About 2016 music.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfect-Sound-Whatever-James-Acaster-ebook/dp/B07P6L1ZJH
Perfect Sound Whatever by James Acaster only 99p on Kindle
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I got given the audiobook as a gift. I had to give up after a few chapters as it wasn’t really my thing! It sounded right up my street (I love lists and I love books about music) but his whole argument that 2016 was the best ever year for music seems flippant and over-egged. Yes, I know it’s supposed to be partly tongue in cheek (I think) but he seems to really believe it. I had a listen to the first four or five acts he mentions and I wasn’t impressed with any of them I’m afraid.
It might read better as a book rather than an audiobook. He sounds a bit smug when he narrates.
He should have done 2017 instead, cos I reckon that was one of the best years for albums for a very long time.
Or what about 1971? 🙂
Sheesh, I am now regretting bringing this thread down with my nasty and mean-spirited comment! I think both me and James Acaster are contrarians by nature, so this combination was never going to work.
I don’t know this book, and I don’t have a Kindle, but anyone with an interest in current stand-up should check out Acaster’s 4 stand up specials on Netflix – wonderful stuff.
I’m about 18% into it. It’s just a detailed list of bands I have not heard of and have no curiosity about exploring, but as a 99p read it’s like a long magazine article or blog post. Harmless and worth the money. Also about tone: he’s a comedian so I doubt any of his ‘boasting’ should be taken as a hardcore opinion that he fully 100% stands behind.
He’s also very much younger than most of us (me included). The folly of youth!
I was around in 1971 but wasn’t buying music, I was more interested in learning to walk. I suspect many of us would pick 1979, or 1981, or 1988.
Ooooooooh let me think. I was born in 1973 and I definitely wouldn’t pick any of those three years! Nor any year in the early nineties which should have been my musical flowering.
It’s an obvious answer, but I find it hard to get past 1971 as the best answer! Maybe I would go slightly later to 1973 or slightly earlier to 1969, but I would definitely stick my pin somewhere in that general area.
We’ve done this before. I think the correct answer was 1967, 1979 may have come in second, and wins on singles.
I rather like his standup act and his personality, but 13% of the way through this it’s already looking like a waste of 99p. And, wow, does it need an editor!
Unappealing.
Would not bother to read this even if it was a freebie.