There's already a Court and Spark 33 1/3.
― jaymc, Monday, 30 January 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
then I guess I will have to read it
― Full Frontal Newtity (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 30 January 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
One of the best books in the series!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
Blue Bell Knoll
Oh hell yes! Would love that too
― future debts collector (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
Do an Under The Pink book and lots of buyers will come out of the woodwork.
― Burritos are one of the things I'm nostalgic about!!! (Eazy), Monday, 30 January 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder if the time is right yet for a Kraftwerk book. Already pitched twice, and know it's been turned down by a few other people pitching them too so it almost feels like it'd be a waste of time to try again.
― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 30 January 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
I do wonder about their absence. Also Depeche's, but I would wonder about that.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
another prodigy shoegazing person surely!― keythhtyek, Saturday, January 28, 2012 4:38 PM
...aaaaaand we've got a positive ID! ha, ha...Regarding Kraftwerk, there's this: http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=133992&SearchType=Basic
― JMB, Monday, 30 January 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
has anyone done colossal youth??
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 30 January 2012 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
Re kraftwerk - Continuum published a whole book of essays devoted to Kraftwerk a year or so ago. Not part of the series, but...
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Monday, 30 January 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
'sup JMB
― andrew m., Monday, 30 January 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
atm otm
― pplains, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
Weird. Howdy, atm!
― JMB, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
who is atm?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
he is a hippie dishwasher.
― pplains, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 01:16 (twelve years ago) link
I'm too ADD to write 1,000 words on any topic, much less 30,000, but someone needs to take on Kris Kristofferson's first album.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
atm's me, amateurist. EX-hippie dishwasher. jmb is an ex-arkansan (hope he doesn't mind the reveal). couldn't resist sayin hi. xp and carry on.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 1 February 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
when i heard they reopened submissions i was like "finally, scott can write a book about katatonia's discouraged ones"
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 February 2012 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
Addressing financial issues upthread:
I wrote one of these books, way back in 2005. I got the $3,000 advance, and after a few years, the book did earn out its advance and I started getting royalties. Not sure how much I've earned, as the cheques have come in in dribs and drabs, but it's in the $2,000-$3,000 range. So that's $5,000-$6,000 so far for 30,000 words. On top of that, I had some journalistic work specifically off the back of the book.
Certainly no one's going to write one of these books for the money, but I'd say that ultimately it does just about make financial sense as well, as long as you write about a fairly popular album.
― hugo_w, Thursday, 2 February 2012 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
Your book was excellent.
― smash williams, Friday, 3 February 2012 05:58 (twelve years ago) link
Which book was yours?
― Who wants to see the great Pavarotti sit on a pie? (jer.fairall), Friday, 3 February 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
Just going out on a limb here, but based on display name i'm guessing Low, which really was a great read.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 February 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
Matrix: Music From The Motion Picture by Hugo Weaving
― some dude, Friday, 3 February 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 3 February 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
I actually met Hugo Weaving once, and we talked about the ins and outs of being called Hugo.
But yeah, I wrote the Low one. And thanks for the kind words, smash williams!
― hugo_w, Saturday, 4 February 2012 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
low is one of the best ones imo http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― dave cool, Saturday, 4 February 2012 06:16 (twelve years ago) link
my friends' book/magazine store carries these, i took a picture of another friend's dog looking mildly interested in dave's book.
― sarahell, Saturday, 4 February 2012 09:41 (twelve years ago) link
has anyone ever suggested 'Pump Up The Volume' by MARRS? i mean i know the idea is to do albums per se, but there'd be enough material to do 8 chapters about that one song i'd have thought. and uh.. you know the original 12" was 33 1/3 RPM too! you could do a chapter on all the samples (of which there were meant to be literally 100s) and stuff about the 2 bands that made MARRS, the impact, the history etc. it's not a particularly well known story either and would surely make for a more interesting read than yet another book about some band who have been written about a million times before.
― piscesx, Saturday, 4 February 2012 12:50 (twelve years ago) link
"and stuff about the 2 bands that made MARRS"
reslly only one if you ask me. you gonna do a chapter on the loser ar kane b-side?
― scott seward, Saturday, 4 February 2012 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
could you really write 90+ pages about one MARRS track?
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 4 February 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
i totally could. i mean, i won't, but i could.
― scott seward, Saturday, 4 February 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
I'd be genuinely into a book on the Vengaboys' The Party Album. There's a surprising amount of backstory once you start reading a bit. The backgrounds of some of the members are also pretty intriguing (e.g., dolphin trainer). And then there's the eurodisco/klf element to some of their stunts (not to mention their attitude towards the music they produce).
― s.clover, Thursday, 1 March 2012 07:07 (twelve years ago) link
it's true about the LOW book - I learned from that when I was keen to find about that Bowie era.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 1 March 2012 08:49 (twelve years ago) link
o hullooo, the pinefox!what other 33 1/3 books have you read, and how art they?
― t**t, Thursday, 1 March 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
Finished the Swordfishtrombones book the other. Quite good fun.
― Alexandre Dumbass (dog latin), Thursday, 1 March 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
Really enjoyed the Low book, but then I'm a huge fan of Hugo Williams's 2 novels, too
Couldn't get past one chapter of the Rid of Me book--like the Meat is Murder book it's a fiction response to the album, but unlike the Meat is Murder book it was incredibly irritating
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
Really hoping for a book on Suicide's first album
― Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:55 (twelve years ago) link
reading the amazing grace book right now, which is pretty solid, a little bit subdued in tone, but that's not a bad thing. lots of interesting background about the gospel world. mainly makes me wish they would get the film of the sessions completed, for the love of GOD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JrHr1P5ryc
― tylerw, Thursday, 1 March 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
film is completed, i think, but aretha's blocking it.
― face depalma (stevie), Friday, 2 March 2012 08:38 (twelve years ago) link
The one about Tusk is a piece of shit.
― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Friday, 2 March 2012 09:03 (twelve years ago) link
reading the amazing grace book right now, which is pretty solid, a little bit subdued in tone, but that's not a bad thing. lots of interesting background about the gospel world. mainly makes me wish they would get the film of the sessions completed, for the love of GOD.
Yeah, the film-in-limbo is pretty frustrating. Great book, though. Tremendously informative.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Friday, 2 March 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, frustrating, looks like amazing footage.
― tylerw, Friday, 2 March 2012 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
The one about Tusk is a piece of shit.― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops)
Why?I was considering buying it.
― t**t, Friday, 2 March 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
Village Green & Song Cycle both seem pretty great, tho.
― t**t, Monday, 26 March 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
i got to meet Weisbard at EMP over the weekend and had to tell him that Use Your Illusion was by far one of my favorite 33 1/3s -- he seemed genuinely surprised to hear that from anyone and said it was the lowest selling book in the series (i don't know if he meant literally the single lowest or just that it was pretty far down there)
― internet somebody (some dude), Monday, 26 March 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
nevermind, i forgot that there was an actual sales ranking on the official 33 1/3 blog -- GNR is in the bottom 10 but as of last year the lowest was Van Dyke Parks apparently
― internet somebody (some dude), Monday, 26 March 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
is anyone else here planning on submitting a proposal?
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 26 March 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
Man, that's too bad. I really dug Use Your Illusion, as well. It's prolly in my top five (with Let's Talk About Love and Master of Reality and some other stuff...kinda want to see Another Green World get some use as an improv text).
― Mary Steamvirgin (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 26 March 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
as of last year the lowest was Van Dyke Parks apparently
How we lost $35,509 on 'The 33 1/3 Book of the Year' (Dammit)
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
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. Dip into it in a bookshop if you can. YMMV.
The Song Cycle one, on the other hand, should be at the top of the charts rather than the bottom. It sheds all hell of new light on many aspects of what is to many an obscure and at times impenetrably referential LP. Plus it's well-written by a guy who has loved the record since it came out.
― Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 08:19 (twelve years ago) link