33 1/3 Series of books

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

Makes you think.

geeks have money

To highlight each new title and the author behind it, we’ll announce one book each day over the next two weeks.

ugh come ONNNNNNN

next ones are amanda palmer and keyboard cat

Chapter 1: Ragtime
Chapter 2: Chiptunes
Appendix

I'm going to read that but would prefer one on the Donkey Kong Country 2 OST

Would legit read one about DKC music; that was kind of an actual turning point for video game music, no?

No.

good choice IMO

I would read the Mario book in a heartbeat but hopefully it won't be mostly videogame history, Atari, ET, the crash, Nintendo saving the day, etc. Which has been written about a million times over.

A book on Japanese videogame music is SORELY needed, but one that would dig deep into the history of Westernized rock/pop music reflected in Japan, what composers are most inspired by Cheap Trick/Deep Purple, the handful of composers that wrote most of the tracks in the late 80s that are still being recycled to this day, etc. Basically something someone has probably already written in Japan.

Re: DKC I think it was a change in game music from a SNES-technological perspective but WipeOut on PS would be a way better choice, death of MIDI-based vgame music, dawn of CD-audio, plus it's an awesome soundtrack

the aja, song cycle, and trout mask replica books r rly good

DKC2 is not necessarily a milestone, just really really great, also re: wise's comments about how he realized its impact only relatively recently, but it's definitely worth writing about it, the english videogame composer scene at the time, the randomness of how some soundtracks ended up the way they did, and probably less predictable than a book about WipeOut which got a lot of hype for its soundtrack then and since.

I think overall the Nintendo/Genesis videogame revolution was a milestone for music because it was perhaps the first mass breakthrough of Japanese pop culture into US/Western culture. Entire generations of gamers have grown up hearing music composed by Japanese musicians. And not just Japanese men, but a great many of those composers were women.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_musicians

Is DKC2 that much better/impactful than DKC? Honest question, not a jackassy one

Would read a book abt EarthBound music tho am I rite????

DKC was the real breakthrough soundtrack, DKC2 not much of a technological improvement on it (afaict, maybe it is in a way that is not obvious). I was impressed by the sound quality in the first few SNES games, but DKC was the first time I recall putting down a video game and just listening to the music (which they assisted with by letting the music play while the game was paused).

DKC2 is just the all killer, no filler refinement of DKC OST. Also a feel-good story in David WIse, who's not done a high profile soundtrack since the 90s, coming back to Nintendo for the new Donkey Kong game this year and releasing what 'people' (on forums) almost unanimously seem to agree is a worthy follow-up on the same level.

Back on topic and many xps - I don't think this will waste time on gaming history- surely by going so specific he'll be able to talk about the finer details of the craft and that specific scene. Agreed about japanese game music - I've been trying to find theory about, for instance, what's so special about japanese pop melodies, and it's all (seemingly) in Japanese and often by amateurs. Put up a kickstarter on the bible on japanese game music and I'll support you.

why would you play a video game with the sound on?

Why go fly a kite when you can just pop a pill?

Because...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cjjqfYjIwk#t=25

so.. Beat Happening and The Grateful Dead
http://333sound.com/

oh cool grateful dead, v v underrated band, glad to see them get some shine

I don't think I've ever actually heard the Grateful Dead aside from "Touch of Grey"

Of course, the Beat Happening book author is also the "creator of the quarterly print journal True Sincerity"

there are going to be *some* female authors on this year's list right

so almost all of the smashing pumpkins original LPs got proposals, yeah? except gish, yeah? whats the over/under on those being put out in this round?

a little tangential here but 33 1/3 was the first thing i thought about on hearing of this series
http://bossfightbooks.com/