Hate to spoil the lolz, but that is not whiney's handwriting(!)
― mmmm... yung hummus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, December 22, 2010 10:48 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
i'm just going to continue to believe that it is
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh God... why is she pretending to be an American rock critic...
― Carl Jung Jeezy (Doran), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
can I just
http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/sdolnack/efab5013.jpg
― cathy opie & anthony (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
no puppy no crumblability
― predeep natsvitika (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
got a couple 33 1/3s for xmas, just finished the Radio City one, which is really good and gives a much more direct and detailed look at Big Star than most stuff written about the band, but it's also easily the most sloppily edited book in the series I've ever seen, just a really disconcerting number of sentences that are missing a word or a clause and barely make sense.
― hann am0n tana (some dude), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 04:06 (thirteen years ago) link
scott, your book is great! you did an outstanding job. especially your descriptions of the actual music. i'll be honest, these are usually the parts of music books - the detailed descriptions of songs - that make me zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz unless a writer is really good at it. and you are really good at it. congrats on the whole thing! write more books for me to read.
― scott seward, Monday, 28 February 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
and i feel like a big jerk for not reading more of these. no excuse. haven't read geeta's or drew's yet!? that's just so wrong. i am going online to get them.
― scott seward, Monday, 28 February 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
am reading the Born In The U.S.A. book at the moment and really diggin it
― some dude, Monday, 28 February 2011 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks man, I appreciate it. Definitely working on another book though I'm at the earliest possible stage in the process - the basic idea and list of what the content will be. All that's left is me writing 50-75k words.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Monday, 28 February 2011 22:09 (thirteen years ago) link
out of curiosity, what is the avg wordcount of the 33 1/3 books?
― some dude, Monday, 28 February 2011 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Something like 35-40k I think? Mine was right in that window. I'll never forget printing the whole manuscript when I was done and saying to myself "I spent a year and half on this and this is all I wrote??"
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Monday, 28 February 2011 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i just picked up yr book this weekend scott! about 50 pgs in and you've already shed so much light on the band.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 28 February 2011 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks!
I met David Grubbs at EMP this weekend, as well as Clark Johnson's wife Diane, who was on a panel with Carl Wilson among others. Total trip - glad to note that David liked it, though he said it was (obviously) a strange experience to read about his teenage years.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Monday, 28 February 2011 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
it was nice to meet david. for some reason i refrained from mentioning my mad teen squirrel bait love.
― scott seward, Monday, 28 February 2011 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I missed my opportunity to talk to him as if I were singing a Gastr del Sol song the whole time.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Monday, 28 February 2011 23:47 (thirteen years ago) link
man im dying for one on hounds of love
― kelpolaris, Tuesday, 1 March 2011 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Mark Richardon's book on the album Zaireeke by The Flaming Lips gives you a really detailed explanation of the album, the history of the band, and reader's thoughts and opinions of the album and how he personally ties in to the music. I recommend.
― kanggene, Thursday, 3 March 2011 10:42 (thirteen years ago) link
my mate was telling me last night about an anecdote in the bowie book where "David Bowie is sat in a studio with tape spool all around him listening to the same beat for 3 minutes then going '..aaand STOP', with a fully-formed song in his head by the end." what song was this?
― NI, Sunday, 6 March 2011 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
also are any of these available for the kindle?
my mate was telling me last night about an anecdote in the bowie book where "David Bowie is sat in a studio with tape spool all around him listening to the same beat for 3 minutes then going '..aaand STOP', with a fully-formed song in his head by the end." what song was this? --NI
It was either Warzsawa or Art Decade, I believe.
And yes, they're on Kindle.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 7 March 2011 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I went to the library to get that 33.3 on Low, but wound up walking out with Bowie In Berlin, a really sweet string of moments that begins with Bowie freaking out on Cameron Crowe in L.A. while eating peppers, milk and cocaine (literally checking the closed blinds for any signs of Jimmy Page, who Bowie thought had cursed him) to a more assured Bowie years later, wrapping up Lodger and moving with "Ashes to Ashes".
In between, Iggy Pop serves as a wingman, Bowie rides around in a hovercraft, Marc Bolan and Bing Crosby are both struck dead mere weeks after performing with Bowie and Bowie sees two familiar figures out kissing by the Berlin Wall.
Still haven't read the Low book, but I would definitely recommend this other one as well.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 7 March 2011 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha, actually just got back from the library today with a couple 33 1/3 books as well.
Got Vol. 1 & 2 of the Greatest Hits, which I actually thought would be a collection of the stories behind individual songs than just excerpts from already published books. Kinda dumb of me considering 33 1/3 is very focused on ~the album~. It's still fun to read, if not like just an extended brochure they expect you to pay for ($23 a copy!), and esp. considering it basically serves as sort of another "essential albums guide", with mini-stories on each.
― Crouching Seward, Hidden Raggett (kelpolaris), Monday, 7 March 2011 00:55 (thirteen years ago) link
which album did you write about pgwp?
― Samuel (a hoy hoy), Monday, 7 March 2011 01:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Spiderland.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Monday, 7 March 2011 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks for the kind words re Zaireeka, kanggene.
― Mark, Monday, 7 March 2011 03:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Would love to read a 33&1/3 book on "The Glow, Pt. 2" by the Microphones. Enjoyed most of the one's I've read already.
― musicfanatic, Sunday, 13 March 2011 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
It's Mass Production, from The Idiot.
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 13 March 2011 10:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I flipped through Bowie in Berlin at the store last year. It looked well worth my time.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 March 2011 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link
picked up the newly released Tusk yesterday and just finished reading Geeta's eno book for the second time. That was a great read!
― KC & the sunshine banned (outdoor_miner), Sunday, 13 March 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't know there was a tusk book coming out! Just ordered it
― just sayin, Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Tusk!!?
Add To Cart
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Ugh, on second thought...
Here, Rob Trucks talks to Lindsey Buckingham, as well as members of Animal Collective, Camper Van Beethoven, the New Pornographers, Wolf Parade, the Fleetwood Mac tribute band Tusk
wtf Wolf Parade really?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
wasnt really into the tusk book :(
― just sayin, Thursday, 17 March 2011 09:40 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, not sure i am either, midway through. was a impulse buy
― Marquis de Sade (outdoor_miner), Thursday, 17 March 2011 13:08 (thirteen years ago) link
That sucks. What's wrong with it?
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 March 2011 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link
they should do a Songs For Drella one.
― piscesx, Thursday, 17 March 2011 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost the author talks abt himself + his life in the third person throughout, which i found annoying. he explains abt this in the intro (which you can read here - http://cipg.codemantra.us/UI_TRANSACTIONS/Marketing/UI_Marketing.aspx?ID=WP9780826429025&ISBN=9780826429025&sts=b) and once i read that i sort of realised that this book probably wouldnt be for me
― just sayin, Thursday, 17 March 2011 13:17 (thirteen years ago) link
also theres quite a few interviews w/ different musicians but quite a few of them didnt even seem to love tusk that much?
― just sayin, Thursday, 17 March 2011 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, the interview w/Jonathon Segel didn't really mention tusk much, was more about cvb. and otherwise the book just hasn't been insightful *at all* like the good ones in this series that i've read
― Marquis de Sade (outdoor_miner), Thursday, 17 March 2011 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Just got Daphne Carr's book on Pretty Hate Machine in the mail and read it all straight through. Very enjoyable and terribly wrenching given that it's just as much a portrait of the economic stasis/dead zone of Cleveland, Youngstown and Mercer; a good half of the book (more?) consists of the words of various longtime fans who live in those cities or towns or nearby.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
This series is beginning to jump the shark. Perhaps it was inevitable.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
What makes you say that? From what I've read, some of the more recent books have been really great! Are you speaking more to the quality of the writing? Or the choice of albums?
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Some Girls!http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?ReturnURL=%2fmain.aspx&BookId=136558&SubjectId=1381&Subject2Id=1381
― piscesx, Thursday, 14 July 2011 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah and marquee moon! guess the authors think of them as "companion volumes" or some such. which is interesting.
― tylerw, Thursday, 14 July 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace by Aaron Cohen
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 17 November 2011 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
Wu Tang Clan's Enter the Wu Tang - this project has been cancelled
:(
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 17 November 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
Great review, fastnbulbous. Brilliant book, easily one of the best of the series.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 17 November 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
In response to a question left in the Comments section by John, here's where the series currently stands regarding upcoming titles:
Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace - just publishedPortishead's Dummy - just publishedTalking Heads' Fear of Music by Jonathan Lethem - this will publish in March/April 2012Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville by Gina Arnold - we don't yet quite have the final manuscript, but fully expect to publish this in May/June 2012
Weezer's Pinkerton - this project has been cancelledWu Tang Clan's Enter the Wu Tang - this project has been cancelledTori Amos' Boys for Pele - this project has been cancelledFunkadelic's Maggot Brain - this project is still alive, and partially written, but I wouldn't hold your breath...Outkast's Aquemini - this project has been cancelledThe Clash's London Calling - this book is deeply, profoundly cursed. If you pre-ordered it in 2004 when it was first announced, I can only apologise...Lucinda Williams' Self-Titled LP - 90% written, but cannot be confident of a publication dateKate Bush's The Dreaming - unlikely this will ever happen, but not yet officially cancelled
And that's it, for the moment! Apologies for the messiness and frustration caused by late and cancelled titles, but that's part of the fabric of the series. It's more difficult than it seems, to write 30,000 original and insightful words about a favourite record...
― shiroibasketshoes & tuxedos (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 17 November 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
Who is RJ Wheaton?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 17 November 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3269/3080395630_273326a28b.jpg
― shiroibasketshoes & tuxedos (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 17 November 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link