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Hit Girls
- Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop's Shiniest Decade
- By: Nora Princiotti
- Narrated by: Nora Princiotti
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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An entertaining and deeply nostalgic dive into how female pop stars broke through the music industry in the 2000s and altered the cultural landscape forever, from the Ringer writer and Every Single Album podcast cohost “Hit Girls bridges our butterfly-clipped, bedazzled past with today’s...
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Fluffy and dull
- By N on 10-09-25
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Hit Girls
- Britney, Taylor, Beyoncé, and the Women Who Built Pop's Shiniest Decade
- Narrated by: Nora Princiotti
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 17-06-25
- Language: English
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The Beatles
- Image and the Media
- By: Michael R. Frontani
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The Beatles: Image and the Media charts the transformation of the Beatles from teen idols to leaders of the youth movement and powerful cultural agents. Drawing upon American mainstream print media, broadcasts, albums, films, and videos, the study covers the band's career in the United States. Michael R. Frontani explores how the Beatles' media image evolved and how this transformation related to cultural and historical events.
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The Beatles
- Image and the Media
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 16-03-12
- Language: English
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Always Music in the Air
- The Sound of Twin Peaks
- By: Scott Ryan
- Narrated by: Scott Ryan
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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A first-time-ever exploration of the 290 songs from the entirety of Twin Peaks, sure to entice fans of the David Lynch-Mark Frost's cult classic that revolutionized TV, with brand-new interviews with Frost and several of the key composers and musicians involved.
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Always Music in the Air
- The Sound of Twin Peaks
- Narrated by: Scott Ryan
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 06-03-25
- Language: English
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101 Hymn Stories
- By: Kenneth Osbeck
- Narrated by: Various
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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This collection of uplifting, informative stories behind your favorite hymns will warm your heart and revitalize your worship. Each entry comes with the hymn's full text and musical score. Perfect for devotions, sermon demonstrations, bulletin inserts, and introducing congregational hymns, each hymn story includes information about the author, composer, the tune's name, and scriptural basis.
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faith-inspiring
- By Ruthie G on 18-02-26
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101 Hymn Stories
- Narrated by: Various
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 01-02-10
- Language: English
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In Search of the Lost Chord
- 1967 and the Hippie Idea
- By: Danny Goldberg
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Danny Goldberg's new book is a subjective history of 1967, the year he graduated from high school. It is, he writes, "an attempt at trying to remember the culture that mesmerized me, to visit the places and conversations I was not cool enough to have been a part of." It is also a refreshing and new analysis of the era; by looking at not only the political causes, but also the spiritual, musical, and psychedelic movements, Goldberg provides a unique perspective on how and why the legacy of 1967 lives on today.
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In Search of the Lost Chord
- 1967 and the Hippie Idea
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 06-06-17
- Language: English
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Black Metal Rainbows
- By: Daniel Lukes, Stanimir Panayotov
- Narrated by: Rain Corbyn
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Black metal is a paradox. A noisy underground metal genre brimming with violence and virulence, it has captured the world's imagination for its harsh yet flamboyant style and infamous history involving arson, blasphemy, and murder.
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Black Metal Rainbows
- Narrated by: Rain Corbyn
- Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 06-02-24
- Language: English
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High Bias
- The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
- By: Marc Masters
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don't like! The cassette tape upended pop culture, creating movements and uniting communities. This entertaining book charts the journey of the cassette from its invention in the early 1960s to its Walkman-led domination in the 1980s to decline at the birth of compact discs to resurgence among independent music makers.
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High Bias
- The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 17-10-23
- Language: English
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Lollapalooza
- The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival
- By: Richard Bienstock, Tom Beaujour
- Narrated by: Dylan Reilly Fitzpatrick, Joshua Quinn, Kelli Tager, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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The definitive, no-holds-barred oral history of 1990s alt-rock festival Lollapalooza―told by the musicians, roadies, and industry insiders who lived it—includes a foreword by Kim Thayil of Soundgarden! From the New York Times bestselling authors of Nothin’ But A Good Time. In Lollapalooza...
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Lollapalooza
- The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival
- Narrated by: Dylan Reilly Fitzpatrick, Joshua Quinn, Kelli Tager, Shahjehan Khan, Yael Rizowy, Zac Aleman
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 25-03-25
- Language: English
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Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane over the Sea
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- By: Kim Cooper
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Of all the recordings to emerge from the Athens-via-Denver collective called Elephant 6, Neutral Milk Hotel’s second album is the one that has worked its way under the most skins. Magnet magazine named it the best album of the 1990s, and Creative Loafing recently devoted a cover story to one fan’s quest to understand why band leader Jeff Mangum dropped out of sight soon after Aeroplane’s release.
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Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane over the Sea
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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The Lineage of Modern Jazz Piano
- A View from Richie Beirach Taken from Conversations with Michael Lake
- By: Richie Beirach, Michael Lake
- Narrated by: Michael Lake
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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Jazz is a relatively new art form. It's melodic and harmonic language has evolved throughout the past 100 years from one great innovator passing on his discoveries to the next as a kind of artistic baton passing. The piano has always lead the harmonic language of jazz, so in order to truly understand the evolution of this music, one must understand the lineage of the music's greatest piano players. In this book, Richie Beirach provides his incisive and at times inside knowledge of these 10 great piano players who defined the language of jazz.
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Best Jazz Book I have Read
- By Pandemic Panacea on 29-12-24
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The Lineage of Modern Jazz Piano
- A View from Richie Beirach Taken from Conversations with Michael Lake
- Narrated by: Michael Lake
- Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
- Release date: 18-11-24
- Language: English
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Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland
- 33 1/3
- By: John Perry
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Electric Ladyland is one of the greatest guitar albums ever made. During the recording process, Jimi Hendrix at last had time and creative freedom to pursue the sounds he was looking for. In this remarkable and entertaining book, John Perry gets to the heart of Hendrix's unique talent—guiding the listener through each song on the album, writing vividly about Hendrix's live performances, and talking to several of Hendrix's peers and contemporaries.
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Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Sound Tracks
- Uncovering Our Musical Past
- By: Graeme Lawson
- Narrated by: Graeme Lawson
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. Wonderfully engaging, expansive and ambitious, Sound Tracks tells the history of our relationship with music in sixty detective stories, each focusing on the discovery of a musical instrument - or its fragments - in archaeological digs around the world. Taking us from...
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Sound Tracks
- Uncovering Our Musical Past
- Narrated by: Graeme Lawson
- Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 04-04-24
- Language: English
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Well of Souls
- Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History
- By: Kristina R. Gaddy, Rhiannon Giddens - foreword
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, archives, and art, she traces the banjo's beginnings from the seventeenth century, when enslaved people of African descent created it from gourds or calabashes and wood.Preview -
Well of Souls
- Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 04-10-22
- Language: English
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Oasis' Definitely Maybe
- 33 1/3
- By: Alex Niven
- Narrated by: Matt Haynes
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Alex Niven charts the astonishing rise of Oasis in the mid 1990s and celebrates the life-affirming, communal force of songs such as “Live Forever,” “Supersonic,” and “Cigarettes & Alcohol.” In doing so, he seeks to reposition Oasis in relation to their Britpop peers and explore one of the most controversial pop-cultural narratives of the last thirty years.
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Oasis' Definitely Maybe
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: Matt Haynes
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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Pub Rock
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- By: Mark Wilkerson
- Length: 4 hrs
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In the U.K. in the early '70s, in response to the glitz of glam and the excess of prog there emerged a DIY, back to basics scene known as pub rock: No-fuss, grass roots rock'n'roll bands playing in tight, sweaty rooms to packed throngs in the Victorian pubs of north London. Pub rock was a relative flash in the pan, lasting only a handful of years, but it produced a seismic shift, bridging the gap between rock's Baroque period and the ensuing punk and new wave scene, and crucially, restoring the visceral connection between artist and audience.
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Pub Rock
- Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
- Length: 4 hrs
- Release date: 25-06-26
- Language: English
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The Clash's Sandinista!
- 33 1/3
- By: Micajah Henley
- Narrated by: John Pirhalla
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
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Despite its polarizing reception from critics at the time of its release, Sandinista! is often considered one of the greatest albums of all time. Nevertheless, critics and fans have spent over 40 years debating whether the album would be better as a 12-track LP. This book entertains that idea and considers what is lost or gained in the process.
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The Clash's Sandinista!
- 33 1/3
- Narrated by: John Pirhalla
- Length: 3 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 13-05-25
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Music
- By: Andrew Ford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The Shortest History of Music takes us on a lively tour through several thousands of years of music history, tracing our relationship with this essential art and allowing us to freshly appreciate and understand music today.
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The Shortest History of Music
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 06-05-25
- Language: English
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Discover: Music of the Baroque Era
- By: Clive Unger-Hamilton
- Narrated by: Sebastian Comberti
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
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Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel are the three great composers of the Baroque era, though there are many other well-known figures, including Albinoni, Pachelbel, and Scarlatti. This engaging introduction, interspersed liberally with music, shows how the works of these composers graced the courts and churches of Europe from 1600 to 1750. It is a fascinating story.
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Good introduction
- By Christine on 29-11-11
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Discover: Music of the Baroque Era
- Narrated by: Sebastian Comberti
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 10-08-11
- Language: English
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Yes: The Tormato Story
- By: Kevin Mulryne
- Narrated by: Kevin Mulryne
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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The music of Yes indelibly shaped the original sound of progressive rock. But the true tale of this landmark band goes well beyond headline-making albums like Fragile and Close to the Edge. In this book, Kevin Mulryne tells the absorbing story of the final Yes album of the 1970s, Tormato, uncovering myriad fascinating twists and turns for the first time.
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Enjoyable and Absorbing !
- By Tristan Batory on 18-12-24
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Yes: The Tormato Story
- Narrated by: Kevin Mulryne
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 20-07-23
- Language: English
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The Music of James Bond
- By: Jon Burlingame
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
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The story of the music that accompanies the cinematic adventures of Ian Fleming's intrepid Agent 007 is one of surprising real-life drama. In The Music of James Bond, author Jon Burlingame throws open studio and courtroom doors alike to reveal the full and extraordinary history of the sounds of James Bond, spicing the story with a wealth of fascinating and previously undisclosed tales.
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An interesting journey through the music of Bond
- By Film fan on 02-02-20
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The Music of James Bond
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 06-02-14
- Language: English
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