BGB’s Greatest Music Hits

Music Week continues here at the BGB. Today we take a look back at our favorite book/music-related posts. (Can you tell its summer? It’s only june and BGB is in reruns.) Join Sherman and I in the way back machine as we revisit these classics from yesteryear. They’re hot! hot! hot!:

• Dr J reviews the band bio Wilco: Learning to Die by Greg Kot. This post is from our second week as a blog.
• I gratuitously use a badly written Slate article as an excuse to talk about the 25th Anniversary of the Clash album London Calling.
• BGB reviews the second of Peter Garulnick’s two epic Elvis biographies, Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley.
• Shaft reviews Marc Acito’s How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater.
• BGB links to Pitchfork’s summer reading list (2005), which mentions the Wu Tang Clan and gestalt in the same sentence.
• We review Meat is Murder a novella that features the music of The Smiths written by Joe Pernice of the Pernice Brothers. Which reminds me – I loaned this to somebody that needs to return it sometime soon.
• We discover the official version of our theme song.
• I review Gary Benchley, Rock Star – a very funny book about hipsters in Brooklyn. Shaft reviews it here.
• We post the first of many, many posts about Frank Portman’s young adult novel King Dork. My punked-out copy of Hamlet from high school gets a mention on Portman’s site.
• A post that considers the best ambient/techno music for reading.
• Reviews of King Dork are posted here and here.
• A post about the band Luna that doesn’t even try to make a connection to books.
• This post about a Sufjan Stevens concert in Atlanta also has little to do with books. A trend?
• 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
• A books and music post that includes a link to the Beastie Boys children’s book.
• Grups and music.
• Another books and music post, this one links to Terry Gross’ interview with Colin Meloy (others links are included free of charge).
• The post that introduces the “wakow!” meme to our blog is here. I thought that it was “makow!” at the time of writing. I was wrong.
• Shaft reviews Small Town Punk.
• This post features the tragedy that is Kate Bush doing interpretive dance to her song “Wuthering Heights.”
• Love is a Mix Tape reviews can be found here and here. A link to Heather’s Love is a Mix Tape Mix Tape is here.

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  By Herman Glimscher, June 19, 2007 @ 1:53 pm

  And let us not forget Alanis covering My Humps: http://babygotbooks.com/index.php?s=alanis&submit=Search

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  By DJ Cayenne, June 19, 2007 @ 1:58 pm

  Nice save, Herman. How did I miss that?

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  By Dr J, June 19, 2007 @ 2:16 pm

  The history of music videos begins and ends here:
  http://youtube.com/watch?v=oiojO4G1wNw.
  It will never be topped. As a bonus, it will take the good DJ back to his days as a N’Awlins wharf rat.
  Here’s another version for Longhorn fans:
  

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  By DJ Cayenne, June 19, 2007 @ 9:49 pm

  I’m not buying video number two. That could be anything.

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  By Dr J, June 19, 2007 @ 10:37 pm

  You have to turn it to 11.
  Would you please buy one of these–http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8242–with all the money you’re making from this site?

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  By DJ Cayenne, June 19, 2007 @ 11:45 pm

  First I have to get a London Calling Mickey Mouse.

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