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I loved that review he wrote of that indie-boy novel, so I guess I gotta get this book.

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:30 (twenty years ago)

ysi?

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:31 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

DeRo disses Matos for doing (very well IMHO) what he himself does in like every review ever (poorly IEHO): http://www.suntimes.com/output/derogatis/sho-sunday-dero04.html
http://topatoco.com/artwork/itson-big.jpg

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 9 June 2006 17:57 (twenty years ago)

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― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 June 2006 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Jim Milonakis?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 9 June 2006 18:48 (twenty years ago)

I found that one entertaining and was actually less satisfied with Michaelangelo Matos' self-indulgent look at Prince's "Sign o' the Times," which spent entirely too much time dwelling on how the author discovered the disc as a teenager in the Minneapolis suburbs.

So then I guess he didn't read the 100-odd pages in which Matos discussed Prince.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 9 June 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Shh, you're giving it away!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 June 2006 20:53 (twenty years ago)

"...he not only gives us the perfect adjective for Sly's dense epic ("swampy," indeed) but the nugget that this was a pioneering use of the beat box. (Who knew? I didn't.)"

DeRo is a FUCKING MORON.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 June 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

I just finished the one on PAUL'S BOUTIQUE. It's only the third I've read thus far, but it's the one I've enjoyed the most.

― Terrible Cold (Terrible Cold), Friday, 9 June 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

The one supposedly on the Replacements was AWFUL!

― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Friday, 9 June 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

I just finished the one on PAUL'S BOUTIQUE. It's only the third I've read thus far, but it's the one I've enjoyed the most.

Yeah, it's all info, no prose. A lot of the 33 1/3 books seem to forget how much people like that.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 9 June 2006 22:05 (twenty years ago)

personally speaking, i'd read a book that wasn't taking on yet another album from the canon. c'mon, guys! dig deeper!

― gear (gear), Friday, 9 June 2006 22:32 (twenty years ago)

Christ, that quotation. Shakey OTM.

― David Bachyrycz (David Bachyrycz), Friday, 9 June 2006 22:37 (twenty years ago)

c'mon, guys! dig deeper!

Someone should do Tom T. Hall's greatest hits.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 June 2006 22:56 (twenty years ago)

http://www.badabingcdrt.com/i/back_from_the_grave.jpg

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 9 June 2006 22:58 (twenty years ago)

(That was a "dig deeper" joke in case it wasn't clear. LOL @ self.)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 9 June 2006 22:59 (twenty years ago)

I just fell asleep.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

i've got an idea, fellas, let's create a book series in which we reinforce the canon some more.

seriously though, i realize the books have to sell, hence the more mainstream angle. i'm sure there are a ton of albums the writers would love to write about that aren't commercially viable for the publisher.

― gear (gear), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:11 (twenty years ago)

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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:26 (twenty years ago)

ned you should pitch that one!

actually do you think they would let somebody self-33 1/3? if it was some famous musician?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:33 (twenty years ago)

"Morrissey on...Morrissey."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:38 (twenty years ago)

Morrissey did write a book actually! (didnt he?)

― ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ (chaki), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:41 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i think it was about the new york dolls or something

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:55 (twenty years ago)

He founded the series in spirit!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:56 (twenty years ago)

i thought it was on James Dean, re: Moz's book

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:04 (twenty years ago)

"Morrissey on...Morrissey."

Morrissey is not attracted to Morrissey.

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:15 (twenty years ago)

i'm sure there are a ton of albums the writers would love to write about that aren't commercially viable for the publisher.

Carl Wilson is writing one about Celine Dion's "Let's Talk About Love".

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:59 (twenty years ago)

You are all OTM regarding the Franklin Bruno Armed Forces book, but has anyone read Daphne A. Brooks' take on Grace? I found it largely disappointing for a number of reasons. For someone who's obviously deeply in love with the material and who has deeper access to the Buckley archives than most, she made some really frustrating, bizarre factual errors. Maybe I'm being overly-pedantic, but simple mistakes like misquoting lyrics kept me from enjoying and engaging in the book as much as I could have-- like I couldn't trust her after a certain point. Clearly, I'm an asshole, but did anyone else have problems with this?

― Jeff Reguil0n (Talent Explosion), Saturday, 10 June 2006 03:14 (twenty years ago)

The Aeroplane book was excellent. The Pet Sounds book was not.

― Steve Schneeberg (Steve Goldberg), Saturday, 10 June 2006 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Somebody pitched to do Killed by Death Vol. 2 for the last round of books. I would have loved to have read that!

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 10 June 2006 15:25 (twenty years ago)

And that Kick Out the Jams book that DeRo praises was the worst I've read in the series--no original info or thinking whatsoever, and blandly told.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 10 June 2006 15:30 (twenty years ago)

I wanna see a 33 1/3 tome on the Melvins' "Stag."

― Terrible Cold (Terrible Cold), Monday, 12 June 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

I enjoyed the books for The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and There's a Riot Goin On out of this series a lot.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Monday, 12 June 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

actually do you think they would let somebody self-33 1/3? if it was some famous musician?

This is more or less happening with LD Beghtol writing about 69 Love Songs. No idea how it's coming along; I haven't talked to him since the EMP Pop Conference.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 12 June 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

mr sherburne on something miniMAL would be good.

― dh (djh), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I just finished reading a new batch.

The Stone Roses one was okay, not much in the way of new info and insights really (though I did learn that what I previously thought was just a guitar string squeak in "Elizabeth My Dear" was really supposed to be a silenced gunshot.)

The Riot one was excellent. I especially liked his first chapters talking from the point of view of someone who was there.

I had high hopes for the Endtroducing one since it's one of the few (only?) hip-hop books but it was really just one long interview with Shadow. Very boring, gross hyperbole at the beginning (the author says something along the lines of Endtroducing not sounding like anything before or since type crap) and Davis himself is not the most interesting of interviewees.

The VU and Nico had some informative info but Joe Harvard's writing style and attitude just rubbed me the wrong way.

― Viz (Viz), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone read the " Zeppelin IV" one? I've only read the one on Bowie's "Low" and liked it.

― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Zeppelin one is kind of over-the-top and fascinating, I recommend it

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

I actually really liked the Shadow one.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

"I actually really liked the Shadow one."

For this series, I've really enjoyed both the personal takes and insights gained from repeated close listenings that the authors bring to their books and the Endtroducing one was more like "here's an oral history of DJ Shadow" and it didn't focus enough on Endtroducing.

I think the format that was used for the Paul's Boutique book would have served Endtroducing a lot more, ie. context, process, funny stories behind the samples...

― Viz (Viz), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

I've read the In The Aeroplane one (PHENOMENAL) and the OK Computer one (just "meh"). I've been meaning to buy Doolittle and The Stone Roses and can't fucking wait for Loveless to come out. Now we just need Spiderland, Ege Bamyasi, Dummy, Suicide/First Album, ...I Care Because You Do, Neu! 1/2/'75 (you never really can choose one, can you?), Playing with Fire, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space, etc etc etc.

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Saturday, 15 July 2006 06:52 (nineteen years ago)

Dleone should write all the kosmische/prog 33 1/3s

― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Saturday, 15 July 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

haha you know i was wondering why they turned my heathen earth pitch down forever and i just noticed that drew snagged 20 jazz funk. bastard.

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 15 July 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

What about EXILE ON MAIN STREET?

― reynard the fox (Pearl Hooch), Saturday, 15 July 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

I have Piper at the Gates of Dawn, which is really good, and OK Computer, which is less good

I'd like to read more though. I'd most like to read ones that either give a lot of details about the making of the record or do close critical analysis rather than ones that are more off-the-wall in their theorizing. Which ones would suit me?

― Matt Olken (Moodles), Saturday, 15 July 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

Now we just need.. Ege Bamyasi...

I pitched it and got rejected.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Saturday, 15 July 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

What?!? Pitched to and rejected by whom, may I ask? They'll fucking do ABBA but not Can? What if we all sent in emails to Continuum requesting an Ege Baymasi release?

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Sunday, 16 July 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

The editor of 33 1/3 is David Barker.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 16 July 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

Wait... Dleone, as in Dominique Leone? Is he actually on here or something?

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Sunday, 16 July 2006 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

Once you summon him
he will soon appear IN FIRE
HOLDING A GOATS HEAD

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 16 July 2006 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

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