard Instrument: A Cultural History of the Electric Bass
- Tracking Pop
- Narrated by: James Michael Shetler
- Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 16-12-25
- Language: English
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Music as an Art
- By: Roger Scruton
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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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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Unfinished
- The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- By: Lucas Cantor Santiago
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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Bloomsbury presents Unfinished by Lucas Cantor Santiago, read by Christopher Ragland. For most of his career, the Emmy Award–winning composer and producer Lucas Cantor Santiago was a self-described luddite. Technology, he felt, was moving too fast, transforming the world and the arts with no regard for the cost in tradition, hard-won human wisdom, and tried-and-true methods of mastery.
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Unfinished
- The Role of the Artist in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 11-12-25
- Language: English
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The Book of Exodus
- The Making and Meaning of Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Album of the Century
- By: Vivien Goldman
- Narrated by: Vivien Goldman
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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Reggae superstar Bob Marley is one of the world’s most important and influential artists. Exodus, named by Time magazine as “Album of the Century,” is Bob Marley’s masterpiece of spiritual exploration. Recorded in London after an assassination attempt on his life sent Marley into exile from Jamaica, Exodus is the most lasting testament to his social conscience. Now, in The Book of Exodus, Goldman chronicles the making of this album, from its conception in Jamaica to the raucous but intense all-night studio sessions in London.
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The Book of Exodus
- The Making and Meaning of Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Album of the Century
- Narrated by: Vivien Goldman
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 24-09-19
- 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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The World in Six Songs
- How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
- By: Daniel Levitin
- Narrated by: Daniel Levitin
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Dividing the sum total of human musical achievement, from Beethoven to The Beatles, Busta Rhymes to Bach, into just six fundamental forms, Levitin illuminates, through songs of friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion and love, how music has been instrumental in the evolution of language, thought and culture. And how, far from being a bit of a song and dance, music is at the core of what it means to be human.
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Interesting but old and not in-depth enough to make a convincing case
- By Arttu on 08-06-25
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The World in Six Songs
- How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
- Narrated by: Daniel Levitin
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 16-02-21
- Language: English
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Hanna-Barbera, the Recorded History
- From Modern Stone Age to Meddling Kids
- By: Greg Ehrbar, Leonard Maltin, Tim Matheson - foreword
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Whether it's Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo, the Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Top Cat, Huckleberry Hound, or hundreds of others, the creations of the Hanna-Barbera studio continue to delight generations worldwide. The groundbreaking company employed thousands in the art and business of animation. Some of them were vintage-era veterans, others were up-and-coming talents, some of whom found blockbuster success at other studios. The power of the sounds that Hanna-Barbera crafted to accompany the compelling visuals was a key factor in its spectacular success.
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Hanna-Barbera, the Recorded History
- From Modern Stone Age to Meddling Kids
- Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 14-01-25
- Language: English
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