It's never had an obvious one but it's had a sometimes-grudging one. But even Rolling Stone did a positive main (but not cover) story on the band when that came out, a couple of years after they reviewed 101 in a way that could be described as 'cavemen meet aliens and try to tell fellow cavemen about the sparkly lights in the sky.'
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 September 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
LIKE ABBA GOLD
― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Saturday, 16 September 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 16 September 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 September 2006 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Saturday, 16 September 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Big Difference.
― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Saturday, 16 September 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 16 September 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Saturday, 16 September 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyway, this may be crazy talk, but maybe many books got turned down because of reasons other than the albums' popularities and seminal statuses.
Maybe they were't impressed the writers' work?
Maybe they felt too uncomfortable because they didn't know someone who knew someone who knew that writer?
Maybe someone in the committee had "this bands is the sucks" veto power?
These decisions were not made by science. I'm not claiming they're just arbitrary, reactionary, or dumb opinions either. But they boil down to opinions.
Unless 33 1/3rd has a patent on album review books (which I don't think they do, although surely they have it on the name), if there's such a demand for more album review books, and the series is selling well, is there not a possibility of an alternative publishing source?
― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Saturday, 16 September 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Saturday, 16 September 2006 18:34 (seventeen years ago) link
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― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Saturday, 16 September 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Saturday, 16 September 2006 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 16 September 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 16 September 2006 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 16 September 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 16 September 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 16 September 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
"Slacker aesthetic"--huh?
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 16 September 2006 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 16 September 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 16 September 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 16 September 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 16 September 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 16 September 2006 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 16 September 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
John COUGAR mellencamp
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 16 September 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
xposts - I've seen a few in stores and again reiterating: not meant as a reflection on anyone's work in particular. just about the idea for the series in general.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 16 September 2006 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― katie quirk (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― katie quirk (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link
I guarantee 100% hyperballed-to-the-wall reading akshun.
― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
for about the fourth time, talking about the general impression of what the idea for the series was. haven't been inspired to read any of 'em yet but i'll be sure to let you guys know.
here you are, a guy who talks about music all day long on the internet, sneering at a series of books that do the same as "dull and unambitious." kinda pot-meets-kettle, isn't it?
no actually spent four years recently working just about every single night while in grad school then working taking care of young child etc. on m.a. thesis on the aesthetics of late '60s psych - about a year and a half of just listening and taking notes, seven months of organizing 400+ pages of notes producing roughly 180 page document actually discussing content of about 400 songs from the period all organized around central theme (psychedelic music as late manifestation of aesthetics associated with surrealism) but whatevs, dude.
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link
this is absurd, too. any criticism or questioning when it's from the other side is obviously sneering isn't it, michaelangelo?
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link