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Richard Hell and the Voidoids' Blank Generation 33 1/3 by Pete Astor
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
To wander the streets of a bankrupt, often lawless, New York City in the early 1970's wearing a tee shirt with PLEASE KILL ME written on it was an act of arch nihilism, and one often recounted in the first reports of Richard Hell filtering into pre-punk UK. Pete Astor, an archly nihilistic teenager hims ...Show more
Roxy Music's Avalon 33 1/3 by Simon A. Morrison
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Having designed Roxy Music as an haute couture suit hand-stitched of punk and progressive music, Bryan Ferry redesigned it. He made Roxy Music ever dreamier and mellower reaching back to sadly beautiful chivalric romances. Dadaist (punk) noise exited; a kind of ambient soft soul entered. Ferry parted wa ...Show more
Sam Cooke's Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963 33 1/3 by Colin Fleming
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Shelved for over 20 years, Sam Cooke's Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, stands alongside Otis Redding's Live in Europe and James Brown's Live at the Apollo as one of the finest live soul albums ever made. It also reveals a musical, spiritual, emotional, and social journey played out over one night ...Show more
Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire De Melody Nelson 33 1/3 by Darran Anderson
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
Outside his native France, the view of Serge Gainsbourg was once of a one-hit wonder lothario. This has been slowly replaced by an awareness of how talented and innovative a songwriter he was. Gainsbourg was an eclectic, protean figure; a Dadaist, poete maudit, Pop-Artist, libertine and anti-hero. An ic ...Show more
South African Popular Music by Lior Phillips
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Category: Music | Series: Genre: a 33 1/3 Ser.
From the storied ache of mbube harmonies of the '40s to the electronic boom of kwaito and the amapiano and house explosion of the '00s, this book explores vignettes taken from across South Africa's popular music history. There are moments in time where music can be a mighty weapon in the fight for freed ...Show more
Suicide's Suicide (33 1/3) by Andi Coulter
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
New York City in the 1970s was an urban nightmare- destitute, dirty, and dangerous. As the country collectively turned its back on the Big Apple, two musical vigilantes rose out of the miasma. Armed only with amplified AC current, Suicide's Alan Vega and Marty Rev set out to save America's soul. Their w ...Show more
Talking Heads Fear of Music by Jonathan Lethem
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
Fear of Music, the third album by Talking Heads, was recorded and released in 1979. It is, like each of their first four albums, a masterpiece. Edgy, paranoid, funky, addictive, rhythmic, repetitive, spooky, and fun - with Brian Eno's production, it's a record that bursts out of the downtown scene that ...Show more
The Beach Boys' Smile by Luis A. Sanchez
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
Smile is not merely a great unfinished album, but a living work of art that is all at once expansive, indeterminate, and resolutely pop. In the early 1960s, The Beach Boys rose from the suburbs of Hawthorne, California to become emissaries of a post-war American dream that fused middle-class aspiration ...Show more
The Dead C's Clyma Est Mort (33 1/3) by Darren Jorgensen; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Ser.
The Dead C's Clyma est mort (1993) is the record of a live gig for one person. Tom Lax was running the Siltbreeze label in Philadelphia and had come to New Zealand to meet the artists he was releasing. He heard The Dead C at their noisy, improvised best, turning rock music on its head with a free-form s ...Show more
The Front Lawn's Songs from the Front Lawn by Matthew Bannister; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Ser.
The Front Lawn is a multi-award-winning, much-loved New Zealand duo-turned-trio made up of Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair and, eventually, Jennifer Ward-Lealand. A 1980s variety act, The Front Lawn was part of an Aotearoa/New Zealand alternative tradition of duos that combine music, comedy, theatre and f ...Show more
The Go-Go's Beauty and the Beat 33 1/3 by Lisa Whittington-Hill
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
The Go-Go's debut album Beauty and the Beat was released on July 8, 1981. The album spent six weeks in the number one spot on the Billboard charts, produced two hit singles and sold more than two million copies making it one of the most successful debut albums of all time. Beauty and the Beat made the ...Show more
The Isley Brothers' 3+3 by Darrell M. McNeill
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
The Isley Brothers' 3+3, dissects The Isleys' 50-year-old undisputed masterwork, an album that firmly established their music dynasty on a global scale, as well as heralding the boldest run of genre-defiant albums of their 67-year career. The 1973 watershed was their first multiplatinum release and is s ...Show more