Recommendations

Books

• Rip it up and start again,Postpunk, ~ S
• Lipstick Traces ~ Greil Marcus
• The secret history of rock ~ Roni Sarig
• Please Kill Me ~ Legs MacNeil
• Pretty Vacant ~ Phil Strongman
• Flowers in the dustbin ~ James Miller
• From Caligari to Hitler ~ Sigfried Kracauer
• The haunted screen ~ Lotte Eisner
• Birth of the motion picture ~ Emmanuel Toulet
• Weimar Culture ~ Peter Gay
• True Crime True North ~ Strange & Loo
• The Classic Era of Crime Fiction ~ Peter Hanning
• Dark City; The hidden history of Film Noir ~ Eddie
• England's Dreaming ~ Jon Savage
• All Yesterday's Parties; The Velvet Underground in
• God's Own Singer; Gram Parsons ~ Jason Walker
• Iggy; Open up and bleed ~ Paul Trynka
• No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs ~ John Lydon
• Touching from a distance ~ Deborah Curtis
• Life of Leadbelly ~ Chas Wolfe & Kip Lornell
• Early Downhome Blues ~ Jeff Titon
• The land where Blues again ~ Alan Lomax
• Yonder come the Blues ~ Various writers
• Blues People ~ Amri Baraka
• Kiss this; Punk in the present tense ~ Gina Arnold
• Lovesick Blues; Hank Williams story ~ Paul Hemphil
• Rat Salad; Black Sabbath 1969-75 ~ Pail Wilkinson
• The sound of the beast, A history of metal ~ Ian C
• The boy looked at Johnny ~ Burchill & Parsons
• The Velvet Underground reader ~ Clinton Heylin
• The Velvet Underground companion ~ Albin Zak
• This is uncool ~ Garry Mulholland
• Sound effects ~ Simon Frith
• Art into pop ~ Simon Frith
• Our band could be your life ~ Micheal Azerad
• Cult Rockers ~ Jancik & Lathop
• I wanna be sedated ~ Phil Dellio
• Precious and few ~ Breithaupt & Breithaupt
• Any old way you choose it ~ Robert Christgau
• The story of Louie Louie ~ Dave Marsh
• Just walking in the rain ~ Jay Warner
• Bo Diddly ~ Garry White
• Patsy ~ Margaret Jones
• Jelly Roll's Blues ~ Reich & Gaines
• Searching for Robert Johnson ~ Pete Guralnick
• I need more ~ Iggy Pop
• Joy Division & New Order ~ Brian Edge
• Jazz Masters of the 1920's ~ Richard Hadlock
• The Jazz Age ~ Arnold Shaw
• Rock n' Roll ~ Nick Johnson
• It came from Memphis ~ Robert Gordon
• Lost in the Grooves ~ Cooper & Smay
• Stairway to Hell ~ Chuck Eddy
• The Song Catchers ~ Mickey Hart
• Hand me down world ~ Mitch Potter
• Have not been the same ~ Micheal Barclay
• Before the Goldrush ~ Nick Jennings
• Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison ~ Micheal Steissgath
• Bill Haley ~ John Swenson
• Bill Monroe, can't you hear me calling ~ Richard S
• All you need is love ~ Tony Palmer
• White Boy singin' the blues ~ Micheal Bane
• Feel like going home ~ Peter Guralnick
• After the Ball ~ Ian Whitcomb
• The Mansion on the Hill ~ Fred Goodman
• The People's Music ~ Ian MacDonald
• All roads lead to rock ~ Colin Escot
• Death Discs ~ Alan Clayson
• Anti-Rock, The Opposition to R&R ~ Martin &
• The Haunt of Fear ~ Martin Baker
• The Private lives of the Impressionists ~ Sue Roe
• Gustave Moreau ~ Genevieve Lacombre
• Arthur Rackham ~ James Hamilton
• Monet, Life and works ~ Marianne Sachs
• The world of Edward Gorey ~ Ross & Wilson
• The Krazy Kat anthology ~ George Harriman
• The Rose and the Briar ~ Greil Marcus
• Nowhere to run ~ Gerri Hirsey
• The good die young ~ Robert Duncan
• Gram Parsons; Grievous Angel ~ Hundley & Parso
• Desparados ~ John Einarison
• American Woman ~ John Einarison
• Appetite for Destruction ~ Danny Sugarman
• Aerosmith, What it takes ~ Bowler & Dray
• Neon Angel ~ Cherie Currie
• Oscar Peterson ~ Alex Barris
• King of Ragtime ~ Edward Berlin
• Blue Nippon ~ Taylor Atkins
• The Story of Jazz ~ Marshal Stearns
• Jazz ~ Geoffrey Ward & Ken Burns
• Finding her voice ~ Bufwack & Oerman
• Trout Mask Replica ~ Kevin Courrier
• Leadbelly songbook ~ Moses Asch & Alan Lom
• Music melting round ~ Edith Boroff
• The Sacred Spring ~ Nicholas Powell
• The Decorative Twenties ~ Mrtin Battersby
• The Theatre of the Bauhaus ~ Walter Gropius
• 100 years of Sci-Fi illustration ~ Anthony Frewin
• Tijuana Bibles ~ Bob Adelman
• Hillbilly Culture ~ Anthony Hawkins
• Kerouac & friends ~ MacDarrah & MacDarrah
• The Naked Angels ~ John Tytel
• Jack's Book ~ Gifford & Lee
• Poets among the Peaks ~ John Sutier
• Krazy Kat anthology ~ George Harriman
• The Ten Cent Plague ~ David Hajdu
• Stan Lee's amazing Marvel universe
• The complete history of Batman ~ Les Daniels
• The complete history of Superman ~ Les Daniels
• Give my regards to the atom smashers, essays on co
• Nick Cardy's comic strips ~ Nick Cardy
• Winsor NcCay's Early works ~ Winsor McCay
• Treat me like dirt ~ Liz Worth
• Babylon's burning ~ Charley Heylin
• The Re;Search Guide to industrial music and cultur
• The Re:Search Guide to The Swing revival
• Blues on CD ~ Charles Shar Murray
• Lost sounds ~ Tim Brooks
• History of the blues ~ Francis Davis
• They kept rockin ~ Stuart Coleman
• Rock and Roll ~ Robert Palmer
• The Rock and Roll encyclopedia ~ Lillian Roxan
• The Encyclopedia of Punk ~ Brian Cogan
• Siouxsie & the Banshees ~ Nils Stevenson
• Unknown pleasures ~ Mark Johnson
• 1977/1988 ~ Caroline Coon
• Beneath the diamond sky ~ Barney Hoskins
• Robert Christgau's 1970's record guide
• Robert Christgau's 1980's record guide
• The Trouser Press New Wave Record Guide ~ Ira Robb
• The Rolling Stone record guide ~ Dave Marsh
• Blank Generation revisited ~ Baylis,Gruen et al
• Raw Power ~ Mick Rock
• Post Punk diary ~ George Gimarc
• Poor Little Bitch Girl ~ CJ Sleez
• Rock and Roll Babylon ~ Gary Herman
• Hollywood Babylon ~ Kenneth Anger
• The 50 worst movies of all time ~ Medved & Dre
• Cult Movies ~ Danny Perry
• Da Da, The Revolt of art ~ Marc Dachy
• Literature and Western Man ~ J B Priestley
• A short history of English Lit ~ Ifor Evans
• On modern art ~ Paul Klee
• Frank Lloyd Wright's lost buildings ~ Carla Lind

Music

• ~ The 1920's & 30's ~
• Blues
• Old Time Country
• Jazz
• Spirituals
• Swing
• Western Swing
• ~ The 1940's ~
• Honky Tonk
• R&B
• Jump Blues
• Electric Blues
• Gospel
• Bluegrass
• ~ The 1950's ~
• Rock n' Roll
• Rockabilly
• Doo Wop
• Skiffle
• Be Bop
• ~ The 1960's ~
• Surf
• Garage
• Psyche
• Folk Rock
• Country Rock
• Soul
• ~ The 1970's & 80's ~
• Punk
• Psychobilly
• Cow Punk
• Neo-Garage & Psyche
• Hardcore
• New Wave & Post Punk
• Proto Goth & Pre-Industrial
• Metal
• Thrash
• Glam
• ~ The 1990's ~
• Alt Country

Film & TV

• Expressionist and Silent Horror Films of the 1920'
• Film Noir and Horror of the 1940's & 50's
• B Movie Sci Fi & Horror and serials of 30's -
• Classic TV Mystery & Suspense (Twilight Zone)
• Classic Animation
• The Decline of Western Civilization pts.1&2
• The Sex Pistols; Filth and The Fury
• The MC5; a true testimonial
• The Ramones; The end of the century
• Joy Division
• Mission of Burma; Not a photograph
• American Hardcore
• The Last Pogo
• The Who; The Kids are alright
• Gram Parsons; Fallen Angel
• Theremin; an electronic odyssey
• Woodstock
• Monterey Pop
• This is Spinal Tap
• Rock and Roll High School
• WKRP in Cinncinnatti
• The Blues Brothers
• The Monkees/Head
• American Hot Wax
• The Cotton Club
• Bird
• Control
• Joy Division, Under review
• Bauhaus, Shadows of Light/Archives
• Mute Films Presents Cabaret Voltaire
• Siouxsie & The Banshees; Nocturne
• Killing Joke XXV The Gathering
• TSOL; The Early Years Live
• The Punk Rock Movie
• The Velvet Undeground and Nico
• Jazz
• The Civil War
• The Daily Show
• The West Wing
• Law & Order
• Life on Mars (UK)
• Sherlock Holmes w/Jeremy Brett
• Tombstone
• Silverado
• The Long Riders
• Road Warrior
• The Lord of the Rings
• Rocket Robin Hood