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Music from Big Pink 33 1/3 by John Niven
21.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
"Music From Big Pink" is a factional novella: a place where fictional characters rub shoulders with real people, and where actual documented events thread their way through the text alongside imagined scenarios. Through the eyes of twenty-three-year-old Greg Keltner, drug dealer, wannabe musician, and h ...Show more
Neil Young Harvest 33 1/3 by Sam Inglis
23.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 S.
Neil Young's 'Harvest' is one of those strange albums that has achieved lasting success without ever winning the full approval of rock critics or hardcore fans. Here, Sam Inglis explores the circumstances of the album's creation and asks who got it right: the critics, or the millions who have bought 'Ha ...Show more
Patti Smith Horses 33 1/3 by Philip Shaw
24.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
Described, variously, as the perfect fusion of poetry and garage band rock and roll (the original concept was "rock and Rimbaud"), Horses belongs as much to the world of literary and cultural criticism as it does to the realm of musicology. Thus, while due attention will be given to the record's origins ...Show more
Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn 33 1/3 by John Cavanagh
24.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Part of the 33 1/3 series- great books on epic albums of our times. Through a series of interviews with a wide range of people connected to Pink Floyd in their earliest days (including Nick Mason, Peter Jenner, Jenny Fabian, Storm Thorgerson, Duggie Fields and Peter Whitehead), John Cavanagh paints a vi ...Show more
Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Christopher R. Weingarten
23.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
Christopher Weingarten's take on "Nation Of Millions" is a nuts-and-bolts account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record - the engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing and reconstructing. How they re-sampled their own scratches to create "Bring The Noise", ...Show more
Ramones 33 1/3 by Nicholas Rombes
24.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
Thirty-Three and a Third is a series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the past 40 years. Over 50,000 copies have been sold! Nicholas Rombes is an English professor at the University of Detroit Mercy, where he teaches and writes about film, music, and pop culture. His wr ...Show more
Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street 33 1/3 by Bill Janovitz
24.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: 33 1/3 S.
Thirty-Three and a Third is a series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the past 40 years. Over 50,000 copies have been sold!
Sigur Ros's ( ) 33 1/3 by Ethan Hayden
24.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
Words like "inspiring," "expansive," and "moving" are regularly used to describe Sigur Ros's ( ), and yet the only words heard on the record itself are a handful of meaningless nonsense syllables. The album has no title-or rather, its title is no title: just an empty pair of parentheses. The intention b ...Show more
Talking Heads Fear of Music by Jonathan Lethem
21.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
Fear of Music, the third album by Talking Heads, was recorded and released in 1979. It is, like each of their first four albums, a masterpiece. Edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky, and fun - with Brian Eno's production, it's a record that bursts out of the downtown scene that ...Show more
The Beatles' Let it be 33 1/3 by Steve Matteo
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
The recording sessions for Let It Be were actually begun as rehearsals for a proposed return to live stage work for the Beatles, to be inaugurated in a concert at a Roman amphitheatre in Tunisia. Here, Steve Matteo delves deep into the complex history of these recording sessions. He talks to many of the ...Show more
The Front Lawn's Songs from the Front Lawn by Matthew Bannister; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
27.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Ser.
The Front Lawn is a multi-award-winning, much-loved New Zealand duo-turned-trio made up of Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair and, eventually, Jennifer Ward-Lealand. A 1980s variety act, The Front Lawn was part of an Aotearoa/New Zealand alternative tradition of duos that combine music, comedy, theatre and f ...Show more
The MC5 Kick Out the Jams 33 1/3 by Don McLeese
19.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
When the Motor City 5 stormed the stage, the band combined the kinetic flash of James Brown on acid with the raw musical dynamics of the Who gone berserk. It's a unique band that can land itself on the cover of Rolling Stone, a month before the release of its debut album and then be booted from its reco ...Show more