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Flying Burrito Brothers’ the Gilded Palace of Sin
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1968, the Flying Burrito Brothers released The Gilded Palace of Sin on A&M Records, selling a disappointing 400,000 copies. Almost forty years later, front man Gram Parsons, is still spoken of with… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Proehl, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0826429033
- Language: English
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Duran Duran’s Rio
$14.95 Read moreIn the ’80s, the Birmingham, England, band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade’s music and culture. No album represented this rip-it-u
- Series: 33 1/3 #156
- Author: Zaleski, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 06 2021
- ISBN10: 150135518X
- Language: English
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Spiderland
$14.95 Add to cartOf all the seminal albums to come out in 1991-the year of Nevermind, Loveless, Ten, and Out of Time, among others-none were quieter, both in volume and influence, than Spiderland, and no band more mys
- Series: 33 1/3 #75
- Author: Tennent, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 11 2010
- ISBN10: 144117026X
- Language: English
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Tusk
$14.95 Read moreAfter Rumours became the best-selling single album of all-time, Fleetwood Mac asked Warner Brothers Records to buy them a studio (the label refused, costing both Warner Brothers and the band significa
- Series: 33 1/3 #77
- Author: Trucks, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0826429025
- Language: English
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The Replacements’ Let It Be
$14.95 Add to cartOne of the greatest moments of College Rock in the 1980s, Let It Be had a huge impact on the fans who fell under its spell. For Colin Meloy, growing up in Montana – a state that’s strangely missing fr… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #16
- Author: Meloy, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: August 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0826416330
- Language: English
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Kraftwerk’s Computer World
$14.95 Add to cartComputer 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,
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Francis, Steve Tupai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1501378988
- Language: English
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Highway 61 Revisited
$14.95 Add to cartHighway 61 Revisited resonates because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal. In
- Series: 33 1/3 #35
- Author: Polizzotti, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0826417752
- Language: English
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A Tribe Called Quest’s People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
$14.95 Add to cartOne of the finest hip-hop albums ever made, A Tribe Called Quest’s debut record (featuring stone-cold classics like “Can I Kick It?” and “Bonita Applebum”) took the idea of the boasting hip-hop male a
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Taylor, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0826419232
- Language: English
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Oasis’ Definitely Maybe
$14.95 Add to cartOasis’s incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire history of post-fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Niven, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1623564239
- Language: English
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Amazing Grace
$14.95 Add to cartFor two days in January 1972, Aretha Franklin sang at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles while tape recorders and film cameras rolled. Everyone there knew the event had the potent
- Series: 33 1/3 #84
- Author: Cohen, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 06 2011
- ISBN10: 1441148884
- Language: English
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K.D. Lang’s Ingénue
$14.95 Read moreCanadian performer k.d. lang broke new ground in the 1980s by blending the genres of punk and country, dubbed “cowpunk,” with her band, the Reclines. Despite Grammy-award-winning recordings and freque
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Stein, Joanna McNaney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 150138919X
- Language: English
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Dusty Springfield’s Dusty in Memphis
$14.95 Read moreDusty 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
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Zanes, Warren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 131
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0826414923
- Language: English
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Massive Attack’s Blue Lines
$14.95 Read moreIn 1991, a loose-knit collective released a record called Blue Lines under the name Massive Attack, splicing together American hip-hop and soul with the sounds of the British underground. With its mar
- Series: 33 1/3 #140
- Author: Bourland, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1501339699
- Language: English
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Metallica’s Metallica
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1991, Metallica released their fifth studio album that would become known and beloved around the world as “The Black Album.” Since its release, it has sold 30 million copies, and become a towering
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Masciotra, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1628929308
- Language: English
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Depeche Mode’s 101
$14.95 Read moreDepeche Mode’s 101 is, at first glance, a curious thing: a live double-album by a synth band. A recording of its “Concert for the Masses,” 101 marks the moment when doomy, cultish, electronic Depeche
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Valle, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1501390325
- Language: English
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They Might Be Giants’ Flood
$14.95 Read moreFor a few decades now, They Might Be Giants’ album Flood has been a beacon (or at least a nightlight) for people who might rather read than rock out, who care more about science fiction than Slayer, w
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Reed, S. Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 21 2013
- ISBN10: 162356915X
- Language: English
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If You’re Feeling Sinister
$14.95 Read moreIf You’re Feeling Sinister shows how Belle & Sebastian transformed themselves over the space of a decade, from a slightly shambolic cult secret into a polished, highly entertaining, mainstream pop gro… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #50
- Author: Plagenhoef, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: September 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0826428185
- Language: English
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Hole’s Live Through This
$14.95 Add to cartCourtney Love has never been less than notorious. Her intelligence, ambition and appetite for confrontation have made her a target in a music industry still dominated by men. As Kurt Cobain’s wife she
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Crawford, Anwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1623563771
- Language: English
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Grateful Dead’s Workingman’s Dead
$14.95 Read moreReleased 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
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Poole, Buzz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 21 2016
- ISBN10: 1628929243
- Language: English
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Björk’s Homogenic
$14.95 Add to cartIn recent years, Bj rk’s artistry has become ever more ambitious and ever more respected. With the release of her conceptual app-album Biophilia in 2011, and a huge retrospective exhibition at New Yor… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: MacKay, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1501322745
- Language: English
