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Title: The New Rolling Stone Record Guide by Dave Marsh, John Swenson ISBN: 0394721071 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: November, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.38
Rating: 1
Summary: Useless
Comment: What can you say about a guide that doesn't give 5 Stars to Wire, The Replacements, Husker Du, The Pixies, New Order, Joy Division, David Bowie, or The Smiths. But they love Bruce Springsteen, James Taylor, Bob Seger, and Jackson Browne. The book also blindly gives 5 Stars to the most popular artists, even on albums that overlap each other with the same songs. So if you followed RS advice, you would have several albums with very similar programming from the same artists.
Rating: 2
Summary: Mistakes
Comment: This book has been very informative to me, but I've found some mistakes which makes me not sure if I should trust a lot of things from this book. I'm sure most of it is true, but still a book like this shouldn't have mistakes. One mistake being for Triumvirat saying that they were from Finland when they're really from Germany. Another mistake is under the discography for Spirit. It says the album, 12 Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus, was released in 1967 when it was really released in 1971. I also do not agree with a lot of reviews in this book. I mean how could they give EVERY Black Sabbath album the same rating which was 1 star? This book also doesn't have complete discographies if the album wasn't released in the US which is annoying. It's also missing a lot of great bands such as Amon Düül II who deserve to be in the book.
Rating: 4
Summary: The only RS record guide worth owning
Comment: I did enjoy the pictures from the first guide, but the unacceptable Rush bashing on the part of the 1979 reviewer annoys me tremendously. In any event, John Swenson does an excellent job of righting the wrong that Alan Niester once perpetuated. Other than that, I am not particularly fond of the denigration of Yes, esp. with respect to TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS, however this book was very informative and I enjoyed it overall. IMHO, the only record guide that is comparable to this 1983 version is the ALL MUSIC GUIDE TO ROCK. As far as I am concerned, the 1992 guide was a waste of paper.
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Title: The Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely New Reviews: Every Essential Album, Every Essential Artist by Anthony Decurtis, James Henke, Holly George-Warren ISBN: 0679737294 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: November, 1992 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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