Complicated Game: Inside the Songs of XTC
Author: Andy Partridge
Publisher:
Published: 2016-05
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9783283012618
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Complicated Game
Author: Andy Partridge
Publisher: Jawbone Press
Published: 2016-03-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781908279781
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"I like accidents. I like to put myself in the way of musical harm. I like being at the wheel of that musical car, and aiming it at the wall, just to see what shape the car's going to come out. It might come out an interesting shape that would have taken me forever to decide on otherwise." Complicated Game offers unique insight into the work of XTC founder Andy Partridge, one of Britain's most original and influential songwriters. It is also an unprecedentedly revealing and instructive guide to how songs and records are made. Developed from a series of interviews conducted over many months, it explores in detail some thirty of Partridge's songs - including such well-known singles as 'Senses Working Overtime' and the controversial 'Dear God' - from throughout XTC's thirty-year career, as well as an extensive interview dedicated solely to the art and craft of songwriting. While the interviews cast new light on the writing of lyrics, the construction of melodies and arrangements, the process of recording, and the workings of the music industry, they are also filled with anecdotes about Partridge, his XTC bandmates, and their adventures around the world - all told with the songwriter's legendary humour. This fascinating book also includes pages from Partridge's songwriting notebooks and reproductions of his original artwork designs; a guided tour of his hometown of Swindon; and a foreword by Steven Wilson, the guitarist, songwriter, and record producer best known as the founder and leader of Porcupine Tree.
XTC
Author: Chris Twomey
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780711991057
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written and compiled from hours of interviews with Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding and Dave Gregory, this biography offers an often moving account of the trials and tribulations that have beset the Swindon based art rockers since their emergence in 1977.
The Music Lesson
Author: Victor L. Wooten
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008-04-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780425220931
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Grammy-winning musical icon and legendary bassist Victor L. Wooten comes an inspiring parable of music, life, and the difference between playing all the right notes…and feeling them. The Music Lesson is the story of a struggling young musician who wanted music to be his life, and who wanted his life to be great. Then, from nowhere it seemed, a teacher arrived. Part musical genius, part philosopher, part eccentric wise man, the teacher would guide the young musician on a spiritual journey, and teach him that the gifts we get from music mirror those from life, and every movement, phrase, and chord has its own meaning...All you have to do is find the song inside. “The best book on music (and its connection to the mystic laws of life) that I've ever read. I learned so much on every level.”—Multiple Grammy Award–winning saxophonist Michael Brecker
The Inner Game of Music
Author: Barry Green
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1986-02-21
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0385231261
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Suggests techniques for overcoming self-consciousness and improving musical performances, shares a variety of exercises, and includes advice on improving one's listening skills.
Eleanor & Park
Author: Rainbow Rowell
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2013-02-26
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1250031214
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →#1 New York Times Best Seller! "Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it's like to be young and in love with a book."-John Green, The New York Times Book Review Bono met his wife in high school, Park says. So did Jerry Lee Lewis, Eleanor answers. I'm not kidding, he says. You should be, she says, we're 16. What about Romeo and Juliet? Shallow, confused, then dead. I love you, Park says. Wherefore art thou, Eleanor answers. I'm not kidding, he says. You should be. Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits-smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you'll remember your own first love-and just how hard it pulled you under. A New York Times Best Seller! A 2014 Michael L. Printz Honor Book for Excellence in Young Adult Literature Eleanor & Park is the winner of the 2013 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Best Fiction Book. A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of 2013 A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2013 A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of 2013 An NPR Best Book of 2013
XTC: Song Story
Author: XTC
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 1998-09-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780786883387
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →XTC's Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding, an Dave Gregory have remained willfully out of the limelight -- until now. XTC: The Exclusive Authorized Story behind the Music provides all the information fans have waited decades for! The book follows the musical and personal evolution of XTC album by album, beginning with the band's founding back in the early seventies in Swindon, an English industrial town that is still the band's home. Each chapter is a breakdown of all XTC's songs, what the lyrics mean, how the melodies were created, and what happened in the studio. Throw in dozens of photographs and memorabilia from the band's own archives, add the release of a long-awaited new album simultaneously with the book's publication, and what you get is an electric bestseller.XTC's last three albums sold over 1.5 million copies. A few of their many classic singles include "Dear God", "Peter Pumpkinhead", "Wrapped in Grey", and "Making Plans for Nigel".
This Band Has No Past
Author: Brian J. Kramp
Publisher: Jawbone
Published: 2022-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781911036876
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on extensive original interviews, the detailed story of the beloved American rockers' formative years in the Midwest, and how those rural roads carried Cheap Trick to multiplatinum success.
Clubbing
Author: Ben Malbon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-03-11
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1134633602
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Clubbing explores the cultures and spaces of clubbing. Divided into three sections: Beginnings, The Night Out and Reflections, Clubbing includes first-hand accounts of clubbing experiences, framing these accounts within the relevant research and a review of clubbing in late-1990s Britain. Malbon particularly focuses on: the codes of social interaction among clubbers issues of gender and sexuality the effects of music the role of ecstasy clubbing as a playful act and personal interpretations of clubbing experiences.
My Damage
Author: Keith Morris
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2016-08-30
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0306824078
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Keith Morris is a true punk icon. No one else embodies the sound of Southern Californian hardcore the way he does. With his waist-length dreadlocks and snarling vocals, Morris is known the world over for his take-no-prisoners approach on the stage and his integrity off of it. Over the course of his forty-year career with Black Flag, the Circle Jerks, and OFF!, he's battled diabetes, drug and alcohol addiction, and the record industry...and he's still going strong. My Damage is more than a book about the highs and lows of a punk rock legend. It's a story from the perspective of someone who has shared the stage with just about every major figure in the music industry and has appeared in cult films like The Decline of Western Civilization and Repo Man. A true Hollywood tale from an L.A. native, My Damage reveals the story of Morris's streets, his scene, and his music-as only he can tell it.
