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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
THE Music reference, 9 Nov 2007
If you want see the place rock music had in our consciousness in the past forty years, see how other popular cultural values have been born, grew, changed, matured and passed on, you could do not do better than to read this.
If you are of a certain age you will remember certain covers, great journalists, brilliant photos, cutting record reviews and more. All this was in a publication that, to us in London in the late 70's and 80's looked better than the NME or Melody Maker wasn't so outrageously left wing as Time Out. It just looked more polished and radical at the same time than what else was availabe here in England.
Sure, it has changed it's stance and became a bit 'corporate' but so did it readers, we all got older and fatter. More importantly it is written by people who understood music and what is now referred to as "Yoof Culture". All in all this is a superb document to hopefully rekindle the embers and trigger half forgotten memories of times and places that are getting fainter by the year.
I look forward to spendng hours boring people to death quoting from age old reviews of our favourite old albums and famous old articles by Hunter Thompson and P J O'Rourke to name drop but two.
Thanks to Rolling Stone and Bondi for their enterprise in producing this package.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
The digital goldmine!, 16 Nov 2007
Well, this is what Rolling Stone readers have been waiting for. I've loved the magazine and explored back-issues since my teens, so as a forty-something regular reader this is a long-wished-for chance to explore the entire goldmine of back-issues at my leisure.
You can search by Issue, subject (band, artist, news-story), year, magazine issue number, even journalist or photographer. Even every advertisement has been scanned, but personally, being able to access interviews, reviews and rare morsels to do with favourite musicians is the real delight.
An important note here. It is crucial to have enough RAM on your PC or laptop, otherwise the BONDI CD-ROM reader will take ages to load or not load on sufficiently.
Anyway, here is Rolling Stone's first 40 years in a wonderful presentation at our fingertips at last. Enjoy!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
WOW !!! This is the biz, 20 Mar 2008
So I now have 40 years of American social/political/music/cinematographic history reposing on my hard drive. I've read about the joys of Woodstock and the horrors of 9/11. I've read reviews of albums that I'd long forgotten and ones that have reminded me to check them out. Articles by such luminaries as Greil Marcus, Jon Landau, Ben Fong-Torres and Hunter S Thompson. This is a set for everyone - whether you just like dipping in to it for the odd album review or whether you want to read about an encounter with Osama bin Laden. If you want to read the last interview with and see the last pictures of John Lennon then you can do it here. If you have any interest in the music of the last 40 years you owe it to yourself to get this set. Starting with a very basic looking issue 1 (all in black and white right) up to issue 1026 in glorious colour it's all here - the last 40 years as seen through the eyes of America's best writers.
Fabulous - the best time waster you'll EVER buy !!
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