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x-post -- *bows* Mike M. was kind enough to offer it to me to read before last year's EMP conference, which I did so we could talk about it briefly there. It is all one could hope for and will be very much worth the wait.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:05 (seventeen years ago) link

So psyched for Zeth Lundy's take on Songs in the Key of Life. If anyone had to get that gig over me -- and he did -- I'm glad it was Zeth, he's brilliant and good-hearted and cool as hell.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Even if it weren't worth the wait, I would read it and say it was.

Unless it was like that dreadful OK Computer book on 33 1/3.

― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:09 (seventeen years ago) link

one of the best part of reading these books (for me, anyway), is going to the albums and listening to them again with such a fresh set of ears.

― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm in the middle of "Doolittle" now. I absolutely adored the "In the Aeroplane" one. And yes, it totally gives you a completely new perspective on the album.

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Monday, 8 January 2007 05:23 (seventeen years ago) link

The non-rock African American musicians profiled are mainly legends---James Brown, Sly Stone, Stevie Wonder, there aren't too many more, while the rock folks can be less influential. Oh well, I guess that's what sells (and I do want to read more of 'em anyway).

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Monday, 8 January 2007 06:11 (seventeen years ago) link

The Who Sell Out book is great.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I just got done reading "Loveless." I ate the fucker in a day.

Nice work, Mike. You did the album proud. Fantastic, and I look forward to reading Ned's take in "Marooned."

― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Told ya. :-)

The Alan McGee bit is the greatest moment of unintentional (on his part) comedy I've read in a *long* time.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 January 2007 01:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Alan McGeen has always been funny like that.

― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 18 January 2007 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link

ohh thanks a lot!!!

i've gotten very little feedback just yet so this super means a lot. i was worried that maybe it's to self-indulgent/ referential, or that the delays had messed up the thing's "flow," or... you know, just worried and feeling insecure about it!

anyway, i can't wait to read the one on 'who sell out' as it's totally one of my top five favorite albums ever and i can't say that i know much about it, either.

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 18 January 2007 03:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, the "Sell Out" one's really great. Lots of pirate-radio info, too. Looking forward to reading yours, Mike, and seeing you at Sonic Boom.

― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Thursday, 18 January 2007 10:27 (seventeen years ago) link

the alan mcgee bit? ( i know i know i should buy it and maybe read it myself...)

― cw (cww), Thursday, 18 January 2007 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link

what about mcgee? you mean the one line email i got back from him in reply to an interview, or what i had to say about him in general?

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 18 January 2007 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link

you mean the one line email i got back from him in reply to an interview

Yes, my friend.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 January 2007 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm just finishing the Grace book and I love it. I'm preferring the more over-the-top gushy ones than the dryer studio who plays what ones really.

Has anyone read the 69 Love Songs one yet? I picked it up but haven't read it but it looks like a compendium more than anything else.

― Viz (Viz), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Mike! The Loveless book is wonderful. Thanks so much. It's made me go back and -yeeeah - fall in love with them again.

It also made me want to take a time machine back to the Maxwell's and City Gardens (Trenton, NJ) shows I saw them play. Oh, and one glorious one at The Ritz in NYC where people swarmed out during "You Made Me Realize" . Colm was a wonder to behold during that song. Cheers!

― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Thursday, 25 January 2007 01:11 (seventeen years ago) link

ohh, thanks a lot lot lot. and we must have been at the same shows, except i think for some reason i missed the ritz one? i can't remember.

anyway, it's funny but i could stand to wait a few more years to hear it again! hah.

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 25 January 2007 01:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Heheh. The natural response to overkill. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 January 2007 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I just got Ric Menck's Notorious Byrd Brothers one in the mail today (finally). Aside from spelling Herb Pederson's name wrong within the first few pages it looks pretty cool.

I had already finished Einarson's exhaustive Gene Clark book in the time since I pre-ordered this and I don't imagine it can compare to that. But hey, I loves me some Ric... so I will be devouring this over the next day or two. Will report back or whatev. but I thought some people might want to know that this one is out and this thread was just sitting here all serendipitously and shit so there ya go.

― Saxby D. Elder (Saxby D. Elder), Thursday, 25 January 2007 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I tried to buy Court and Spark the other day, but the bookstore said it wasn't out yet...?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 02:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I WAS AT THAT RITZ SHOW.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 25 January 2007 02:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think people "swarmed out," though. "You Made Me Realise" (eventually) stopped the moshers, outlasted the bird-flippers, and thinned the crowd a little, but people stayed, maybe to prove how bad-ass they were.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 25 January 2007 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Another yes vote for Loveless. Really moves.

― Make a Beck Song #1 (M Matos), Thursday, 25 January 2007 02:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I tried to buy Court and Spark the other day, but the bookstore said it wasn't out yet...?

I'm getting a promo copy, so it should be out soon.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 25 January 2007 03:07 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, I am ordering the LOVELESS too. McGonigal is always worth a go.

― Saxby D. Elder (Saxby D. Elder), Thursday, 25 January 2007 04:03 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.homerize.com/_framegrabs/1F19/fg_406.jpg

"You gotta buy the Loveless 33 1/3, Jimmy. Do it for me....McGonigal!"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 25 January 2007 04:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I know I stayed because I LOVED them -- hell, putting myself through YMMR all those times was a joy. However, in retrospect I must say, in my best old man voice: Damn. They were loud.

So, when's Geeta's ENO book coming?

― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Thursday, 25 January 2007 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Damn. They were loud.

Precisely why I loved 'em. Among other things. As I mutter about in Marooned, the version of YMMV at The Final Show was 35 minutes long.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 January 2007 06:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the "Low" book a lot. Really want ot check out the loveless book, but it looks like i'll be waiting till MARCH before it comes to Canada (boo!). Also excited for the Eno and the DAYDREAM NATION!!!

― shudder (shudder), Thursday, 25 January 2007 07:35 (seventeen years ago) link

when do the ENO and THROBBING GRISTLE ones come out?

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 08:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Court & Spark book is out now. Seattle shop Sonic Boom has copies, anyway.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Thursday, 25 January 2007 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I bought the ABBA, REM, Neutral Milk and DJ Shadow books the other day - and I am unemployed so it cost a lot of money for me. Really enjoying the NMH book at the moment and can't wait to get stuck into ABBA.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Good shit, Matos. Kept me up a few nights.

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene in a DIE BLIPSTER SCUM! tee (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I've mentioned elsewhere that my wife and I have decided the Ritz show (Pavement and Superchunk opening!) counts as our first date, since it was the first time we were in the same room at the same time... although we didn't actually meet for almost seven years after that.

I love the idea of referring to "You Made Me Realise" as YMMV.

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahaha. Very apt.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I have long been tempted to put together a census of all people who were at that show. It was, among other things, the concert at which I turned 21.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 02:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I would love to see one of these on Pink Flag.

― ersatz (ersatz), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Is it bad form to ask if anyone here is submitting a proposal for the new batch?

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Not at all. I am.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd really like a Only Built for Cuban Linx book. Somebody should do it

― rizzx (Rizz), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Out of 60 some books, I count A Tribe Called Quest, the Beastie Boys and DJ Shadow as the only rap-related ones so far.

― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I have pitched a rap-related one for this round: The Geto Boys' self-titled album on Def American.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm hopefully submitting a pitch, but it's for a fairly recent screamo/hardcore album. So I'm kinda relying on my argument being compelling.

― Mordechai Shinefield (Mordy), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Which album?

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait. The ATCQ one is People's Instinctive Travels? Somebody done fucked up.

I'm all for a Cuban Linx book.

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene in a DIE BLIPSTER SCUM! tee (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I would kill to know more about Vision Creation Newsun! Has there even been a proper book done?

― UART variations (ex machina), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 23:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Pink Flag and Entertainment!(!) Though I dare say Simon Reynolds ruined it for everyone.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

"I'd really like a Only Built for Cuban Linx book. Somebody should do it"

Didn't they just do an insanely detailed feature in XXL last year?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 23:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Yep.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link

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