Shipwrecked: The ILM Book We'd Like To See

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Not in competition with the other book but as an extra, a premium let's say, and without the same time or age restrictions.

Here's a partial chapter list for mine:
Jimmy Webb, Tunesmith - Dadaismus
My Favorite, Happiest Days Of Our Lives - nabisco
Billy Joel, Glass Houses - fact checking cuz
Zombies, Odessey and Oracle - edd s hurt
The Byrds, Younger Than Yesterday - Myonga Von Bontee
Ellington/Roach/Mingus, Money Jungle - Hurting
Abba, The Visitors - Sean C
Grant Green, Matador - Lovebug Starski

What would yours look like?

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 11 August 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

Based on this thread.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 11 August 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Ha: I already have 10,000 words about My Favorite on my computer. I've learned that it's a bad idea for me to try and write an article "for myself" about something I'm interested in; apparently I need some sort of framework and length limitation to bring things around to the finish. I also have a quarter-done piece about Max Tundra (probably around 5,000 words), a bit about Rufus Wainwright's Poses (only around 2,000, but too rambly even for that), and a self-reflexive essay about the process of being over-interested in Jamison Duffield.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 11 August 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Plus maybe 2,000 on why boys approach Cat Power as a potential date (lost in limbo when an editor switched positions) and more than that on how "serious" electro was turning out to be more fun than "fun" electro (including my key observation that the main singer from W.I.T. looks creepily like Forman's sister on That 70s Show).

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 11 August 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

Françoise Hardy, Ma jeunesse fout le camp- amateurist

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Sonny Sharrock bio, Sir Doug bio (Nice rack, Ned, is what I was trying to post on ILM-The Book thread, re his "Heh" link)

― don, Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

"Nice rack, Ned"

― !!!!! (nabisco), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Yowsa! I knew those bustiers would come in handy.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

I once wrote (for myself) a 1000-word semi-stream-of-consciousness adventure/frightnight narrative to describe Woob's "11:94". I volunteer to drink myself into a stupor every night for two weeks and expand it into a 10 000 word piece for the book.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

thanks k/l. i'd have to actually learn something about er music to do justice to Matador unless you'd let me compose a tone pome inspired by grant green's chord changes that includes an account of the first time i got laid cross-referenced with my recipe for marinara sauce segueing into a dream I had once about meeting lester bangs' nephew and smoking "loveboat" (PCP) at an all night go-go concert in wash DC.

uhm what chapter/album would you wanna do?

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 11 August 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

i could easily write a 33-1/3 book on glass houses -- hell, i could write one on just "all for leyna" -- but if i had to be truly, madly, deeply honest about the conceit of the project, i'm not really sure it's an album that could sustain me on a desert island. i'd need something with stories of home, with a variety of characters i'd want to live with, with strange and alluring voices, and with depths and depths of mystery. something like the anthology of american folk music. but i'm not sure i could write 10 useful, meaningful words about that album, never mind 10,000. so i guess it's back to glass houses for me.

and yeah, ken, what's yours?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 12 August 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Ken! Appreciate the flattery, but if I were to write about any Byrds LP (not inconceivable) it'd be Fifth Dimension. And I'd sooner write about Hard Attack if I had my way. (And if I were worthy.)

I'd like to read George Smith's take on Black Sabbath Vol. 4.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 12 August 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

P J Miller on Once by Company.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 12 August 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

I am very flattered that you'd have me do Money Jungle. Really.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 12 August 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

Music Mole on Transilvanian Hunger - Darkthrone

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 12 August 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

Vanessa Carlton, Be Not Nobody- Marissa Marchant

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 12 August 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

something like the anthology of american folk music. but i'm not sure i could write 10 useful, meaningful words about that album, never mind 10,000.

That's ok, Greil Marcus couldn't do it either.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 12 August 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

Hurting on fire today.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

Did I start this thread?

fcc, lovebug,
My original idea was to pick records for others to write about for this purely hypothetical project and if they came to the thread and didn't like what they were assigned they could swap out to something else. Anyway since you asked, right now I would pick
'The Velvet Underground: Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes'. At least then I know I've got my Sister Ray covered.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

But right now I would pick
The Only Ones, Peel Sessions

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:24 (twenty years ago)

And right now I would pick
Rosa Passos, Amorosa.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)

xpost No, that's not really fair of me. I just think he tends to get a little carried away. He does a better job writing about the millieu around the anthology and its mystique for a generation than he does about the music itself. But maybe that's kind of what the anthology is, as a whole - a bunch of disparate musical styles that form a kind of mythic narrative about America when put together.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

and right now i might pick
time is on my side - the best of irma thomas

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

I once wrote a very long, very bad, very incomplete thing in an attempt to get my brain around Sun City Girls' Live from Planet Boomerang.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

i'm reasonably sure my irma thomas chapter would also be very long, very bad and very incomplete. then again, so would my stay on the desert island.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

Sex Pistols, Never Mind The Bollocks - Mark S
Mahlathini, King Of The Groaners - Martin Skidmore

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

I would like Gear and I to collaborate on Second Toughest in the Infants and Discovery. 2 picks cause we's 2 peeps, yo!

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

I think I could probably do a better job on Coltrane - Complete Live at the Village Vanguard than Money Jungle.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

Fine.

I was trying to think of a good Blue Note for Gear, but I couldn't come up with a particular title and I didn't want to cheat and use the search function.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

The Beautiful South, Carry On Up The Charts: The Best Of The Beautiful South- Comstock Carabinieri

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Ken Chu on the songs of Pokemon

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 12 August 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

Not so much an ILMer these days, but I'd like to see John D4rnielle do the Streets - OPM

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

ah, you flatter me k/l. actually, I'd love to write about Chris Kenner's LP "Land of 1000 Dances," on Atlantic; the Miracles's "City of Angels"; "Robin's Reign" (Gibb); Zebedy Colt's "I'll Sing for You"; Nino Tempo/April Stevens's "All Strung Out"; "Paebiru"; Bobby Womack's "Fly Me to the Moon." And sure, "Odessey." Or for a record by the Byrds, "Notorious," of course.

I'd like to see Martin Skidmore on "Call Me." Chuck on the first Big & Rich album.

Would just hope our book does better than the original "Stranded," which Da Capo did a good job of reissuing ten years ago.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

I'd do Boo Radley's "Giant Steps".

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

"Robin's Reign" (Gibb)...Or for a record by the Byrds, "Notorious," of course
I was going to put these down as alternate picks for you!

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

K, Money Jungle is a good one too though. Good call. Might be my second favorite jazz record.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

seriously I'd like to do Chic's Real People or James Brown's Sex Machine or the self-titled debut by Cheap Trick or the Stooges' Fun House or Discography by Pet Shop Boys or Kraftwerk's Trans Europe Express or Sonic Youth's Evol.

w/jazz "I know what I like" but don't know enough about the technicalities of the music to judge or really put in context...

I was also thinking Dog Latin on the Beach Boys
Dr. C on Chic
Mark Grout on the Buzzcocks
Jody Beth Rosen on something psychedelic-poppy or sexy-disco

I half-remember mark s saying he didn't like the sex pistols? though that would make an interesting piece certainly

I'd love to do PiL Second Edition/Metal Box too.

this is fun! great thread...

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 12 August 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

He didn't like The Filth And The Fury.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Nitzer Ebb, "That Total Age" (donut ferry)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 12 August 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

adam nordicskillz - jimi tenor, out of nowhere (a three word review - but a good one!)

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Friday, 12 August 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah and (heh heh) Mr. Ex Machina on The Boredoms -- ALL GIFS

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 12 August 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

I just want to see Battle Royale rewritten with ilx posters.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 August 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Oh yeh, I wouldn't mind doing a beach boys thing - probably Surf's Up but there's already been volumes written about their albums.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 12 August 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

BOY did Mark not like The Filth And The Fury! But he and Simon gave me the hystery of all those wild Brit comedians-per-second onscreen. If you could get either one/both of them to write about that aspect, could be fascinating. Also I'd like to see Skot S. on the Art of Mixtapes,and/or Quad Mega Force and Maggotron; Matt Halibun on Cow Pie (see http://thefreelancementalists.blogspot.com for a taste)

― don, Friday, 12 August 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah and (heh heh) Mr. Ex Machina on The Boredoms -- ALL GIFS
I was thinking that too, but I couldn't decide between Super AE, which I think he likes better, and Vision Creation Newsun, which I like better.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

why buy the cow when you can get the slightly rancid milk for free?

― strng hlkngtn, Friday, 12 August 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

I think I read that already, on another thread, on another board.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

And remember people, this thread is all just fantasy baseball. These moocows don't milk.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I fully endorse Leon's idea.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

eeeuuu,milk (I also demand: Chuck Eddy on all those uncollected early early Bob Seger singles, and some LPs too, I think, said to be by far his best work; Frank Kogan on Thomas S. Kuhn/Stacey Q/Ludwig Wittgenstein/Falco; Stevie Nixed on dUES and Luc Sante; Kandia Crazy Horse on LOve And Theft, book and album)

― don, Friday, 12 August 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

My Detroit homies were raving about that Seger stuff, especially "Heavy Music."

lovebug, I ran into your old editor tonight/last night.

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 13 August 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

lucy lurex on the first spice girls album

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 13 August 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

lovebug, I ran into your old editor tonight/last night.

which one?

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 13 August 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)

It occurs to me I should finally see Battle Royale

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 August 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Andy S.

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 13 August 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

He was at the Lee Konitz show. He writes all the copy for the Jazz Standard calendar and such.

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 13 August 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)

andy's a good man, haven't seen him in years. he'd like it here I'd wager. also: didn't know you were from detroit, ken!

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 13 August 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

I'm not. I have friends from Detroit, mainly Mr. Fine Wine. Anyway, I got his card, if you want his contact info email me.

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 13 August 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Misread "homies" and now of course I recall that you're a NY'er.

wow I googled Battle Royale and it sounds like a cross between Lord of the Flies and Wild In The Streets or something. Must investigate.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 13 August 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Breathless - The Glass Bead Game for me, of course.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 13 August 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Stevie Nixed on dUES and Luc Sante

Ah sweet! But I don't think I need to talk about dEUS any more. Rather, I should just shut up about it. ;-) Luc Sante I'd love to interview! :-)

― nathalie starts to cry each time we meet (stevie nixed), Saturday, 13 August 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

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