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Belle and Sebastian: Just a Modern Rock Story

10 best books like Belle and Sebastian: Just a Modern Rock Story (Paul Whitelaw): The Velvet Underground & Nico, Suede: Love and Poison: The Authorised Biography, Unknown Pleasures, If You're Feeling Sinister, The Celestial Café, Murmur, Put the Book Back on the Shelf: A Belle and Sebastian Anthology, Songs That Saved Your Life: The Art of The Smiths 1982-87, OK Computer, Cat Power: A Good Woman

The Velvet Underground & Nico
AuthorJoe Harvard
ISBN0826415504
The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than any other album. And remarkably, it still sounds as fresh and challenging today as it did upon its release in 1967. In this book, Joe Harvard covers everything from Lou Reed's lyrical genius to John Cale's groundbreaking instrumentation,...
Suede: Love and Poison: The Authorised Biography
AuthorDavid Barnett
ISBN0233000941
When they appeared on the British rock scene in the early 1990s—a bastard fusion of the Smiths and Ziggy Stardust—some called them “The Best New Band in Britain.” At the time, the group—based around flamboyant vocalist Brett Anderson and guitarist Bernard Butler—hadn’t released...
Unknown Pleasures
AuthorChris Ott
ISBN0826415490
Joy Division's career has often been shrouded by myths. But the truth is surprisingly simple: over a period of several months, Joy Division transformed themselves from run-of-the-mill punk wannabes into the creators of one of the most atmospheric, disturbing, and influential debut albums ever...
If You're Feeling Sinister
AuthorScott Plagenhoef
ISBN0826428185
Unlike some of the other books in the series, this book barely talks about the given album and instead focuses its energies on the history of Belle and Sebastian, the Indie scene in the 90s, and, as would be expected from a book by a writer from Pitchfork, indie rock/music criticism. This was somewhat disappointing,...
The Celestial Café
AuthorStuart Murdoch
ISBN1904590241
Stuart Murdoch considers himself to be '26% a rock star'. He may be exaggerating. Few rock stars spend time compiling lists of their favourite mathematicians or buy extra-soft slippers so they don't disturb the neighbours living in the flat below. The Belle and Sebastian singer reveals more of these...
Murmur
AuthorJ. Niimi
ISBN0826416721
R.E.M. s debut album, released in 1983, was so far removed from the prevailing trends of American popular music that it still sounds miraculous and out of time today. J. Niimi tells the story of the album s genesis with fascinating input from Don Dixon and Mitch Easter. He also investigates Michael Stipe...
Put the Book Back on the Shelf: A Belle and Sebastian Anthology
AuthorEric Stephenson
ISBN1582406006
With their infectious brand of Scottish indie pop, Belle & Sebastian have been cult and critical favorites for years. The band's colorful lyrics and gorgeous, full bodied melodies have provided Image Comics with the inspiration for a new kind of comic anthology. With Put the Book Back on the Shelf,...
Songs That Saved Your Life: The Art of The Smiths 1982-87
AuthorSimon Goddard
ISBN1781162581
Songs That Saved Your Life - The Art of The Smiths 1982-87 reveals the stories behind every track (including unreleased out-takes), catalogues all the groups UK television, radio and concert appearances and features interviews with original band members, producers and associates.

The...
OK Computer
AuthorDai Griffiths
ISBN0826416632
Seemingly granted classic album status within days of its release in 1997, OK Computer transformed Radiohead from a highly promising rock act into The Most Important Band in the World a label the band has been burdened by (and has fooled around with) ever since. Through close musical analysis of each...
Cat Power: A Good Woman
AuthorElizabeth Goodman
ISBN0307396363
How Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, Survived Herself–and Became the Indie Rock Queen.

Chan Marshall’s stark lyrics, minimal arrangements,and wounded, smoky vocals, were an instant indie hit in the nineties–but her mental instability nearly derailed her career. How this sensitive...
Pink Moon
AuthorAmanda Petrusich
ISBN0826427901
Probably the best 33 1/3 book I've read. A great balance between telling the story of Drake, the album itself, and its peculiar place in music history as a lost treasure rediscovered through a TV commercial, of all things. Readers who were familiar with Nick Drake before the commercial probably won't...
Harvest
AuthorSam Inglis
ISBN0826414958
Neil Young s Harvest is one of those strange albums that has achieved lasting success without ever winning the full approval of rock critics or hardcore fans. Even Young himself has been equivocal, describing it in one breath as his finest album, dismissing it in the next as an MOR aberration. Here, Sam...
Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance
AuthorJohnny Rogan
ISBN0711930007
This book is hugely overrated. The two stars I've given it are purely because The Smiths are great and their story is great but if you've obsessively read all of the Smiths-related articles and interviews on the internet, there is no point in reading this at all unless you desperately desire information...
The Cure: Ten Imaginary Years
AuthorBarbarian
ISBN0946391874
I am a huge fan of The Cure. So when I learned of this book that was published over twenty years ago, I had to read it. Initially this was no easy task because it was difficult to find. A used copy showed up on Amazon and I snatched it.

The book is physically large and filled with great photos of The Cure's...
Kid A
AuthorMarvin Lin
ISBN0826423434
It was virtually impossible to ignore Radiohead's Kid A when it was released in early October 2000. But the Album was more than just a ten-track collection of songs written by five musicians from Oxfordshire, more than the weird follow-up to the critics' fashionable go-to record of choice OK Computer,...
69 Love Songs
AuthorL.D. Beghtol
ISBN0826419259
A fully illustrated oral history of the Magnetic Fields' 1999 triple album, 69 Love Songs - an album that was afforded "classic" status by many almost as soon as it was released. LD Beghtol's book is chatty, incestuous, funny, dark, digressive, sexy, maddening, and delightful in equal measures. It...
Confusion Is Next: The Sonic Youth Story
AuthorAlec Foege
ISBN0312113692
"Alternative" rock has now gone mainstream, yeah, yeah, Lollapalooza is captivating a generation, and Nirvana sells millions of albums, but before all of this in-yr-face stuff there was Sonic Youth.

Sonic Youth are the floorboards of the current fertile musical era in which underground...
Led Zeppelin IV
AuthorErik Davis
ISBN0826416586
In this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music's towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic—black or otherwise—that surrounds this album. Carefully peeling the layers from each song, Davis reveals their dark and often mystical roots—and leaves...
Loveless
AuthorMike McGonigal
ISBN0826415482
This album is like being dragged between three giant blue icebergs and having them smash slowly together and then drag you down into the freezing ocean and you drown. Or some such gushing prose. It's great. It's so loud that even when you play it quiet it's loud. It's got a vocalist but that's like having...
Radiohead and Philosophy: Fitter Happier More Deductive
AuthorBrandon W. Forbes
ISBN0812696646
Since their breakthrough hit "Creep" in 1993, Radiohead has continued to make waves throughout popular and political culture with its views about the Bush presidency (its 2003 album was titled Hail to the Thief), its anti-corporatism, its pioneering efforts to produce ecologically sound road tours,...
Perfect Sound Forever: The Story of Pavement
AuthorRob Jovanovic
ISBN1932112073
Almost the book this great, departed band deserves.The design, with its scribbled-in footnotes and 'zine-inspired layout, captures the graphic attitude of that era and of this band in particular, right down to the Steve Keene painting on the cover. Author Jovanovic does a lot of things right: he spoke...
Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music
AuthorIrwin Chusid
ISBN1556523726
Outsider musicians can be the product of damaged DNA, alien abduction, drug fry, demonic possession, or simply sheer obliviousness. This book profiles dozens of outsider musicians, both prominent and obscure—figures such as The Shaggs, Syd Barrett, Tiny Tim, Jandek, Captain Beefheart, Daniel...
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
AuthorKim Cooper
Cooper's book explores the deep friendships that fed the band's
evolution, its role within the Elephant 6 creative community and
previously unpublished information on recordings, songwriting and
touring, and explains some of the reasons why band leader Jeff Mangum
felt compelled...
A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of The Smiths
AuthorTony Fletcher
ISBN0307715957
They were, their fans believe, the best band in the world. Critics and sales figures told a similar story: six albums between 1984 and 1988 made number one or number two in the UK charts. Twenty-five years after their break-up, the band remain as adored and discussed as ever. To this day, there is a collective...
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