LISTEN TO THIS IF YOU LOVE GREAT MUSIC : A critical curation of 100 essential albums /
Music
Robin Murray.
- 224 pages : colour illustrations, colour photographs ; 23 cm
Includes index.
Listen To This If You Love Great Music features 100 of the best albums from the last four decades. Robin steers clear of the usual classics - The Beatles and The Clash, for example - and instead goes deep into his record collection to pull out the albums he considers the greatest ever. For each, a solid case is made for why it represents a watershed moment in music history, outlining the story behind the record and critiquing what constitutes a classic. Whether it's bass-heavy hip-hop from Nas that inspired a thousand MCs to pick up a mic or experimental indie dance from LCD Soundsystem that blurred genres and tempted musicians to trade in their guitars for synthesizers, this is an essential rundown of the albums that really matter.