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This is a brilliant study of the creation, impact, and legacy of one of rock's great albums, and a hymn to the nature of teenage fandom. Released in 1979, AC/DC's "Highway To Hell" was the infamous last album recorded with singer Bon Scott, who died of alcohol poisoning in London in February of 1980. Officially chalked up to "Death by Misadventure," Scott's demise has forever secured the album's reputation as a partying primer and a bible for lethal...
9) Diamond dogs
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33 1/3 volume 143
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"Provides a window into a moment when both phantasmatic and real relationships between straightness and queerness, between blackness and whiteness, and between utopia and dystopia, were in flux; Bowie in the mid-1970s both exemplified and had a hand in creating the complex and contradictory opening of possibilities now seen as the hallmark of that decade"--
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33 1/3 volume 137
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In August 1994, Manic Street Preachers released The Holy Bible, a dark, fiercely intelligent album that explored such themes as mental illness, murder and war. Richey Edwards, the band's lyricist and motive force, vanished five months later; he was never found. In his absence The Holy Bible entered the rock canon alongside Joy Division's Closer and Nirvana's In Utero, the valedictory works of troubled young men. This book tells the dramatic story...
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33 1/3 volume 43
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A chronicle of the author's personal infatuation with the Byrds' fifth album, including biographical information on the band and historical information on the creation and release of the album.
14) Psychocandy
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The Jesus and Mary Chain's swooning debut Psychocandy seared through the underground and through the pop charts, shifting the role of noise within pop music forever. Post-punk and pro-confusion, Psychocandy became the sound of a generation poised on the brink of revolution, establishing Creation Records as a tastemaking entity in the process. The Scottish band's notorious live performances were both punishingly loud and riot-spurring, inevitably acting...
15) Court and spark
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An analysis of folk-singer Joni Mitchell's album Court and spark and its place within the body of her work.
18) Some girls
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Weaving together the history of the Rolling Stones and the history of New York, Cyrus R. K. Patell traces the genesis and legacy of Some Girls, the album that Mick Jagger would later call the band's best since Let It Bleed.
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