Anybody here love High Fidelity? The book or the film. I don't care. It's one of the few films I've ever seen that takes the book on confidently, and is pretty much as good a work of art in its own right.
One of the things I loved about both is the sheer authenticity of the music geek rows that would regularly plunge the shop into anarchy. To many people, they're just arguments about music - not to me. It's about the soundtrack of your life and how it fits culturally into the wider world. You're arguing what shape your jigsaw piece is, basically. It matters.
And this labour of love would have started a mini-apocalypse at Championship Vinyl. A guide to the genres of electronic music, how they fit together and why that goes into gorgeous, almost trainspottery detail. Click and learn. It's brilliant.
I especially recommend it if you have kids and you've hit the "what's that racket? They wrote proper songs in my day..." stage. It'll probably inject a bit of humility.
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