Someone once said that “pop music is an argument anyone can join in on.” Ways of Hearing turns that argument into a bar-room brawl, as a frontier town of unruly pop pioneers and DJs—Brian Eno, John Peel, Neil Young, the Chemical Brothers, and Mercury Rev, to name but a few—punch it out. Part hall of fame, part self-help manual, part visionary manifesto, Ways of Hearing examines the pop psyche from all of its glorious sides.