20. Please Kill Me
Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain (Buy It)
Punk is dead, and sometimes it seems like the legend is all we have left.
19. Owning Up
George Melly
British jazz singer, surrealist, anarchist, critic, author, broadcaster and snappy dresser George Melly. Scouse Mouse (1984) his Liverpool childhood, Rum, Bum and Concertina (1977), covered his Navy days. The first volume, 1965's Owning Up, is the real winner, outlining his itinerant career as a traditional jazz singer in the '50s with Mick Mulligan's band.
18. The Jazz Cadence of American Culture
Robert G. O'Meally
17. Music Lust
Nic Harcourt
16. This Wheel's on Fire
Levon Helm
15. But Beautiful
Geoff Dyer
14. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
Simon Napier-Bel
13. Rip It Up and Start Again
Simon Reynolds
12. Rythm Oil: A Journey Through the Music of the American South
Stanley Booth
11. Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000-2009
Various eds.
10. Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music
Greg Kot
9. I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
Pamela DesBarres
Between accounts of crushing on The Beatles, lusting after The Byrds, discovering The Doors, jetting with Jimmy Page, and babysitting for Zappa, DesBarres' memoir is deeply personal, personable and utterly unique - 1 groupie?'
8. Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock'n'Roll Music
Greil Marcus
7. Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
Peter Guralnick
6. Cuba and Its Music
Ned Sublette
5. White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s
Joe Boyd
A jack-of-all-trades, American Joe Boyd discovered, produced, befriended, and gave guidance to everyone from Fairport Convention and The Incredible String Band to the legendary Nick Drake. He brokered psychedelia at the UFO club, giving Pink Floyd a home and producing their first single.
4. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
Michael Azzerad
legendary stories of bands like Mission of Burma, The Minutemen, and The Replacements, adding humanity to a heroic era in music history.
No other book chronicles the ways in which indie rock, hardcore punk, and grunge - for all their depravity, weirdness, and sporadic wonder -- mattered so much.
3. Chronicles: Volume One
Bob Dylan
2. Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung
Lester Bangs
1. High Fidelity
Nick Hornby
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