Books I’m Excited About: The 33 1/3 Series
Dan Wolf, an artist I respect a great deal recently pointed me to the 33 1/3 series of small-format books, published by Continuum Press. The 33 1/3 series takes legendary albums of the last 50 years and brings in a variety of journalists, writers and academics to disect them song by song. Newly released titles include Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisted, Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark and Nirvana’s In Utero.
This couldn’t have come at a better time. Inspired by my friend Willo, I recently converted my entire CD collection to plastic sleeves and will be disposing of the jewel cases soon. That process reacquainted me with albums I hadn’t thought about in years. Also I’ve decided to get in the habit of reading, listening and watching everything I do much slower and more deliberately. Reading a disection of a great album, listening and listening to it again sounds plain heavenly.
Update: I just ordered the Born in the USA volume. It begins.
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I’ve been lusting after these for a few years now, especially Joe Pernice (of the Pernice Brothers) writing about The Smiths “Meat is Murder” and Bill Janovitz (of Buffalo Tom) writing about The Rolling Stones “Exile on Main Street” and Colin Meloy (of the Decemberists) writing about The Replacements “Let It Be”. I could go on and on, but I think I’ll just go now and add all these to my Amazon wishlist! 🙂
Your link to Continuum is off, though. It’s http://www.continuumbooks.com.
I’ve been lusting after these for a few years now, especially Joe Pernice (of the Pernice Brothers) writing about The Smiths “Meat is Murder” and Bill Janovitz (of Buffalo Tom) writing about The Rolling Stones “Exile on Main Street” and Colin Meloy (of the Decemberists) writing about The Replacements “Let It Be”. I could go on and on, but I think I’ll just go now and add all these to my Amazon wishlist! 🙂
Your link to Continuum is off, though. It’s http://www.continuumbooks.com.
This series is great. the Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over The Sea entry is nothing short of spectacular musicmaking biography.
This series is great. the Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over The Sea entry is nothing short of spectacular musicmaking biography.