Tag: it’s a book it’s a playlist

  • The Real Book, Vol. 1

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    Ever play jazz? Jazz ensemble in high school maybe? Then you’ve likely encountered The Real Book. Wikipedia backgrounds: An underground series of books transcribed and collated by students at Berklee College of Music during the 1970s. It got its name to distinguish it from the widely available fake books which printed only chords and lyrics of…

  • Life on Mars

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    It’s a book, it’s a playlist: The Martian, by Andy Weir, in which an astronaut is mistakenly left alone on Mars to fend for himself and has to summon all his MacGyver/Castaway-ish/sarcastic-quipping powers to survive sol after sol on the barren Red Planet. During down time (when, say, the H2 oxidizer has to replenish the…

  • It’s a Book, It’s a Playlist: Everybody Loves Our Town, by Mark Yarm

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    It’s an oral history of grunge, it’s a playlist. Here are the Mark Yarm’s Seattle grunge essentials, dumped into Spotify for your time/space-travelling pleasure. The author’s complete list, without Spotify holes: 1. Mudhoney “Touch Me I’m Sick” 2. U-Men “They” 3. Green River “Ain’t Nothing to Do” 4. Soundgarden “Nothing to Say” 5. Nirvana “Love…

  • It’s a Book, It’s a Playlist: Just Kids, by Patti Smith

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    Patti Smith’s Just Kids follows her from miserable teendom to fabulous adulthood where she makes lots of art and poetry and music and befriends all the cool folks from the Chelsea Hotel and elsewhere around NYC at the time. The songs mentioned in the book are just about all here.

  • It’s a Book, It’s a Playlist: Life, by Keith Richards

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    Things remembered from reading Keith Richards’ Life: He came up with  “Satisfaction” during a dream. He ran some Italian military trucks off the road once. He once believed in purity and soul and stuff when it comes to music and touring; now he likes hanging out with the American Express VIPs backstage at shows. He’s…

  • It’s a Book, It’s a Playlist: Guardian Mini-Collection

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    The Guardian proclaims that these are The Best Mixtapes in Fiction. Maybe–haven’t read all the books (or listened to all the playlists), so hard to know. Below, the playlists without explanations–get those in the article, if you care to. For High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby: For Doctor Sleep, by Stephen King (his Shining sequel, his list): For…

  • It’s a Book, It’s a Playlist: Chronicles, Vol. One

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    Chronicles is more music appreciation text than Dylan things-I-did-style autobiography. That means there are loads and loads of songs mentioned–and you haven’t heard them all. Some intrepid interneters have made it easier for you to track down the tracks. All the way easy. Here’s a longer version, Dylan cuts included, from Art Rush: This Dylan-less one,…

  • It’s a Book, It’s a Playlist: Inherent Vice

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    Here begins an occasional series highlighting playlists based upon songs mentioned in books. Who better to get music tips from than people who spend their lives with words? For this one, Inherent Vice, by Thomas Pynchon, there’s not just an Rdio playlist, but also a Wiki walking through it all. Don’t think Pynchon was hearing…