― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Kinks Village Green - very on-message, a bit of cultural backgroundUnknown Pleasures - more a potted history of JD than about the albumMurmur - a combination of recording history and interpretation, very highly regarded by someMarquee Moon - was this ever even published??Meat is Murder - "fiction", not about the album at allAeroplane Over the Sea - focused, apparently inspirational to some!Velvets and Nico - about the album, writing sometimes clumsyLet It Be (Beatles) - totally on-message, recording sessions, etcOK Computer - somewhat dry, musicological, academic, mostly dislikedForever Changes - perhaps pretentious, mostly lyrical analysis Piper at the Gates - focused, some interviews, possibly a bit dullHarvest - a straight telling of the album's creationExile on Main St. - good, vivid, a few personal anecdotes from Buffalo Tom singerPet Sounds - focused, but a bit too personal/emotion-based for someEndtroducing - almost all one long interview with Josh DavisElectric Ladyland - focused, good on guitars, nothing very newMusic from Big Pink - a novella about a drug dealer who hangs out with The BandLet It Be (Replacements) - a short memoir by the dude from the Decembrists, not about the album at allKick Out the Jams - some love this, some find it boring, but it seems like a straight history of the MC5's beginningsLed Zep IV - pretentious, overanalytical, and awesome!Low - focused, historical, very strongGrace - I can't tell! It's either really good or very bad.Dusty in Memphis - random, tangential, about the South - both loved and hatedSign Of the Times - partly autobiographical, but mostly about the album itself, and that part of Prince's careerPaul's Boutique - very sharp, very smart, all about the making of the albumRamones - very good on punk history and the album itselfDoolittle - lots of interviews with Frank Black, journalistic, good on lyrics and surreaslismBorn in the USA - not sure about this one - seems to have been ignored by most peopleArmed Forces - an A-Z of entries, very focused but too dry for someAbba Gold - basically a potted history of Abba themselves - weirdLive at the Apollo - very cool retelling of James Brown's live show, interspersed with some stuff about the Cuban Missle Crisis, etcAqualung - written by a British professor; no ideaThere's a Riot Goin' On - solid, about the album, and a little creativeThe Stone Roses - not sure: pretty straightforward analysis, I think.
― meritocracy (spencerman), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― T. Weiss (Timmy), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 8 January 2007 03:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 January 2007 03:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― showed that a nuts internet was only worth 78,000 hoosteens (Hoosteen), Monday, 8 January 2007 03:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 January 2007 03:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Monday, 8 January 2007 03:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 8 January 2007 03:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 January 2007 03:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:09 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Monday, 8 January 2007 05:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― curmudgeon (DC Steve), Monday, 8 January 2007 06:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link
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
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
― don weiner (don weiner), Thursday, 18 January 2007 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Thursday, 18 January 2007 10:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― cw (cww), Thursday, 18 January 2007 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Thursday, 18 January 2007 11:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Yes, my friend.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 January 2007 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link
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
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
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
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 January 2007 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 02:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 25 January 2007 02:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 25 January 2007 02:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Make a Beck Song #1 (M Matos), Thursday, 25 January 2007 02:58 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― Saxby D. Elder (Saxby D. Elder), Thursday, 25 January 2007 04:03 (seventeen years ago) link
"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
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
― shudder (shudder), Thursday, 25 January 2007 07:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― T. Weiss (Timmy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 08:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Thursday, 25 January 2007 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― 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 love the idea of referring to "You Made Me Realise" as YMMV.
― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:46 (seventeen years ago) link