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Abba Gold 33 1/3 by Elisabeth Vincentelli
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Perhaps more than any other Greatest Hits compilation, Abba Gold has come to define a band's career on one disk. More than that, its release in 1992 heralded the critical rehabilitation of a group which had, since its demise a decade earlier, become little more than a memory of trashy costumes and chees ...Show more
Beach Boys Pet Sounds 33 1/3 series by Jim Fusilli
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
The album that Brian Wilson created in an attempt to outdo the Beatles' Rubber Soul album. Worshipped by music lovers for its harmonies it is also regarded as an early demonstration of how to use the recording studio as an instrument. Brian Wilson has recently been touring the album again, playing it to ...Show more
Black Sabbath's Master of Reality John Darnielle 33 1/3 by John Darnielle
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
John Darnielle describes Master of Reality through a fictional character, a fifteen-year-old boy being held in an adolescent psychiatric centre in southern California in 1985.John Darnielle describes "Master of Reality" in the voice of a fifteen-year-old boy being held in an adolescent psychiatric centr ...Show more
Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited 33 1/3 by Mark Polizzotti
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
"Highway 61 Revisited" resonates because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal. In "Like a Rolling Stone", his gleeful excoriation of Miss Lonely (Edie Sedgwick? Joan Baez? A composite ...Show more
Brian Eno's Another Green World Geeta Dayal 33 1/3 by Geeta Dayal
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
The serene, delicate songs on Another Green World sound practicallymeditative, but the album itself was an experiment fueled byadrenaline, panic, and pure faith. It was the first Brian Eno album tobe composed almost completely in the confines of a recording studio,over a scant few months in the summer o ...Show more
Captain Beefheart Trout Mask Replica 33 1/3 by Courrier Kevin
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 S.
In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's "Trout Mask Replica", a double-album featuring 28 stream-of-consciousness songs filled with abstract rhythms and guttural bellows, dramatically altered the pop landscape. This book examines how Beefheart's opus is ...Show more
Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis 33 1/3 by Warren Zanes
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
Dusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield's beautiful and bizarre magnum opus, remains as fine a hybrid of pop and rhythm and blues as has ever been made. In this remarkable book, Warren Zanes explores his own love affair with the record. He digs deep into the album's Memphis roots and talks to several of the ...Show more
James Brown's Live at the Apollo 33 1/3 by Douglas Wolk
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
In this remarkable book, Douglas Wolk recreates the evening of October 24th 1962, at Harlem's Apollo Theatre, an evening at the epicentre of Cold War tensions. An evening when James Brown took the stage to be faced by 1500 screaming fans - fans who thought they might well be dead within a week. Wolk rec ...Show more
Jimi Hendrix's Electric Ladyland 33 1/3 by John Perry
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Electric Ladyland is one of the greatest guitar albums ever made. During the recording process, Jimi Hendrix at last had time and creative freedom to pursue the sounds he was looking for. In this remarkable and entertaining book, John Perry gets to the heart of Hendrix's unique talent - guiding the r ...Show more
Led Zeppelin IV (33 1/3) by Erik Davis
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
In this wickedly entertaining and thoroughly informed homage to one of rock music s towering pinnacles, Erik Davis investigates the magic black or otherwise that surrounds this album. Carefully peeling the layers from each song, Davis reveals their dark and often mystical roots and leaves the reader to ...Show more
Love's "Forever Changes" 33 1/3 by Andrew Hultkrans
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
This title is one of a series of books which focus on epic albums of our time. Here, Andrew Hultkrans looks at Love's album "Forever Changes".
Michael Jackson's Dangerous 33 1/3 by Susan Fast
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
Dangerous is Michael Jackson's coming of age album. Granted, that's a bold claim to make given that many think his best work lay behind him by the time this record was made. It offers Jackson on a threshold, at long last embracing adulthood-politically questioning, sexually charged-yet unable to convinc ...Show more