Or would it just be the existing audiobooks that you can find on places like Audible?
― MarkoP, Thursday, 10 May 2018 22:21 (six years ago) link
I think it’s just the audiobooks.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 12 May 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link
That would be great, actually.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 12 May 2018 17:25 (six years ago) link
There are Japanese iterations of these coming out, the Perfume one already is and there are books on Happy End and YMO coming.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/33-13-japan/
― MaresNest, Saturday, 12 May 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
I love when these books walk that fine line between album biography and personal narrative about the significance of such record to the author ("Sign O The Times" by Michaelangelo Matos being the apotheosis).
― Prefecture, Monday, 14 May 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
Holy shit that Japanese series looks awesome!
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 14 May 2018 09:40 (six years ago) link
Psyched for this, if only because it's been delayed on and off for more than a decade. November 1st, all being well.
https://wordery.com/jackets/c18f055c/m/9781501321313.jpg
https://wordery.com/tori-amoss-boys-for-pele-amy-gentry-9781501321313
― piscesx, Thursday, 16 August 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
Another open call for proposals:
https://333sound.com/how-to-submit/
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
I just saw that there's a Brazil series of these, including one on Milton Nascimento & Lo Borges's Clube de Esquina. Anyone read these?
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Friday, 30 October 2020 02:01 (three years ago) link
I knew there was a Brazil series and a Japan series. Didn't know until today that there was a Europe series:https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/33-13-europe/
― MarkoP, Friday, 30 October 2020 02:07 (three years ago) link
I read the book on Getz/Gilberto, certainly a good resource on Bossa Nova and its importation to the US, Brazilian cultural history, etc. The physical book was larger than the typical books in the series, and may have had a bigger page count as well.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 30 October 2020 03:19 (three years ago) link
looks interesting
https://333sound.com/nine-reasons-why-i-chose-to-write-a-book-about-24-carat-blacks-ghetto-misfortunes-wealth/
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 15:04 (three years ago) link
that does look cool. i always want to submit a proposal but whenever i check the window for submissions is closed...
― treeship., Wednesday, 23 December 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
i love that album
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
I've been reading the recent one on Tim Maia's Racional albums and really liking it. Very informative and detailed at almost 250 pages, goes through that 2-year period of his life almost week by week.
I'm excited to go through the rest of the Brazil series, I love a lot of those albums but don't always have the easiest time tracking down historical info and context for them.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
https://333sound.com/announcing-the-latest-33-1-3s/?fbclid=IwAR1QdKEZsDxwqYF22CJD2pBJimA26pECkxinzZCvVh0yDQLIe_xcH6H4AN8
class of '23/'24 just dropped
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 20:40 (three years ago) link
My pitch didn’t make the cut but this looks like a good crop!
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 21:19 (three years ago) link
101?? Fantastic!
― piscesx, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 01:23 (three years ago) link
BBC Radiophonic Workshop! Wow.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 02:42 (three years ago) link
Is the Suicide book good? Just started the Portishead one last night, it's good but a bit too heavy on how good the album is and I guess I knew too much about the making of Dummy to start with.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 3 July 2022 23:32 (two years ago) link
Recent discussion of Suicide books & related on Good books about music
― dow, Sunday, 3 July 2022 23:38 (two years ago) link
Suicide one is OK, but not brilliant. Written as a novel, but stylistically flat.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 4 July 2022 11:27 (two years ago) link
i want to like these for real but mostly i appreciate them for banishing any overachiever syndrome i might have
i've only read a handful but they are not great? it's rough
that said i desperately want rushomancy to write a book about pink floyd. just in general, honestly. but also from a trans pov. maybe one of those books with similar texts (but not quite!) on opposing pages
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 July 2022 03:21 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwwcakTnoDo
(IIRC not much Floyd commentary here, regrettably)
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Friday, 22 July 2022 03:42 (two years ago) link
Get your proposals in gear
https://333sound.com/open-call-for-proposals-2022/
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 5 September 2022 19:07 (two years ago) link
Gotta say, really happy with some of the albums that are cropping up lately: That's the Way of the World, Madvillainy, Erotica, Once Upon a Time, all A+
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 22 December 2022 13:39 (one year ago) link
The EW&F book looked fetching. How's Erotica?
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 December 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link
Not released til next spring
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 22 December 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
Erotica will be a must-read for me.
― Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 22 December 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
put your hands all over that book!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
You're a thief of books, and now you have to pay (for that book)
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Thursday, 22 December 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
Really looking forward to reading the Ingenue one as there seems to be next to nothing written about it anywhere (or kd herself come to that).
― piscesx, Thursday, 22 December 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
New announcements include Badu!
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Saturday, 28 January 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
I'm most intrigued by Red Hot + Blue.
― jaymc, Saturday, 28 January 2023 20:05 (one year ago) link
All of them look interesting. I submitted a proposal this time but it was turned down. :-(
― treeship., Saturday, 28 January 2023 20:36 (one year ago) link
did you get a reply from them? I heard nothing after I submitted a proposal in 2020.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Saturday, 28 January 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
Red Hot + Blue is such an amazing choice. I thought only I liked it! Discovered recently that Ed Lachman got the Songs For Drella gig because of the RH+B video he made for Annie Lennox.
Here’s the full Red Hot And Blue film btw.. https://vimeo.com/46642017
― piscesx, Sunday, 29 January 2023 00:24 (one year ago) link
I like that it's Nu Amerykah pt 2, which quietly became my favorite Badu album.
― change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 29 January 2023 00:52 (one year ago) link
I'm definitely gonna read the Land of Rape and Honey one (the author is a friend), and I'm intrigued by the idea of books on Café Tacvba and the Isley Brothers.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 29 January 2023 01:32 (one year ago) link
Do they ever just take a regular ass person or does everyone with an accepted entry have some kind of journalistic experience?
― zacata, Sunday, 29 January 2023 03:26 (one year ago) link
Aside from having a blog, I was a regular ass person. My 33 1/3 book was the one and only time I ever got paid to write about music.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 29 January 2023 04:39 (one year ago) link
xp didn't hear anything. i assume they get a lot of proposals, and looking back i could have made mine more focused and less academic.
i am a regular ass person, though, so it's good to hear that they've taken from others who aren't music critics. i have written professionally about art and architecture but not music.
― treeship., Sunday, 29 January 2023 17:13 (one year ago) link
Just finished the Achtung Baby book, and...yeesh. Nothing wrong with having your own take on what songs mean, and obviously religion does inform a lot of Bono's lyrics, but this was basically a stealth religious tract! I would have said the writer had a very strained interpretation of the lyrics to fit his beliefs, but in honesty, from about the halfway point he barely even bothers to refer to the actual songs in any way, and instead goes on and on about this hypothetical man and woman that the entire album is supposedly about.
I bought the 33.33s of 69 Love Songs, Another Green World and Aeroplane Over the Sea on the same shopping trip, and hope they're better (how could they not be?...)
― Duane Barry, Sunday, 16 April 2023 18:29 (one year ago) link
I remember enjoying the latter two a whole lot
― change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 16 April 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link
Just discovered that there is a Brazilian equivalent, in Portuguese of course.
― The Titus Andromedon Strain (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 April 2023 19:50 (one year ago) link
treeship. at 5:13 29 Jan 23xp didn't hear anything. i assume they get a lot of proposals, and looking back i could have made mine more focused and less academic.i am a regular ass person, though, so it's good to hear that they've taken from others who aren't music critics. i have written professionally about art and architecture but not music.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 16 June 2023 14:53 (one year ago) link
Please, someone pitch sellout jazz-funk
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Friday, 16 June 2023 15:42 (one year ago) link
or microhouse
― MaresNest, Friday, 16 June 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
Damn, I always think about pitching one for New Orleans brass band, and the genre format would be much better than a single album (at least for wider appeal). But I'm sure it would take over my life, and pinning down all the musicians for interviews would be an exhausting process.
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Friday, 16 June 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
The one about Depeche Mode 101 looks promising..
Table of Contents1. Live or Memorex?2. Is “Music” Electric?3. It's Hip, it's Totally Hip, It's the Only Thing Happening4. Dreamboats and Market Shares5. Uneasy Listening6. America, Man7. “KROQ's Woodstock”8. No Mode, No Nirvana: 101 and its Legacy
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/depeche-modes-101-9781501390326/
― piscesx, Sunday, 18 June 2023 18:42 (one year ago) link