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Why we love hating the music we hate as much as we love loving the music we love

Marcus Berkmann mourns the passing of old-school rock criticism and its legendary bile

13 December 2014

9:00 AM

13 December 2014

9:00 AM

With seconds to spare, I think I have chanced upon my music book of the year. Such choices are always frighteningly subjective, relying as they do on the narrow musical tastes of the chooser, his or her sex, age, education and ambient level of grumpiness. So I make no claims for this book beyond the fact that I liked it a lot.

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