What album would you propose to write about for the 33 1/3 book series?

"Different Class" would be a more playful affair. A few years ago, I did in fact start writing a story about "Different Class" and a Pulp concert which directly led to a breakup with an ex-girlfriend, with the whole thing being a pseudo-allegory about the death of Britpop. I wrote about ten or fifteen pages but could never finish it.

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There's my abridged pitch... does somebody know somebody over there?

* Negativland Escape From Noise
* XTC Black Sea
* Donna Summer Walk Away: 1977-1980
* Meat Beat Manifesto Storm The Studio
* De La Soul De La Soul Is Dead
* Renegade Soundwave Soundclash
* Pell Mell Flow
* Trumans Water Spasm Smash XXXOXOX Ox And Ass
* Human League Dare
* Heaven 17 Penthouse And Pavement
* The Fall This Nation's Saving Grace
* Severed Heads Come Visit The Big Bigot
* Christian Death Only Theatre Of Pain
* Janet Jackson Control
* Michael Jackson Off The Wall
* Michael Jackson Thriller
* Rick James Street Songs
* Kitchens Of Distinction Love Is Hell
* The Chameleons What Does Anything Mean? Basically
* Amon Duul II Tanz Der Lemminge
* Ministry Twitch
* This Mortal Coil Filigree & Shadow
* Nick Drake Bryter Layter
* Hochenkeit Omu4uh 4aholab / 400 Boys

and probably many many more I'm forgetting right now...

One could make a theoretically similar pitch for Possessed's "Seven Churches" I suppose.

x-post: Admittedly, I haven't listened to "Mastered By Guy At the Exchange" in a while, but can someone explain the Don Cabellero connection to me? I assume we're talking about the band and not Joe Flaherty.

"Damon admitted watching SCTV a lot, hence the album name.. they liked Bitch Magnet's Ben Hur and probably Rush and Voivod and shit like that. But I could be wrong. Then one of the guys starting chewing gum and got into delay pedals and all crazy effects and basically made the band sound more pussy. (Don't kill me, Damon, with your dragon breath.. please)"

As for me I'd probably do Songs About Fucking. If you consider the sleevenotes and factor in the tour diary for the final Big Black tour, there's a ton of material to expound on, although the idea of any of it being remotely interesting for almost anyone else makes me giggle like a schoolgirl

Q:Are We Not Men?.. by Devo
Destroyer by Kiss
Killing Joke by Killing Joke
Kings of the Wild Frontier by Adam & the Ants
A Night at the Opera by Queen
Damaged by Black Flag
Group Sex by the Circle Jerks

...basically, any album I've started an In Praise of... thread about.

If something more well known, Music for the Masses by Depeche.

I think I could do a killer one on Baxendale's You Will Have Your Revenge - all pictures of popstars and astronauts and Stevie and Er*ca and tales of what it was like to be seventeen and trying to live like Tim Benton's fantasies of how seventeen year olds should live. I can still probably recite most of the lyrics offhand, which I probably shouldn't admit.

Or maybe I should finish my dissertation first . . .

and somebody should do "Tago Mago" too!

I'll volunteer, I can do something better than my AMG review. ;-)

Trout Mask Replica
Damned Damned Damned
Cut

The one I'd have the easiest time writing, that would almost write itself, would be All Hail West Texas!, but that's not nearly well known enough. One that's perhaps better known, but which I'm not sure I'd have a book's worth of material to talk about (that hasn't been done before) is the Shaggs' Philosophy of the World. Someone is already doing Murmur, and I can think of someone else who I'd rather see write that anyway.

So I haven't decided yet what I would actually propose.

Someone needs to do Metal Machine Music, though.

Massive Attack Mezzanine

dEUS Worst Case Scenario

No New York

Aw, that'd be neat! A fine album to do and you'd write on it well. :-)

Heavens, whatever albums did you and Mr. Matos decide I should write on?

Adore. But Ned could do a better job on that one.

And another truly oddball album, "Like Flies on Sherbert." That would be fun. Jim Dickinsons' "Dixie Fried" would also be nice.

Like mottdeterre says above, "All Strung Out" is something I'd love to write about--what a twisted fucking album, and I love it.

The point I'm making, I guess, is that fuck the obvious canonical albums, go for things that are singular. Or great soul albums--"Buying a Book" by Joe Tex; the first Swamp Dogg album; Burke's "King Solomon"; etc. Or why not that insane James Brown instrumental album from '71, "Sho Is Funky Down Here"? That would be fascinating as JB drops in to add some electric harpsichord or organ to those Dave Matthews charts. That it's a pretty terrible album just makes me want to write about it all the more.

And the first Dr. Buzzard's OSB album would be fun to write about. Chic's "Real People," which is an actual Great Album (as is Dr. Buzzard's). That old Gus Cannon album on Stax. Johnnie Taylor's "Who's Making Love." It's not an "album" but I'd love to know more about the Parliaments in '67 or so.

and not a penny more, except maybe The Yes Album and perhaps Sonny and Cher Live at Las Vegas Vol. 2

Wow, I'm intrigued! (I mean, I love the album and all, I'm just a touch surprised you'd select it!)

plus it is always crapt upon by idiots and this would be my chance to rehabilitate

Er? No need to apologize, I have no problem with that description!

But they sang songs about casting no shadows! *is beaten*

Marvin Gaye...well, we know his story. Tammi's is a little more obscure and nobody's really been able to flesh out all those awful rumours behind her death. And in spite of their tragic fucked-up-ed-ness as human beings -- sweeping songs of devotion, probably my favorite Motown of all.

Guided By Voices, Bee Thousand

Wherein the love-hate relationship comes to a boil. It'd be easier now thanks to the new "director's cut" of BT.

shirley and dolly collins, anthems in eden--would address the "oral" and performative quality of ballad singing, the appropriations and reinventions of british traditional music in 19th century and its ideological baggage (also institutional contexts, from cecil sharp house to the BBC funding the firt performance of "anthems in eden"), the "early music" phenomenon idea and practice, shirley's sussex roots, analysis of dolly's arrangements and the qualities of the "imperfect" historical instruments used, thematics of the "song story" (WWI, lost eden of prewar rural england, female subjectivity in traditional ballads, notions of romance and courtly love).

of course this isn't a rock record so no one would care.

And finally, not to mention any names and overinflate any egos, but I gotta say that if I were rich or a publisher (I'm neither), DOZENS of your proposed books would be commissioned immediately!

hahahahahhahaa.

begins with "mel..."
ends with "...ness"

I would happily do this! :-)

...even if they were destined to sell only three copies! (Your mother, yourself, and me.)

Me, I can't think of a single album I'd do a good job writing about. Maybe The Visitors? I don't know.

OMG who would we have to sleep with to make this happen?

And, if I can suggest one for somebody else - I'd get Chris Roberts to do Dexy's Don't Stand Me Down.

Nabisco's ideas are most worthy. :-)

y'know, cuz it's perfect. and made in Texas.

eddie, are these even in print?
god, i'd love to be buying a book about joe tex...

(PS they are one of my favourite bands in teh evah).

You got me to pull it off the shelf and listen to it, though.

I vote for English Settlement as the best XTC record, since it's the most transitional. Or Jules Verne's Sketchbook, because I'm obsessed with (over)analyzing Partridge's demos. But Skylarking would sell the best.

but all these were basically top-of-head ideas

This Heat - Deceit
The Embarrassment - Heyday
Mission of Burma - Vs.
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Throwing Muses - S/T (either one!)
Lake of Dracula - S/T
Veruca Salt - Eight Arms to Hold You

Nabisco - LINE BREAKS, SON!

I forgot David R is the one here who shares my love for the Veruca Salt. Dave, if you write the book, can I do the forward? Or the illustrations?

What do you think?

eddie, are these even in print?
god, i'd love to be buying a book about joe tex...

I don't think "Buying a Book" is in print--I burned a copy recently from a friend's pristine LP. I think the first Swamp Dogg LP is available, on a twofer with "Rat On" or something. "King Solomon" should be available, reissued w/ extra trax. Maybe Ace or someone has the Tex LPs available, I don't know. I bought a nice LP of "Bumps and Bruises" recently.

I've been into some stuff from the early '70s lately, like Thomas Jefferson Kaye's "First Grade" (an album I've burned for many people after I started talking it up), and the first Manfred Mann's Earth Band LP, the one with "Captain Bobby Stout" and "Please Mrs. Henry." Those are both such singular records--I'd love to know more about them myself.

I'd also like to write about Gary Stewart's "Out of Hand." Freddie Hart's awesome "The Neon and the Rain." Bobby Womack's "Fly Me to the Moon" and "My Prescription," two records that were recently reissued as a twofer and in my opinion the best Womack ever. I dunno, has 33 1/3 done the Big Star records? I guess the new biography covers the making of those well? Anyone read it? I hear that a USA publisher might do that one here--it was published UK.

I'd like to delve into the making of my favorite Elvis Presley record, the soundtrack to "Clambake." That would be choice--examining the obviously fluctuating weight of EP in that movie. Who came up with the idea of having EP and that other guy sing a song about cash, "Who Needs Money," on two motorcycles as they drive thru Florida? I find this endlessly fascinating, and it'd be a real challenge to make it so for readers, you know. Why is "Confidence" such an obvious ripoff of Sinatra's "High Hopes"? Did Sinatra ever hear this? The scene in which Elvis and many girls lather up the boat with water-resistant goop while singing "Hey, Hey, Hey," which changes keys about 10,000 times--how did this come about, what mind could conceive it?

Of course too I'd like to write about more, ah, canonical stuff, like the first Moby Grape album, "Notorious Byrd Bros.," etc. The Beach Boys' "Love You" seems like a good choice--was Brian Wilson actually watching a lot of Johnny Carson when he wrote the song?

Los Angeles does not want it's secretes revealed. Try to write this book, and Los Angeles will rise up like rotten tentacle and drag you down into its sludge.

Thanks for listening.

Love,

Los Angeles (And when next in town, be sure to visit the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim!)

Naaah, that's totally Josh Kortbein territory.

I’d like to see the Violent Femmes’ first done up by three people: a boy born in 1970, a boy born in 1980, and a boy born in 1990. Alternately: If You’re Feeling Sinister, by Cozen, a Londoner, and an American.

i would swear to god this got reissued on cd recently. it's a great record.

i would buy 10,000 copies of a nabisco-penned "millions" book if he promises to elaborate on his poetics of post-rock theory.

Yeah, that's sort of what I was imagining. Although when the album actually came out, I was technically in college in Michigan and totally out of touch with whatever scene was actually happening at the time. But yes, I think it'd be a good way of discussing the various trends at play.

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i don't know that the post-rock "scene" (as in, an inventory of the major players and their careerist wanderings) would be the most interesting aspect; rather, i'd like to read about the "post-rock" aesthetic and how it grew out of a particular moment in indie music and perhaps the culture in general. i guess there might be something significant to its happening largely in chicago.

fuck it, nabisco should totally write this book.

I'd like to see someone do Violent Femmes' 3 even though it seems like nobody knows that record at all.

Nabisco's idea is pretty genius though, except I'd roll the age of the first boy back enough that he was in his late teens when it came out. Say, 1965 (so he'd be 17 in '82).

shit, let me know if that presents a problem, and I'll take on *that* project, mott...

Hrm. I don't see that album as being about anger/despair at the inevitability of dying a virgin. I see as anger/despair about just about everything involving a relationship. I just think 17 year-old males do the anger thing considerably better than 14 or 15 year-olds.

I was born in '74, and I actually did hear the album when it was barely a year old (thanks dad), and I was pretty familiar with it at the time (because it's catchy and, let's face it, a 7 or 8 year-old is tickled to death by the word "fuck" in a song), but I didn't really reach the level of appreciating the album from a personal identification standpoint until I was probably 16 or 17 finishing up high school in the very early 90s.

MARTIN! I'm thinking of about maybe 96 6-panel pages about the love quadrangular between the members of the Salt w/ Dave Grohl (in person, making out w/ Louise at every opportunity like he's Paul Rudd in Wet Hot American Summer) & the Loud Family's Scott Miller (in spirit, w/ Nina G in her bedroom wearing air traffic control headphones cross-legged on the bed looking up wistfully at the ceiling while clutching her vinyl copy of Lolita Nation, with a Pretty in Pink poster off to the right behind her - she does this after every tussle w/ Louise) making some impact as well. Louise is wearing a sexed-up version of Metallica's Metal Up Your Ass shirt throughout the whole thing. And Bob Rock is actually one of those cute/evil shapeshifting things from a Jim Woodring story. Blow It Out Your Ass will also have to get some love in here somewhere. You run w/ that, & I'll script the pages Stan Lee style. ("Why, that is a Posies Crocodile Cafe bootleg I have NEVER seen before! But I heard that the version of 'Golden Slumbers' on that is QUITE DOPE! NO, DO NOT TOUCH THE HI-FI! You will UPSET the delicately-balanced quarter on the tone arm! I MUST FIND more Scotch tape!")

fuck, i would seriously shell out money to read that, eddie!

i'd like to write about:

disco not disco
the first couple bikini kill eps
any little richard hits collection
p.i.l.'s metal box

And sure, love for Blow It Out Your Ass plus also the fantastically overlooked and utterly perfect "All Hail Me" and the fairly brilliant "Spiderman '79."

It will also be important for the Venitian blinds in Louise's room to be blinds made by Levolor. You know, just for the people who actually get the obtuse pun that is "Number One Blind."

That's right, my copy is on Minty Fresh and not DGC. I should win some kind of prize I reckon.

(Can we pretend "25" didn't happen?)

As such, yes I think you'd need to script the 8 Arms story. I wouldn't want to have another bit-off-more-than-I-can-chew nervous breakdown.

(What's "25?")

I maintain I am not in pain.
How I try not to place the blame.
I came late to an early game.
You can bend me, shape me any way.
You can bend me, shape me any way.
You can bend me, shape me any way.
You can bend me, shape me any way you want me.

When I was five, I took a dive.
When I was ten, I walked again.
When I was fifteen, I kept my motor clean.
When I was twenty, I got plenty.
When I was twenty-five...
When I was twenty-five...

- great album destroys great band
- interesting arrangements (I liked what Chuck Eddy wrote about the quiet songs sounding like what rock 'n' roll would have sounded like in 1920...)
- the notion that Ian Hunter was actually seven years older of his reported age of 26 when he wrote and performed these songs; when I was in my mid-20s, I remember thinking that some of the material (especially "The Ballad Of Mott The Hoople") sounded way too world weary for someone of that age to write
- how in college in the mid-1990s I vowed that I would marry the first woman who was impressed that I liked MTH...only to have my roommate's girlfriend (now his wife) come into the room one evening and comment approvingly of the MTH CD on my CD rack

The Avalanches, Since I Left You.

Sitting on L train around 3:30 am, listening to Mastered by Guy at the Exchange. Train stuck. Suddenly remember that I grabbed a book on the way out, for precisely this eventuality. What book was it? Dig around in bag: it's Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman. Read. Read. Remember why I enjoyed this book so much. Then get to the point where the story diverts from the real into the fantastical. It happens in one sentence! One critical sentence: "It was some change that came upon me or upon the room, indescribably subtle, yet momentous, ineffable."

Which is the only lyric to the song "M.B.G.A.T.E."

"Elis & Tom" would be good--one of my half-dozen favorite albums, and what's ever been written about it?

If you could do a book on a rock-movie, Bloodstone's insane, inane "Train Ride to Hollywood" would be a gas too. It's just unbelievably stupid, and I'd love to know exactly who said, "Let's get...Bloodstone...to star in a movie that's a harmony-group's dream sequence about being porters on a train to Hollywood filled with Bogart-W.C. Fields-Clark Gable-impersonators, with several rousing musical numbers..."

Yes, just that one song.

i like how everything's all about tiny books these days. it's too bad it didn't coincide with the tiny knapsack craze of the late 90's.

then theres the just plain obvious:
syd barrett's the madcap laughs
television personalities don't the kids just love it
jamc's psychocandy
sonic youth bad moon rising or evol (unless i wanna take up a cross and try for nyc ghosts and flowers)

Definitely would have a long section on zombies roaming around midtown NYC.

And, reading Shapiro's great book on disco yesterday, I thought about doing Chic's "Real People" again. Has that been done?

probably too obvious:
Stones, Let It Bleed, Double Nickels..., Rain Dogs, Live at Leeds

"Split single" books about two related albums that probably aren't meaty enough for a book on their own would be fun too:
Flaming Lips, In a Priest Driven Ambulance/Mercury Rev, Yerself Is Steam
or: NaS, Illmatic/Main Source, Breaking Atoms
or:Dr. Octagon/Ultramagnetic MC's, Critical Beatdown

I'd love to do Wowee Zowee, but I'm sure it would be a distant third to Matt and Raymond's hypothetical versions (Matt, you should DEFINITELY do a book). For that reason, I'm tempted to pick a different Pavement album, but OTOH I don't think I could write 40k words on any of their other albums...

I think this part of the thread is an interesting one that we should run with again: what album would you propose that some one else in particular (ILXOR or otherwise) write about?

"i would NOT buy a "69 love songs" book b/c the problem w/the book would likely be the same as the problem w/the album--its facile schematics, cutesiness, etc."

Yr half-right here I think Amateurist - the wrong writer would reduce the album to facile schematics and cutsiness and write about it in the same manner. Josh however would be exactly the right person to write about - did you ever see his stuff about it on Josh Blog? I would think you especially would appreciate his approach!

Having said that, I think the Merritt-related album I would prefer to see done for the series would be The Future Bible Heroes' Memories of Love, not just because I prefer it, but because an exploration of its "facile schematics" would I think make for a fantastic book - it's got that really tight unity in concept/sound/lyrics/performance going... (translation: it's the Merrit-related album I would do).

(on a related note I wonder if the album i would end up choosing for myself would be one of the first Blue Nile albums. Madonna's Erotica would be a fun one too)

Not as a 33 1/3, but Daryl Easlea's book "Everybody Dance: Chic and the Politics of Disco" goes into each album pretty in-depth. If you can bear a bit of heavy-handed socialist political grousing, a great book.

(NB: These might actually be the same album.)

Reviving this, out of interest.

I pitched a Talk Talk one a few years ago; got through a couple of rounds of 'auditions' / consideration but not the final hurdle.

If I were to pitch another one I'd have to think a lot about it, as I'd want to write about the industry / production primarily, rather than a record I necessarily love.

Yeah. I think having an angle and particular access to hitherto exclusive information would be a must. I could name any number of albums I love and would enjoy writing about, but it's also important to remember YOU ARE WRITING A BOOK about it and need to have something worthwhile to say about it other than gushing prose about how marvellous it is. Nick, I could see you doing something like 65DaysOfStatic, although they're probably not really canon enough to merit a book of that kind.

I like Tim's question: "I think this part of the thread is an interesting one that we should run with again: what album would you propose that some one else in particular (ILXOR or otherwise) write about?"

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I'm bummed that Fugazi's "In on the Killtaker" has been shortlisted a few times but never makes it. I wish someone would do that one.

is that one considered the fugazi masterpiece or something?

Would love to write books on several YMO or YMO-related albums particularly BGM or Technodelic or Hosono's Paraiso. If anything I just want to know what that guy was on all these years.

Other albums which I'd love to read or write about:
Aqua - Aquarium - mostly curious if the band really did have a sharp sense of humor and lived to be despised or if they were sincere about everything

Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? (I could probably write this one)

ELP - Brain Salad Surgery - I feel like these guys were really trying to write the greatest album in the history of everything, plus their de-facto interview like 20 years after telling stories about meeting Giger and Ginastara are fascinating

They Might Be Giants - any number of early albums, would really like to know what these dudes thought about back then

Cornelius - Point

The KLF - The White Room

What would you write about Point?

the symbolism that some of the tracks have (especially compared to previous work), and a lot about how it's intended to be more an album of disjointed sounds rather than songs, why it sounds like there are like 10 musicians doing the job of 4 or so, and what compelled the guy to choose certain sounds over others and the feelings they were supposed to evoke, really just an interesting album overall

I'm not sure which album I'd pick, but I'd love to read a Robyn Hitchcock book that treated him more like an actual person than a charming collection of eccentricities.

xpost I dug it out again and listened to the whole thing in the bath the other night (was it you I was chatting with about this one?) I'd forgotten just how much I love Drop and his cover of Brazil and that last track.

Yeah I listened to the Richard D. James album (also maybe an interesting 33 1/3 topic) and this in a row as both were albums that I thought had a very unique piecework feel to them that I hadn't heard in a long while. it seems like Point is holding up much better over the years. I mean I have to give some respect for "Tone Twilight Zone" which is really kind of a sappy instrumental but every single thing is placed so perfectly that I can't help enjoy it. Also the way the album gradually loosens up then completely lets loose is awesome. The songs themselves are very good. Whereas the RDJ album seems like it would just fall apart without all the unsettling effects and drill-like percussion.

The High Llamas' Hawaii or Super Furry Animals' Mwng.

Come To Daddy would be a good one. It seems to encompass everything RDJ was trying to do at the time.

Man, if Sinker did one on Dragnet or Y, I would buy five copies instantly.

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Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World.

Come To Daddy would be a good one. It seems to encompass everything RDJ was trying to do at the time.

yeah probably more interesting than the RDJ album. i'd add Windowlicker in there as well. kinda seems like he basically ran out of ideas/motivation after that

Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America

We did RDJ Album at DRC recently and it was the melodies and tunes that jumped out. It really didn't seem radical anymore. Just lovely.

Would probably go for Immer by Michael Mayer if that's allowed.

is that one considered the fugazi masterpiece or something?
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It's the one they first recorded with Steve Albini in Chicago, before scrapping the whole album and doing it again themselves; and it's also the point where they were being courted by Ahmet Ertegun in the wake of Nirvana-mania. A lot of people consider it their peak period in terms of live performance, too.

kinda seems like he basically ran out of ideas/motivation after that Drukqs

if i was a good writer i would like to do one about "big science" by laurie anderson

yeah I know a lot of people stand up for Drukqs but I'm not sure how much innovation there really was there, kinda just seemed like Aphex by-the-numbers

I kinda remember 'Drukqs' getting a much less enthusiastic response than its predecessors upon release.

It came out just a bit late - people had jumped all over the drill'n'bass bandwagon and its axle was broken by that point. It was the first aphex album that didn't completely bowl people over with new ideas, although it still has some great bits

It lacked a USP. It's just a compilation of stuff rather than an album with an aesthetic. People didn't know how to consume it. I still don't.

drukqs totally had an aesthetic

uptempo electronic jams w/distinctly aphex-y melodies and beats set against beautiful prepared piano pieces

Bjork - Homogenic, Post
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsum
Can - Tago Mago, Future Days
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
Depeche Mode - Violator
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯A♯∞
Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements, Dots & Loops
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers

I have a crackpot theory about Gillian Welch's Time (The Revelator) that I thought I'd like to get off my chest. I started writing the book to see if I could pull it off. I couldn't. But that's the album I'd write about if I had the chops.

I feel like these guys were really trying to write the greatest album in the history of everything, plus their de-facto interview like 20 years after telling stories about meeting Giger and Ginastara are fascinating

These stories are hilarious/totally full of shit.

At least the Giger ones are!

OR maybe they've just become ridiculous in my imagination over the years. iirc Emerson said Giger had a palatial dining hall with a table made of giant penises and chairs made of human skeletons, and that the toilet in the bathroom was a monster/electric chair hybrid, and all this silly stuff.

I'm thinking I should write the Brain Salad Surgery book. It would be my devolved memories of him talking about Giger + (plus) my dad's devolved reminisces of listening to it in college, seeing them live, etc. "Greg Lake held up a Book of Mormon* and said if anyone believed in it, we were all fools and liars. I swear, I was waiting for lightning to hit him. But they did have a really cool drum solo."

*because the concert was in was Salt Lake
**this story was actually about Ian Anderson but I'M USING IT ANYWAY

I could also write about how during the synthesizer jam bit of "Karn Evil pt 1 1st impression" I like to imagine a SPACE KNIGHT battling a SPACE MOTH with a SPACE LANCE though that would probably be better suited to a drawing.

do you think they would do a 33 1/3 comic book

There's a great ELP 33 1/3 book out there waiting to be written. But it's not Brain Salad Surgery.

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