num_pages: 328
description: In 1978 Greil Marcus asked twenty other writers on rock -- including Dave Marsh Lester Bangs Nick Tosches Ellen Willis Simon Frith and Robert Christgau -- a What one rock and roll album would you take to a desert island? The resulting essays were collected in Stranded twenty passionate declarations that appropriately affirmed the solitary and obsessive activity that rock listening had become. Here are salutes elegies thank-you notes and love letters to records such as the Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet  the Ramones' Rocket to Russia Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica Something Else By the Kinks and out-of-print classics by the Ronettes Little Willie John and Huey 'Piano' Smith; the whole is supplemented with Marcus's own invaluable annotated fifty-page discography a Treasure Island of rock and roll. Stranded remains a classic of rock and roll literature and perhaps the best possible answer to the What one rock and roll book would you take to a desert island?
language: English
title: Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island
publisher: Da Capo Press