33 1/3 Series of books

I'd read these:

“Apple Venus Vol. 1″ – XTC
“Are We Not Men” – Devo
“Computer World” – Kraftwerk
“Hello Nasty” – Beastie Boys
“Kimono My House” – Sparks
“Living Colour” – Vivid
“Orbus Terrarum” – The Orb
“Shaq Fu: Da Return” – Shaquille O’Neal
“Silver Apples” – Silver Apples
“Skylarking” – XTC
“Spiderman of the Rings”- Dan Deacon
“Super Mario Bros.” – Koji Kondo
“Very” – The Pet Shop Boys
“Ys” – Joanna Newsom

“Super Mario Bros.” – Koji Kondo

iirc this is a video game and not an album?

Are those all being made? Whats going on? I dont want to read further upthread to find out so just give me a synopsis ASAP

Would def read a book only about Koji Kondo.

Vaguely curious about the "Big Shiny Tunes 2" one.

Also what is "1971" - The Beatles? A Bootleg? Or an imaginary album?

Rooting for:
“Big Science” – Laurie Anderson
“Bitches Brew” – Miles Davis
“Disco Volante” – Mr. Bungle
“Metal Machine Music” – Lou Reed
“Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols” – The Sex Pistols

What album on the list are they referring to as being released THIS YEAR? Or do they mean the 2013 albums?

iirc this is a video game and not an album?

i mean i'm assuming its just about the music which would be fairly interesting considering how iconic every single piece is now

would read the metal machine music one

Also what is "1971" - The Beatles? A Bootleg? Or an imaginary album?

I'm guessing it's one of those "What if the Beatles hadn't broken up?" fantasy records made up of songs from their solo records.

But I'm hoping it's not, and that it's written by Mark Shipper.

I want to read the Captain Beyond one.

would buy weird al and crash test dummies books in an instant.

Big Shiny Tunes 2 is giving me car sickness just thinking about it.

"We all know The Beatles broke up in 1970, but hey what if they didn't.. "

http://www.flixist.com/ul/210349-losing-my-virginity-the-royal-tenenbaums/The-Royal-Tenenbaums-Owen-Wilson-620x.jpg

one can only hope the non-broken-up beatles would have had the common sense to sequence "the lovely linda" and "oh yoko!" back to back.

and that it's written by Mark Shipper.
Did that ever come back into print? I guess a used copy is not too expensive.

It didn't, but yeah, used copies seem to be plentiful and cheap.

Feel like I lent or gave my copy to someone who didn't really appreciate it.

interesting list of proposals. did anyone on here put one in?

i did, but i haven't seen anyone mention it in "entries i'd like to read" lists. mine's the laura nyro eli and the thirteenth confession one.

feel like someone should cut-and-paste one album's worth of posts from the ILM eagles listening thread and pitch it to 33 1/3.

I'd read the throwing muses obviously (no, it isn't me, none of them are mine because too much was going on during the proposal window)

also apparently two people were just champing at the bit to get to write about pinkerton once it opened up, which sounds exactly right (although one of my favorite pieces of music writing ever was on that album, so hey)

a good book on No Other would be great

though that said, i would read it with trepidation; it's far too complex and subjective a record to write about with unchecked assertiveness.

feel like someone should cut-and-paste one album's worth of posts from the ILM eagles listening thread and pitch it to 33 1/3.

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I think they'd be into it. John D's book was an experimental format.

Also you guys strokes thread in the da capo book

which Strokes thread was this again?

C'mon everyone, let's be cool.

^ gets it

v doesn't.

>:-(

surprising no-one suggested any REM this time in the proposals list. i bet a New Adevntures.. one would be pretty popular.

Just finished the "Histoire de Melody Nelson" one. It's less about digging into the album than it is a long appreciation of/introduction to Gainsbourg. Overall very good. Hell of a lot of typos throughout, though, which I hadn't noticed in previous books in the series.
Up next is "SAW 2".

i want to write one on mgmt's congratulations.

i'll proofread it for you treezy

has there been one for robert wyatt's rock bottom?

“She’s So Unusual” - Cyndi Lauper

i would write this one

The' Short' List is in!

Heh, more than one person propsed one on Phish's A Live One!

ooh dragnet!

Two for Like a Prayer? What assholes

The SAW2 is such a letdown so far. Too much about others adapting SAW2 tracks for acoustic instruments or dance productions or about other stuff that is peripheral to the actual recordings. I wanna know some inside stuff about the recording for example. Bore.

Would buy:

“Big Science” – Laurie Anderson (Eric)
“Dragnet” – The Fall
“Extricate” – The Fall
“For Your Pleasure” – Roxy Music
“God Shuffled His Feet” – Crash Test Dummies
“Hounds of Love” – Kate Bush
“Metal Box” – Public Image Ltd (Ryan)
“No Depression” – Uncle Tupelo
“Peepshow” – Siouxsie and the Banshees
“Stop Making Sense” – Talking Heads
“The Raincoats” – The Raincoats (Jenn)

Bummed my Orbus Terrarum pitch didn't make it.

I think Odyshape's the better/more interesting album, but I'd still read a volume on The Raincoats.

they're announcing the finalists soon -- they told me in advance that mine didn't make it.

if you'd like to read the draft intro i submitted, here's a slightly retooled version on my blog:

http://jodybethrosen.com/2014/05/17/laura-nyro-eli-and-the-thirteenth-confession/

Oh, Sweet Blindness - of the selection committee.

i'm currently working through the book on Led Zeppelin IV. it's very well written, but tends to fixate on things that are a bit peripheral to how the album resonates with me on a personal level. but i will persist.

ha, jody i had no idea you were still around here. can't keep up w/ screen names.

That's a great article, JB. Best line:
Pop music is so mutable and chameleonic, so driven by fashion and technology and contaminated by whatever comes in contact with it, that it barely qualifies as a genre.

Newest entry will be about the music of Super Mario Bros.: http://333sound.com/2014/05/20/new-33-13-title-koji-kondos-super-mario-bros/

I'm pretty suspicious about this one cause he wrote a Thought Catalog piece AND book about the same topic:

http://thoughtcatalog.com/andrew-schartmann/2013/08/waltzing-with-super-mario/
http://thoughtcatalog.com/book/maestro-mario-how-nintendo-transformed-videogame-music-into-an-art/

How will this new entry not just be a repackaging of the latter, seriously