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Trout Mask Replica
$14.95 Add to cartIn 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
- Series: 33 1/3 #44
- Author: Courrier, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 23 2007
- ISBN10: 0826427812
- Language: English
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Smiths’ Meat Is Murder
$14.95 Add to cartA Catholic high school near Boston in 1985. A time of suicides, gymnasium humiliations, smoking for beginners, asthma attacks, and incendiary teenage infatuations. Infatuations with a girl (Allison),
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Pernice, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 082641494X
- Language: English
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The Ramones’ Ramones
$14.95 Add to cartWhat could be more punk rock than a band that never changed, a band that for decades punched out three-minute powerhouses in the style that made them famous? The Ramones’ repetition and attitude inspi… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #20
- Author: Rombes, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: February 18 2005
- ISBN10: 0826416713
- Language: English
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Wire’s Pink Flag
$14.95 Add to cartIn contrast with many of their punk peers, Wire were enigmatic and cerebral, always keeping a distance from the crowd. Although Pink Flag appeared before the end of 1977, it was already a meta-comment… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #62
- Author: Neate, Wilson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0826429149
- Language: English
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Neil Young’s Harvest
$14.95 Add to cartNeil Young’s Harvest is one of those strange albums that has achieved lasting success without ever winning the full approval of rock critics or hardcore fans. Even Young himself has been equivocal, de
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Inglis, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 127
- Publish Date: September 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0826414958
- Language: English
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Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA
$14.95 Read moreWhen Bruce Springsteen went back on the road in 1984, he opened every show by shouting out, “one, two, one, two, three, four,” followed by the droning synth chords of “Born in the U.S.A.” Max Weinberg
- Series: 33 1/3 #27
- Author: Himes, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: August 19 2005
- ISBN10: 0826416616
- Language: English
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Rolling Stones’ Some Girls
$14.95 Read moreIt’s October 1977, and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio. They’re under siege. Keith Richards’s legal troubles after his arrest for heroin possession threaten the band’s future, and t
- Series: 33 1/3 #81
- Author: Patell, Cyrus R. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 09 2011
- ISBN10: 1441192808
- Language: English
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U2’s Achtung Baby: Meditations on Love in the Shadow of the Fall
$14.95 Add to cartStephen Catanzarite takes a close look at what many consider to be U2’s most fully formed album through the prisms of religion, politics, spirituality, and culture, illuminating its previously unexplo… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #49
- Author: Catanzarite, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0826427847
- Language: English
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Pretty Hate Machine
$14.95 Add to cartWhat is the world that Nine Inch Nails made, and what was the world that made Nine Inch Nails? These are the questions at the heart of this study of the band’s 1989 debut, Pretty Hate Machine.
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- Author: Carr, Daphne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0826427898
- Language: English
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James Brown’s Live at the Apollo
$14.95 Read moreIn this remarkable book, Douglas Wolk brings to life an October evening in 1962, at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem – an evening at the height of Cold War tensions. In great detail, Wolk pieces together … [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #13
- Author: Wolk, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0826415725
- Language: English
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The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs
$14.95 Add to cartA fully illustrated oral history of the Magnetic Fields’ 1999 triple album, 69 Love Songs – an album that was afforded “classic” status by many almost as soon as it was released. LD Beghtol’s book is
- Series: 33 1/3 #69
- Author: Beghtol, LD
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0826419259
- Language: English
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The Kinks’ the Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
$14.95 Read moreIgnored by virtually everyone upon its release in November 1968, ‘The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society’ is now seen as one of the best British albums ever recorded. Here, Andy Miller t
- Series: 33 1/3 #04
- Author: Miller, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0826414982
- Language: English
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Love’s Forever Changes
$14.95 Read moreConceived as the last testament of a charismatic recluse who believed he was about to die, ‘Forever Changes’ is one of the defining albums of an era. Here, Andrew Hultkrans explores the myriad depths … [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Hultkrans, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0826414931
- Language: English
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DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing
$14.95 Read moreWhat 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 unchar
- Series: 33 1/3 #24
- Author: Wilder, Eliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 19 2005
- ISBN10: 0826416829
- Language: English
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Sly and the Family Stone’s There’s a Riot Goin’ on
$14.95 Add to cartThe story behind the making of the album that signaled the descent of Sylvester Sly Stone Stewart into a haze of drug addiction and delirium is captivating enough for the cinema. In the spacious attic
- Series: 33 1/3 #32
- Author: Lewis, Miles Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: February 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0826417442
- Language: English
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Band’s Music from Big Pink
$14.95 Read more“Music From Big Pink is a moving book that succeeds not just in vividly evoking its time and place but in distilling one young man’s cliched and minor destiny into something approaching tragedy….Thi
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Niven, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 16 2005
- ISBN10: 082641771X
- Language: English
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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
$14.95 Read moreChristopher R. Weingarten provides a thrilling account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record: engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing –
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Weingarten, Christopher R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0826429130
- Language: English
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American Recordings
$14.95 Read moreWhen Johnny Cash signed to Rick Rubin’s record label in 1993, he was already in the wax museum of memory, a fondly regarded but totally marginalized legend, unheard on the radio and unseen on the char
- Series: 33 1/3 #80
- Author: Tost, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 28 2011
- ISBN10: 1441174613
- Language: English
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Big Star’s Radio City
$14.95 Add to cartReleased when ELP and Elton John were plodding from one packed stadium to the next, Radio City was a radical album influenced by records that were already deemed oldies and yet sounding like a lean el… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #65
- Author: Eaton, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0826428983
- Language: English
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Guided by Voices’ Bee Thousand
$14.95 Add to cartMarc Woodworth’s book covers the album’s long and unorthodox period of writing, recording, sequencing, and editing. It includes interviews with members of the band, manager Pete Jamison, web-master an
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Woodworth, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0826417485
- Language: English
