I made a video talking about “committing to the bit” basically just getting into your own interests at a deeper level. I was saying reading good books on things you’re interested in is a great way to do that and I thought of a few music-related books I love, specifically:

Please Kill Me - it’s an interview-based narrative of punk rock. Super fun read because a lot of the guys contradict each other and tell the same stories in super different ways

Redemption Song - Joe Strummer had such an interesting life and career, if you like The Clash it’s a must-read

I need some more good recs so drop some

Also I plugged ktt2 in this video so if 100 very intelligent and interesting posters suddenly register you know what happened

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books that i own that are music related

K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher

Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures by Mark Fisher

Music and Humanism: An Essay in the Aesthetics of Music

The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

I read a little of Ghosts of my Life. Was a bit too heavy in the moment lol I gotta come back to it

. The Big Payback – Dan Charnas

i thrifted that rick rubin book like a month ago but still haven’t read it

i gifted this to my brother for christmas lol
amazon.com/Chronicles-Juice-Man-Memoir-Juicy/dp/1335005285

That book isnt for reading its for strategically placing in the background of photos of your studio

how music got free for business side

33 1/3 one about j dilla - donuts is essential

i heard last night a dj saved my life is fantastic

this book is pretty cool. discovered it through easyfun (ag cook and charli's main mixer). u need to order it thru the writer's website tho and it ships from australia lol i think it costs near $100.

i found it on ebay + it was signed by some grammy engineer winner so that neat. havent finished it but ive been enjoying it !

How Music Works - David Byrne

Flyboy in the Buttermilk by Greg Tate, not all of the essays are on music but there’s some really good s*** in there

They’re putting out a new edition later this year with a new foreword by Questlove, it’s been delayed like 3 times now and I need it

Ego trip book of rap lists is also an essential

Just like Rick Rubin himself!

probably not the best time to recommend this one, but gucci manes first auto biography is great

The Juicy J book is awesome.
Also, i got the ghostface book rise of a killah .

read Dilla Time last year absolutely brilliant and highly recommended

Signifying Rappers essay by David Foster Wallace is an interesting read bc it's from 1990 and he's arguing for rap being the most important new form of American poetry. Earl reminded me of this the other day posting about it in his story lol

another writer Earl put me onto is Richard Fariña, there's a really fascinating biography about him called "Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña", which tells the story of the close friendship / rivalry between Dylan and Fariña, one a folk singer who wanted to be a novelist and the other a novelist who wanted to be a folk singer, and the connecting link between Dylan and Thomas Pynchon.

I think I'm just rly into these historical reads that put you into a certain place and make you reflect on the state of music at the time and how these artists were dreaming up new possibilities, the many ways in which they did pave the way for things with their dreams but then also just as much how some of it still remains un-realized.

Miles: The Autobiography by Quincy Troupe is an amazing read, seriously f***ing good regardless of liking him or jazz