33 1/3 Series of books

does anyone know if there are distribution issues with these now? i've been watching the shelves of these dwindle at Reckless and I noticed today that the entire display is gone.

xp tbh i'm not sure if VDP actually *read* the book, but he gave it his blessing.

it says in the book that VDP was interviewed for it and cooperated in any-which-way most kindly.

Don't mean to be too negative but The Tusk one is more a book about the author than the record, which I find utterly tragic.

That was certainly my impression as far as I was able to get into it before putting it down for good. It reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally put me off.

that's too bad, there's a good book waiting to be written about Tusk.

there's a good book waiting to be written about Tusk.

^^ true dat. it's one of those albums with so much potencial for a great book.

finishing 'sign o'the times' and really enjoying it. 'use your illusion I & II' is on queue.

BTW perhaps this is obvious, but Revolution in the Head is a supreme work of music writing, likely setting the tone for this series in many ways - yet still out there on its own in terms of quality of research and depth of perception.

You're Living All Over Me book is really tediously written.

yeah i just read that one recently, i enjoyed it and it did give me a new perspective on a great album, but the way he had to self-consciously frame every section and observation was exhausting.

inspired by this thread I finally got myself the first anthology, plan on getting some more individual ones soon.

The Barnes & Noble in Union Square NYC has a whole display rack of these, btw, if anybody's looking for them.

Reckless in Chicago also has a wonderful selection, for those unaware.

BTW perhaps this is obvious, but Revolution in the Head is a supreme work of music writing, likely setting the tone for this series in many ways

Not obvious to me since I'm missing the connection.

Also, you two need to meet:

i've been watching the shelves of these dwindle at Reckless and I noticed today that the entire display is gone.

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Reckless in Chicago also has a wonderful selection, for those unaware.

― Marty McBrundlefly (Deric W. Haircare)

Well, they maintained a great selection for several years. Apparently that's changed in the last 9 months or so.

fwiw, its been in like the last few weeks. i was in there again on Friday and the entire display was gone, but I forgot to ask about it. disappointing because it was the one place i knew i could find them. oddly enough, none of the big chains downtown carry any of these.

Greenlight bookstore in Fort Greene usually has a nice lil stash of em. and an impressive selection of other music writing given the bookstore's size

I get mine from the library mostly (although I do own a few.)

They've shot me down twice so far, but I plan to pitch again.

I still think Use Your Illusion is the best in the series that I've read.

the Sound Garden in Baltimore usually keeps a nice amount of 33 1/3s on their bookshelf

I thought for years about proposing a Dolly Parton's Coat Of Many Colors volume, but my theoretical approach was obliquely similar to that ultimately used by Carl Wilson, so I never did much with it. Plus there's that whole thing where I'm in no way a professional writer, so whatevs.

re: chicago, they have a pretty good selection of these at the Book Cellar in Lincoln Square.

I also bought a bunch of half price remaindered copies at Powell's in Chicago but, again, it's been a while.

Ordered the "Song Cycle" one from Amazon today. They had only 1 left in stock!

i pitched one of these once (for Thursday's 'War All the Time'). it seems to me that for various (very legitimate) reasons these really need to be about [relatively] well-known albums in order to have any shot at being marketable and all the good album stories i'd want to tell are for albums that a) not enough people have heard of or b) no one has heard of. if i could figure out a spin on a more well-known album that would let me do my thing on it, i might pitch again but i'm at a loss :/

Chicago dudes: there's a decent selection available at the Book Cellar in Lincoln Sq.

i feel like i see them everywhere

10 kindle books $1 each. What's good?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_362668562_3?docId=1000789181

At that price, I'll probably get them all.

Nation Of Millions and Low out of those ten (that I've read).

yow that is a steal. almost makes me wish i owned a kindle.

I don't own a kindle either, but there's a free app that allows you to read kindle books on your Mac (and I think there's one for PC and phone). Got Nation, VGPS, Low, can't wait to jump in.

Nations and PB are both fun.

Calibre will also convert Kindle format to ePub format if that's your thing too.

I don't have a Kindle, but the Kindle app for the iPad is free. Bought all ten this morning.

Pixies and NMH are both rly great IMO

I bought them all except the Johnny Cash (don't give a shit about those recordings) and the Beach Boys (because of lukewarm reviews).

wait wait

(don't give a thorns about those recordings)

xpost Elvis, I thought Kindle books were DRM'd though? Can Calibre epub them in spite of that?

I bought most these thinking I could put them on my non-Kindle ereader... turns out not. Can't even get to the damn files from their cloud reader bullshit. Ugh, fuck Amazon.

I bought most these thinking I could put them on my non-Kindle ereader... turns out not. Can't even get to the damn files from their cloud reader bullshit. Ugh, fuck Amazon.
--smash williams

What's your ereader?

Dang, I missed it.

xpost... Kobo.

Calibre should convert them for you. You just need to download the plugin that allows it.

Maybe I'm overlooking something obvious, but how do I download the files from the cloud reader so that I can convert them with Calibre?

Amazon should have given you an option to download them as .azw (think that is right) files.

Was able to get them by downloading the Kindle for Mac app then downloading the books there. It puts the azw files in the Library folder. Now to strip the DRM and convert them to epub.

Thanks for the help.

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/17/jonathan_lethems_perfect_album

damn, too slow!

yeah Fear of Music would have to have more uptempo songs to be a perfect album imo