by various editors (Music 780.166 One)
I was pleasantly surprised to discover this British series from the Polley Music Collection earlier this year. These are little gems of 20th Century American and English pop and rock music history. It was fun to re-visit information I knew about certain artists, songs, and albums in addition to learning new information. The set served as musical time capsules covering 4 1/2 of my six decades around the sun.
Organized by decade, each compact
volume allots 2 pages per record album — Hey, kids, vinyl’s back! — one for a
summary/critique and one for the album cover. You can digest the contents in
small chunks or all at once. Appendices break the information down into
categories like the highest ranking groups or solo artists overall, or which
record companies had the most albums in the list. An index is also included in
each volume as well as an introductory section.
Each volume has one or more
designated editors, with Tom Broder (a versatile U.K. editor and writer) as
overall Project Editor for the series. Being that these were published in 2004,
the sales data may be quite outdated on some albums!
NOTE: There are many typographical
errors in each of the volumes, some being of punctuation or grammar but others
are misspellings of personal names and song titles. And, granted that the
descriptions/reviews are very short, there seem to be some strange omissions
such as not including Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty with the personnel list for
Carlos Santana’s album Supernatural.
Recommended
by Becky W.C.
Walt Branch Library
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