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My favourite is still Greil Marcus' Mystery Train. Jon Savage's England's Dreaming is also great.
Simon Reynolds books are always interesting, if at times infuriatingly single minded in the way they treat their subjects.
Lester Bangs' Psychotic Reactions is a great fun read but one that I find increasingly annoying as time goes on. This isn't so much a fault of the book as much as the way in which it's become something of a bible for so many lazy-minded gutter-romantics.
Books dealing specifically with a single band tend to be less interesting, although I did enjoy Paul Stenning's Guns 'n' Roses: The Band that Time Forgot. I know this tends to divide people here but I also enjoyed Alec Foege's SY book, Confusion is Next.
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