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Listen to This If You Love Great Music

A critical curation of 100 essential albums

by Robin Murray
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Listen To This If You Love Great Music is a must read for anyone with even a passing interest in music. Featuring 100 of the best albums from the last four decades, clashmusic.com​ editor Robin Murray shares his passion for exceptional music and offers insightful takes on what elevates these records above the competition.
Robin steers clear of the usual classics – The Beatles and The Clash, for example – and instead goes deep into his record collection to pull out the albums he considers the greatest ever. For each, a solid case is made for why it represents a watershed moment in music history, outlining the story behind the record and critiquing what constitutes a classic. Uniquely curated to offer a fresh perspective on the last 40-plus years of music, find politically charged rock brushing shoulders with dub-infused electronica, progressive pop and dreamy shoegaze shaken awake by ear-drum rattling grime and house music.
Whether it's bass-heavy hip-hop from Nas that inspired a thousand MCs to pick up a mic or experimental indie dance from LCD Soundsystem that blurred genres and tempted musicians to trade in their guitars for synthesizers, this is an essential rundown of the albums that really matter. You need to play them loud.

  • Creators

  • Series

    If You Love

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  • Release date

    July 13, 2021

  • Formats

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      • ISBN: 9780711256095

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      • ISBN: 9780711256095
      • File size: 10446 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      May 1, 2021

      Murray (editor in chief, Clash) undertakes the daunting task of identifying the top 100 albums of the past 40 years. Exploring major names, critics' favorites, and obscure artists, he divides the book into 10 chapters: extraordinary debuts, one-hit wonders, doggedly persistent bands that finally produced a gem, artists who reinvented their styles, political statements, tortured musicians, albums that explore sexual expression, laid-back ambient sounds, dark forebodings, and the final but stellar efforts of artists just before their demise. For each category, he lists 10 albums, each with a one-page description, a large color photo, and a sidebar that contains additional information, a little-known tidbit, and three similar albums. Murray focuses mainly on alternative rock, techo/electronic, unadulterated pop, and contemporary R&B, plus a few hip-hop albums, but he ignores mainstream rock (Bruce Springsteen, U2), new country (Garth Brooks), and heavy/extreme metal. VERDICT A well informed but overly narrow work that sometimes falls prey to an overblown rock-journalistic writing style. Murray has written a provocative, fascinating, highly personal compendium of the top 100 albums, which will most appeal to fans of alternative, electronic, or pop music.--David P. Szatmary, formerly with Univ. of Washington, Seattle

      Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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