Can we talk about the 33 1/3 series?

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Anyone reading these?

So far I've read Sign O The Times, OK Computer, Village Green Preservation Society and I just bought Exile On Main Street and Unknown Pleasures.

I'm liking what I've read alot, I enjoy these kinds of close listening essays and hearing new things in albums.

I'm wanting to get them all, actually, I like how all the books look alike.

Any books I should really get next? Any to avoid?

― Viz (Viz), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

The ABBA Gold one is good and intelligent but it suffers a bit from dealing with the tracks largely chronologically rather than in the order they appear on the album, and from having to talk about six different other ABBA albums as well as the Gold comp.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

from what i've read of it, the 'piper at the gates of dawn' is a good one.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

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

33 1/3 Series of books

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

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Bah, double listing. But you get the idea.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

The OK Computer one is nice and anal (it includes a breakdown of every song by time signature, words/images, and a detailed look at Fitter Happier), but it has some really interesting ideas about the CD album vs the vinyl album, ie. one continuous piece of music versus a side 1 then a side 2.

I'm reading Exile on Main Street right now by Bill Janovitz and it's pretty good.

There's going to be an Endtroducing one, but there's a real lack of hip-hop ones being written.

ps. I tried to find those threads, but it wouldn't work for me. Sorry.

― Viz (Viz), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

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