Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 audiobook runs 21.2 hours unabridged, narrated by Merrill Garbus and Phil Elverum and others (about 14.1 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 21.2 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 43 days |
| 1 hour / day | 22 days |
| 2 hours / day | 11 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 15 days |
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What our data says
- At 21.2 hours, it runs longer than 98% of the 8,856 Arts & Entertainment audiobooks in our catalog.
About as long, on the Arts & Entertainment shelf
149 Arts & Entertainment audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 is an audiobook by Michael Azerrad: a 21.2-hour unabridged recording, read by Merrill Garbus, Phil Elverum and Sharon Van Etten and others, released May 21, 2019, on the Arts & Entertainment shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 21.2 hrs
- Narrated by
- Merrill Garbus, Phil Elverum, Sharon Van Etten, Jon Wurster, Dave Longstreth, Jeff Tweedy
- Released
- May 21, 2019
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Arts & Entertainment
- ISBN
- 9781549115998
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 audiobook?
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 runs 21.2 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 14.1 hours.
Is the Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991?
Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 is narrated by Merrill Garbus, Phil Elverum, Sharon Van Etten and Jon Wurster and others.
Is Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 14.1 hours, saving 7.1 hours.