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Corycm said:
Wait back up was this bad? I’ve nearly picked it up a dozen times.
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check the amazon reviews for it -- it's not so much that it's bad, but it's not what the stereotypical audience of music-nerdery books goes for: ie, it's a book about how much Colin Meloy loves and was affected by Let It Be and not so much about Let It Be itself. He clearly loves the band and this record (excllent clip of him talking about it etc) and he's a great writer, obviously, but if you're going into the book wanting to know about Paul Westerberg or why one song is they way it is or what it means or what they played etc, You Can't Get There From Here Pal

If you go into it with the attitude of "my pal colin, what do you think about the 'mats?" and are prepared for some wandering around, you might enjoy it. there's a few other books in the 33.3 ouevre that are like that (the smiths one, john darnielle's "master of reality", the pj harvey one, the big pink one is kinda like that?). I'm not a huge fan, but it doesn't make 'em bad.
 
yukbon said:
check the amazon reviews for it -- it's not so much that it's bad, but it's not what the stereotypical audience of music-nerdery books goes for: ie, it's a book about how much Colin Meloy loves and was affected by Let It Be and not so much about Let It Be itself. He clearly loves the band and this record (excllent clip of him talking about it etc) and he's a great writer, obviously, but if you're going into the book wanting to know about Paul Westerberg or why one song is they way it is or what it means or what they played etc, You Can't Get There From Here Pal

If you go into it with the attitude of "my pal colin, what do you think about the 'mats?" and are prepared for some wandering around, you might enjoy it. there's a few other books in the 33.3 ouevre that are like that (the smiths one, john darnielle's "master of reality", the pj harvey one, the big pink one is kinda like that?). I'm not a huge fan, but it doesn't make 'em bad.
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Appreciate that. I like both genres, but definitely nice to know what you’re getting into when it’s one or the other.
 
yukbon said:
check the amazon reviews for it -- it's not so much that it's bad, but it's not what the stereotypical audience of music-nerdery books goes for: ie, it's a book about how much Colin Meloy loves and was affected by Let It Be and not so much about Let It Be itself. He clearly loves the band and this record (excllent clip of him talking about it etc) and he's a great writer, obviously, but if you're going into the book wanting to know about Paul Westerberg or why one song is they way it is or what it means or what they played etc, You Can't Get There From Here Pal

If you go into it with the attitude of "my pal colin, what do you think about the 'mats?" and are prepared for some wandering around, you might enjoy it. there's a few other books in the 33.3 ouevre that are like that (the smiths one, john darnielle's "master of reality", the pj harvey one, the big pink one is kinda like that?). I'm not a huge fan, but it doesn't make 'em bad.
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Add Ezra Furman's book on Transformer to this list of memoir-type 33.3 books. If you like their writing you will probably enjoy it. If you think they can't write a Yelp review to save their life, then you won't enjoy them.
 
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Ray Charles - The Genius Sings the Blues

From the iconic cover art to the distinguished music within, everything about the thematic record is iconic. Now, nearly 50 years later, it can be heard in pristine fidelity sourced from the original master tapes. Mobile Fidelity's engineers have taken great pains to ensure that every clink of...
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Little Feat - Little Feat

Just as iconic illustrator Robert Crumb's characters evoke weirdly sympathetic figures, so too do vocalist/guitarist Lowell George's cartoonish character-driven narratives. His tales seem to come from a dusty, long-lost comic book – or a secret history of American culture that's a helluva lot...
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jamieanderson1968 said:
Add Ezra Furman's book on Transformer to this list of memoir-type 33.3 books. If you like their writing you will probably enjoy it. If you think they can't write a Yelp review to save their life, then you won't enjoy them.
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oh man i forgot how much i hated jonathan lethem's book on talking heads. it's the only book i've ever returned because it was bad.
 
imtheocean said:
Brings back memories of seeing them at the Hollywood Palladium right after BOI-NGO came out, specifically the mosh pit for Not My Slave. So good.

Back to the subject though, would be nice to fill out the collection if he can get them. And I like the longer tracks on Boingo, especially Change.
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I saw Boingo twice at the SDSU Open Air Amphitheater, once after Dark and the End of the Tunnel and once after Boingo, both in the pit, and they were both incredible. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll buy whatever they put out, but I really want Boi-Ngo the most
 
yukbon said:
i have not, is it a real book about the talking heads or is it another like lethem's "I am going to write a book with my head firmly lodged within my own ass"
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It's been years since I read it, but from what I remember, it's really good
 
yukbon said:
check the amazon reviews for it -- it's not so much that it's bad, but it's not what the stereotypical audience of music-nerdery books goes for: ie, it's a book about how much Colin Meloy loves and was affected by Let It Be and not so much about Let It Be itself. He clearly loves the band and this record (excllent clip of him talking about it etc) and he's a great writer, obviously, but if you're going into the book wanting to know about Paul Westerberg or why one song is they way it is or what it means or what they played etc, You Can't Get There From Here Pal

If you go into it with the attitude of "my pal colin, what do you think about the 'mats?" and are prepared for some wandering around, you might enjoy it. there's a few other books in the 33.3 ouevre that are like that (the smiths one, john darnielle's "master of reality", the pj harvey one, the big pink one is kinda like that?). I'm not a huge fan, but it doesn't make 'em bad.
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So far, I find the ones that take the album as inspiration to write something a lot more than boring track by track analysis ones. Hell the ABBA one was a fucking chore.

I also like to listen to the album when I read them and I'm stuck on Joy Division because well as much as I love Joy Division, I'm never actually in the mood to listen to them since I got older than like 25.
 
Lee Newman said:
sounds like Letham.
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Lee Newman said:
Having read Lethem, is it even related to the album or talking heads?
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He starts by saying he's disconnecting from the internet and will not be reaching out to the band or doing any interviews or consulting any reference material at all, etc etc. It's all going to be based on how memory and recollections of being 16b and listening to "fear of music". Was Byrne a jerk? What was the inspiration for the songs? Did they hate each other? Anything about eno? Live shows? Inner band tension? Not in this book pal, go pound sand. It's titled "talking heads' remain in light" but it might as well be titled "Jonathan lethem is a perpetually self absorbed 16 year old"
 
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Lee Newman said:
So far, I find the ones that take the album as inspiration to write something a lot more than boring track by track analysis ones. Hell the ABBA one was a fucking chore.

I also like to listen to the album when I read them and I'm stuck on Joy Division because well as much as I love Joy Division, I'm never actually in the mood to listen to them since I got older than like 25.
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I like Chris ott's analysis really great but the joy division book was a bit of a slog for me yeah. Some of the track by track ones are ... incredibly insipid. The radiohead one where he breaks down songs by percentages and stuff, ugh. That's not analysis or discussion, it's closer to describing a song for someone that can't hear.
 
yukbon said:
I like Chris ott's analysis really great but the joy division book was a bit of a slog for me yeah. Some of the track by track ones are ... incredibly insipid. The radiohead one where he breaks down songs by percentages and stuff, ugh. That's not analysis or discussion, it's closer to describing a song for someone that can't hear.
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The book (Ott/Joy Division) has been fine so far. Just not angsty enough to listen to Joy Division. It's mood music for me and I've not been in the mood (which is a good thing). Honestly, the less I play NIN and Joy Division, the healthier I probably am. Love them both, dearly... but in a different place.
 
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