Voodoo Excess

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Sweet, Wild and Vicious: Listening to Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground

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Appetite for Definition: An A-Z Guide to Rock Genres

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Human Punk

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Queen: The Early Years

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Slade in the 1970s

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The Eagles FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Classic Rock's Superstars

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Rolling Stones 69

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Old Time Variety: An Illustrated History

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Whole Lotta Led: Our Flight With Led Zeppelin

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Summary of Kelefa Sanneh's Major Labels

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Thinking About Tomorrow: Excerpts from the life of Keith West

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AC/DC: Maximum Rock & Roll: The Ultimate Story of the World's Greatest Rock-and-Roll Band

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A New Day Yesterday: UK Progressive Rock & The 1970s

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A Guide to Essential Popular Music-Volume Two: A Guide to Essential Popular Music

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Major Dudes: A Steely Dan Companion

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Classic Rock History

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Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)

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Queen

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50 Licks: Myths and Stories from Half a Century of the Rolling Stones

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One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock

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Ugly Beauty: Jazz in the 21st Century

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The History of British Rock and Roll: The Forgotten Years 1956 - 1962

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The History of Canadian Rock 'n' Roll

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Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters

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The Clash: 'Talking'

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What Have We Got?: The Turbulent Story of Oi

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From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock

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Rags and Ragtime: A Musical History

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LIFE The Rolling Stones

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Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers [Revised & Expanded Ebook Edition]: Overlooked Innovators & Eccentric Visionaries of '60s Rock

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Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno

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The Iliad of Homer

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The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation

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The Odyssey: (The Stephen Mitchell Translation)

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The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise

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Tao Te Ching: A New English Version

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The Prophet

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Bedtime Stories for Grown-ups

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The Canterbury Tales

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Beowulf

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Dante's Inferno: The Divine Comedy, Book One

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The Odyssey

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Inward

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For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf

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Daily Stoic: A Daily Journal On Meditation, Stoicism, Wisdom and Philosophy to Improve Your Life

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Twenty love poems and a song of despair

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Letters to a Young Poet (Rediscovered Books): With linked Table of Contents

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Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them

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The Complete Poems

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Selected Poems

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The Complete Poems of John Keats (with an Introduction by Robert Bridges)

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You Better Be Lightning

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Love Her Wild: Poems

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The Way Forward

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Dream Work

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: All 214 Plays, Sonnets, Poems & Apocryphal Plays (Including the Biography of the Author): Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Comedy of Errors…

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The Divine Comedy: Inferno

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The Odyssey

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Leaves of Grass: 1855 Edition

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Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Collection

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Episode 25 | "Anthem: Rush in the 70s"/Martin Popoff: With extensive, first-hand reflections from Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart, as well as from family, friends, and fellow musicians, "Anthem: Rush in the ’70s" is a detailed portrait of Canada’s greatest rock ambassadors. The first of three...

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Episode 19 | "London, Reign Over Me: How England's Capital Built Classic Rock"/Stephen Tow: It all started in London. More than fifty years ago, a generation of teens created something that would change the face of music forever. London, Reign Over Me immerses us in the backroom clubs, basement record shops, and late-night faint radio...

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E153: Lloyd Bradley on Black London + Tina Turner + Steve Barrow audio: We ask Lloyd Bradley about his career as a journalist and as the author of Bass Culture and Sounds Like London

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Love Founder & Guitarist Johnny Echols on Forever Changes, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and Sunset Strip in the 60s: In this episode of My Rock Moment we sit down with Johnny Echols, co-founder and guitarist of LA's groundbreaking 60s psychedelic rock band, Love. We discuss his early life as a musician, drawing inspiration from Little Richard, The Coasters and eventually, The Beatles. Johnny tells us about an encounter with Lou Adler and how it moved the band to change their name to Love. And he shares stories about Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison as well as the making of their seminal album, Forever Changes.

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Episode 42 | "Nothin' But A Good Time: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Glam Metal"/Justin Quirk: From 1983 until 1991, Glam Metal was the sound of American culture. This was the world stalked by bands like Bon Jovi, Kiss, W.A.S.P., Skid Row, Dokken, Motley Crue, Cinderella, Ratt and many more. Big hair, massive amplifiers, drugs, alcohol, piles...

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LITM Extra - School's Out! Glam Rock pt.1

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Ep. 191 - RICHARD THOMPSON ("Shoot Out the Lights"): Our guest is Richard Thompson, a three-time Grammy nominee who has earned lifetime achievement honors from the Americana Music Association and the BBC Awards. Named one of the top 20 guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone magazine, Thompson is a highly revered musician and songwriter whose music has been covered by Elvis Costello, Robert Plant, REM, Emmylou Harris, and many others. Algonquin Books recently released the paperback version of Richard’s memoir Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice, 1967-1975.

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Episode 29: Terry Teachout / The Band: Scot and Jeff talk to Terry Teachout about The Band.

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Episode 126: “For Your Love” by the Yardbirds: Episode 126 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “For Your Love, the Yardbirds, and the beginnings of heavy rock and the guitar hero.  Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episod

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Bob Marley and the Wailers: The Ultimate Illustrated History: Kris sits down with Ritchi Unterberger, author of the recently released photography book, Bob Marley and the Wailers: The Ultimate Illustrated History.

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Episode 46 | "1970: A Year In Rock "/John Van der Kiste: 1970 was a year of change in pop and rock music, with divisions between both becoming ever more blurred. More ambitiously constructed epics, heavy rock numbers and contemporary folk songs competed with the mainstream and easy listening fare on Top of...

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Episode 66 | "The Clash: All The Albums All The Songs"/Martin Popoff: Established in 1976 at the fore London’s punk rock insurgence, The Clash featuring lead singer and guitarist Joe Strummer, lead guitarist and singer Mick Jones, bassist Paul Simonon and drummer Topper Headon would outlast their peers while creating...

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"Don’t Call It Hair Metal: Art in the Excess of ’80s Rock"/Sean Kelly [Episode 132]: The 1980s. It was the era of excess. Bigger is better. A little just ain’t enough. It was a time when the musical and cultural ideals of rebellion and freedom of the great rock and roll of the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s were taken to dizzying heights of...

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#38 MUSIC & LABOR! (ft. David Turner)

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Episode 6 | "Dire Straits: Every Album, Every Song"/Andrew Wild: The year 1979 was an amazing time for UK post-punk pop. At the end of March, a fresh new sound entered the British top 20. "Sultans of Swing", a very wordy song with lots of driving guitar, a tight rhythm section and some killer musicianship. Dire...

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Track 28 - SELLOUT with author Dan Ozzi: This week, Kris kicks off the first Podcast Track of the year with a conversation with author Dan Ozzi to talk about punk rock and his book, Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007)

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E154: Richard Morton Jack on Nick Drake + Steve Marriott + Flashback magazine: Richard Morton Jack joins us to talk about his monumental new biography of Nick Drake

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Episode 70: “Move It” by Cliff Richard and the Drifters: Episode seventy of A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs looks at Move It by Cliff Richard, and the beginning of rock and roll TV in the UK. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backe

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Episode 4: Can You Hear Us? The New Puget Sound

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364. Shiny Joe Ryan on Pink Floyd 'Meddle' (1971): Pond guitarist and singer-songwriter Shiny Joe Ryan joins me from Fremantle, on the eve of his new solo album ‘Shiny’s Democracy’, to talk about a favorite album at once logical and surprising - Pink Floyd’s 1971 LP ‘Meddle’. We talk about...

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Episode 123: Dominic Green / The Jam: Scot and Jeff discuss The Jam with Dominic Green.

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E73: James Fox on Keith Richards + Little Richard + Betty Wright + Pete Seeger: In this week's episode, we welcome special guest James Fox, author of 1982's bestselling White Mischief and the man who, ten years ago, made Keith Richards' Life one of rock's outstanding autobiographies. James talks us through his long and distinguished career as a journalist in Africa, and as a features writer during the golden era of The Sunday Times Magazine. He describes how his friendship with "Keef" was cemented by the pieces he wrote for that publication about the Rolling Stones in 1973 and 1976, answering his hosts' questions about the great man's rhythm guitar playing. The fantastic Mr. Fox also offers his perspective on Little Richard, whose death last week prompts discussion of the gay black southerner's explosive role in the birth of rock & roll. We hear a clip of the sometime Mr. Penniman speaking in 1985 – as well as one of the late Betty ('Clean Up Woman') Wright owning up to being a shamele

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E84: Jude Rogers on Adele + Prince + Sonic Youth audio: In this week's episode, we welcome the wonderful Jude Rogers into RBP's very own Gridworld. Live from her native Wales, the far-from-obscure Jude reviews her career as a music scribe from The Llanelli Star to The Word, revisiting interviews with megastar-in-the-making Adele Atkins and wholly reformed cocaine fiend Tony Bennett. Jude also reflects on a 2008 thinkpiece about the Beach Boys' influence on Fleet Foxes, the latter having just "dropped" a rather fine new album, Shore, with minimum fanfare. Additionally, Jude offers her thoughts on the multifarious splendours of Prince's Sign 'O' the Times, the 1987 "double" album oft regarded as his crowning achievement. Hosts Mark, Barney & Jasper reference contemporary reviews of the record and ponder the influence on the purple maestro of departed Revolutionaries Wendy & Lisa. After noting the passing of blue-eyed soul man Roy ('Treat Her Right') Head – with nods to a nice 1966 profil

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E70: The Who Live at Leeds + KRLA Beat + Ron Sexsmith audio: Content warning: This episode contains discussion of assault (1:02:28–1:05:20) that some listeners may find distressing. In the 70th episode of our podcast, RBP's Zooming triumvirate talk about the Who's Live at Leeds — "the greatest live album ever made," in many people's H.O. — as it reaches its half-century. Referencing Geoffrey Cannon's unabridged Guardian review from May 1970, Mark & Barney relive memories of seeing the Who live and — with Jasper — explore what made the band such a uniquely powerful live unit. The two other giants of '60s British pop feature in free pieces by KRLA Beat's Nikki "Eden" Wine, who attempts to explain Beatlemania in 1965 and hangs around a Rolling Stones session in Hollywood in 1966. Mark puts "the Beat" ("America's Pop Music NEWSpaper") into historical context and describes how some of its key female contributors wound up on RBP. A passionate fan of Ron Sexsmith's for 25 years, Barney intro

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Ep. 165 - TODD SNIDER ("Alright Guy"): Our guest on this episode of Songcraft is Todd Snider, the quintessential troubadour whose clever and insightful songs earned him an Artist of the Year nomination from the Americana Music Awards. He joins us to discuss his more than two-decade career as a celebrated singer-songwriter whose compositions have been covered by Gary Allan, Tom Jones, Jerry Jeff Walker, Loretta Lynn, and Elvis Costello. Plus, he tells us all about his experimental new album First Agnostic Church of Hope and Wonder.

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E85: Midge Ure on New Romantics + Van Halen + Mariah Carey audio: In this episode we invite James "Midge" Ure to talk us through his wonderfully convoluted career in a conversation that stretches from Slik to Visage — via the Rich Kids, the Blitz club and Live Aid — to his present-day Backstage Lockdown Club. With a special focus on the New Romantics, RBP's hosts ask Midge about Ultravox, whose classic Vienna album is 40 years old this week, and touch on the "manifesto" that Sounds' Betty Page put together with Spandau Ballet in that same year. Midge also pitches in on the passing of guitar-shredder extraordinaire Eddie Van Halen, whose sad loss prompts a general celebration of the pop-metal band that was Eddie's namesake. We also pay our respects to U.S. soul singer turned reggae ambassador Johnny Nash and to country-MOR singer-songwriter Mac ('In The Ghetto') Davis.  The week's new audio interview being Steven Daly's 1998 conversation with R&B mega diva Mariah Carey, we hear two clip

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Episode 87: “Apache” by the Shadows: Episode eighty-seven of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at Apache, by the Shadows, and at the three years in which they and Cliff Richard were on top of the music world. Patreon backers also have a fifteen-minute bonus episode, on Han

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Episode 88: Steve Singiser / Living Colour: Scot and Jeff discuss Living Colour with Steve Singiser.

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London Calling: The Clash's Great Rebellion

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Robert Plant, singer and songwriter: Robert Plant, singer, shares the soundtrack of his life with Lauren Laverne.