33 1/3 Series Paperbacks
analog_tape
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Has anyone picked up any of the 33 1/3 series paperbacks? I own the Paul Boutique and was looking to get the Illmatic and Entroducing copies.
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I just read a review on Carl Wilson's book on Celine Dion maybe i'll grab that too, if I don't like it i'll give it to my mother
I once submitted an idea for the series, but didn't make the cut. Maybe next time.
The Low End Theory one sucks, becuase the writer makes it all about him and you get half the book full of personal anecdotes from the writer...which no one gives a fuck about...
If that's how you feel, do NOT read the Let It Be (Replacements) one!!
There's a LET like that too? Cause that's what I heard about the Peoples Instinctive Travels book.
I thought the Endtroducing one was okay. Pauls Boutique was great, except a bunch of the pages near the end was blank? Just my copy I guess. Albums like PB are made for this kind of thing, since it's about kids going crazy, doing drugs, playing pranks and burning through record company money. Endtroducing is an album made by a guy in a basement basically, so it's apples and oranges.
Holy crap. WORST "BOOK" EVER. Grabbed it for a buck at a library sale, it's so bad it makes me feel like I wasted ten times the buck. Horrible.
And they're cheap to add to an online order.
Having read this thread, it seems like it might be pretty different from the others in the series. Unless I'm mistaken, it never gets very deep into the recording process or inspiration behind the songs, beyond just touching on how it relates to his thesis. Anyway, recommended quick read..
came in here to hatt on the Let It Be one, and the job was already done.
I also read the books on Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation and Steely Dan's Aja and didn't like them nearly as much. The Aja book was heavy on the music theory talk, so if you are good with that you might get more out of it that I did with my self taught level of musicianship. The Sonic Youth book was just bad.
haha, to be honest, I didn't hate that book. it actually reminded me much of my teenage years which took place in the same era as the book and touched on many things I dealt with myself. I liked the exploration of having musical "mentors" and what kind of escape music is at that age - hell, it was almost like a novelized adaptation of "Sixteen Blue" from the Let It Be album ... I just went into it expecting some great Replacements anecdotes and the story behind the album, and instead got memoirs of the author at the age of 15 ... don't agree that it's the worst book ever, just very misleading.