Best Popular Music Books on Goodreads

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Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal
Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal 3.97 avg rating — 2,978 ratings
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Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone
Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone 4.05 avg rating — 1,072 ratings
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Under the Big Black Sun
Under the Big Black Sun
by: John Doe
4.10 avg rating — 2,205 ratings
203.
Rat Girl
Rat Girl 3.96 avg rating — 3,073 ratings
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Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties
Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties 4.25 avg rating — 5,722 ratings
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David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music
David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music 3.59 avg rating — 817 ratings
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A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties
A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties 3.85 avg rating — 4,069 ratings
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The Disenchantments
The Disenchantments 3.70 avg rating — 9,185 ratings
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Margrave of the Marshes
Margrave of the Marshes
by: John Peel
3.99 avg rating — 3,206 ratings
210.
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove 4.12 avg rating — 7,196 ratings
210.
A Riot of Our Own: Night and Day with the Clash
A Riot of Our Own: Night and Day with the Clash 4.01 avg rating — 1,006 ratings
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Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music 4.27 avg rating — 3,804 ratings
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Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain
Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain 4.12 avg rating — 34,289 ratings
213.
Be Your Own Backing Band: Comics About Music by Liz Prince
Be Your Own Backing Band: Comics About Music by Liz Prince 3.66 avg rating — 174 ratings
213.
Johnny Cash: The Life
Johnny Cash: The Life 4.28 avg rating — 4,324 ratings
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George Harrison: Living in the Material World
George Harrison: Living in the Material World 4.39 avg rating — 1,803 ratings
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The Bear and the Piano
The Bear and the Piano 4.28 avg rating — 4,142 ratings
218.
Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer
Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer 4.17 avg rating — 2,129 ratings
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Because
Because 4.31 avg rating — 4,048 ratings
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation 4.14 avg rating — 5,537 ratings
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The Clash
The Clash
by: The Clash
4.29 avg rating — 1,219 ratings
220.
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink 3.82 avg rating — 3,878 ratings
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Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash
Passion Is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clash 4.13 avg rating — 1,369 ratings
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Love, Janis
Love, Janis 4.11 avg rating — 3,952 ratings
225.
Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll
Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll 4.04 avg rating — 3,544 ratings
225.
The Noise of Time
The Noise of Time 3.75 avg rating — 26,209 ratings
225.
The Riot Grrrl Collection
The Riot Grrrl Collection 4.39 avg rating — 683 ratings
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Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina 3.91 avg rating — 3,609 ratings
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Mary Jane
Mary Jane 4.13 avg rating — 105,723 ratings
229.
Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley 4.37 avg rating — 4,619 ratings
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Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past 3.84 avg rating — 2,965 ratings
231.
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev 3.82 avg rating — 32,782 ratings
231.
When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin
When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin
by: Mick Wall
3.94 avg rating — 4,522 ratings
234.
Saving June
Saving June 3.96 avg rating — 17,384 ratings
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Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day
Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day 3.99 avg rating — 807 ratings
234.
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl 3.70 avg rating — 4,321 ratings
237.
Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend
Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend 4.13 avg rating — 4,204 ratings
238.
I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen 4.19 avg rating — 5,123 ratings
239.
The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory
The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory 3.93 avg rating — 4,824 ratings
240.
The Inner Game of Music
The Inner Game of Music 3.95 avg rating — 4,331 ratings
241.
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 4.22 avg rating — 17,537 ratings
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Broken Music: A Memoir
Broken Music: A Memoir
by: Sting
3.88 avg rating — 4,732 ratings
243.
Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan
Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan 4.01 avg rating — 4,960 ratings
244.
A History of Western Music
A History of Western Music 3.98 avg rating — 2,768 ratings
244.
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin 3.96 avg rating — 4,727 ratings
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Lady Sings the Blues
Lady Sings the Blues 4.05 avg rating — 7,373 ratings
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Orfeo
Orfeo 3.66 avg rating — 6,709 ratings
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Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs 3.95 avg rating — 6,593 ratings
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Music of the Heart (Runaway Train, #1)
Music of the Heart (Runaway Train, #1) 3.99 avg rating — 35,543 ratings
249.
Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream
Waging Heavy Peace: A Hippie Dream 3.59 avg rating — 11,298 ratings
251.
Five Flavors of Dumb
Five Flavors of Dumb 3.87 avg rating — 9,717 ratings
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An Equal Music
An Equal Music 3.80 avg rating — 10,957 ratings
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The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music
The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music 3.92 avg rating — 10,502 ratings
254.
Bound for Glory
Bound for Glory 4.14 avg rating — 5,966 ratings
255.
Silence: Lectures and Writings
Silence: Lectures and Writings
by: John Cage
4.22 avg rating — 3,569 ratings
256.
Listen to This
Listen to This
by: Alex Ross
3.95 avg rating — 2,906 ratings
257.
Amplified (Amplified, #1)
Amplified (Amplified, #1) 3.71 avg rating — 5,358 ratings
258.
Decoded
Decoded
by: Jay-Z
3.86 avg rating — 8,614 ratings
259.
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy 4.24 avg rating — 6,893 ratings
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The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes
The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes 3.80 avg rating — 2,131 ratings
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White Tears
White Tears 3.67 avg rating — 10,262 ratings
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Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd
Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd 4.12 avg rating — 5,287 ratings
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Shakey: Neil Young's Biography
Shakey: Neil Young's Biography 4.09 avg rating — 8,316 ratings
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Rip it Up and Start Again. Post-punk 1978-1984
Rip it Up and Start Again. Post-punk 1978-1984 4.07 avg rating — 9,087 ratings
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Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division
Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division 3.92 avg rating — 9,000 ratings
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John
John 4.12 avg rating — 9,082 ratings
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The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature 3.70 avg rating — 2,971 ratings
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Utopia Avenue
Utopia Avenue really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26,251 ratings
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White Line Fever: The Autobiography
White Line Fever: The Autobiography 3.96 avg rating — 9,992 ratings
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Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc.
Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording with Wilco, Etc. 4.33 avg rating — 10,071 ratings
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Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors
Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors 3.99 avg rating — 7,026 ratings
272.
White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s
White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s
by: Joe Boyd
4.01 avg rating — 2,799 ratings
273.
Tommyland
Tommyland
by: Tommy Lee
3.69 avg rating — 7,448 ratings
274.
Audrey, Wait!
Audrey, Wait! 3.77 avg rating — 14,695 ratings
274.
It's a Long Story: My Life
It's a Long Story: My Life 4.13 avg rating — 9,728 ratings
276.
Beneath the Underdog
Beneath the Underdog 3.83 avg rating — 3,839 ratings
277.
Not Dead Yet: The Memoir
Not Dead Yet: The Memoir 4.06 avg rating — 8,357 ratings
278.
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon 4.02 avg rating — 3,527 ratings
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