― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Saturday, 15 July 2006 06:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Saturday, 15 July 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 15 July 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― reynard the fox (Pearl Hooch), Saturday, 15 July 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link
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 (seventeen years ago) link
I pitched it and got rejected.
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Saturday, 15 July 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Sunday, 16 July 2006 01:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 16 July 2006 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Sunday, 16 July 2006 02:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 16 July 2006 02:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 16 July 2006 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't see why this is so hard to believe.
And yes, Dominique Leone posts on ILX.
Jesus, ILM these days is a chore.
― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 16 July 2006 05:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 16 July 2006 06:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 16 July 2006 06:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― so hongro, so angry (haitch), Sunday, 16 July 2006 07:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Sunday, 16 July 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link
concerning joy div books there is the highly recommended ian curtis biography by mick middles. personal, insightful and touching. with lots of typos but that makes it even more loveable.
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 05:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Revivalist (Revivalist), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― meritocracy (spencerman), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link
So Velvet Underground & Nico is your Big Mac and any semirevered afterworks like Unknown Pleasure or Loveless are just kid's meals. the new ones with milk and carrots.
But I'm wondering if that's what all the books give you, a THIS IS IT AND ALL THERE IS LEFT of anything credible.i.e. I'll read Loveless and it'll convince me of the untimeliness of so-called 60s rock purveyors. or something.
I think I just want to get another one because I like the size. It's nice and tiny for metro rides.I might like to read ABBA one, if that's any good. I have no interest in NMH, though I'm wondering if I'm mistaken. I think Borders has Live at the Apollo so maybe that one.
― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Friday, 15 September 2006 08:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Friday, 15 September 2006 08:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 15 September 2006 09:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 15 September 2006 09:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Hey, I pitched Violator and got the same answer! (Well, presumably the same form letter.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Or are you referring to those evil, corporate new-fangled bookstores where you can sit there all day and just read anything they have without buying it blount?
― don weiner (don weiner), Friday, 15 September 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 September 2006 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link
And, what, that's dumb, VCN would be awesome to read about. It's dumb because it would probably sell just as well if not better than the rest of them. Like, all these books, their market have probably already read a ton of stuff on whoever they want to read about anyway. Who IS reading them? The people on this thread? So, not popular enough would be a plus. Books are not even in stores. anyway. Whatever. In theory they're cool little companion pieces the music collection.
― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link
All that said Vision Creation Newsun is an album I would definitely be interested in reading more about.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 15 September 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link