Greil Marcus,Robert Christgau
In 1978, Greil Marcus asked twenty other writers on rock -- including Dave Marsh, Lester Bangs, Nick Tosches, Ellen Willis, Simon Frith, and Robert Christgau -- a question: What one rock and roll album would you take to a desert island? The resulting essays were collected in ,Stranded,, twenty passionate declarations that, appropriately, affirmed the solitary and obsessive activity that rock listening had become. Here are salutes, elegies, thank-you notes, and love letters to records such as the Rolling Stones' ,Beggars Banquet, , the Ramones' ,Rocket to Russia,, Captain Beefheart's ,Trout Mask Replica, Something Else By the Kinks,, and out-of-print classics by the Ronettes, Little Willie John, and Huey 'Piano' Smith; the whole is supplemented with Marcus's own invaluable annotated fifty-page discography, a "Treasure Island" of rock and roll. ,Stranded, remains a classic of rock and roll literature, and perhaps the best possible answer to the question: What one rock and roll ,book, would you take to a desert island?
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Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island