Continuum
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Wowee Zowee
$14.95 Add to cartPavement wrapped up at Easley Recording in Memphis. They mixed the tracks and recorded overdubs in New York. They took a step back and assessed the material. It was a wild scene. They had fully fleshe
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Charles, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0826429572
- Language: English
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Court and Spark
$14.95 Read moreCourt and Spark is Joni Mitchell’s most overt attempt at making a hit record, full of glossy production, catchy choruses, and even guest stars from every stratum of rock culture, high (Robbie Robertso
- Series: 33 1/3 #40
- Author: Nelson, Sean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0826417736
- Language: English
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Reign in Blood
$14.95 Add to cartIssued on America’s premier rap label at the peak of the thrash metal movement, Slayer’s controversial Reign in Blood remains the gold standard for extreme heavy metal, a seamless 29-minute procession
- Series: 33 1/3 #57
- Author: Ferris, D. X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0826429092
- Language: English
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Songs in the Key of Life
$14.95 Add to cartLike all double albums, Songs in the Key of Life is imperfect but audacious. If its titular concern – life – doesn’t exactly allow for rigid focus, it’s still a fiercely inspired collection of songs a
- Series: 33 1/3 #42
- Author: Lundy, Zeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0826419267
- Language: English
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Dinosaur Jr.’s You’re Living All Over Me
$14.95 Read more1985. Dinosaur, still without the Jr. Not hardcore anymore, but not yet anything else either. First live shows: fearsomely loud. First record, a fearsome mess: a raw miscellany thrown together from sm
- Series: 33 1/3 #82
- Author: Attfield, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 09 2011
- ISBN10: 1441187782
- Language: English
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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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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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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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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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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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Patti Smith’s Horses
$14.95 Add to cartDescribed 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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XO
$14.95 Add to cartMany 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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The Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street
$14.95 Add to cartTracing 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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R.E.M.’s Murmur
$14.95 Read moreR.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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Electric Ladyland
$14.95 Add to cartElectric 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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Brian Eno’s Another Green World
$14.95 Read moreThe 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- 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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The Pixies’ Doolittle
$14.95 Add to cartThe 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
