33 1/3 Series of books

there's a market for shitty half-baked writing about videogames! oh xp

i suspect true's deciding to go with 'tiresome self-promotion' rather than following the advice on the pitch guidelines didn't really help his case. also curious is this list on the website:

The following projects were contracted at some point but for various reasons are now cancelled.The following albums are now fair game:

Daniel Johnston-Hi, How Are You
Kate Bush-The Dreaming
Tori Amos-Boys for Pele
The Clash–London Calling
Wu Tang–Enter the Wu (36 Chambers)
Weezer-Pinkerton
Bjork-Biophilia
Pulp-This is Hardcore

like, johnston is kind of a sensitive case, and who knows what came up related to the cancellation of the previous one (which was to be by benjamin shapiro of VICE. hm)

patreon just got hacked btw

I have a (frankly amazing) pitch if wholly-fictional accounts of albums that no one cares about ever become fair game.

just posting here to add my voice to everyone laughing at Everett True itt

a music version of this could be good

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Perfect_Vacuum

anybody who can write 50k words on, say, rosebud's "discoballs" deserves to be published.

http://333sound.com/2015/11/04/open-call-2015-results-the-16-new-books-in-the-33-13-series/

would probably read the Modern Lovers one...

Have never heard of Jawbreaker, let alone any albums they've made.

Uptown Saturday Night!

xpost Have never heard of any of these authors, let alone anything they've written

(except joe gross)

they are the fresh young faces

Agata Pyzik is great. Have no real interest in Japan but I'll get hers anyway.

ezra furman is a singer-songwriter guy i think

Yep.

Re another one---Will aging baby-boomers buy "Switched-on Bach" or is there crossover and newfound interest in that 1968 Moog synth prog classical approach that I have avoided ?

would red the Hag too.

was gonna say what whiney said

i'm intrigued by the angelo badalamenti/twin peaks one

xxp i imagine the transgender element of wendy carlos' story will play some role

Homogenic is the one that I'll read because I'm a fan of the album, but the Carlos one will probably be the most interesting story.

i can rep for the dude who's doing the modern lovers book

cool! i feel like i haven't ever read anything particularly great about richman...

Emily Mackay's a friend and a strong writer so I'm looking forward to Homogenic.

I'd like to read these five, more due to subject matter than author:

Björk’s Homogenic by Emily Mackay
Merle Haggard’s Okie from Muskogee by Rachel Rubin
Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Peepshow by Samantha Bennett
Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version by Jarett Kobek
Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On Bach by Roshanak Kheshti

cool! i feel like i haven't ever read anything particularly great about richman...

I'm still sulking over getting turned down 10 years ago, but Joe Gross wrote for my fanzine ages ago, so nice to see him on the list.

xp, yeah that's true, though I meant something more specifically focused on Richman -- hoping this 33 1/3 will do the trick!

Have never heard of any of these authors, let alone anything they've written

my favorite thing about the list tbh, no disrespect but well-known usual suspects are generally gonna ride the horse they came in on. I have no idea what these ppl will write and I'm more excited to find out than I would be about somebody writing about something I've already read him/her writing about

"Re another one---Will aging baby-boomers buy "Switched-on Bach" or is there crossover and newfound interest in that 1968 Moog synth prog classical approach that I have avoided ?"

there is definitely an increased interest (among younger people) in ancient and analog synth stuff. and there is definitely a great book to be written about their pop history and the whole moog cash-in phenomena. wendy definitely got the ball rolling.

Wait, is THE Ezra Furman going to be writing about Transformer? Wow. I'd want to read that. (FWIW, the extended personal essay inside his current album is well-written and affecting.)

I remember reading some p.decent academic pieces from Roshanak Kheshti re: world music & gender though it's worlds away from ILx music crit.

Ronen Givony seems like a way more Steve Reich/Terry Riley (or Boredoms) kinda dude, so it's a little surprising for him to be writing about Jawbreaker.

Agata Pyzik's writing on the relation between Bowie/Ultravox/Depeche Mode/etc & Eastern European kitsch as a kind of Orientalism in Poor But Sexy sets up her take on Tin Drum p.nicely.

I like the selection here, not familiar with any of the writers but definitely be interested in at least half of these books, especially Tin Drum and Homogenic.

They should use the real album cover for the Modern Lovers one, rather than the 80s reissue with the band pic. (just being pedantic but it's iconic ffs).

my favorite thing about the list tbh, no disrespect but well-known usual suspects are generally gonna ride the horse they came in on. I have no idea what these ppl will write and I'm more excited to find out than I would be about somebody writing about something I've already read him/her writing about

I know what you mean, but I honestly can't think of any other profession that would work this way. Don't get good at music writing, or even write about music much, and you will get to write a book about it.

a lot of the usual suspects have already written one though. makes sense that they would get tons of submissions from younger people the longer they do it.

if you were a smart college kid who could write a cool pitch that would end up looking pretty good at a future market research account manager job interview.

If I weren't lazy and my net access wasn't limited to my phone this afternoon, I'd look up who Ezra Furman is.

May I asked which album you pitched clem?

Black Vinyl Shoes. They--he--didn't seem to think the rest of the world was as enamored of the album as I am, plus it was a year where they blazed a trail in radical ways of looking at...no, I'm not still nursing a grudge.

i aint never reading another one of these. tusk ruined them for me.

ha I was just thinking "that's the one to avoid" this morning when pondering which one to read next

you could always start with the collections of excerpts:

http://www.amazon.com/33-Greatest-Hits-Volume-One/dp/0826419038

read all the ilxor ones. you can't go wrong there. geeta, wolk, d4ew, JD, etc.

Yeah. Those plus Erik Davis.

i'm right here you motherfucker

read all the ilxor ones. you can't go wrong there. geeta, wolk, d4ew, JD, etc.
--scott seward

i'm RIGHT HERE, you motherfucker

should really get round to pitching mogwai young team one of these days...

because i love rejection obv

This series has basically become a music blog in book form.

we luv you whiney no shade

I am happy that my friend's proposal got picked, and sad for my other friends whose proposals got rejected this round- it's weird because people ask me for advice about their proposal and sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn't and it's not a linear, predictable thing.

very excited at the prospect of a wendy carlos book too

very sad / tough that the homogenic book is being written in the wake of mark bell's death, ugh