― Groke, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― pisces, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:14 (seventeen years ago) link
What else would you want, in this series?
― Bill in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:50 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Nik, Monday, 7 May 2007 03:59 (seventeen years ago) link
I just finished the GNR book and I'm sorry, I gotta call bullshit. The chapters where Weisbard chronicles his own ascent to Critic Valhalla are boring, and the track-by-track is pretty much just him going "haha I never should have written this book because these records mostly suck." I hear he is a top guy -- and he comes around here sometimes too, so probably just shooting myself in the foot here if I ever thought about presenting at the conference or whatever -- but he had an opportunity to do something cool and I think he mailed it in.
Is this bitterness because the fat dead Hawaiian ukulele dude book was greenlighted but my Cheap Trick proposal never had a chance? OF COURSE. But all the stuff about "oh here's what Jon Pareles said" and "I worked for Bob Guccione Jr. and he was nice to me so Axl is a dickbag"...I ain't buyin' it.
― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link
That's a shame to hear, because I could totally see a great book being written about the Use Your Illusions (obviously, since I started this thread, and should probably re-do it as a poll).
I came the conclusion a while back that the best possible 33 1/3 book I could write would probably be about Pearl Jam's Vitalogy, although I don't think I could ever bring myself to pitch it and possibly go through with re-living my grunge adolescence like that and be the guy who wrote a book about Pearl Jam. But it would be awesome.
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
SOMEONE among our generation needs to do this
― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link
the grunge book will be a big success when it finally drops
never forget
― Jordan, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
Seriously. I just hope that when someone does do a Pearl Jam book, it's about one of crazy pretentious albums like Vitalogy or No Code and not boring old Ten, my whole theory being that a band's weirdest or most indulgent album would make a way better book than their biggest or best. (xpost)
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Did Geeta's Eno book come out?
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure Perpetua pitched Vitalogy this go-round.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
(And suffice it to say didn't get in.)
― jaymc, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link
so, anybody read aja?
― original bgm, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link
I think next time I'll pitch The Weirdness.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link
oh wait, they already did a stooges book. fuck!
― da croupier, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link
I thought about pitching August and Everything After.
― fukasaku tollbooth, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
jess you should pitch flipper.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
DEAD MILKMEN BIG LIZARD IN MY BACKYARD WOULD SELL 15 COPIES GUARANTEED
― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link
I liked the Aja book. It delves very heavily into music theory which I thought was very interesting (how the fuck did they make those crazy chord progressions?) but not enough to turn people off.
My favorite so far is the Low book. Best written also. Stories of Bowie surviving solely on milk, coke and cigarettes == priceless.
― Bill in Chicago, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link
haha Perpetua, dammit! actually I'm generally cool with him when he's writing about cheesy 90's alt-rock, so I'd probably read that. same reason I'd probably read a Counting Crows book. in theory, at least, the only 33 1/3 I've actually read so far was SOTT, but I might have to get that Aja one.
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link
im kind of addicted to these things but i'm reaching the diminishing returns point now that i've moved outside of the writers i know already enjoy
― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
ooh when did the AJA book come out? is it available in UK?
― pisces, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link
wow, I really don't think I can finish the Daydream Nation book.
― Dandy Don Weiner, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link
The guy who is writing the Master of Reality book posts here, and I am really looking forward to that. If he's reading this, could you provide the ETA?
Thanks.
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link
It gets a little better after the over-the-top gonzo tongue bath he gives the band/album in the first 30 pages or so, but even then, the most interesting parts come from the interviews he does with Steve and Lee, rather than from his tenuously drawn lyrical exegeses.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link
I just read Eric's book finally, and I've gotta say he did it about the only way that could interest me at this point. There's been nine million words written about GNR, and few writers are gonna have anything to offer now except rehash. (And honestly, I feel the same way about the Replacements, a band I was a lot deeper into in their moment.) Eric did a great job of bringing new thinking along with the necessary history; also, any ambivalence he has about the music is fully justified. The Illusions were messy, overgrown and sometimes unlistenable from Day One, and those qualities seem amplified a million times given subsequent events.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link
NB: I haven't read Meloy's book yet, so that above comment is no bust on him.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Also hahaha "events."
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link