Anthems We Love: 29 Iconic Artists on the Hit Songs That Shaped Our Lives
Book by Steve Baltin
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Publisher : Harper Horizon (October 25, 2022) Language : English Hardcover : 272 pages ISBN-10 : 0785290524 ISBN-13 : 978-0785290520 Item Weight : 1 pounds Dimensions : 6.38 x 1 x 9.25 inches Best Sellers Rank: #95,689 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #303 in Rock Band Biographies #362 in Rock Music (Books) #955 in Actor & Entertainer Biographies , " Anthems We Love is not just a tale of artistic adventure, it's also a manual for artists and fans alike. There is no formula. Just these inspiring stories of the heart . . . " —Cameron Crowe, Academy Award–nominated director, producer, and screenwriter (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, Say Anything, and Pearl Jam Twenty) From U2 to Carly Simon, the Temptations to TLC, artists describe in their own words how their songs became the soundtrack of your life in this celebration of music featuring original interviews by acclaimed music journalist Steve Baltin. Which Beach Boys’ song brings Paul McCartney to tears? What makes “Light My Fire” a rite-of-passage song for teens in every generation, according to Doors guitarist Robby Krieger? What is it about music that brings back so vividly the passion of our early loves, our deepest losses, our richest memories? Acclaimed music journalist Steve Baltin examines twenty-nine iconic songs of modern music to ultimately answer: what transforms a song into an anthem ? How did these songs become such a part of our culture? Featuring original interviews with superstar musicians like the Beach Boys, Shania Twain, and Earth Wind and Fire, this book offers a detailed celebration of songwriting, fan connections, memorable live performances, and more. A must-have anthology for music fans, Anthems We Love showcases the most beloved and popular songs of all time, including Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline,” the Jackson 5’s “ABC,” Aerosmith’s “Walk This Way,” and TOTO’s “Africa.” More so, it centers the artists behind these songs—and the songs that formed the soundtracks of their lives—as they share stories, for the first time, about how writing an anthem has changed their lives, those of their fans, and our world. Read more
REVIEW
What makes us like things. Especially music, which to a lot of people is just noise with some words added to it, depending on their age, and their opinions on musc not being the the same as it was at their age. What makes an opening note make our brain's go Oh yeah? Why does our heart and soul go nope not doing anything for the next three minutes and forty seconds. There are many reasons, the flood of memories both good and bad, nostalgia again good and bad. Or maybe a song is just that darn good, and rocking out it the only thing to be done. Anthems We Love: 29 Iconic Artists on the Hit Songs That Shaped Our Lives by author and journalist Steve Baltin looks at popular songs from the last 60 years, and analyses what makes a song work, why we still listen to it, and stories about the creation and the song's legacy. The book begins with a brief history of music and what the idea of an anthem is. The 29 songs here have been chosen by the writer, as songs that are both timeless, and are about emotions and feelings or situations that are universal among all humans. A song about love gone wrong, or about love still going strong. There is no right or wrong song, these were chosen by the author as the best, and ones that will still be played even after most of us will be gone. There are a lot of usual suspects, but also a few songs that I would never put on a list, but still found interesting. Each chapter is devoted to a song, with interviews with writers and creators, when available, or studio technicians to explain the song's makeup. Fan stories are shared, and each song is given it's own mini-biography of how the life of the song has grown, ebbed, or even rediscovered by new generations. The stories are what make the songs real. Fans sharing tales of how a song got them through bad times, or stopped them from doing something and permanent. Careers changed for the better, and sometimes for the worse as a song might be a little bit of an albatross for some bands. The chapters seem different as Baltin writes some chapters as straight essays, others he brings in say the artist Tom Waits, to write about his song inclusion, which gives a the book a different kind of readability. The book is well researched with lots of fun facts, and different takes on familiar, and some really unfamiliar songs. You can see why the songs were chosen, and what they might mean to the author. I would have had a few different songs, and excluded others, but this is how we find new things, leaving our comfort zone and trying a song that was different. I know in my family plenty of music choices would have been ejected from the tape deck if my brother was driving.
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