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Music Lust: Recommended Listening for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason (LUST) (original 2005; edition 2005)

by Nic Harcourt

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The MP3 and iPod revolution have changed forever how people listen to music, but choosing what to listen to next remains the dilemma of music lovers everywhere. As music director of KCRW in Santa Monica, CA, and DJ of the influential "Morning Becomes Eclectic” show, Harcourt uncovers the best in new and overlooked music for over half a million listeners every day. In Music Lust, Harcourt does what Nancy Pearl did for books in her national bestseller Book Lust. With more than 80 unique and unusual thematic lists, Harcourt offers a wide-ranging guide to the best in recorded music, from Frank Sinatra to Frank Zappa, Billie Holiday to Billy Bragg, bebop to hip-hop, The White Album to Back in Black, and much, much more. Known as an international tastemaker, Harcourt lends his discerning ear in recommended listening lists such as "Queens of Punk,” "Great Road Music,” and "My Desert Island Discs.” Within each list, key bands and performers are introduced and discussed, and pivotal albums and songs identified. With the diversity of genres represented and Harcourt at the helm, Music Lust’s eclectic access to musicians, themes, and styles is spot-on for this moment in music.… (more)
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Title:Music Lust: Recommended Listening for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason (LUST)
Authors:Nic Harcourt
Info:Sasquatch Books (2005), Paperback, 288 pages
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A huge disappointment. Do we really need a book that tells us to listen to Led Zeppelin? Throughout, the selections are generally quite mainstream and quite well-known . . . you are unlikely to find anything new here, and you are unlikely to read anything insightful or revelatory about the well-known artists and albums Harcourt concentrates on. In every way superficial and superfluous. I would heavily recommend anyone thinking about this book take a look at "The Best Music You Never Heard" by Nigel Williamson. While Williamson occasionally falls into the trap of fixating on obscurity and neglect rather than quality, he generally does a great job of suggesting new musical discoveries, and describes the music and band histories with a level of detail and enthusiasm that is bound to draw you in.

[Disclosure: I, like Harcourt, work in public music radio.] ( )
  ehines | Aug 8, 2010 |
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The MP3 and iPod revolution have changed forever how people listen to music, but choosing what to listen to next remains the dilemma of music lovers everywhere. As music director of KCRW in Santa Monica, CA, and DJ of the influential "Morning Becomes Eclectic” show, Harcourt uncovers the best in new and overlooked music for over half a million listeners every day. In Music Lust, Harcourt does what Nancy Pearl did for books in her national bestseller Book Lust. With more than 80 unique and unusual thematic lists, Harcourt offers a wide-ranging guide to the best in recorded music, from Frank Sinatra to Frank Zappa, Billie Holiday to Billy Bragg, bebop to hip-hop, The White Album to Back in Black, and much, much more. Known as an international tastemaker, Harcourt lends his discerning ear in recommended listening lists such as "Queens of Punk,” "Great Road Music,” and "My Desert Island Discs.” Within each list, key bands and performers are introduced and discussed, and pivotal albums and songs identified. With the diversity of genres represented and Harcourt at the helm, Music Lust’s eclectic access to musicians, themes, and styles is spot-on for this moment in music.

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