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Pink Floyd’s the Piper at the Gates of Dawn
$14.95 Read moreThrough 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
- 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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Nirvana’s in Utero
$14.95 Add to cartThough 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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Neutral Milk Hotel’s in the Aeroplane Over the Sea
$14.95 Add to cartOf 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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Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures
$14.95 Add to cartJoy 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
- 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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The Minutemen’s Double Nickels on the Dime
$14.95 Add to cartThe 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
- 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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Sign ‘o’ the Times
$14.95 Read moreOne 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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Pink Moon
$14.95 Add to cartPink 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
- Series: 33 1/3 #51
- Author: Petrusich, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0826427901
- Language: English
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Portishead’s Dummy
$14.95 Add to cartAn album which distilled a genre from the musical, cultural, and social ether, Portishead’s Dummy was such a complete artistic achievement that its ubiquitous successes threatened to exhaust its own p
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Wheaton, Rj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 06 2011
- ISBN10: 1441194495
- Language: English
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Chocolate and Cheese
$14.95 Read moreWeen now seems like a permanent fixture on the pop-cultural landscape, but when the band first hit MTV in the early ’90s, their longevity wasn’t so secure. Nearly two decades on, though, Aaron “Gene W
- Series: 33 1/3 #79
- Author: Shteamer, Hank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0826431178
- Language: English
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David Bowie’s Low
$14.95 Add to cartLos Angeles, 1976. David Bowie is holed up in his Bel-Air mansion, drifting into drug-induced paranoia and confusion. Obsessed with black magic and the Holy Grail, he’s built an altar in the living ro
- Series: 33 1/3 #26
- Author: Wilcken, Hugo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 19 2005
- ISBN10: 826416845
- Language: English
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Led Zeppelin’s Led Zeppelin IV
$14.95 Add to cartIn this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music’s towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic-black or otherwise-that surrounds this album. Carefully peelin
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Davis, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0826416586
- Language: English
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Talking Heads’ Fear of Music
$14.95 Add to cartIt’s the summer of 1979. A fifteen-year-old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn. A monotone voice (it’s the singer’s) announces into dead air in between songs “The Talking Head
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Lethem, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1441121005
- Language: English
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Marquee Moon
$14.95 Add to cartTwo kids in their early twenties walk down the Bowery on a spring afternoon, just as the proprietor of a club hangs an awning with the new name for his venue. The place will be called CBGB & OMFUG whi… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #83
- Author: Waterman, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: June 09 2011
- ISBN10: 1441186050
- Language: English
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Jeff Buckley’s Grace
$14.95 Add to cartThe power and influence of Grace increases with each passing year. Here, Daphne Brooks traces Jeff Buckley’s fascinating musical development through the earliest stages of his career, up to the releas
- Series: 33 1/3 #23
- Author: Brooks, Daphne A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 157
- Publish Date: April 28 2005
- ISBN10: 0826416357
- Language: English
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Nas’s Illmatic
$14.95 Add to cartNas was playing a role on Illmatic, even if it was himself. By constructing this persona, Nas not only laid out his own career for the next decade plus, but the careers of dozens of other rappers who
- Series: 33 1/3 #64
- Author: Gasteier, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0826429076
- Language: English
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Loveless
$14.95 Add to cartLoveless remains an enigma, 15 years after its release – an album so influential and groundbreaking that its chief creator, Kevin Shields, has been unable or unwilling to release an official follow-up… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #36
- Author: McGonigal, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0826415482
- Language: English
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Kid A
$14.95 Add to cartBy pulling Kid A from its canonical status and grounding the album in various contexts, Marvin Lin explains not only why Radiohead suddenly adopted a new songwriting methodology, but also how properti
- Series: 33 1/3 #76
- Author: Lin, Marvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 25 2010
- ISBN10: 0826423434
- Language: English
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Steely Dan’s Aja
$14.95 Add to cartAja was the album that made Steely Dan a commercial force on the order of contemporaries like Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles and Chicago. A double-platinum, Grammy-winning bestseller, it lingered on the Bi
- Series: 33 1/3 #46
- Author: Breithaupt, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0826427839
- Language: English
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331/3 Ok Computer
$14.95 Add to cartSeemingly granted ‘classic album’ status within days of its release in 1997, OK Computer transformed Radiohead from a highly promising rock act into The Most Important Band in the World – a label the … [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #15
- Author: Griffiths, Dai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 11 2004
- ISBN10: 0826416632
- Language: English
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The Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique
$14.95 Add to cartDerided as one-hit wonders, estranged from their original producer and record label, and in self-imposed exile in Los Angeles, the Beastie Boys were written off by most observers before even beginning… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #30
- Author: Leroy, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0826417418
- Language: English
