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| Lost in Music
Paperback
Edition: New edition
Author: Giles Smith
Publisher: Picador
Release Date: November 2000
ISBN-10: 0330339176
ISBN-13: 9780330339179
List Price: £6.99
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A deserved classic, great to see it still in print
| Customer Rating: | Wonderful to see that this book, in print for many years now, is still available. It probably is the best book ever written on what it is to love music- to really love music, to have music set your moods, to love a tune so much you will do almost anything to buy it.
The book also introduced me to the wonderful Martyn Newell, and I suspect it was instrumental in getting his talent rightly recognised - he became resident poet at the Independent. Newell plays a big part in this book, and is indirectly responsible for a large chunk of its charm.
A must - buy and a book I will never part with. |
Simply the Best
| Customer Rating: | | This is truly the best book I have ever read on pop music. Giles Smith brilliantly describes its influence on him and his life in bands, looking through music shops for records that don't exist and meeting greats like Ni(c)k Kershaw! Fantastically written and very amusing. |
Lost in music - Giles Smith
| Customer Rating: | | I loved this book. If you are looking for a definitive history of music in the 1970s then look elsewhere. This is about fashioning our record collections - warts and all and about our individual tastes and prejudices. It's more than affectionate -it's loving, passionate and obsessive - just like many record collectors. A treasure and extremely funny. I passed it on to my daughter who liked it so much I had to get another copy because she didn't want to (refused!) give it back. |
My Favorite Book
| Customer Rating: | | Giles Smith's 'Lost in Music' is an incredible book. Sure, it's not Crime and Punishment, but it is the funniest, wittiest, and even most touching book written about pop music. If you remotely enjoyed Nick Hornsby's "High Fidelity," you'll flip over this book. It's a shame more people aren't aware of it. The book is half Smith's autobiography as a music lover, and half incisive ruminations on various aspects of music (cd vs. vinyl, should or shouldn't one shag with the stereo on, etc.). And it's all golden. Anyone who's been in a band will laugh his ass off; this is like observational comedy for musicians. Yet there is a true heart to the tale, and Smith has a knack for finding the truly meaningful in such minor events as Damon Albarn singing Christmas carols with his mother, meeting Ni(c)k Kershaw, or lip synching in the garage with friends who just don't get it ("That's NOT how they do it."). I've been rambling, but do yourself a favor and buy this book. If you've ever put a musician's photo on your wall, contemplated speaker stands, or lied about what the first record you bought was, you'll read this book over and over again. I have. |
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