i wanna read the new talking heads one.
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Monday, 3 September 2012 13:25 (eleven years ago) link
Keeping in mind that I'm a hardcore Lethem fanboy, it's pretty awesome.
Reading Loveless right now. Very entertaining and well written, plus it seems to have some ILM connections!
― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Monday, 3 September 2012 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
I read the Tom Waits one a wee while back. Not sure what I thought of it, although it felt worthwhile at the time. The Paul's Boutique one is pretty good too.
I have If You're Feeling Sinister ready to read but I don't know if I can be fucked - is it any good?
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Monday, 3 September 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
"i'd read something that actually took 70s hard rock seriously, though."
you stay here, i'll be right back!
― scott seward, Monday, 3 September 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
Poliopolice, did you miss the part where Weisb@rd goes song by song?
No, I did mention that:
the author states upfront that he hadn't heard the albums in 15 years, and still hadn't before writing the majority of the book. This was presented as a positive thing. When it finally got to [discussing] the songs, it was presented as a fairly half-assed song-by-song analysis at the end, totaling about 10-15 pages or so.
The analysis of the songs seemed very half-hearted to me. It felt like that part was only there because if he left it out, there would have been very little in the book that was specific to these albums.
As a meandering personal essay about the author's feelings on GNR, and GNR's place in the canon of music, it's a decent, if trifling book... but as an expository essay on the Use Your Illusion albums proper, I'd say it was not illuminating in the least bit, and in fact spent very little time talking about them. The Amazon reviews corroborate this.
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
Except uh he's not trying to write an expository essay of UYI so who cares.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
Then the title of the book should not be "Use Your Illusion."
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
Brr. I read the one on "Low" based on recommendations from this thread. I didn't like it that much. The historical stuff had some dynamite writing, but it was pretty strange to see "serious anecdotes" from "serious Bowie biographies" put side-by-side with sordid details from Angela Bowie's tell-all book. Admittedly, Angela's account is totally hilarious and interesting but she eats a lot of crow in that book-- the first chapter talks about Bowie's dick iirc-- so to read her account blended together with more serious interview-based stuff read to me as meta-narrative?
The track-by-track chapters were hit-and-miss for me, too. There was a paragraph about Eno/Bowie beating Burroughs and/or Stockhausen at their own game that made me frustrated and sad. Hugo's a good writer though, would read his other books.
― would smash pumpkins (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 13:15 (eleven years ago) link
i liked the one on loveless. it was rather personal and was based a lot on interviews with the band, esp. kevin shields. i didn't realise before that loveless is almost a solo album by kevin except bilinda's singing.
― alex in mainhattan, Wednesday, 12 September 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
My two year old niece brought me the 20 Jazz Funk Greats book and asked "Can we play with this?"
I have no idea what she meant but I'm gonna play her some very inappropriate music tomorrow. I have a feeling I've got a very small and very cute Cosey fan here.
― kraudive, Saturday, 6 April 2013 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
look tasty all in a row don't they.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/482718_10151572603944273_13098934_n.jpg
― piscesx, Saturday, 6 April 2013 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
the next one up; FLOOD by They Might Be Giants, is a bit of a surprise
― piscesx, Saturday, 6 April 2013 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
how so?
― Devendra Bumhat (sic), Saturday, 6 April 2013 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
TMBG aren't as alt/indie canon as a lot of bands of their generation that have had 33 1/3s, so it's a little surprising, mostly just nice that they're going for a cult classic that's obsessed over by a slightly different crowd.
― the drummer for gay Daddy Yankee (some dude), Saturday, 6 April 2013 01:16 (eleven years ago) link
oh the band themselves? yeah guess so. the album is way more beloved than many many others in the range though, so.
I just got excited when it was announced bcz I <3 Flood and I <3 Sandifer - thought it would still be ages away though, iirc was only turned in a month or so ago? hyped now.
― Devendra Bumhat (sic), Saturday, 6 April 2013 01:24 (eleven years ago) link
why arent those books in chromatic order
― Poliopolice, Saturday, 6 April 2013 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
Actually, Histoire de Melodie Nelson is next, to be released in October, followed by Flood in November and I Get Wet in January.
― MarkoP, Saturday, 6 April 2013 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
unhyped again
― Devendra Bumhat (sic), Saturday, 6 April 2013 03:56 (eleven years ago) link
I have the "Loveless", "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" and Afghan Whigs' "Gentlemen" books and enjoyed them all. Liked a lot of the contextual stuff in the Whigs book about the general events surrounding the making of the album.
― michaellambert, Saturday, 6 April 2013 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
didn't see this coming
http://www.amazon.com/Kanye-Wests-Beautiful-Twisted-Fantasy/dp/1623565421/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_9
other new ones according to Amazon include Aphex Twin Ambient II, Oasis Definitely Maybe and Richard Hell Blank generation.
― piscesx, Thursday, 3 October 2013 04:51 (ten years ago) link
Yeah the upcoming ones are mentioned in this very thread. Also if you go to http://www.333sound.com and browse through the archived posts, you can find Q&A interviews with all the authors of the upcoming books.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 3 October 2013 06:01 (ten years ago) link
Phil Sandifer posted the beginning of the Flood book on his blog the other day
― I'm not a rockist, I just hate Rap-A-Lot (sic), Thursday, 3 October 2013 19:01 (ten years ago) link
yo yo yo yo yo yo
http://333sound.com/2013/10/07/lets-talk-about-love-by-carl-wilson-a-new-and-expanded-edition/
super-pumped to be in on this critical orgy
― the tune was space, Monday, 7 October 2013 17:35 (ten years ago) link
James Franco's piece is going to be just a page saying "I agree with the tune was space."
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 7 October 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
very cool. franco/gaitskill/tuneisspace orgy is quite the orgy.
― scott seward, Monday, 7 October 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
I like the brutality of the new subtitle for the book
― the tune was space, Monday, 7 October 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
i kinda like the original subtitle to be honest. but, yeah, its blunt.
― scott seward, Monday, 7 October 2013 18:05 (ten years ago) link
I don't like the new subtitle so much
― REDACTED got your back (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 7 October 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link
oh woah i feel like the new subtitle's kind of hateful
i am excited for, like, the essays by ilxors and by ann powers, but if i just came across that book in a shop i would find it incredibly offputting
― Dora Viola G. I. de Orellana Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tolle (c sharp major), Monday, 7 October 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I feel like whoever came up with the new subtitle was aiming for attention-grabbing and maybe a bit trolling but ended up with "in-joke very few people will get".
― Murgatroid, Monday, 7 October 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
oof @ that subtitle
half the new essays sound excellent and the other half are on some serious "nope, get away from me" shit NICK HORNBY
― lex pretend, Monday, 7 October 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
I loved the Céline ref of the old title, tied in with the book nicely. The new title suggests a target market of a lower reading comprehension than the book (might) require, I mean, it's not exactly heavy lifting but it's not as lite as all that
― REDACTED got your back (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 7 October 2013 18:20 (ten years ago) link
the way it looks now suggests that its ostensible remit's moved quite beyond celine dion? which strikes me as a bit of a pity.
i mean, you know, interesting writing about pop music is a hard publishing market and you have to hustle, ain't no shame carl wilson do your thing etc, but :(
― Dora Viola G. I. de Orellana Dysart Plantagenet Tollemache-Tolle (c sharp major), Monday, 7 October 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
but maybe the yikes factor keeps it exciting- I for one can't wait to read what everybody else has to say because I'm guessing there's going to be some serious dissonance / disagreement and I think that's what makes carl's book already kind of a livewire experience
(obviously I'm incapable of being objective so I'm just being honest)
― the tune was space, Monday, 7 October 2013 19:01 (ten years ago) link
I just wish the cover image made some sort of sense.
― JMB, Monday, 21 October 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
Has anyone ever proposed one on Since I Left You?
― Stevie D(eux), Friday, 1 November 2013 12:05 (ten years ago) link
Chuck Eddy to series
― Has talent, needs to figure out how to improve (staggerlee), Friday, 1 November 2013 14:23 (ten years ago) link
Open for proposals again:
http://333sound.com/2014/01/30/open-call-for-proposals-2014/
― Position Position, Friday, 31 January 2014 14:29 (ten years ago) link
i wonder if it's too soon to submit a proposal for Bangerz
― |$̲̅(̲̅ιοο̲̅)̲̅$̲̅| (gr8080), Friday, 31 January 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
The following projects were contracted at some point but for various reasons are now cancelled.
The following albums are now fair game:Tori Amos- Boys for PeleThe Clash – London CallingWu Tang – Enter the Wu (36 Chambers)Weezer- PinkertonBjork- BiophiliaPulp- This is Hardcore
― curmudgeon, Friday, 31 January 2014 14:54 (ten years ago) link
Might submit one this year.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 31 January 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
Bjork- Biophilia
Someone, submit a proposal about one of Bjork's GOOD albums!
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Friday, 31 January 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
the submission guidelines are rigorous (a good thing)
― Pale Smiley Face (dandydonweiner), Friday, 31 January 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
i submitted mine already -- i'd been working on it for a month and changed it around a little to fit the new guidelines. i agree, i appreciate the rigorousness.
― Quincy, M.F. (get bent), Friday, 31 January 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
no Tori! denied!
― piscesx, Friday, 31 January 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
interesting list of proposals. did anyone on here put one in?
http://333sound.com/2014/03/05/open-call-2014-complete-list-of-proposals/
― piscesx, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link
Missed the cutoff. I was considering proposals on Elvis's From Elvis in Memphis and Steely Dan's Gaucho.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
fuck, i missed the cutoff
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
“Shaq Fu: Da Return” – Shaquille O’Neal
lol
― have a nice blood (mh), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 19:03 (ten years ago) link
they've gone for the 2 worst Blur albums too i notice. would love to read a Modern life Is Rubbish one.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link