Just read Matos SOTT book and it was marvellous, just a joy (Nick I need to post it back to you!).
The Riot book is good but there's not much in it that's not taken from the In Their Own Words Sly book from the early 90s (which is $$$s and crazy rare now so fair enough)
― hot bech babes lick the feemer and get the skeletor fever. (stevie), Saturday, 8 April 2017 17:33 (seven years ago) link
Anyone read the Bitches Brew one?
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Sunday, 9 April 2017 10:46 (seven years ago) link
I have it here but never finished it. Grella's a good writer, but the territory was too familiar - he wasn't telling me anything I didn't already know from reading a half dozen other books on Miles, album liner notes, etc., etc. If you're not up to your eyeballs in Davisiana, though, it's good.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Sunday, 9 April 2017 12:56 (seven years ago) link
Honestly, the more interesting Miles 33 1/3 would probably be On the Corner – the impact is just about as significant but the story and how the record was made is a bit less known. But who knows – maybe in a era where we have Phil's book, Tingen's book and the OTC box, even some of that may be well known enough.
I had an idea a gazillion years back to write one on Keith Jarrett's The Sun Bear Concerts—it's just such a 70s era artifact—but realized my submission would likely have a much better chance if I did the better known (and selling) Köln Concert.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 9 April 2017 14:11 (seven years ago) link
anyone get round to the Sound Of Silver book yet? or does anyone have any other faves worth checking out? i couldn't get along with the OK Computer one at all.
― piscesx, Sunday, 23 July 2017 12:52 (six years ago) link
OK Computer might be the worst one. Been meaning to read the one for There's a Riot Goin On for ages, been sitting on my desk.
― flappy bird, Sunday, 23 July 2017 15:03 (six years ago) link
OK Computer and Achtung Baby are the worst one's i've read.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 23 July 2017 16:24 (six years ago) link
Call me old fashioned, but I've enjoyed most of the ones that stick to the expected formula: a little band history, a little making of the album, and maybe break it down for me track by track. And it really helps if they have access to the band to do interviews.
The book on Portishead's Dummy was my favorite example of this format, and it definitely gave me a deeper appreciation for that album.(in the same vein: Bowie's Low, Aphex Twin's SAWII, Neutral Milk Hotel's Aeroplane, Pixies' Doolitte, Devo's Freedom of Choice)
And at the risk of immediately contradicting myself, Carl Wilson's book on Celine Dion completely breaks from that classic formula, but it's just a great piece of writing. A sort of treatise on taste, art, credibility, and hipsterdom, with Celine Dion as a framing device. That one could really exist outside of the series, since it's brimming over with big ideas.
― enochroot, Monday, 24 July 2017 01:22 (six years ago) link
ooh
https://media.bloomsbury.com/rep/f/9781501323072.jpg
https://bloomsbury.com/uk/lou-reeds-transformer-9781501323058/
― piscesx, Monday, 16 April 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link
I was really hoping this revive was because they're accepting pitches again :(
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 16 April 2018 22:32 (six years ago) link
(but that said I'm game for this book)
coming soon to spotify
― adam the (abanana), Thursday, 10 May 2018 19:52 (six years ago) link
Ooh, I wonder which ones and who will read them
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 May 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
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 (five 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 (two 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 (two years ago) link
101?? Fantastic!
― piscesx, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 01:23 (two years ago) link
BBC Radiophonic Workshop! Wow.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 02:42 (two 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 (one year ago) link
Recent discussion of Suicide books & related on Good books about music
― dow, Sunday, 3 July 2022 23:38 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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