Tell Me What To Buy (April)

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Blimey it's payday and I've forgotten completely to ask my monthly question.

One CD, one book, make as many recommendations as you like of different CDs and books, first to five is the one I buy.

Previous Books: Confederacy of Dunces (read about one-third, bah); I May Be Some Time (finished); Motherless Brooklyn (not started)

Previous CDs: Big Rig Classics (got); Reign In Blood (not got, sorry Nathalie I will email); The Streets Is A Mutha (found second-hand but they'd lost the CD sleeve, grrr, so not got yet).

This month's requests are for a SPORTS BOOK (not an almanac or results compendium though) and for any CD.

― Tom, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just on the slim chance we get consensus in the next couple hours before I go.

― Tom, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

CD: _Kiss Me, Kiss Me Kiss Me_ by THE CURE. (In the end you will submit/It's got to hurt a little bit...)
BOOK: _King Of The World_ by David Remnick. (This is the only non-fiction book I've read in recent memory that I've enjoyed.)

― Dan Perry, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Angry White Pajamas is a great sports book (can't remember who by) Music - well The Rough Guide to Parisian Cafe Music....

― Pete, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sports book - In ma head son Pat Nevin with George Sik

CD Orchestre Baobab - Pirates choice

― Billy Dods, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Book: Rockin' Steady: A Guide to Basketball and Cool , by Walt Frazier and Ira Berkow, Prentice-Hall (1974).

― Mark, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah to King of The World! Great book.

CD: Feel Like Jumping: The Best of The Women of Studio One (It's a little hit & miss but some really nice stuff esp. The Jaytee's "Buck Town Corner" which sounds like "Uptown Top Ranking" if Althea and Donna were even more distracted!)

― fritz, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Book: Eight Men Out

CD: André Popp - Popp Musique

― Jeff W, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(also great on that record is the bit in Marcia Griffiths' "Feel Like Jumping" where she's singing "feel like jumping...feel like dancing" over this upbeat rocksteady tune and out of nowhere she sings "I feel like dying". Is she saying that the rest of the song is mask, hiding her real desperation? Is she so happy she could die? She never explains it.)

― fritz, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hate sports books. Have two CD recommendations instead:
Man Overboard by Buck 65
and
Vertex by... Buck 65

― Archel, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I heart Buck 65.

― Archel, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lisa Jewell's "Ralph's Party" is a sports book (ahem)

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sports book: John McPhee's _A Sense of Where You Are_, his book about Bill Bradley back when he was a college basketball player and not yet a politician.

― Douglas, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

_Eight Men Out_ is quite great, I'll second that. As is _Kiss Me_ x 3. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jim Bouton's Ball Four (supposedly a classic) and something by Terry Cahsman, who is responsible for "Talkin' Baseball" and as such is unspeakable. Or North Dallas Forty and a Hank Williams Jr.' collection.

Or better yet, let's all get Trinidadian and recommend C.L.R. James' book about cricket Beyond a Boundary AND Lord Kitchener's Classic Kitchener, Vol. 1 -- or any album by him with "Cricket Champions."

― Michael Daddino, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I second Eight Men Out for a book and recommend Shirley Collins and Davey Grahams beautiful Folk Roots, New Routes for a disc.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ouch.

― Michael Daddino, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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The Crossing : The Glorious Tragedy of the First Man to Swim the English Channel

― mark s, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bye.

― Alex in SF, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ghostface Killah-Supreme Clientele.

― Ronan, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

André Popp? As in the guy behind "hip teens don't wear blue jeans"? That song is soooo coolio.
Book: Dick Hebdig's "Subcultures"

― Nathalie, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Already got that one Ronan. Already heard the Cure one too.

― Tom, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sports book? Pamela DesBarres' bio! ;-)

― Nathalie, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think you have too now.

― Graham, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Decal-404 Not Found.

Or eh.........X-Pr....something else!

― Ronan, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That "Out Of His Skin" by Dave Marsh was re-published relatively recently and gives quite an insight into how English football works and how institutional racism works.

Second Fritz's Studio 1 recommendation, (as Fritz hints) not particularly because it's the best S1 thing to buy but because it's good and that makes two of us...

― Tim, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I switch my recommendation to _Wish_ by THE CURE.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Cor. THE CROSSING, I second Mark S.

― Sarah, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, is there a Dance Dance Revolution soundtrack available for purchase? Because I could be convinced to give up my Cure Crusade if we could get Tom to buy that instead.

― Dan Perry, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

CD: Luomo, Vocalcity

I don't know of any sports books.

― Tim, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

CD = Vib-ribbon! Yes, I know it's a game, but it has top tunes on it as well.

― RickyT, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I second DDR as well! You can find them on eBay and I think there's some in a few Hong Kong import places. Its best just to download DDR trax though. What I wouldn't give for an mp3 of Boom Boom Dollar (HINT!)

― Sarah, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

football grounds of britain: simon englis.

cd: tender love by snd. natch!

― ambrose, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

CD - Motown Gold. (3 CD's!)

― jel --, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll second Simon Inglis's book too, specially the chapter on Charlton Athletic.

― Billy Dods, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dan Lloyd's Book of Basketball may be out of print, so I'll third King of the World. The new Seve Ballesteros book must be pretty depraved too.

I'll also third Feel Like Jumping, mainly for the long version of Norma Fraser's First Cut is the Deepest, which unbelievably comes close to matching Rod Stewart for emotional intensity.

― PM, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Book: Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn. A Surf Crime novel, the closest thing to a sports book I could come up with...

CD: Sound It Out by Ze Malibu Kids. It's basically Redd Kross with Anna Waronker singing on a few of the songs.

― Arthur, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would like to transfer my support from Feels Like Jumping to Mojo Rock Steady.

Is that Lenny Waronker's wife?

― PM, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sports book? Pamela DesBarres' bio! ;-)

Natalie: Tempted to agree, but despite the lights, different camera angles and flash photography, her sex life ain't a true sport;>

Tom, try "The Natural". This was a really cool book....despite the mess Robert Redford made of the movie.

As for CD: try "Staring At The Sea: The Singles" (to keep our lovely Cure theme running.)

Otherwise, try "Hot Shots II" (Beta Band). One of the better CDs I've heard within the last year.

― Nichole Graham, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is that Lenny Waronker's wife?

Lenny's daughter, Steve McDonald's wife. Once a member of that dog, a band I didn't much like. Now she's the new Lesley Gore and I like her much more.

― Arthur, Friday, 19 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thank you, Arthur.

― PM, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, you've spent your pay by now. But I definitely second Vib-Ribbon, the Playstation game, as your CD. And for the book, the new Ginko Press edition of Marchall McLuhan's 'War And Peace In The Global Village'. You can open it at random and get something mind-boggling or thought-provoking. For instance, I opened it just now and got:

'The strategy of permissiveness in the upbringing of the young, as opposed to a discipline and obedience that enabled the young to fit into the mechanical world, became a kind of crux for controversy. Permissiveness was expected to enable the youngster to create his own world in the style of a romantic artist instead of fitting into someone else's world. The distorted paradoxes that ensued have yet to be resolved'.

― Momus, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There are several Dance Dance Revolution soundtracks available (none of which have Dan's "Pikachu" mix, luckily) and all of them are grrreat! Lots of catchy catchy songs.

― Vinnie, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I suggest buying packet of bonbons and stuffing them in your ears!

― nathalie, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(that was a joke. not some ashitick comment.)

― nathalie, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

nathalie: 'Hip Teens...' is by Frank Popp, not Andre...

― michael, Sunday, 21 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley. To be honest, I started reading it a while ago and got discracted half way through, but people I trust rave about it. It's about mental illness too, if that h

― N., Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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