― PB, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:34 (eighteen years ago) link
also got the ABBA one, which i devoured in a day. twas OK, wish Ms Vincentelli had spent fewer sentences justifying (or having to justify) the book's very existence. also i'm not sure she cracked the problem of how to order the narrative, though I accept it's a toughie.
― zebedee (zebedee), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link
These are a few of the projects that - for various and sometimes complicated reasons - never made it to fruition. Some came very close to happening, others less so; but they all would have been fun.
― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Songs in the Key of Life, by Dave Hesmondhalgh
Why not?
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Matos' Sign O'The Times book's prince has been slashed (on Amazon at least) to $4.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0826415474/qid=1122928710/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-2999298-5726417?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
― Matt Sab (Matt Sab), Monday, 1 August 2005 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link
This has been a difficult process: we received dozens of very strong proposals from dozens of very good writers and it's a shame to have to turn down so many of you.
If you're interested, the 33 1/3 books we eventually decided to sign up are:
"If You're Feeling Sinister" by Scott Plagenhoef
"Aja" by Don Breithaupt
"Shoot Out the Lights" by Hayden Childs
"Pretty Hate Machine" by Daphne Carr
"Use Your Illusion" by Eric Weisbard
"Horses" by Phil Shaw
"Double Nickels on the Dime" by Mike Fournier
"Pink Moon" by Amanda Petrusich
"People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm" by Shawn Taylor
"Achtung Baby" by Stephen Catanzarite
"20 Jazz Funk Greats" by Drew Daniel
"The Dreaming" by Ann Powers
"Rid of Me" by Kate Schatz
"Another Green World" by Geeta Dayal
"Songs in the Key of Life" by Zeth Lundy
"Trout Mask Replica" by Kevin Courrier
"Let's Talk About Love" by Carl Wilson
"Lucinda Williams" by Anders Smith Lindall
"69 Love Songs" by LD Beghtol
“Marquee Moon” by Peter Blauner
“Swordfishtrombones” by David Smay
― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Thursday, 26 January 2006 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Thursday, 26 January 2006 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 January 2006 20:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 26 January 2006 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 January 2006 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 26 January 2006 22:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 9 June 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 9 June 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 9 June 2006 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link
So then I guess he didn't read the 100-odd pages in which Matos discussed Prince.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 9 June 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 June 2006 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link
DeRo is a FUCKING MORON.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 June 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Terrible Cold (Terrible Cold), Friday, 9 June 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jeff LeVine (Jeff LeVine), Friday, 9 June 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, it's all info, no prose. A lot of the 33 1/3 books seem to forget how much people like that.
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 9 June 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Friday, 9 June 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― David Bachyrycz (David Bachyrycz), Friday, 9 June 2006 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Someone should do Tom T. Hall's greatest hits.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 June 2006 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 9 June 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 9 June 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link
seriously though, i realize the books have to sell, hence the more mainstream angle. i'm sure there are a ton of albums the writers would love to write about that aren't commercially viable for the publisher.
― gear (gear), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:26 (seventeen years ago) link
actually do you think they would let somebody self-33 1/3? if it was some famous musician?
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ (chaki), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Morrissey is not attracted to Morrissey.
― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Carl Wilson is writing one about Celine Dion's "Let's Talk About Love".
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jeff Reguil0n (Talent Explosion), Saturday, 10 June 2006 03:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Schneeberg (Steve Goldberg), Saturday, 10 June 2006 11:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 10 June 2006 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 10 June 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Terrible Cold (Terrible Cold), Monday, 12 June 2006 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Monday, 12 June 2006 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
This is more or less happening with LD Beghtol writing about 69 Love Songs. No idea how it's coming along; I haven't talked to him since the EMP Pop Conference.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 12 June 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― dh (djh), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
I would read Jordan on New Orleans brass !
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 20 June 2023 18:29 (ten months ago) link
Pulp’s This is Hardcore coming next year by Jane Savidge.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pulps-this-is-hardcore-9798765106952/
― piscesx, Sunday, 2 July 2023 04:11 (nine months ago) link
Nice.
― Looking For Mr. Goodreads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 2 July 2023 18:47 (nine months ago) link
The Dead C’s Clyma est mort
wow!
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 08:35 (nine months ago) link
ooh nice
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 16:22 (nine months ago) link
!
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 16:36 (nine months ago) link
Just a warning--the Dead C's one is in 33 1/3 Oceania which I learned, on buying two of the books in that series yesterday, is a completely different size to the rest of the books. This is aesthetically maddening.https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0K_qQoaIAEfvmw?format=jpg&name=large
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 23:11 (nine months ago) link
This one just came in at the library. Looks interesting:
https://333sound.com/vopli-vidopliassovas-tantsi-excerpt/
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Monday, 17 July 2023 18:18 (nine months ago) link
oh, excellent. one of the best post soviet bands and one of the best post soviet albums. i still remember seeing the Tantsi video when it was first broadcast.
― scanner darkly, Monday, 17 July 2023 20:59 (nine months ago) link
Have to say the upcoming Erotica book sounds fascinating
Everyone wanted Madonna’s Erotica to be scandalous, even pornographic. In the midst of the early 1990s culture wars, conservatives wanted it to be proof of the decline of family values. The target of conservative loathing, gay men reeling from the AIDS epidemic wanted it to be a celebration of a sexual culture that had rapidly slipped away. And of course Madonna herself, who released the album at the same time as her actually pornographic coffee-book table simply titled Sex, knew sex sells. But Erotica is more sentimental than sexual. At a time when sex was deadly, this sentimentality was not kitsch, but a way of sustaining a sexual culture. In this book, Michael Dango shows how Erotica marks an inflection point in multiple narratives. It is the album in which Madonna began more directly addressing her gay audience, at the same time that gay politics was transitioning from a sexual liberation framework to a rights-based framework that would ultimately culminate in same-sex marriage. To tell this story, Dango draws on his own experiences positioned between two generations of gay people―between a generation decimated by AIDS and a generation that grew up assuming they would be able to get married―as well as works of queer theory, which emerged in the academy at the same time as Madonna emerged on the music scene.
https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/michael-dango/madonnas-erotica-33-13
― piscesx, Sunday, 13 August 2023 19:59 (eight months ago) link
I expect nothing less than one of this series’ finest moments from that entry
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Sunday, 13 August 2023 20:53 (eight months ago) link
I sometimes daydream about which album I would write about were I to ever send in a proposal. And I think I've worked out that it would have to be Confield by Autechre. Partly because I've already written a good 3 or 4 articles about them in the past and I'm a big nerd; but specifically this album because while it is likely their most well-recognised album, it's also the one I've had most trouble getting to grips with. And it's precisely this "thorniness", with 22 years' hindsight, that I'd like to make peace with. Whereas I could probably wax lyrical about LP5 or Sign or Oversteps, it's Confield that I think would yield the most interesting writing
― ...eh you get the gist of it (dog latin), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 19:51 (six months ago) link
I would love to read that.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 22:21 (six months ago) link
I daydream about writing one on You and Your Sister by the Vulgar Boatmen.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 23:43 (six months ago) link
It looks like two really great ones are out this month and next month; Erotica and Ingenue, good timing too considering they’re both from the same year.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 00:26 (six months ago) link
Open call for Proposals for 2024, deadline is March 29th.
https://333sound.com/33-1-3-open-call-for-proposals-2024/
― piscesx, Thursday, 8 February 2024 14:16 (two months ago) link