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The Book Sense Music Bestseller List -- From Porter to Punk
Based on reporting from hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense across the U.S. for the four-week period ending September 12, 2004.
Past Category Bestseller lists are available at www.bookweb.org/read/5677.
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The Book Sense Music Bestseller List
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1. | The Piano Shop on the Left Bank: Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier Thaddeus Carhart, Random House, $13.95, 0375758623 |
2. | Ticket to Ride: Inside the Beatles' 1964 & 1965 Tours That Changed the World (With Audio CD) Larry Kane, Penguin, $14, 014303426X |
3. | Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend Stephen Davis, Gotham, $27.50, 1592400647 |
4. | Dylan's Visions of Sin Christopher Ricks, Ecco, $26.95, 0060599235 |
5. | Wilco: Learning How to Die Greg Kot, Broadway, $14, 0767915585 |
6. | Songbook Nick Hornby, Riverhead, $13, 1573223565 |
7. | Rise Up Singing: The Group Singing Song Book Peter Blood (Ed.), Sing Out Publications, $17.95, 0962670472 |
8. | Cole Porter: A Biography William McBrien, Vintage, $15, 0679727922 |
9. | The New Complete Guitarist Richard Chapman, DK, $20, 0789497018 |
10. | So What!: The Good, the Mad, and the Ugly Metallica, Steffan Chirazi, Broadway, $29.95, 0767918819 |
11. | Every Little Thing Gonna Be Alright: The Bob Marley Reader Hank Bordowitz (Ed.), Da Capo, $17.95, 0306813408 |
12. | Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music Anthony Ashton, Walker, $10, 0802714099 |
13. | Younger Than That Now: The Collected Interviews With Bob Dylan Jim Ellison (Ed.), Thunder's Mouth, $16.95, 1560255900 |
14. | Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf James Segrest, Mark Hoffman, Pantheon, $26.95, 0375422463 |
15. | Take a Walk on the Dark Side: Rock and Roll Myths, Legends, and Curses R. Gary Patterson, Fireside, $14, 0743244230 |
16. | Duende: A Journey Into the Heart of Flamenco Jason Webster, Broadway, $14, 0767911679 |
17. | Shakey: Neil Young's Biography Jimmy McDonough, Anchor, $16.95, 0679750967 |
18. | Elvis Presley: The Man, the Life, the Legend Pamela Clarke Keogh, Atria, $35, 0743456033 |
19. | The Rose That Grew From Concrete Tupac Shakur, S&S, $21, 0671028448 |
20. | Traveling Music: The Soundtrack to My Life and Times Neil Peart, ECW Press, $19.95, 1550226665 |
21. | The Phish Companion: A Guide to the Band and Their Music The Mockingbird Foundation, Backbeat Books, $24.95, 0879307994 |
22. | When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent Into Power and Influence Connie Bruck, Random House, $16.95, 0812972171 |
23. | The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll Gavin McInnes, Warner, $16.95, 0446692816 |
24. | Cash: The Autobiography Johnny Cash, HarperSanFrancisco, $7.99, 0061013579 |
25. | Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil, Penguin, $16, 0140266909 |
26. | All You Need to Know About the Music Business - 5th Edition Donald S. Passman, S&S, $30, 0743246373 |
27. | Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip Hop Planet Patrick Neate, Riverhead, $14, 1594480125 |
28. |
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band |
29. | Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo Andy Greenwald, St. Martin's, $14.95, 0312308639 |
30. | Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues Elijah Wald, Amistad, $24.95, 0060524235 |