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Celine Dion:  Let's Talk about Love (33 1/3 Series)
Celine Dion: Let's Talk about Love (33 1/3 Series)
by Carl Wilson
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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)

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Black Sabbath: Master of Reality (33 1/3 Series)
Black Sabbath: Master of Reality (33 1/3 Series)
by John Darnielle
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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)

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Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (33 1/3 Series)
Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (33 1/3 Series)
by Kim Cooper
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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)

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Tom Waits: Swordfishtrombones (33 1/3 Series)
Tom Waits: Swordfishtrombones (33 1/3 Series)
by David Smay
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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)

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The Ramones: Ramones (33 1/3 Series)
The Ramones: Ramones (33 1/3 Series)
by Nicholas Rombes
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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)

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The Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street (33 1/3 Series)
The Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street (33 1/3 Series)
by Bill Janowitz
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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 Passionate, obsessive, and smart. Nylon an inspired new series of short books about beloved works... (read more)

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The Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs (33 1/3 Series)
The Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs (33 1/3 Series)
by L D Beghtol
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Presents an illustrated oral history of the Magnetic Fields' 1999 triple album, 69 Love Songs - an album that was afforded classic status - as told by participants, fans and others. It also includes studio anecdotes, performance notes from the album... (read more)

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The Beatles: Let It Be (33 1/3 Series)
The Beatles: Let It Be (33 1/3 Series)
by Steve Matteo
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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)

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My Bloody Valentine: Loveless (33 1/3 Series)
My Bloody Valentine: Loveless (33 1/3 Series)
by Mike McGonigal
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This epoch-making record of the late '80s effortlessly combines dense swathes of guitar noise and dance music. This turned out to be their last record, guitarist and studio maestro Kevin Shields having set their standards so high it was impossible to... (read more)

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PJ Harvey: Rid of Me: A Story (33 1/3 Series)
PJ Harvey: Rid of Me: A Story (33 1/3 Series)
by Kate Schatz
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Rid of Me joins Music From Big Pink by John Niven and Meat is Murder by Joe Pernice as one of three fictional titles in the 33 1/3 Series, and tells the story of Kathleen and Mary, two women who find themselves alone in a house in the middle of the dark,... (read more)

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Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine
Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine
by Daphne Carr
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What is the world that Nine Inch Nails made, and what was the world that made Nine Inch Nails? These are the questions at the heart of this study of the band's 1989 debut, Pretty Hate Machine. The album began as after-hours demos by mercenary new wave... (read more)

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Throbbing Gristle: Twenty Jazz Funk Greats (33 1/3 Series)
Throbbing Gristle: Twenty Jazz Funk Greats (33 1/3 Series)
by Drew Daniel
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In 20 Jazz Funk Greats Drew Daniel (of the experimental band Matmos) creates through both his own insights and exclusive interviews with the band an exploded view of the album's multiple agendas: a series of close readings of each song, shot through with... (read more)

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Big Star's Radio City
Big Star's Radio City
by Bruce Eaton
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Released when ELP and Elton John were plodding from one packed stadium to the next, Radio City was a radical album influenced by records that were already deemed oldies and yet sounding like a lean electrical jolt from the future. Here, Bruce Eaton... (read more)

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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
by Christopher R. Weingarten
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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)

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The Replacements: Let It Be (33 1/3 Series)
The Replacements: Let It Be (33 1/3 Series)
by Colin Meloy
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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)

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Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited (33 1/3 Series)
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited (33 1/3 Series)
by Mark Polizzotti
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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)

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Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash
Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash
by Jeffrey T Roesgen
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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)

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Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle
Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle
by Richard Henderson
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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)

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Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen
Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen
by Bob Gendron
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In the absence of love, there is loneliness, sorrow and desperation. And that's where I come in. --Greg Dulli, introducing When We Two Parted onstage in San Francisco Like no record before or since, Gentlemen is fraught with the psychological warfare... (read more)

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Slint's Spiderland
Slint's Spiderland
by Scott Tennent
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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)

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