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FREELOST IN MUSIC EBOOK Giles Smith | 256 pages | 01 Jul 1996 | Pan MacMillan | 9780330339179 | English | London, United Kingdom Lost in Music - Wikipedia Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Lost in Music by Giles Smith. Lost in Music by Giles Smith. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 8. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Lost in Musicplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Lost in Music. Oct 10, the modisher rated it liked it. Jul 09, Joseph Andros rated it really liked it. A quirky, indestructibly vulnerable and engaging piece of work. Not quirky as if ladling it on. The guy's almost self-consciously, apologetically normal in fact, but all this quirky stuff happens and he's obliged to report it, right? Having taken the Lost in Music for the memoir. A rock journo, apparently, Giles Smith's decided to serve up his life to us in seven-inch and twelve-inch single slices, plus whatever inches albums used to be when they were LPs. It's an autobiography of his record collectio A quirky, indestructibly vulnerable and engaging piece of work. It's an autobiography of his record collection, basically - chronicling his love of pop music, his obsession with acquiring and cataloging records oh, the obsession! Spoiler, it never happens. It rarely does. Along the Lost in Music, we are treated to chapters on Lost in Music Bolan, Stevie Wonder, Nik Kershaw and many others, mostly as framing devices to discuss what was going on in his budding young life at that time. It's an effective conceit, made so by the breathlessly confessional tone with which he shares what made these artists' works so compelling at the time, and in many casesso distinctly embarrassing in hindsight. Rarely has the course of one man's blinding, slightly vague ambition been rendered with so little concern for ego after-the-fact. As an aspiring popstar and later, as a contented settler for a music press credential and a daydream job chronicling the livers of his erstwhile dream and losing his spleen in the processhe has his brushes with fame, industry shenanigans, a West German Lost in Music deal and consequent German tour, a band falling apart, and having it all crash down Lost in Music him rather clamorlessly, plus the not terribly unexpected disillusionment of interviewing Phil Collins and some others. It ends on a happy note, but I shan't dream of spoiling it for you. He never meets Sting. Or if he does, he plays coy. That's not the happy note. Smith is a fast, slippery, quippy, effortlessly entertaining writer. You feel as if the quips and slips just happen to him, and he's reporting them. Every few sentences it seems, a sentence will turn in its course and bite the previous one on the tail, to deeply wry humorous effect. Yet they all march on innocently, as if completely unaware of these pawky tricks and stingers laying in wait, and the reader is taken in as well. The punchlines land often with a cringe and a wince, but it's of sympathetic pain and vicarious shame. There's considerable zing here, and precious little snark. Very good read. A book for anyone who's ever hopelessly loved music, and especially human beings. View 2 comments. Jun 16, Nigeyb Lost in Music it liked it. Enjoyable, if dated, memoir by a music obsessive This is the second book I have read Lost in Music a member of The Cleaners From Venus in the space of a few weeks. Following on from Lost in Music excellent "This Little Ziggy" by Martin Newell, I was keen to read this book which Lost in Music completely different territory. It's a very enjoyable read. A combination of personal memoir, the confessions of a pop Lost in Music obsessive, and the diary of a failed pop star. I suspect it was inspired by Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch and adop Enjoyable, if dated, memoir by a music obsessive This is the second book I have read by a member of The Cleaners From Venus in the space of a few weeks. I suspect it was inspired by Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch and adopts a similar style. As such Lost In Music would probably have had greater resonance when it was first published in The self-depracating confessional style which embraces various nerdy aspects of the obsessive's world e. I was most interested in Lost in Music Cleaners From Venus reminiscences. I suspect Giles Smith would have been amazed to learn that in there have recently been three lavish CD collections of the majority of the Cleaners' back Lost in Music. It is a strange and surprising world indeed. Tan innecesario como tres cuartas partes del libro. Thrust on me by a friend when he heard I was getting into the Cleaners from Venus, of whom Smith was a member during their closest approach to fame which is to say, the dizzy heights of an abortive deal with RCA Germany. I was amused Lost in Music see Cleaner in chief Martin Newell described as recalling Fagin circait being a reference point for which I had independently reached after seeing a couple of recent shows. Generally, the sections about Smith's own time in bands were the ones which grabb Lost in Music on me by a Lost in Music when he heard I was getting into the Cleaners from Venus, of whom Smith was a member during their closest approach to fame which is to say, the dizzy heights of Lost in Music abortive deal with RCA Germany. Generally, the sections about Smith's own time in bands were the ones which grabbed me, and not just because I know and enjoy the Cleaners' music; I'm entirely unfamiliar with the output of covers band Pony and art-prank the Orphans of Babylon, as I suspect is everyone outside late seventies and early eighties Colchester, but their stories still amused me in a way the memories of pop fandom didn't. Possibly these latter were fresher when the book was first released, in ; two decades on, much of it has been assimilated into truism the records you love are seldom loved solely for the musicother bits are hilariously historical the Walkman! CDs versus vinyl! In particular, Lost in Music shares with High Fidelity that stupid line about no pop music being adequate to the situation of a loved one's Lost in Music. To which I can only ever say - you must have a really shit record collection, mate. Still, in Smith's defence, at least he's not too much of a rockist; there's the odd lazy dig at eg Bryan Ferry, but it's pleasantly Lost in Music when an alumnus of Q and Mojo confesses complete ignorance of Bob Dylan and Neil Young. But then, even Lost in Music John Brunner would have struggled to call that one. Also, only as I write this does it click; Smith lived through the Second Summer of Love, yet doesn't once mention dance music - an unwitting parallel bto his father's complete failure to get the point of pop? Jul 29, Karen rated it it was ok Shelves: Lost in Musicbought-newauto-biographynon-fiction. Any book whose back cover soundbite reviews exhort me to "laugh out loud" tends to strenthen my resolve not to, but I did exhale a few chuckles here. Despite it being very different, in emphasis and structure, to Nick Hornby's '31 Songs', I can't help but compare them. And there were a few moments that felt a bit, er, familiar, which doesn't reflect well on Hornby, his musical memoir being written nearly a decade after Smith's. But I put this down to their being of a similar age and thus the same Any book whose back cover soundbite reviews exhort me to "laugh out loud" tends to strenthen my resolve not to, but I did exhale a few chuckles here. But I put this down to their being of a similar Lost in Music and thus the same seminal artists being around them, and the universality of how everyone experiences music. Besides, the balance was soon tipping back in Hornby's favour. Giles' account, whilst undeniably more comprehensive, lacks the warmth and intimacy of the later book, so that the more vulnerable passages e. And there was a foundation of bitterness underpinning the whole book, which spread like dry rot as it began to be mostly about hisown failed pop career. Whereas Hornby, who cheerfully offers up his complete lack of musical talent as mere fact, has no such baggage and is able to focus more on the joy of music. Aug 21, Laura rated it it was ok. Lost in Music found myself really wanting to enjoy this book, Lost in Music skimming a lot of pages instead. It was just too much like Smith'd written down his inner chats for his own enjoyment without consideration for the enjoyment of the reader. His book read like the stories i create in my head to fill in slow moments; you know the ones when we re-live our past like we're telling it to an interviewer.