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The Replacements: Let It Be (33 1/3 Series) by Colin Meloy Publisher Comments One of the greatest moments of College Rock in the 1980s, Let It Be had a huge impact on the fans who fell under its spell. For Colin Meloy, growing up in Montana a state that s strangely missing from the tour itineraries of almost every band the album... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Celine Dion: Let's Talk about Love (33 1/3 Series) by Carl Wilson Publisher Comments 33 1/3 is a series of short books about a wide variety of albums, by artists ranging from James Brown to the Beastie Boys. Launched in September 2003, the series now contains over 50 titles and is acclaimed and loved by fans, musicians and scholars alike.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (33 1/3 Series) by Kim Cooper Publisher Comments A surrealist text loosely based on the life, suffering and reincarnation of Anne Frank, with guest appearances from a pair of Siamese twins menaced by the cold and carnivores, a two-headed boy bobbing in a jar, anthropomorphic vegetables and a variety of... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime (33 1/3 Series) by Michael T. Fournier Publisher Comments 33 1/3 is a series of short books about a wide variety of albums, by artists ranging from James Brown to the Beastie Boys. Launched in September 2003, the series now contains over 50 titles and is acclaimed and loved by fans, musicians and scholars alike.... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street (33 1/3 Series) by Bill Janowitz Publisher Comments Thirty-Three and a Third is a series of short books about critically acclaimedand much-loved albums of the past 40 years. Over 50,000 copies have been sold Passionate, obsessive, and smart. Nylon an inspired new series of short books about beloved works... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Dinosaur Jr.'s You're Living All Over Me by Nick Attfield Publisher Comments This is an in-depth study of the visceral slacker classic from 1987, an album that influenced enormously the nascent alternative scene. Dinosaur Jr, the stereotypical slackers. Mascis, Barlow, Murph (just Murph): three early-20-somethings still... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Elliott Smith's XO by Matthew Lemay Publisher Comments Smith’s 1998 major label debut defies the "tortured singer-songwriter" stereotype, and takes up this defiance as a central theme. At a time when Smith was being groomed for a particular (and particularly condescending) brand of stardom, he produced a... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures (33 1/3 Series) by Chris Ott Publisher Comments Joy Division's career has often been shrouded by myths. But the truth is surprisingly simple: over a period of several months, Joy Division transformed themselves from run-of-the-mill punk wannabes into the creators of one of the most atmospheric... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pavement's Wowee Zowee by Bryan Charles Publisher Comments Pavement wrapped up at Easley Recording in Memphis. They mixed the tracks and recorded overdubs in New York. They took a step back and assessed the material. It was a wild scene. They had fully fleshed-out songs and whispers and rumors of half-formed... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Christopher R. Weingarten Publisher Comments Christopher R. Weingarten provides a thrilling account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record: engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing - even occasionally stomping on vinyl that sounded too... (read more) Your price: $10.95 New - Trade Paper
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Wire's Pink Flag by Wilson Neate Publisher Comments In contrast with many of their punk peers, Wire were enigmatic and cerebral, always keeping a distance from the crowd. Although Pink Flag appeared before the end of 1977, it was already a meta-commentary on the punk scene and was far more revolutionary... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.95 New - Trade Paper
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Brian Eno's Another Green World by Geeta Dayal Publisher Comments The serene, delicate songs on Another Green World sound practically meditative, but the album itself was an experiment fueled by adrenaline, panic, and pure faith. It was the first Brian Eno album to be composed almost completely in the confines of a... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Radiohead's Kid a by Marvin Lin Publisher Comments It was virtually impossible to ignore Radiohead's Kid A when it was released in early October 2000. But the Album was more than just a ten-track collection of songs written by five musicians from Oxfordshire, more than the weird follow-up to the critics'... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash by Jeffrey T Roesgen Publisher Comments To absorb Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash is to be taken on a wild voyage with a cast of downtrodden revolutionaries. Despite this notion, the epic themes of the Pogues' second full length record have been overlooked by both critics and biographers in favor of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.95 New - Trade Paper
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Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin IV (33 1/3 Series) by Erik Davis Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Sabbath: Master of Reality (33 1/3 Series) by John Darnielle Publisher Comments Black Sabbath's Master of Reality has maintained remarkable historical status over several generations; it's a touchstone for the directionless, and common coin for young men and women who've felt excluded from the broader cultural economy. John... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle by Richard Henderson Publisher Comments Posing more riddles than the average sphinx, with its decipherable answers pointing somewhere dark, Song Cycle was anything but passive. I had already witnessed hippie bands playing with their backs to the hall, so the thought of late '60s musicians... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.95 New - Trade Paper
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Tom Waits: Swordfishtrombones (33 1/3 Series) by David Smay Publisher Comments Two entwined narratives run through the creation of Swordfishtrombones andform the backbone of this book. As the 1970s ended, Waits felt increasingly constrained and trapped by his persona and career. Bitter and desperately unhappy, he moved to New York... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Slint's Spiderland by Scott Tennent Publisher Comments Of all the seminal albums to come out in 1991 the year of Nevermind, Loveless, Ten, and Out of Time, among others none were quieter, both in volume and influence, than Spiderland, and no band more mysterious than Slint. Few single albums can lay claim to... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Ramones: Ramones (33 1/3 Series) by Nicholas Rombes Publisher Comments 33 1/3 is a series of short books about a wide variety of albums, by artists ranging from James Brown to the Beastie Boys. Launched in September 2003, the series now contains over 50 titles and is acclaimed and loved by fans, musicians and scholars alike.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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