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By: Philip Shaw
Patti Smith’s Horses
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Described 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… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #55
- Author: Shaw, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0826427928
- Language: English
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By: Eric Wolfson
Elvis Presley’s from Elvis in Memphis
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“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 televis

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- Series: 33 1/3 #150
- Author: Wolfson, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1501355384
- Language: English
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By: Lemay, Matthew
XO
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Many albums could be cited to support the claim that great suffering yields great art. Elliott Smith’s XO should not be one of them. Smith’s 1998 major label debut defies the “tortured singer-songwrit… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #63
- Author: Lemay, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0826429009
- Language: English
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By: Bill Janovitz
The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street
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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 Britis… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #18
- Author: Janovitz, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: February 19 2005
- ISBN10: 082641673X
- Language: English
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By: J. Niimi
R.E.M.’s Murmur
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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 a… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #22
- Author: Niimi, J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0826416721
- Language: English
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By: Perry, John
Electric Ladyland
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Electric Ladyland is one of the greatest guitar albums ever made. During the recording process, Jimi Hendrix at last had time and creative freedom to pursue the sounds he was looking for. In this rema… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #08
- Author: Perry, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: March 31 2004
- ISBN10: 0826415717
- Language: English
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By: Santi Elijah Holley
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Murder Ballads
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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 tra

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- Series: 33 1/3 #151
- Author: Holley, Santi Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1501355147
- Language: English
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By: Dayal, Geeta
Brian Eno’s Another Green World
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The serene, delicate songs on Another Green World sound practically
meditative, but the album itself was an experiment fueled by
adrenaline, panic, and pure faith. It was the first Brian Eno album to
be

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- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Dayal, Geeta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0826427863
- Language: English
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By: Alyssa Favreau
Janelle Monáe’s the Archandroid
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In Janelle Mon?e’s full-length debut, the science fiction concept album The ArchAndroid, the android Cindi Mayweather is on the run from the authorities for the crime of loving a human. Living in 28th

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- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Favreau, Alyssa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1501355708
- Language: English
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By: Ben Sisario
The Pixies’ Doolittle
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The Pixies have had a career unlike any other in alternative rock, disappearing as not-quite-the-next-big-things only to become gods in absentia. Doolittle is their knotty masterpiece, the embodiment … [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #31
- Author: Sisario, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 127
- Publish Date: March 08 2006
- ISBN10: 0826417744
- Language: English
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By: John Cavanagh
Pink Floyd’s the Piper at the Gates of Dawn
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Through a series of interviews with a wide range of people connected to Pink Floyd in their earliest days (including Nick Mason, Peter Jenner, Jenny Fabian, Storm Thorgerson, Duggie Fields and Peter W

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- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Cavanagh, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: September 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0826414974
- Language: English
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By: Weir, William L.
BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s BBC Radiophonic Workshop – A Retrospective
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In 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to make some new sounds for radio and TV. They ended up changing the course of 20th-century music. For millions of pe

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- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Weir, William L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1501389157
- Language: English
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By: Gaar, Gillian G.
Nirvana’s in Utero
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Though Nevermind was Nirvana’s most commercially successful album, and the record that broke them – and the grunge phenomenon – internationally, In Utero has increasingly become regarded as the band’s… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #34
- Author: Gaar, Gillian G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 111
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0826417760
- Language: English
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By: Cooper, Kim
Neutral Milk Hotel’s in the Aeroplane Over the Sea
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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 name… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #29
- Author: Cooper, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 119
- Publish Date: November 16 2005
- ISBN10: 082641690X
- Language: English
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By: Pinkard, Ryan
The National’s Boxer
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We all know the Boxer. The fighter who remembers every glove but still remains. That grisly, bruised American allegory who somehow gets up more times than he’s knocked down. This is the fight that nea

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- Series: 33 1/3 #162
- Author: Pinkard, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1501378015
- Language: English
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By: Ezra Furman
Lou Reed’s Transformer
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Transformer, Lou Reed’s most enduringly popular album, is described with varying labels: it’s often called a glam rock album, a proto-punk album, a commercial breakthrough for Lou Reed, and an album a… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #131
- Author: Furman, Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 19 2018
- ISBN10: 1501323059
- Language: English
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By: Ott, Chris
Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures
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Joy Division’s career has often been shrouded by myths. But the truth is surprisingly simple: over a period of several months, Joy Division transformed themselves from run-of-the-mill punk wannabes in

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- Series: 33 1/3 #09
- Author: Ott, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 117
- Publish Date: March 31 2004
- ISBN10: 0826415490
- Language: English
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By: Michael T. Fournier
The Minutemen’s Double Nickels on the Dime
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The story of the Minutemen has been told before (Our Band Could Be Your Life, We Jam Econo), but this book focuses purely on their music – the punk ethic and the remarkable, enduring songs that compri

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- Series: 33 1/3 #45
- Author: Fournier, Michael T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0826427871
- Language: English
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By: Matos, Michaelangelo
Sign ‘o’ the Times
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One of the greatest double albums of the vinyl era, Sign O’ the Times shows Prince at his peak. Here, Michaelangelo Matos tells the story of how it emerged from an extraordinary period of creativity … [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #10
- Author: Matos, Michaelangelo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 121
- Publish Date: March 31 2004
- ISBN10: 0826415474
- Language: English
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By: Petrusich, Amanda
Pink Moon
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Pink Moon explores how Nick Drake’s third and final album has puttered and purred its way into a new millennium. Features interviews with producer Joe Boyd, string arranger Robert Kirby, and even the

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- Series: 33 1/3 #51
- Author: Petrusich, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0826427901
- Language: English