The Ballad Of Buttery Cake Ass, Aug Stone
The Ballad Of Buttery Cake Ass, Aug Stone
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The Ballad Of Buttery Cake Ass

Author: Aug Stone

Narrator: Aug Stone

Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Stone Soup

Published: 07/01/2024


Synopsis

Two music obsessives embark on a hilarious quest to track down Buttery Cake Ass’ Live In Hungaria, an album as legendary as it is obscure. Their pursuit of one of the greatest bands ever unknown takes them down many a bizarre path teeming with grand ideas and grander egos in this ode to record shopping and what it’s like to be in your first band. Packed with puns, allusions, and references across a wide range of culture, both popular and not, Stone offers up a big slice of the fun and frustration of playing rock n roll.
ONE OF VULTURE’S BEST COMEDY BOOKS OF 2023
“like being taken on a rock n roll road trip by Holden Caulfield with a head injury in the best of ways.” – Dave Hill, comedian, rocker, awesome dude
“humour of the absurdist school pitched somewhere between Monty Python and Spinal Tap” – Louder Than War
“What really propels the story forward, is Stone’s narrative voice — comic and wistful, shot through with a lackadaisical intelligence, and injected with a heavy dose of the countercultural tone that created both Thomas Pynchon and indie-rock music journalism.” – Brian Slattery, New Haven Independent
“reads as if Douglas Adams wrote it if he was raised in a record shop by Monty Python and Kurt Vonnegut” – Lance Marwood, V13.net

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason on February 24, 2023

Right kids, gather round and listen to this story of the insane apocalyptic life your parents lived when they was young, in the days before the Internet, when a mate tells you about this cool band they’ve heard and you actually have to leave the house and travel around record stores trying to find a......more

Goodreads review by Tim on June 15, 2024

As a Gen X writer and reader interested in humorous narrator-driven storytelling, I enjoyed Aug Stone’s comedic novel, The Ballad of Buttery Cake Ass. Cake Ass, as I affectionately call Stone’s book, is a wild, hyperbolic ode to vinyl, record shops and the new music of the 80s—a period in time when......more

Goodreads review by Dan on July 04, 2023

If you enjoy a rock and roll story that flows in and out of timelines with a nice doze of humor, pick up this book. Recommended for people who enjoy being the first to know about a band or who dive into record stores looking for a lost classic. Enjoy the prose and the fast pace of the story and just......more

Goodreads review by Gavin on October 04, 2023

Blimey! One of the most singular books I've read - hard to describe but an amazing journey to take. Insane in the membrane. The DVD boxset of a particularly odd dream.......more