Franklin Bruno's 33 1/3 book on "Armed Forces"

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I didn't even know he was doing this - I have an abiding affection-from-afar with Franklin cuz he went to my high school, put Upland on the map musically with Shrimper and those great Nothing Painted Blue records... anybody read this? is it on a par with the *cough* Sign O the Times book?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 15 July 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Shakey, have you read this thing by Franklin Bruno?

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 15 July 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

yeah, that's a good piece.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 15 July 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

When I was working on the high school newspaper I got a lot of entertainment going through back issues and finding record reviews of Aretha Frankling and Husker Du written by Franklin.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 15 July 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

I love that Jeff Gomez review to bits & pieces. Um, who's Armed Forces by?

― etc, Friday, 15 July 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Burt Bacharach.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 15 July 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Haha. Having never encountered Our Noise I naively and absent-mindedly read that review as pure fiction. Ouch!

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 16 July 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

I think it's probably my favorite book of the series. Really wonderful and illuminating--he did a LOT of research for it.

― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 16 July 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

i love franklin bruno, and i'm excited to read this.

selfish caveat: i'm not *that* into this e.c. album, and i sort of wish bruno had chosen to tackle, say, a dylan lp. but maybe next time.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 16 July 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

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