Record guide
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"From Underground Moderne to Nova Classics, from BBE Records to Strut Records and Soul Jazz, the period from 1990 to 2010 was the golden age of the cd compilation and connoisseur liner notes."--Sholem Stein "In 1978, Greil Marcus asked twenty writers on rock-including Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, Nick Tosches, Ellen Willis and Robert Christgau-a question: What one rock-and-roll album would you take to a desert island? The resulting essays were collected in Stranded, twenty passionate declarations to such albums as The Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet, the Ramones' Rocket to Russia, Something Else by the Kinks, and more. Universally revered as the ur-text of rock journalism, Stranded is an indispensable classic." blurb to Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island (1979) by Greil Marcus. |
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A record guide is a consumer guide to buy recordings from the album era.
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Playlists
- Paradise Garage classics, a list that appeared on the internet in the late 1990s, records that were played at that famous nightclub in New York
- Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
- The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present
Alternative
- 100 Records that Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening), from Wire magazine
- Nurse with Wound list, from the liner notes
- Caribou 1000, from the artist Caribou
- Jahsonic 1000, a list of 1000 records, personal selection of Jahsonic
- Daily Fingertracks from lovefingers.org (2006-2010), from an anonymous person
- Top Ten Free Jazz Underground, free jazz and avant-garde jazz compiled by Thurston Moore, first published in the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal magazine, issue 2 in 1995.
- Towards a Balearic playlist, authorship unidentified
Soul music
Hip hop originals
- Ultimate Breaks and Beats
- Strictly Breaks (18 volumes)
- Dusty Fingers (17 volumes)
Jazz
Record buying guides from the album era
- Trouser Press Guide to
- Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies
- Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s
- American Record Guide
- Spin Alternative Record Guide
- The New Music Record and Tape Guide
See also
- Album era
- Pazz & Jop
- 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die
- Hit single
- Record chart
- Songs of the Century
- Music compilations
- Recommender system
- Record collecting
- Music writing
- Culture industry