Rolling Stone Cover to Cover: The First 40 Years

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Reviews:

Wowzo-Someone finally invented a pop culture time machine.
This little placed from the disks is like credit of the entire run in, above to the center of 07 in the Microfiche to read to whenever you wish. If you have an unbelievable time quantity, you can begin 1967 and ride R-S express continuous time to the agreement the foerderwagen in 07. Classical rock fan? How serves over reading off over your whole favourite, when they happened. Jim Morrisons Maetzchen? Break-through Jimis? Rosafarbenes Floyd? Prominent zeppelin? It is a large dish of the sweet, man, and probably there your flavour is. Hip hop fanatic? There everything it is in addition. Satire? Cynicism? Everything it is inside here. There are only two warnings, which I can give you: 1. This does not work well with Windows Vista. 2. If you are in bang culture, this is an unbelievable Zeitesser. Enjoy and swings you on!!! :)


Rolling Stone-The Best.
A unique way to remember the past, and present. Always a great magazine for the music, and culture based. One should own this collection, either for nostagia, or research. Even the ad's are sentimental. Good, maybe best anthology of Americana on the market.


It's great to have them all but...
I would really have it all on pdf formats and this pretty bad reader to avoid Bondi to have preferred. I can use not it, am very slowly, uncomfortable it, do not leave it me not the DVDs on mine copy harddriven (where in the guidelines they do it to you to explain, as to it you, but I cannot find this copy key) and, it is a software, which must revise. Too badly I have not too much time to employ this software I am more interested in the measured value.


Pretty cool.
This product is amazing... the entire history of the magazine at your fingertips! My only objection is the attitude, it was a little difficult to load on my computer. But entirely a really cool gift for a music-loved.


History without distance
The principal reason, which I this ordered, was for the political articles, and they supply and give a pretty strong direction of the way a certain segment of the people the ueberschreitenen cases regarded. Sincere is most music, which they cover, quite more ephemer, but I assume people, which are also, which was on B side, from which individual will here have fun, also.


Problem
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Usability - 1 star. Content - 5 stars. SLOW TO USE
I find this intolerablly slow, in order to use. First I, which was thought my computer, froze, but then I stated that it lasted a straight long for a long time long time to search. And it lasts an even longer time for sides to the load. I find it real frustrating, and it takes a quantity out benefit of the experience. My computer is Macintosh G3. It is thus fast and has as many memory that I can and movement draws up illustrations on it. I, which multi CD Rome to possess the COMPLETE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL ONES adjust, 108 years national geographical magazine, as this role stone set contains, it each side of each expenditure of each yearly of the magazine is. I inserted one of the national geographical disks into my computer, in order to see, how quickly it and load would look for sides, and it functions nearly immediately. It is one to use joy. So which above with this BONDI is READER? Before as it comes the national geographical 10ist times faster to use - as if came it, which, 10 years out? My computer corresponds to all requirements for the role stone disks. My report should really give 1 star for the Bondi reader and 5 stars for rolling to entsteinen contents.


A dream come true!
As a longtime reader/subscriber and student of history and pop culture, I was really excited to receive this collection as a Christmas gift. Being able to read writers perspectives at the time the events of the day happened is just like being there (Sadly I missed out on a lot of those times - born too late). Not only are all the issues there, but they're in an easily storable format. Moving multiple times has meant leaving behind some of those great memories - but now I have those back and then some. Rolling Stone is the only magazine that doesn't report culture; it defines it.


Incredible, use it with Rhapsody!
This is the best gift I have recieved in years! I found it at Costco before Christmas, and my wife new well enough to buy it for me. I suggest you download all 20+ gigs tou your computer, it is seemless and astounding. If you have rhapsody you can peruse album reviews from 40 years, and listen to what you are reading about at the same time. The scans are so cool, you can see minor imperfections in the older issues, sometimes hand written marks.The advertisments alone are worth the cost. My wife complains I use the computer too much. This ain't gonna make things better.


music and history
Music has always been part of the "American Landscape" as it's been called but Rolling Stone was the first to really politicize music's impact on U.S. culture. This wonderful compendium of all issues from the first 40 years truly gives an astounding overview of how music has shaped America, politically, culturally and intellectually. Born during a time of sweeping change, Rolling Stone brought the counterculture into popular view and presented its audience with music, art and philosophy as agents of new thought. While many looked at the Beatles, Stones, Dylan and other '60s mainstays as merely artists in a new genre of music, Rolling Stone wrote of how music and new thinkers were changing America during one of its most divisive times. The interviews with John Lennon were insightful as to how musicians were writing of disillusionment (something Bob Dylan had been doing for the previous l0 years) and this collection has all of the writing needed to understand these ideas in their proper context. It's no accident that Rolling Stone has survived these many decades, even finding significance in new areas of music like Hip Hop and Rap (and there IS significance, even if you can't stand the music). In essence, if one wants to understand cultural America from the late l960's to now, this set is an absolute must. It intellectualizes music and proves to older generations (including baby boomers like me)that the time in which we matured shaped society in ways that will always be felt.

Lynn Robert Fairbanks
Class of l968


Excellent collection of Rolling Stone
A very thorough coverage of the world of music, politics and entertainment
arena for the last forty years. The software provided to read the articles has a nice layout and is easy to navigate. A good collector's item.


Killer way to read history
If you want to find out what Bob Dylan was doing in 1967 this is just the ticket. If you want to see the advertisment that sold lettuce to smoke (and get high...as if), it is there. I read about two of the rock festivals I went to in 1969. One can time travel at the click of the mouse. I could not have found that information anywhere else.

Highly recommended.


So much to look at!
purchased the set on a whim based on a recommendation of a friend. I have to say I'm very impressed. I was a little worried at first that the software would be difficult to navigate as there's so much content in the set! The search feature made sifting through so many pages very easy, and organized everything so it wasn't hard to find what I was looking for. I liked that if there's something you want to bookmark to read later, you can make reading lists of your favorite articles. For example, I've got a "favorites" reading list of reviews from Damien Rice, Starflyer 59, and the Pixies. At the end of the day, isn't that the most fun part of a product like this?

The only thing I wish was included would be the ability to save the searches themselves, but with the playlists, it's not that big of a deal. I highly recommend this product to anybody looking for an in-depth look at the progression of music over the past 40 years.



This Rocks!
This Rolling Stone box set comes with 3 discs' worth of content spanning 40 years. It took me a few days of playing with this product and switching out discs to figure out that you can copy each disc to your hard drive, which is awesome. Now I can read an article from 1972 and then read another article from 2002 without having to eject and then insert a new disc every time. This feature really speeds up the process! And even though I have two computers I can still copy the CDs on both. The fact that I don't have to hunt down the discs again makes me love this product that much more.


A Digital Library of Rolling Stone Magazine
Bondi Digital Publishing has delivered a grade A product to fans of Rolling Stone magazine. They basically created a digital library of every issue of the magazine, dating back to the first issue in November 9, 1967 to the most current issue in the set, May 3, 2007. There are 40 years of headlines and history packed onto 3 dvd's (4 if you count the installation cd). I only have a PC, so I can't speak for how well it works on macs, but everything works like it should on my computer. The installation is easy, you just insert the dvd, press next, then finish and voila.installed. The only thing that bothered me a bit was the fact that you have to switch out discs depending on what year the article you wanted to read came out in. With that said, each disc contains at least 10 years worth of issues, so it's not bad.
There is a feature that allows you to create a personalized reading list, which I think is great. It allows you to add articles from any issue to your list, which you can read at any time. It allows you to create your own personalized Rolling Stone magazine that features whatever you put in there!



A Unique dvd-rom Set
This dvd box set is phenomenal. Bondi really outdid themselves with the functionality of this product. You can browse the archives a bunch of different ways, such as by band, magazine issue and contributor. The software offers different viewing options and dummy proof navigation. Not to mention that the amount of content crammed into the discs is mind boggling!


Couldn't get much better for a music fan
I saw the rollen-Stein, sentence at the memory to boxes and had him out to examine only. Packing on the sentence is wonderful, and I might have looked by the coffee table book, which came with the sentence. By it straight measure give you a perceptible feeling of, how much history is referred into the magazine. On a side, a characteristic on Motley Crue, on other one, Andy Kaufman and then on another Phil Spector. More easily impact forward to several more sides and you see Marilyn Manson, then the Backstreet boy, then the schlagmaenner. On some the first sides were John Lennon and Donovan, and then were the last sides, the borate and Kanye west are. And that is fair the book, which came with the sentence! Up to contents and rolls stone goes: The first 40 years could not keep much better for a music fan. So which one leaves to report? The software. And it supplies. It could not keep many simpler to graze by expenditures. Left arrow for left, right for right. 1 to click to 2 or 3 key on inside zoom shot or each side. One behind the other or two-side spreading or the pictures turn side of the opinion one around using some easily identifiable keys on the lower edge of screen. Everything is printable (I have at present a pretty urkomisch announcement 1978 for Kenny log in the "Nightwatch", which is taken up to my wall). The expenditures are held three DVDs, therefore you do not have to exchange disks too much, although I stated straight that you can load everything on non removable disk drive assembly of your computer for immediate entrance, which is a very nice note. All in all, an amazingly good getanes piece, which I will enjoy for years.


History at the push of a button.
I can solidly say Rolling Stone Cover to Cover: The First 40 Years is a great purchase. The amount of information presented here is staggering. While there are a few things here and there that might bug me a little, they're all relatively minor bothers.

The software installed easily (the set comes with a specific install disc that you don't need until you're going to install the software on another computer) and opened to the cover featuring the famous John Lennon & Yoko Ono photograph taken the day of his death. Browsing through the pages was simple enough... right arrow key to go right, left arrow key to go right, double click to zoom. Really easy stuff.

The search feature is simple enough - just type in what you want to find and there it is - though a few tiny things bother me here and there while searching, like I wish that you could re-order search results by date. Overall though, nothing too major that really detracts from the set. Surely this is going to be addressed in a software update?

While this isn't something that I'm going to use every day, it's certainly a great casual read. I can keep the first disc (which comprises 1967-1983) in my laptop and read a few 30-year-old issues of the magazine while I'm waiting at the airport. Since there's only 3 discs (the 4th is just used to install the software), disc swapping is at a minimum as you go through the magazines.

All in all, I've been incredibly happy with my purchase. Rolling Stone is a magazine with an amazing history, and now all of it is just a few keystrokes away.


Cover to Cover: Easy to Navigate
I purchased Rolling Stone: The First 40 Years as an early Christmas present for myself. I bought this product because I love the magazine; I already know that it has featured some of the most impressive talent of the times. I was concerned with how the magazine would translate to my computer and how easy it would be to navigate. I must say, I am really impressed with the set and its usability. The dvd's work equally well with my Mac and my PC...I have not experienced any glitches so far. Once the installation CD is loaded, one can search through the archives by cover, contributor, issue number, date, artist and band. One can also search from a plethora of categories, such as the table of contents, album reviews, photo essays, feature stories, even obituaries. Navigation through these various options is simple and stress free, with a reset search button just one mouse click away. With as much content as these 40 years of Rolling Stone dvd's contain, it certainly would be easy to get lost. Bondi Digital Publishing thankfully managed to make this product as easy and enjoyable to use as possible.






History In A Box
There's no way you'd be able to piece together every issue of Rolling Stone, and if you did you'd spend thousands of dollars and probably years to get every issue together. This set is great for a casual read, and it's also a great picture of pop culture history.
The software design is great, and everything is easy to get to. Searching by individual contributors is a snap, and you can also search for specific keywords. For example, if I want to look up every article on "Chicago," just type it into the search bar and everything pops right up, from feature stories to album reviews.


Completely Addictive
Full disclosure: I'm the kind of person who gets really excited about musty old magazines at tag sales, and I've been known to pore over article on microfilm at the library. So when I saw that all of the back issues of Rolling Stone were on DVD, I told myself that I NEEDED this collection. Though I cringed a little at the fact that I could have bought half a dozen books for the price of the box set, I decided it was worth it--and I am so glad I did! I have never had such easy access to an entire collected history of magazines in my life--there's no shuffling through issues, trying to remember when something might have run (did that album come out in '78 or '79? how long has britney spears been around?). You can just look something up. So when I first opened this, I had just read an article in the New Yorker by Steve Martin, and I wondered if RS had ever written about him. Sure enough--they had written about him a few times. Which brings me to another cool thing (sorry I'm going on, but I'm really obsessed...I'm not kidding about it being addictive). I know RS is a music mag, and I like music, but so many of the articles are about popular culture, politics, and other major figures of the time, so that you really get a feel for the month/year that each issue was published. It also comes with a book--for those of us who need a little solidity--which has a timeline for each year and talks about some of the big goings on, but I've already put it on the shelf, whereas the DVDs haven't been put away yet.

I guess the only draw back to the whole thing is that sometimes searching feels a little harder than it should be. If you know exactly what you're looking for--subject/topic--it's fine, but if you want to search by year, you have to pick a cover, which can be a little slow. Also, I get the sense that the whole format is more intuitive for a mac user than for someone who's using a PC (me)--it took me a little longer than usual to get comfortable.

But all in all, this couldn't be more worth it. Plus, now I know what I'm getting my brother for Christmas this year. A great product!!




The Counterculture at Your Finger Tips!
When I was a young person at the Begining of the middle seventies, I was fair beginning to receive into my lifelong Obsession with music. I had a small accumulation of record album (to remind it itself of those??) which was mostly a mixture the classical rock. One day stopped my older youth brother through means area, which carries a large ol ' collecting luggage. Within very large pile of the magazines with the puzzling title was "rollen-Stein". "I exchange you these for some your recordings,", which he said. It seized up a handful of recordings (including now rare version of the Blaus of the dead ones "for Allah") and went out it. To this day I have no ideal, why I took him above on its offer. Possibly it was the fear before its impact, possibly above it was fairly my own curiosity. But over the years, I would spend hours and hours straight studying over those old expenditures (mostly from the late sixties to the middle seventies) all over the music, culture learning


40 Years, All At My Fingertips
As a huge fan of Rolling Stone and a huge music buff, it's so great to
be able to get rid of my monster stack of old magazines and have it
all in one package - enter Cover to Cover. They've digitally archived
and indexed every issue. Search by writer, artist, peruse covers, it's
all here and it's much, much easier than looking through the table of
contents in every magazine (2 per month for 40 years, that's a lot of
table of contents). If you're into having a library of the history of
the past 40 years of pop culture, this is the product for you.


Hours of browsing....
I selected this, above after I unite large things on it had heard, and I received to say that I am quite pleased with him. It is a fantastischer time murderer to graze to by expenditures straight but it is also a nice research tool for any kind music history, which you can think on. The software is quite simple to use and functioned well. The Scans of the sides is quite clean looking, and they have many of the employments closed, which into the expenditures (for example, is fold out enclosed three page in their entireness), came, which is nice. It is large to read reports of the then-present artists those into its bloom time, as bereisen, that, prominent zeppelin and the Elfe. It is a box adjusted me white that I will enjoy for a long time.


Its all in here
Ive loved reading Rolling Stone growing up, and Ive tried getting hold of some older issues. Its hard to find the older ones and expensive. This box set is a fantastic resource for any fan of the magizine and for music in general. Anything you can think of is in here and its great to see the orginal news articles. The advertisements alone are pricless, a snapshot of pop culture at the time. The software works wonderfully also. If you want to read a feature about Led Zeppelins live show, just search for "Led Zeppelin" and you get a list of every mention they had during the magizines run. This set is great.


Perfect Gift!
A straight copy of the role stone cover receives, in order to cover as gift. This product is unbelievable! There engaged a participant to slam this archives reliably each side of each expenditure of the rollen-Steins in a package copied, not be simpler to the culture could use. Whether you would like straight too casually, read you by the covers or the search for a certain author or an artist through and stone cover to roll cover around marks it simply. I use a Mac and was surprised to experience that the compatible version of the Mac was established to cover to the cover above by the soil for Mac. It is not fair an adjustment of the Windows version. I recommend degrees of role stone cover in high, in order to cover as holiday gift for everyone, which interested far away in music or bang culture.


5 stars
I heard of a friend over this set receiving approved, and I knew that it'd something is, which would be I in. Packing on the sentence is very nobles looking, and I love the additional book, which came with him. It comes also with the subscription of a free yearly to the rollen-Stein, which is a nice note. Installation was a Brise and as I the program opened, became I with January. in addition 22 greeted, is the edition 1981 with iconic the Anne Lebovitz shot from John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Browsing by the magazines a Brise and according to the specific articles to search was simple. I liked that you can search by artists or participations either. If you are music history a buffalo leather, there is not a better aid which can be had at your fingertips.


Perfect Gift for the Holidays!
One which for large idea of this is! Each expenditure of a magazine on dvd into a place to set is bright. I am surprised that more magazines did not still do this. It is so comfortable, each article of the role stone magazine at the points of my fingers having. An added premium comes also with a large coffee table book,! Packing is rather smooth and attractively, is very simple the CDS to understand... I can say with all honesty that it role-stone-gives not a thing over to cover to cover, that I do not like. Owing to Bondi for publishing this. Now I have the perfect gift to give to at the holidays!!


Blast From The Past
My kids asked to cover me over role stone cover: The first 40 years. I bought it on a mood and I am affectionate it. It is such a bang of the latter and gets caught above on volumes, which I liked, when I was age of my kids now. Also fun! The DVD ROMAS was simple to attach. I like the characteristic, in which you can search by covers. I remind clearly me Jim Morrisons 1969 cover, thus it now see and on in the situation its to read the article with it was quite surreal.


Music History Heaven!
I got so excited when I heard that I could get my hands on every single issue of Rolling Stone magazine ever made. How awesome is that! I had never even seen the magazine from back in the day, so its fascinating to read all these articles about Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Janis Joplin...the list goes on forever. No really, it does. These DVD rom's will definitely keep me busy and entertained for a loooong time, considering its 40 years worth of content. Even the old ads are cool.

I'm not very computer savvy, so I was a little hesistant to buy a dvd rom set. Luckily for me, Rolling Stone Cover To Cover: The First 40 Years is pretty much dummy proof. It was super easy to set up and navigate. You can search through the archives by bands and artists, even by writers.

To sum up, I'm stoked on this! It's definitely the best purchase I've made in a while!




Superb and Indispensible!
Dynamite packaging. Easy-to-use interface. Wonderful book. From head to toe, this is an awesome thing! To have so much information easily at my fingertips is amazing. I didn't think it would be possible, but great strides have been made in design that actually make this feel akin to browsing through a magazine. I'm an old dog and have always been skeptical of reading books or magazines on my computer. True, if I had the room, I'd prob. prefer to have all of these magazines in front of me, but, again, I'm very impressed at how easily information and articles were accessible to me and, most importantly, NOT a headache to read.

As for the content, well, who's to say. 40 years of anything has highs and lows, and Rolling Stone is no different. After 2 decades of hearing my uncle say, "It's not as good as it used to be," it's great to see how right (and wrong!) he is. Firsthand.

Highly recommended.


About time!
As a fan of Rolling Stone, I was thrilled when I heard the back issues would be released on DVD. I've collected the magazine on and off for a number of years and was excited that I could have a complete run of the magazine without having to buy every single issue (and find the space to store all of them).

I went through this set this weekend and checked out a number of issues throughout the run. The issues are completely scanned, even the advertisements. One plus with this set is some of the inserts were scanned as well, some of which were smaller than the magazine itself (for example, there's a booklet for XM satellite radio that was scanned with the magazine it was included in). The one negative with the scans is it seems the early covers (before the magazine used glossy covers in the mid 80s) are a bit hazy colorwise. Don't know if it's due to the scanning process or what, but I was a little put off by that.

In terms of content, the magazine itself is very far left, there's a lot of Bush bashing and such. People who are conservative (such as myself) may be put off by that.

The search interface seems pretty good. I was doing some keyword searches and it worked pretty well, although it doesn't tell you exactly what page the term appears on (it just contains the link to the article) so if you're searching for some obscure word you have to scan through the whole article to find it. Browsing through issues is pretty intuitive and I was able to get the hang of it.

I recommend this if you're a fan of the magazine, and I hope to see Bondi produce similar sets for other magazines (such as TV Guide, Time, and Life) in the future.



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