― 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
The Stone Roses one was okay, not much in the way of new info and insights really (though I did learn that what I previously thought was just a guitar string squeak in "Elizabeth My Dear" was really supposed to be a silenced gunshot.)
The Riot one was excellent. I especially liked his first chapters talking from the point of view of someone who was there.
I had high hopes for the Endtroducing one since it's one of the few (only?) hip-hop books but it was really just one long interview with Shadow. Very boring, gross hyperbole at the beginning (the author says something along the lines of Endtroducing not sounding like anything before or since type crap) and Davis himself is not the most interesting of interviewees.
The VU and Nico had some informative info but Joe Harvard's writing style and attitude just rubbed me the wrong way.
― Viz (Viz), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jay Vee's Return (Manon_69), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 12 June 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link
For this series, I've really enjoyed both the personal takes and insights gained from repeated close listenings that the authors bring to their books and the Endtroducing one was more like "here's an oral history of DJ Shadow" and it didn't focus enough on Endtroducing.
I think the format that was used for the Paul's Boutique book would have served Endtroducing a lot more, ie. context, process, funny stories behind the samples...
― Viz (Viz), Monday, 12 June 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Saturday, 15 July 2006 06:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roque Strew (RoqueStrew), Saturday, 15 July 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 15 July 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― reynard the fox (Pearl Hooch), Saturday, 15 July 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link
I'd like to read more though. I'd most like to read ones that either give a lot of details about the making of the record or do close critical analysis rather than ones that are more off-the-wall in their theorizing. Which ones would suit me?
― Matt Olken (Moodles), Saturday, 15 July 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link
I pitched it and got rejected.
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Saturday, 15 July 2006 22:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Sunday, 16 July 2006 01:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 16 July 2006 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Sunday, 16 July 2006 02:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 16 July 2006 02:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 16 July 2006 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't see why this is so hard to believe.
And yes, Dominique Leone posts on ILX.
Jesus, ILM these days is a chore.
― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 16 July 2006 05:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 16 July 2006 06:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 16 July 2006 06:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― so hongro, so angry (haitch), Sunday, 16 July 2006 07:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Go1dberg (Steve Schneeberg), Sunday, 16 July 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link
concerning joy div books there is the highly recommended ian curtis biography by mick middles. personal, insightful and touching. with lots of typos but that makes it even more loveable.
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 05:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― a rapper singing about hos and bitches and money (Enrique), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Revivalist (Revivalist), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 09:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― meritocracy (spencerman), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― the dow nut industrial average dead joe mama besser (donut), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stew (stew s), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link
So Velvet Underground & Nico is your Big Mac and any semirevered afterworks like Unknown Pleasure or Loveless are just kid's meals. the new ones with milk and carrots.
But I'm wondering if that's what all the books give you, a THIS IS IT AND ALL THERE IS LEFT of anything credible.i.e. I'll read Loveless and it'll convince me of the untimeliness of so-called 60s rock purveyors. or something.
I think I just want to get another one because I like the size. It's nice and tiny for metro rides.I might like to read ABBA one, if that's any good. I have no interest in NMH, though I'm wondering if I'm mistaken. I think Borders has Live at the Apollo so maybe that one.
― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Friday, 15 September 2006 08:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― mox twelve (Mox twleve), Friday, 15 September 2006 08:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 15 September 2006 09:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 15 September 2006 09:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Friday, 15 September 2006 10:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 15 September 2006 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Hey, I pitched Violator and got the same answer! (Well, presumably the same form letter.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 15 September 2006 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link