33 1/3 Series of books

Holy shit that Japanese series looks awesome!

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

Another open call for proposals:

https://333sound.com/how-to-submit/

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?

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/

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.

looks interesting

https://333sound.com/nine-reasons-why-i-chose-to-write-a-book-about-24-carat-blacks-ghetto-misfortunes-wealth/

that does look cool. i always want to submit a proposal but whenever i check the window for submissions is closed...

i love that album

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.

https://333sound.com/announcing-the-latest-33-1-3s/?fbclid=IwAR1QdKEZsDxwqYF22CJD2pBJimA26pECkxinzZCvVh0yDQLIe_xcH6H4AN8

class of '23/'24 just dropped

My pitch didn’t make the cut but this looks like a good crop!

101?? Fantastic!

BBC Radiophonic Workshop! Wow.

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.

Recent discussion of Suicide books & related on Good books about music

Suicide one is OK, but not brilliant. Written as a novel, but stylistically flat.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwwcakTnoDo

(IIRC not much Floyd commentary here, regrettably)

Get your proposals in gear

https://333sound.com/open-call-for-proposals-2022/

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+

The EW&F book looked fetching. How's Erotica?

Not released til next spring

Erotica will be a must-read for me.

put your hands all over that book!

You're a thief of books, and now you have to pay (for that book)

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).

New announcements include Badu!

I'm most intrigued by Red Hot + Blue.

All of them look interesting. I submitted a proposal this time but it was turned down. :-(

did you get a reply from them? I heard nothing after I submitted a proposal in 2020.

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

I like that it's Nu Amerykah pt 2, which quietly became my favorite Badu album.

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.

Do they ever just take a regular ass person or does everyone with an accepted entry have some kind of journalistic experience?

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.

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.

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?...)

I remember enjoying the latter two a whole lot

Just discovered that there is a Brazilian equivalent, in Portuguese of course.

treeship. at 5:13 29 Jan 23

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.

Please, someone pitch sellout jazz-funk

or microhouse

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.

The one about Depeche Mode 101 looks promising..

Table of Contents
1. Live or Memorex?
2. Is “Music” Electric?
3. It's Hip, it's Totally Hip, It's the Only Thing Happening
4. Dreamboats and Market Shares
5. Uneasy Listening
6. America, Man
7. “KROQ's Woodstock”
8. No Mode, No Nirvana: 101 and its Legacy

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/depeche-modes-101-9781501390326/

Missed a trick by not having it as #101 in the series.

That wouldn't bode well for a book about Yes' 90125

I started to put together a genre pitch back in the initial round but then realized I’d much rather just write about one album.

other than an ilxor writing about dolly parton i don't recognize the names of anyone writing new books. (not that i ever read them. i never see them anywhere anymore! i think i would have to live in a city to see them...or be an internet shopper...)

RC, you should do a wolf eyes book. has anyone done one? or a noise book!