33 1/3 – serie
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Cure's Disintegration
Häftad, 2026
167 kr
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This book begs the question: why should an album make you feel good? In 1989, The Cure’s Robert Smith was going to turn thirty years old. His fears and anxieties of age—having not yet written his pinnacle album—caused Smith to embark on the band’s undoing with Disintegration. The result was an LP …
National's Boxer
Av Ryan Pinkard
Häftad, 2022
133 kr
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“Pinkard’s account... brings to light the ambition and artistry, the stress and frustration, and ultimately the joy of making this very special album."—Peter Katis, The National’s engineer, and mixer on Boxer“I am spooked by how well [Pinkard] has captured these characters and this madcap project. …
Kraftwerk's Computer World
Häftad, 2022
133 kr
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Computer World was Kraftwerk’s most concise and focused conceptual statement, their most influential record and crowning achievement. Computer World transformed the way pop music was composed, played, packaged and released and, in the process, helped create entire new genres of music including …
My Bloody Valentine's Loveless
Häftad, 2007
136 kr
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This epoch-making record of the late '80s effortlessly combines dense swathes of guitar noise and dance music. This turned out to be their last record, guitarist and studio maestro Kevin Shields having set their standards so high it was impossible to surpass them. Shields is now playing with Primal …
R.E.M.'s Murmur
Av J. Niimi
Häftad, 2005
133 kr
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R.E.M.'s debut album, released in 1983, was so far removed from the prevailing trends of American popular music that it still sounds miraculous and out of time today. J. Niimi tells the story of the album's genesis - with fascinating input from Don Dixon and Mitch Easter. He also investigates …
DJ Shadow's Endtroducing
Av Eliot Wilder
Häftad, 2005
133 kr
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What resonated about "Endtroducing" when it was released in 1996, and what makes it still resonate today, is the way in which it loosens itself from the mooring of the known and sails off into an uncharted territory that seems to exist both in and out of time. Josh Davis is not only a master …
Elvis Presley's From Elvis in Memphis
Av Eric Wolfson
Häftad, 2020
3,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
133 kr
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A Classic Rock book of 2020"I had to leave town for a little while--" with these words, Elvis Presley truly came home to rock and roll. A little over a month earlier he had staged rock’s first and greatest comeback in a television program, forever known as "The ’68 Comeback Special." With this …
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads
Häftad, 2020
133 kr
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In a bar called The Bucket of Blood, a man shoots the bartender four times in the head. In the small town of Millhaven, a teenage girl secretly and gleefully murders her neighbors. A serial killer travels from home to home, quoting John Milton in his victims’ blood.Murder Ballads, the ninth studio …
Sigur Rós's ( )
Av Ethan Hayden
Häftad, 2014
133 kr
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Words like "inspiring," "expansive," and "moving" are regularly used to describe Sigur Rós's ( ), and yet the only words heard on the record itself are a handful of meaningless nonsense syllables. The album has no title—or rather, its title is no title: just an empty pair of parentheses. The …
Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures
Av Chris Ott
Häftad, 2004
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
133 kr
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33 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album rather than an artist's entire output, the books dispense with the standard biographical background that fans know already, and cut to the heart of the music on each …
PJ Harvey's Rid of Me: A Story
Av Kate Schatz
Häftad, 2007
133 kr
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'Songs are there for the people, to be used by people, in any way they want to use them.' (Polly Jean Harvey, 1993) This book takes Polly Jean at her word. Kate Schatz puts together a collection of stories that is weird, dark, and seductive in its portrayals of women, kidnapping, love, sex, …
Patti Smith's Horses
Av Philip Shaw
Häftad, 2008
149 kr
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Described, variously, as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept was "rock and Rimbaud"), Horses belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does to the realm of musicology. Thus, while due attention will be given to the record's …
Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis
Av Warren Zanes
Häftad, 2003
133 kr
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Dusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield's beautiful and bizarre magnum opus, remains as fine a hybrid of pop and rhythm and blues as has ever been made. In this remarkable book, Warren Zanes explores his own love affair with the record. He digs deep into the album's Memphis roots and talks to several …
Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Av Kim Cooper
Häftad, 2005
133 kr
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Of all the recordings to emerge from the Athens-via-Denver collective called "Elephant 6", Neutral Milk Hotel's second album is the one that has worked its way under the most skins. "Magnet" magazine named it the best album of the 1990s, and "Creative Loafing" recently devoted a cover story to one …
Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation
Häftad, 2007
133 kr
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"Daydream Nation" is the kind of gorgeous monstrosity (born of extremes, rife with difficulties, and mythic in proportion) that can crush the will of the most resilient, well-intentioned listener if the necessary preparations haven't been made. In this book, Matthew Stearns explores the album from …
Raincoats' The Raincoats
Av Jenn Pelly
Häftad, 2017
133 kr
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In 1979, from the basement of a London squat, the Raincoats reinvented what punk could be. They had a violin player. They came from Portugal, Spain, and England. Their anarchy was poetic. Working with the iconic Rough Trade Records at its radical beginnings, they were the first group of punk women …
Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street
Häftad, 2005
137 kr
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Tracing the creation of Exile on Main Street from the original songwriting done while touring America through the final editing in Los Angeles, Bill Janovitz explains how an album recorded by a British band in a villa on the French Riviera is pure American rock & roll. Looking at each song …
Miles Davis' Bitches Brew
Häftad, 2015
139 kr
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It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic generation of young musicians, an important handful of whom had been in his band. Rock music was flying off in every direction, just as America itself seemed about to split at its seams. Following the …
John Cale's Paris 1919
Av Mark Doyle
Häftad, 2025
131 kr
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John Cale’s enigmatic masterpiece, Paris 1919, appeared at a time when the artist and his world were changing forever. It was 1973, the year of the Watergate hearings and the oil crisis, and Cale was at a crossroads. The white-hot rage of his Velvet Underground days was nearly spent; now he was …
Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica
Häftad, 2007
137 kr
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In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's "Trout Mask Replica", a double-album featuring 28 stream-of-consciousness songs filled with abstract rhythms and guttural bellows, dramatically altered the pop landscape. Yet, even if the album did cast its …
Belle & Sebastian's If You're Feeling Sinister
Häftad, 2007
133 kr
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"If You're Feeling Sinister" includes interviews with band members, producers, management, and a range of fans, and provides perspective on how Belle & Sebastian transformed themselves, over the space of a decade, from an underground, slightly shambolic cult secret into a polished, highly …
Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love
Av Leah Kardos
Häftad, 2024
130 kr
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This book charts the emergence of Kate Bush in the early-to-mid-1980s as a courageous experimentalist, a singularly expressive recording artist and a visionary music producer. Track-by-track commentaries focus on the experience of the album from the listener’s point of view, drawing attention to …
Sufjan Stevens' Carrie & Lowell
Av Joel Mayward
Häftad, 2025
159 kr
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Upon the release of Sufjan Stevens’ seventh studio album, Carrie & Lowell, two divergent groups found themselves as strange bedfellows: the LGBTQIA+ community and American evangelical Christians. Both were united in praise for Stevens’ beautifully melancholic music.Critically acclaimed as one of …
Grateful Dead's Workingman's Dead
Av Buzz Poole
Häftad, 2016
136 kr
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Released in 1970, Workingman’s Dead was the breakthrough album for the Grateful Dead, a cold-water-shock departure from the Acid Test madness of the late ‘60s. It was the band’s most commercially and critically successful release to date. More importantly, these songs established the blueprint for …
D’Angelo’s Voodoo
Häftad, 2020
133 kr
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Voodoo, D'Angelo's much-anticipated 2000 release, set the standard for the musical cycle ordained as "neo-soul," a label the singer and songwriter would reject more than a decade later. The album is a product of heightened emotions and fused sensibilities; an amalgam of soul, rock, jazz, gospel, …
Fleetwood Mac's Tusk
Av Rob Trucks
Häftad, 2010
1,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
133 kr
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"Tusk", the first record in history to cross the million dollar threshold in production costs, was the Fleetwood Mac's critically acclaimed, commercially disappointing 1979 double album. This book is an in-depth and 'official' look at one of the most unusual albums ever released by a major rock …
Stone Roses' The Stone Roses
Av Alex Green
Häftad, 2006
137 kr
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The Stone Roses shows a band sizzling with skill, consumed with drive and aspiration and possessing an almost preternatural mastery of the pop paradigm. This book explores the political and cultural zeitgeist of England in 1989 and attempts to apprehend the magic ingredients that made The Stone …
Byrds' The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Av Ric Menck
Häftad, 2007
152 kr
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By the time Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, Chris Hillman, and Michael Clarke entered the studio to begin work on this album, they were basically falling apart at the seams. 'Ladyfriend', a song written by Crosby, had just failed miserably as a chart single despite the fact that he lobbied hard to get …
Phish's A Live One
Häftad, 2015
152 kr
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Twenty years after its release, Phish’s double-CD collection A Live One has something rare and precious going for it: it still doesn’t sound like anybody else. Oversized, perverse, requiring an unusual amount of listener background knowledge? Yes to all. Yet the collective improvisations it …
Mazzy Star’s So Tonight That I Might See
Häftad, 2026
146 kr
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Anthony Gomez III explores how out of the commercial failure of the 1980s Paisley Underground genre, a Los Angeles that suffered one of the highest crime rates in the country, the rise of Chicano/a art in the public eye, and record label disputes, singer Hope Sandoval and guitarist David Roback …
