33 1/3 Series of books

Of course, the Beat Happening book author is also the "creator of the quarterly print journal True Sincerity"

there are going to be *some* female authors on this year's list right

so almost all of the smashing pumpkins original LPs got proposals, yeah? except gish, yeah? whats the over/under on those being put out in this round?

a little tangential here but 33 1/3 was the first thing i thought about on hearing of this series
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Beat Happening and Grateful Dead. Are they trying to follow up on the success of Let's Talk About Love?

We'll know for sure when they announce Crash Test Dummies.

why would you play a video game with the sound on?

because the music is very good and interesting, and was written to accompany the action and is especially interesting in that way when it's done well, whereas just listening to whatever you like while you play is sort of like turning off the color on the tv while you play and putting a filter with colors you like on the screen

You can do that?

for a price, yes, get in touch, we offer several very attractive packages

koji kondo and nobou uematsu are geniuses, and they deserve more books written about them than 95% of bands already covered by 33 1/3

why would you watch music videos with the sound on? they're all about cool visuals, just watch and listen to your own music instead.

whiney hates v4p0rw4v3 tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPkoNICjQFI

spazzmatazz otm

http://nerdmentality.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=11643

What's it gonna be? Kondo's unforgettable tunes of immense catchiness, or Uematsu's epic scores of brilliance?

I would definitely buy a book on the music for the Katamari games (at least, the first two), which remains totally unique and bizarre in ways that I can't describe - not to mention catchy as sin all the way through.

I loooove the Katamari music (also Jet Grind Radio)

If there is other shit that sounds like Katamari 1 & 2 OSTs I would like to know about it. I am ill informed on VG music in general and Asian hyper pop as well.

love the whole 'pushing primitive tech and creating music that sounds a little off' angle. glad they picked something pre-cd for that reason but earthbound would be my personal #1 pick.

Well for hyper Asian pop, I often recommend Plus-Tech Squeeze Box's Cartooom!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibuya-kei

yeah a lot of Shibuya-kei stuff is kind of similar (and the two PTSB albums are excellent) but it doesn't quite have that degree of surrealness. I do think the Haruomi Hosono + Miharu Koshi album Swing Slow hits the spot. As does a lot of the stuff by De De Mouse.

maybe serani poji one-room survival?

I guess that's not really too 'surreal' but some of it sounds similar to katamari otherwise

omg this is rly good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7JcWeq9yTo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7JcWeq9yTo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SNredsfyBI

Best video game rhythm section ever! Would you call this prog rock?

Psychocandy!

Fucking Phish A Live One lol wtf.

no "13" ;_; I cry

Slate: I Read 93 Books About Pop Albums. Here’s what I learned.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/the_completist/2014/09/_33_1_3_books_the_30_best_from_aretha_franklin_to_neutral_milk_hotel.html

No Hugo Wilcken "Low", no credibility

ha ha it's so epic (and very Steve) that he read ALL of them, wow

(won't lie, I'm sad that I didn't get a shoutout- I thought we were friends! ouch)

Are you Hugo? If so, amazing book--best monograph on DB

i'm curious about the Shoot Out The Lights book. anyone read that one and got any thoughts?

i have now read the Shoot Out the Lights book. it's kinda on the opposite end of the spectrum to the Zoso book in terms of analysis & detai. Zoso was extremely well written & engaging, but ultimately a little dense & verbose, at least for me; SOTL was way too thin & tenuous with sections of really weak writing.

aerosmith, I'll admit that I was skeptical about reading Master of Reality (I haven't read any of the other fictional entries, mostly because the fictional conceit doesn't seem to jibe with what I'm looking to get out of the series), but I'm really glad that I did because it was excellent. It worked really well as an epistolary novella, but it was also more effective at parsing the album (a process which sometimes benefits from a hyper-subjective, inarticulate-yet-passionate perspective) than some of the more straightforward entries have been.

― Deric W. Haircare, Tuesday, 6 May 2008 16:47 (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

way late to this, but I was in Strand bookstore the other day and finally saw a copy of this (cos my local store doesn't have it) and picked it up, and wow I wish I had read this sooner. Strangely, I had an idea for a 10-minute short play years ago that was similar to this (although switch out mental patience for criminal in jail), but this was pulled off way better than I could have.

as Deric said (almost 7 years ago), I liked that the fictional component of the story wasn't merely an excuse to gush over the album in a new format, but could stand on its own and be compelling even if that particular album wasn't one you enjoyed. obviously for someone like me who loves Masters and also considers it probably his favorite Sab, it makes it that much better. Although Sabbath doesn't serve the same purpose for me that it does for the narrator, there are definitely other bands/albums that do serve that function.

great stuff.

I like to think that my early encouragement helped spur a young unknown towards literary greatness.

speaking of young unknowns

http://333sound.com/2015/04/16/open-call-2015-22-and-under/

rats. 7 months too old

same

nvm i misread, 22 before may 2016! i'm way old man

Well I was under 22 before May 2016.

Someone got me the Super Mario Bros. soundtrack one, it is so good! I have been waiting my entire life to read this book!

The thing I've been wondering regarding that one is how different it is from the the previous book he wrote on the subject, Maestro Mario.

Just read the brand-new Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables one. I'm kinda blown away by how this is essentially "Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables: The Early Years" by Alex Ogg (which was just published LAST YEAR ferchristsakes) with an added sheen of (non-musical) historical colour. It's quite shameless. Unless there is something connecting the two works which I don't know about. It's just a complete rip-off! Plus Ogg's book has tons of artwork, labels, Winston Smith art etc. Don't get this 33 1/3 book - get the Ogg.

iirc when you pitch something you have to say how your work will differentiate from any other books/documentaries on the subject. so obv bloomsbury knew about the similarity and it didn't bother them.

i have something i might be interested in pitching this time out, but little-to-no-advance and a percentage of royalties on a smallish run with a limited audience, for all the effort that would go in? not that appealing tbh.

Finished another one that just hit the stands: Freedom of Choice by Evie Nagy. Nice to get some background on Devo without the usual faux-corporate trappings. The only criticism I have is that the book operates on the principle that this was Devo's creative peak and that what came before and after was lacking. The portrayal of Duty Now For The Future as their nadir is baffling.

i have something i might be interested in pitching this time out, but little-to-no-advance and a percentage of royalties on a smallish run with a limited audience, for all the effort that would go in? not that appealing tbh.

same here, unfortunately i have an idea i really believe in

i really love duty now. that album has a ton of punk cachet, maybe even more so than the debut. and new traditionalists and oh no! are no slouches either. i know the band doesn't rate duty now -- the songs were leftovers, they were all fighting, they hated the producer. but bands can be wrong about their best work.

(full disclosure: i worked on evie's book, doing the interview transcriptions.)