The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion

by Jim Irvin

Book Overview

"This is essential reading for anyone with a record collection." -- Buzz "Virtually indispensable." -- MOJO Quite simply, the greatest albums of all time--and how they happened. The smartest, most... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841954381
• ISBN13: 9781841954387
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Length: 928 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Place to Explore Rock n Roll

This is an amazing guide to some of the best albums ever made. Sure, it's easy to criticize, a lot of amazing albums are left out, some are included that will make you cringe, but on the whole, this book is probably the best of the "best of" books out there. Page long reviews are wonderful to have, rather than short one-paragraph reviews, and my favorite feature is how they point you to new music. For example, let's say you like "Sea Change" by Beck. Well, the book then suggests you try "Cold Fact" by Rodriguez, an album released in 1970. If you try that and like it, well, then the book says to go next to "It's a Shame About Ray" by the Lemonheads, and so on and so forth. This is a great feature. Go get this book and spend hours reading and exploring.

Absolutely top

This book is pretty much the best music guide out there. Detailed entries on truly classic albums are fantastic and you could do a lot worse than purchase many of these albums. Perfect for building up knowledge to wade through second-hand vinyl, and also perfect when you have heard of a classic band and want to know what to purchase. Also, not only obvious choices are picked - some of these albums have faded from memory, but MOJO revives them. This is what I love about MOJO as a magazine - it deals with all kinds of music from all eras, going back really far. Many other magazines only pick really famous bands once you've gone back a distance, but here we get loads of now-obscure 60s bands to look into, and music across a huge range of genres. Really top stuff - the perfect guide for what it is, essentially. Any self-respecting music fan should get it - it'll be invaluable.

The Only Resource you will ever need...................

If you are interested to hear the opinion of the best albums of all time, from the writers of the highly respected British music magazine 'MOJO', then look no further. Arranged in (rather sensibly) chronological order (I hate when writers try to categorize music!), this very informative guide is a must-have for the serious music fan. A page (sometimes more) is devoted to each album, and each description includes the writers opinion, the story behind each album, full track listing, UK and US single releases, chart placings and a list of other notable albums by the artist in question.This is not a collection to be devoured in a single sitting, but rather is a 'coffee-table' resource to be read at leisure.Extremely well-written and highly informative, if "The Greatest Albums of All Time" does not inspire you to run to the nearest record store then I will eat my "Pet Sounds' Box Set.Enjoy!

Good Reading for the Music Fanatic

Quite simply, if you own over 200 CD's(LP's, Cassettes, whatever) and take great pride in your collection, you must buy this book. Mojo magazine, the British arbiter of taste in Rock and Roll has it's list of the greatest albums of all time, complete with stories of what went on behind the scenes during their recording. From the obvious to the obscure, the list compiled here will delight the music fan. I will not quibble with the selection(there are a number that I would eliminate and dozens that I would add), just enjoy the information and hopefully discover a number of artists and recording that I would otherwise not know about.

Are you kidding me?!

Are you kidding me?! Buy this book, borrow this book, steal this book. If you love music, all music, listening to it, playing it, buying it, learning about it, dreaming about it, you cannot go wrong acquiring this essential tome. A comprehensive compendium of the greatest albums ever recorded, according to the fine folks at MOJO magazine. They love music and they're just begging for you to love it as much as they. Not only a listing of the best albums, but why they are the best albums. New information on familiar titles, unfamiliar listings, things that'll make you want to delve deeper into an artist's catalog or a genre. You need to get one for your "friend" who thinks Jewel is a poet, Puff Daddy is a rapper & Garth Brooks is country, we all know people like that, heck that might be you. Anyway, this book will broaden any music aficionado's horizons. Enjoy!