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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?
nrenter
ckorody
640 posts
 
Take a look at Amazon's Essential Recordings as well as the comments from those who wrote reviews. Lots of references about which album is better then the other and what else you have to hear from the same artist or in a related vein.
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chadnliz
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Sbank I bought that for another audio bud last year I think and the other book a year before, both were great coffee table books.
bongofury
1,160 posts
 
Nic Hornsby's 20 Songs is one of the "best of" music books, an intimate and revealing look at the author's relationship with 20 songs by varied artists, full of magic and insight.
A combination of Mix Tape and Love Letter.
rbischoff
70 posts
 
Several years ago, the magazine Mojo did a booklet of 1000 must haves. Well written and provocative. It did them by genre and chronologically (mostly). It is out of print but worth finding.

richard bischoff
El Paso, Texas
jimjoyce25
215 posts
 
OTOH, Christgau gives Dylan's Modern Times his highest rating. Perhaps that's enuf said.
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