MusicHound Lounge book

RLott

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Jun 19, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/19/98

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MusicHound (the guys behind the VideoHound book series) just released a huge
guide to lounge music. I just picked it up last night ($24.95 cover price), so
I haven't read it, but the sheer wealth of information here is incredible.

Five-hundred pages are devoted to individual artist profiles and discographies,
followed by reviews of compilation albums, reviews of lounge movies, listings
of lounge books/zines, listings of lounge radio stations and tons more.

Best of all -- as with every other MusicHound book (the new "Soundtracks" book
is also worth a pick-up) -- it comes with a free CD. In this case, it's
(naturally) an Ultra-Lounge sampler, comprised of 24 tracks from the last six
volumes.

This book promises to be one of those rare read-every-word reference works. I'd
also recommend getting Dylan Jones' "Ultra-Lounge: The Lexicon of Easy
Listening." Supposedly, it's been discontinued because of copyright
infringments, but I've seen it at Barnes & Noble stores across the U.S. for
more than a year now.

Lastly, a friend of mine from journalism school co-wrote a lounge book with a
work colleague that is due out this fall. Don't know the name of it, but half
is supposed to be interviews, and the other half an album guide.

Rod Lott
HITCH: The Journal of Pop Culture Absurdity
www.ionet.net/~twilken/HITCH

Productions

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Jun 19, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/19/98

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You are right about the "Lexicon of Lounge" book, and the others that
you mentioned. I have them available from the surflounge.com web site.
Let me know if your friend want his book listed too. Aloha from the
Crazy Joe on the beach.
--
Beach information and lounge entertainment
http://www.surflounge.com

Lou Smith

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Jun 24, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/24/98

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I'm passing on this response for Irwin Chusid.
-Lou

From: ghos...@ix.netcom.com
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 00:58:50 -0400
Subject: Re: (exotica) MusicHound Lounge book

>In alt.culture.lounge, rl...@aol.com (RLott) wrote:
>I'd also recommend getting Dylan Jones' "Ultra-Lounge: The
>Lexicon of Easy Listening." Supposedly, it's been discontinued because
>of copyright infringments, but I've seen it at Barnes & Noble stores
>across the U.S. for more than a year now.

CONTAINS FOUR (4!) sets of liner notes I wrote--for which Mr. Jones
never obtained permission to reprint, and for the use of which I never
got paid!!!!

Feel free to post to the list. I think Jones is a shit. He never even
apologized.

--Irwin Chusid
ghos...@ix.netcom.com
http://wfmu.org

RLott

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Jun 25, 1998, 3:00:00 AM6/25/98

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Irwin Chusid wrote about the book "Ultra-Lounge: The Lexicon of Easy
Listening":

>>>CONTAINS FOUR (4!) sets of liner notes I wrote--for which Mr. Jones never
obtained permission to reprint, and for the use of which I never got paid!!!!
Feel free to post to the list. I think Jones is a shit. He never even
apologized.<<<

And I read somewhere Jones is a doctor by day. You think he'd have some sense
of ethics. Wait a minute, what am I thinking?

So if the copyright infrigments are true -- and obviously are -- why is this
book still available everywhere?