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Editorial Review:
For the first time since 1992, Rolling Stone's definitive classic returns to the scene, completely updated and revised to include the past decade's artists and sounds. When it comes to sorting the truly great from the merely mediocre, the enduring from the fleeting, The New Rolling Stone Album Guide provides music buffs and amateurs alike with authoritative guidance from the best voices in the field. Filled with insightful commentary, it not only reviews the most influential albums of all time, but also features biographical overviews of key artists' careers, giving readers a look at the personalities behind the music.
This fourth edition contains an impressive -- 70 percent -- amount of new material. Readers will find fresh updates to entries on established artists, hundreds of brand-new entries on the people and recordings that epitomize the '90s and the sounds of the 21st century -- from Beck to OutKast to the White Stripes and beyond -- along with a new introduction detailing changes in the music industry.
Celebrating the diversity of popular music and its constant metamorphoses, with thousands of entries and reviews on every sound from blues to techno, The New Rolling Stone Album Guide is the only resource music lovers need to read.
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely Revised and Updated 4th Edition Reviews:
Bigger, but less informative 
2009-12-09 - This updated guide is somehow much bigger and much less informative than the previous edition. Hip-hop and punk bands are emphasized, but acts from Louis Armstrong to Tom Jones are omitted (my copy does have George Harrison). Worse, the reviews include too much shorthand; you'd better know punk, post-punk, post-millenial punk, metal, new metal, alt-rock, prog-rock, postrock, and so on. It's hard to know what a specific album is about. For hunting down classic albums on the internet, this book is marginally useful.
get allmusic guide or rough guide instead 
2009-10-15 - I've seen these at the library, you'd be doing yourself a disservice not to get allmusic's guide, or rough guide instead, they sell here for[...] and are much much better. Those are much more comprehensive, and balanced. Rolling Stone doesn't have the best taste in music and they try to please everyone, its too shallow, there's no depth in the coverage, and any album you could discover hear, you'd discover by reading the other two guides as well, regardless of your taste in music. Those people know music better, rolling stone knows pop culture, so with this you're buying the name, not worth it.
Amazing ...
2009-09-07 - I was curious about this book, so I flipped to the Queen section. After about a page of scathing reviews, there was a paragraph which stated that the decline of the band occurred after Jazz, which included "Bicycle RaceS" and was followed by the game, which included "Another One Bites the Dust," credited to bassist Roger Deacon (it's John ... ). After the absolute ignorant condescention which characterized the Queen article, the most offensive thing about the book was that it actually seemed to like The Who. In The Who's defense, though, Tommy, Quadrophenia, and A Quick One were rated lower than many of their other albums. Perplexing to say the least.
rolling missed the stone 
2009-04-12 - The reviewrers miss the point of rating albums simply by not including all artist in the review process,several reviews mentioned artist by name as affecting the music that infulenced them,but when you try to get a review of said infulenceses they were missing from this book,also there are many artist of stature missing such as FOGHAT,EMERSON LAKE AND PALMER,10cc and JOE COCKER just to name a few.The genre or genres should have been added to each artist so the reader could better understand the review.
Everything You Hate About Rolling Stone In One Nifty Package!
2009-01-22 - I'd like confirmation on the exact moment God spoke to the writers and editors of Rolling Stone magazine and said, "From this day forward, your views about popular music, what is and isn't a good band or album, will be the authoritive word by which all music fans will follow." Where do they get off? Indeed, where have they gotten off for the past couple of decades? If you want an album guide, pick up a copy of Music Hound's "Essential Album Guide: Rock" instead of this sarcastic jab filled chunk of junk! Practically every review is filled with Rolling Stone's special seasoning, one sided preaching! Hopefully it's not preaching to the uninformed masses because if it is, they're going to be steered wrong....WAY, WAY WRONG! Case in point, "All Things Must Pass" by George Harrison is not "slightly overrated," The Monks were more than just a garage band with tonsure haircuts, NOTHING by Blink-182 is worth a higher rating of three stars, and The Moody Blues have not "relentlessly purveyed nonsense" their entire carrer! Rolling Stone, PISS OFF!
