17 Best music books like Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker

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Good Pop, Bad Pop

By: Jarvis Cocker

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a …

If you liked the music plot in Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker , here is a list of 17 books like this:

Cover of Bit of a Blur: The Autobiography by Alex  James

1. Bit of a Blur: The Autobiography

By: Alex James

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

For Alex James, music had always been a door to a more exciting life—a way to travel, meet new peop… read more

Similar categories in Alex James's Bit of a Blur: The Autobiography book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Freak Out the Squares: Life in a Band Called Pulp by Russell Senior

2. Freak Out the Squares: Life in a Band Called Pulp

By: Russell Senior

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Russell Senior was Jarvis Cocker's partner-in-crime in Pulp, and the most stylish man in Britpop - … read more

Similar categories in Russell Senior's Freak Out the Squares: Life in a Band Called Pulp book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. Spaceships Over Glasgow

By: Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for… read more

Similar categories in Stuart Braithwaite's Spaceships Over Glasgow book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

Similar categories in Alan Partridge's Alan Partridge: Big Beacon book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • audiobook
  • biography memoir
  • british literature
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5. Faith, Hope and Carnage

By: Nick Cave

4.44

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Faith, Hope and Carnage is a book about Nick Cave’s inner life. Created from more than forty hou… read more

Similar categories in Nick Cave's Faith, Hope and Carnage book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I think people can do both terrible things and wonderful things when faced with the true understanding of their own powerlessness, vulnerability and lack of control."

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"Vulnerability is essential to spiritual and creative growth. Finding enormous strength through vulnerability. You're being open to whatever happens, including failure and shame. The two are connected…"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"I guess not, but who says creativity it the be all and end all? Who says that our accomplishments are the only true measure of what is important in our lives? Perhaps there are other lives worth livi…"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

"The usual precepts collapse under the weight of the calamity: the terrible demands that we place upon ourselves; our own internal judging voice; the endless expectations and opinions of others. They …"

-Nick Cave, Faith, Hope and Carnage

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6. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

Similar categories in Bob Mortimer's The Satsuma Complex book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • audiobook
"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

Cover of Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party by Michael Cragg

7. Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party

By: Michael Cragg

4.28

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Using the arrival of the Spice Girls as a jumping-off point, this fascinating new narrative will ex… read more

Similar categories in Michael Cragg's Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Berserker! by Adrian Edmondson

8. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Edmondson's Berserker! book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Paper Cuts by Ted Kessler

9. Paper Cuts

By: Ted Kessler

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

'A great writer' Paul Weller 'A music journalist of integrity' Billy Childish ' There's only one … read more

Similar categories in Ted Kessler's Paper Cuts book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • music
  • biography
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker

10. Good Pop, Bad Pop

By: Jarvis Cocker

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more

Similar categories in Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • music
  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Verse, Chorus, Monster! by Graham Coxon

11. Verse, Chorus, Monster!

By: Graham Coxon

3.70

Format: None pages, ebook

Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a… read more

Similar categories in Graham Coxon's Verse, Chorus, Monster! book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Adventures in Modern Recording: From ABC to ZZT by Trevor Horn

12. Adventures in Modern Recording: From ABC to ZZT

By: Trevor Horn

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

As a renowned recording-studio maven, Trevor Horn has been dubbed 'the man who invented the '80s'. … read more

Similar categories in Trevor Horn's Adventures in Modern Recording: From ABC to ZZT book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Likely Lad by Pete Doherty

13. A Likely Lad

By: Pete Doherty

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Peter Doherty's is the last of the great rock 'n' roll stories - bad boy and public enemy. To his d… read more

Similar categories in Pete Doherty's A Likely Lad book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Can I Have My Ball Back? - A Memoir of Masculinity, Mortality and My Right Testicle by Richard Herring

14. Can I Have My Ball Back? - A Memoir of Masculinity, Mortality and My Right Testicle

By: Richard Herring

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

'Very funny, moving and heartwarming' BOB MORTIMER 'A bollockbuster!' ADAM BUXTON If we are cowar… read more

Similar categories in Richard Herring's Can I Have My Ball Back? - A Memoir of Masculinity, Mortality and My Right Testicle book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn by Brett Anderson

15. Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn

By: Brett Anderson

4.03

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

The trajectory of Suede - hailed in infancy as both 'The Best New Band in Britain' and 'effete sout… read more

Similar categories in Brett Anderson's Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success by Miki Berenyi

16. Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success

By: Miki Berenyi

4.46

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary and searingly honest personal story of musician Miki Berenyi, revealing the highs… read more

Similar categories in Miki Berenyi's Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Coal Black Mornings by Brett Anderson

17. Coal Black Mornings

By: Brett Anderson

4.19

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star success, and in Coal Black Morni… read more

Similar categories in Brett Anderson's Coal Black Mornings book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • music
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of How to Be a Rock Star by Shaun Ryder

18. How to Be a Rock Star

By: Shaun Ryder

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Shaun Ryder is a 1990s rock 'n' roll legend. Now, for the first time, comes his hilarious, swaggeri… read more

Similar categories in Shaun Ryder's How to Be a Rock Star book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • music
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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19. Tenement Kid

By: Bobby Gillespie

4.02

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

Fizzing with an infectious passion for the magic of rock music, Gillespie’s vivid and evocative mem… read more

Similar categories in Bobby Gillespie's Tenement Kid book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
"I kind of became a feminist from an early age, even though I wasn’t aware of the feminist movement in any way. I admired my mum a lot. In her own quiet way she was a fighter."

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"When I was a teenager I started to think about how dedicated Dad was to the struggle for working-class rights. He had devoted his life to the Labour cause fighting inequality and that’s fucking great…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"Those painful childhood memories we bury, that some of us try and drown out with sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling, all the usual crutches and distractions. These childhood experiences are going to be re…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

"I began to question the world and other people from a young age. I suppose that gave me a sense of emotional distance, a lack of trust in future friendships and relationships; I would assume a friend…"

-Bobby Gillespie, Tenement Kid

Cover of Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars by Nick Duerden

20. Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars

By: Nick Duerden

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For fans of music books from David Hepworth, Pete Paphides, Bob Stanley and Craig Brown, as well as… read more

Similar categories in Nick Duerden's Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • british literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. So it started there

By: Nick Banks

4.44

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

So It Started There chronicles the life and career of drummer Nick Banks, and how he came to be in … read more

Similar categories in Nick Banks's So it started there book and Jarvis Cocker's Good Pop, Bad Pop

  • music

16 Top audiobook books like Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker

Transform Your Habits

Bit of a Blur: The Autobiography

Alex James

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Spaceships Over Glasgow

Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

Alan Partridge

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Faith, Hope and Carnage

Nick Cave

4.44

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19 Top nonfiction books like Tenement Kid by Bobby Gillespie

Transform Your Habits

Telling Stories

Tim Burgess

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Macrofestivales: El agujero negro de la música

Nando Cruz

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Spaceships Over Glasgow

Stuart Braithwaite

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Sonic Life: A Memoir

Thurston Moore

3.81

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