33⅓ (4 books in series)
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review 1: Wire is a band that I feel I need to get to know better. Back when I was just getting serious about my music, my father brought home an orphaned cassette that he found at work, (the post office) and it was Wire's 1987 album The Ideal Copy. (Incidentally, REM covered "Strange" fro...
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review 1: My first foray into the 33 1/3 series, and I can't imagine a better one. This is a phenomenal book about a phenomenal album, but more importantly, this is a book about the history of music sampling and the evolution of an entirely new genre of music.With page after page of detail...
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review 1: Rampant self-indulgent whimsy. Dude's subjective geeking-out over an album he loves. This is NOT the behind-the-scenes look that we all wished for. Just some moderately successful writer masturbating to a brilliant art-rock album and trying to get us all to watch him. Eewwww, gr...
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review 1: This is very much a representative 33 1/3 offering: obsessive fanboy dissecting a seminal work by a favorite artist, poking and prodding it to within an inch of its life. I am a huge fan of Talking Heads; I think they are absolutely one of the best ever American rock bands. That ...