33 1/3 Series of books

Email me. I send link.

Sent you an email via ILX.

Ask and ye shall receive.

also sent.

a short film about Kevin and John.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g66CI3vS-7c

a search for album title and your name also works. never heard of the band or read any lovecraft but your description of the music makes me want to find out more. apart from that, i thought that's a terrific proposal and if i were etc... let's say i hope that one day you'll be able to write the book.

Thanks Willem! I felt very passionate about it til I got rejected. Then I thought about ten new projects :)

hey, you snooze you lose.

xp

:)

xxpost I didn't know the album title, though.

a short film about Kevin and John.

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Just a joke because John wrote to me right after you.

@Geeta (& New Yorkers): GOT IT! thanks for The Strand tip (how appropriate name-wise). it's stacked on a table near (beside/behind) the music section, not on shelves. already enjoying from the Q-ride home - more feedback soon!

Awesome, Paul! I stopped by St. Mark's Bookshop and they had some copies of my Eno book too, in the music section.

just chiming in way late to the party to say that john d's 'master of reality' is fucken awesome

The Green World book's not out till January in the UK. Sadface.

Looks like Amazon finally has it available for reals, for reals.

Yeah, it's about time! As of this morning, Amazon.com officially has the Eno book in stock, with no shipping delays. That certainly took them long enough.

Yeah, finally my pre-order is in progress.

Awesome. Hope you like it.

Nick -- Amazon UK finally has the Eno 33 1/3 book in stock, as of today. So no waiting til January!

Geeta, are you going to do any readings and presentations at book stores for it?

I'd love to do some readings at bookstores, but right now I don't have anything on the agenda. If you have any ideas for venues, let me know!

i'm most of the way through the neutral milk hotel one after seeing all the love for it here. the interviews are interesting, but the writing is, uh, kind of terrible? :/

bought on the Amazon Kindle store, read a page or less. oops

i just got whiney's nation of millions of book in the mail this afternoon and i'm about 100 pages in--more impressive considering how much time ive spent going to my ipod to relisten to PE and other golden era rap. the whole things been great but so far the wattstax chapter has been particularly exceptional, i just reserved the dvd at the library here.

after i finish i'll try to post something more concrete, but right now i just wanted to lavish some praise

I've read several of these books and on the whole I've been disappointed. One or two (e.g. Bowie's Low) I've just had to stop reading, as they were such dull re-treads of oft-written ideas. But then I keep getting sucked into trying another (they're so short and inexpensive!). I enjoyed Darnielle's Master of Reality.

Anyway, I have Drew Daniel's volume on 20 Jazz Funk Greats and might give it a go -- I somehow doubt Drew will disappoint.

I suppose it's also my fault for buying a book about a much-written-about album such as Low.

These books used to be about albums from the canon (Dusty In Memphis, Pet Sounds, Low) but now it seems they're going wilfully *anti* canon (The Dreaming rather than The Hounds Of Love, Boys for Pele as opposed to Little Earthquakes, Aquemini as opposed to The Love Below/ Speakerboxxx etc). Not that i'm complaining!

I liked the one about Low.

Aquemini is way more hip-hop canon than Speakerboxxx.

yeah i was gonna say

who's writing the aquemini one

Michael Schmelling

oh

there are definitely disappointing/subpar books in the series but generally i feel like they're mostly worth what little money and time they cost you and are usually at least fun if not great. how I would rank the ones I've read:

Led Zeppelin IV by Erik Davis
Aja by Don Breithaupt
Use Your Illusion I and II by Eric Weisbard
The Who Sell Out by John Dougan
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back by Christopher R. Weingarten
Electric Ladyland by John Perry
Sign O' The Times by Michaelangelo Matos
Armed Forces by Franklin Bruno
Let's Talk About Love: A Journey To The End Of Taste by Carl Wilson
Exile On Main Street by Bill Janovitz
Double Nickels On The Dime by Michael T. Fournier
In Utero by Gillian G. Gaar
Illmatic by Matthew Gasteier
Let It Be by Colin Meloy

kinda want to read the colin meloy one out of the most morbid of curiosities

it's not completely terrible and is at times engaging, but it's about as indulgent and autobiographical as you'd expect from a famous person who's not a professional writer

i'd say of the three narrative ones i've read it's pretty far below the Master of Reality and Big Pink ones which i enjoyed a lot (MOR the most though)

im looking forward to reading nation of millions. fwiw the reckless in wicker park had like a dozen copies all as like featured-displays -- i bet its selling

it's not completely terrible and is at times engaging, but it's about as indulgent and autobiographical as you'd expect from a famous person who's not a professional writer

― every night i tell myself i am the custos, i am the wind. (some dude), Saturday, May 22, 2010 7:11 PM (1 hour ago)

and happens to be the lead singer of The Decemberists

Ten pages into the new book on Pavement's Wowee Zowee I thought for sure I was going to hate it for all the author's navel-gazing about his miserable post-college past, but then the book settled in. With such a ramshackle approach (author's life story, the annoyingly self-referential tale of the process of writing the book, lazy transcripts of interviews), it slowly became rather engaging to the point where I was surprised at how much I wound up learning about the album. In a way, it kind of mirrored my initial reaction to the album back in 1995. Which I suppose might have been the whole intention of this book.

uh yeah ksh that was implied

:-)

Is the Skiz Fernando 36 Chambers book ever coming out?

Has anyone ever submitted a Roxy Music one for this series?

I will propose Max Tundra's Mastered by Guy at the Exchange in the next 5 years.

Just started the Wowee Zowee one--I can't believe it, it's one of those memoir-type ones, and I am LOVING it. It might just be generational nostalgia though, page like 20 and he hasn't even heard the album yet

It might just be generational nostalgia though

Yeah, that has to be why I wound up giving it a chance too. I don't want to read a memoir in a 33 1/3 book, but damn, if I didn't find myself relating to it.

OK, I just finished the Pavement one--very odd to feel that the memoir-y stuff at the beginning is the best part. no structure to this book. it jumps from the memoir into albeit interesting interviews, then it's over. And hids reading that Flux=Rad is about sex as opposed to holding on to punk like your mother's apron strings (styles come and go but I don't want to let you go-I have always assumed he was doing his Cobain primal scream here) is just bizarre. I liked the book overall because I'll read anything about a band I like, and hell, I couldn't do write one, but these books vary real widely
I guess file this unrequested review under "OK then..."

"his reading", sorry

Loved Weisbard's book. The only one that deeply disappointed me was Dusty in Memphis.

My favorites:

Low
Sign o' the Times
Court and Spark
Use Your Illusion I and II