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Non-Fiction – Books on Music
Reviews of the best new books appear in each issue of THE EDGE.
Many of the below are still available.
MUSIC
John Aizlewood (editor) Love is the Drug
A collection of fan-scribbles – 17 pieces, mostly by music journalists, about their early devotions.
Jeremy J Beadle Will Pop Eat Itself?
The KLF are the main plank of Beadle's discussion/argument surrounding the present and future of Modern Pop Music.
Lloyd Bradley Bass Culture
The first comprehensive history of reggae.
John Cale & Victor Bockris What's Welsh for Zen?
The autobiography of John Cale.
Julian Cope Krautrocksampler
One Head's Guide to the Great Kosmische Musik – 1968 Onwards.
Deborah Curtis Touching From A Distance
Ian Curtis and Joy Division; a bio of Curtis by the person best able.
Bill Drummond 45
Bill Drummond muses on nationalism and art; visits Serbia; records a soundtrack with a host of fictitious Finnish punk bands; burns 'a million quid'; drives round the M25, etc.
Brian Eno A Year With Swollen Appendices
Brian’s diary.
John Einarson Mr. Tambourine Man
Biography of Gene Clark.
Alec Foege Confusion is Next
The history of Sonic Youth, placed in context – New York No Wave and beyond through to 90s grunge and college radio.
Chris Heath & Pennie Smith Pet Shop Boys versus America
Heath trails the band, access all areas, on their 1989 tour of the US. Transcribed dialogue, conversations and tantrums, with excellent photos.
Clinton Heylin The Great White Wonders
The story of British bootlegs.
Clinton Heylin From the Velvets to the Voidoids
Or A Pre-Punk History For A Post-Punk World; a history of US punk in all its variety.
Ian Johnston Bad Seed
The biography of Nick Cave.
John Lydon Rotten
Lydon (and other protagonists) on punk and the Pistols.
Greil Marcus In the Fascist Bathroom
British punk and post punk.
Chris Roberts (editor) Idle Worship
Great pop music is about the people who listen to it.
Jonathan Romney and Adrian Wootton (editors) Celluloid Jukebox
Popular Music and the Movies Since the Fifties; what Martin Scorsese calls 'uncharted territory'.
Simon Reynolds & Joy Press The Sex Revolts
Gender, rebellion and rock'n'roll – huge.
Jon Savage Time Travel
About a quarter of journalist Jon Savage's output from 1977 to 1996.
Giles Smith Lost in Music
The memoir of boy pop obsessive/failed star Giles Smith.
Paul Stump Unknown Pleasures
'A cultural biography of Roxy Music'.
David Toop Ocean of Sound
Ambient.
BOOKS THAT HAPPEN TO BE BY MUSOS
Stuart David Nalda Said
Belle & Sebastian member's novel.
Nick Cave And The Ass Saw The Angel
The richness of language which makes up much of Cave’s beloved Bible informs much of his own prose.
Henry Rollins Body Bag
Tales of grim reality from Rollins.
Bill Drummond & Mark Manning Bad Wisdom
According to Bill Drummond, a novel that illustrates the stupidity and perversity of misogyny and homophobia.
I'm sure there are more such things in Novels and Collections.
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