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I'm Your Fan: the Songs of Leonard Cohen (33 1/3) by Ray Padgett
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
When I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen hit stores in 1991, Leonard Cohen's career had plummeted from its revered 1960s high. Cohen's record label had refused to release his 1984 album Various Positions--including the song Hallelujah--in the United States. Luckily, Velvet Underground founder John ...Show more
Janelle Monáe's the Archandroid by Alyssa Favreau
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
In Janelle Monáe's full-length debut, the science fiction concept album The ArchAndroid, the android Cindi Mayweather is on the run from the authorities for the crime of loving a human. Living in 28th century Metropolis, Cindi fights for survival, soon realizing that she is in fact the prophesied ArchAn ...Show more
Judy Garland's Judy at Carnegie Hall by Manuel Betancourt
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Category: No Category | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
On the night of Sunday, April 23, 1961 Judy Garland made history. That's no hyperbole. Surrounded by a throng of ecstatic fans (3,165 to be exact), the legendary performer delivered a concert in Carnegie Hall the live recording of which became, upon release, an unlikely pop cultural phenomenon. Judy at ...Show more
K. D. Lang's Ingénue 33 1/3 by Joanna McNaney Stein
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Canadian performer k.d. lang broke new ground in the 1980s by blending the genres of punk and country, dubbed "cowpunk," with her band, the Reclines. Despite Grammy-award-winning recordings and frequent North American TV spots, mainstream country radio excluded lang from airplay due to her unconventiona ...Show more
Krautrock 33 1/3 Genre series by Marshall Gu
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Category: Music | Series: Genre: a 33 1/3 Ser.
Krautrock is not a music genre. Krautrock is a way of life. Its sonic diversity and global reach belie the common culture from where it emerged. This is a band-by-band history. In May 1945, the Allies defeated Nazi Germany, putting an end to the European front of World War II and the Third Reich. In ...Show more
Little Richard's Here's Little Richard by Jordan Bassett
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
From male bisexuality to religion in pop, Little Richard spent the 1950s pioneering ideas that are still too challenging for the mainstream. As a Black multimillionaire rock star, he was the most exciting person on the planet between 1955 and 1957, the years in which his seismic debut album was created. ...Show more
Living Colour's Time's Up by Kimberly Mack
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
The iconic Black rock band Living Colour's Time's Up, released in 1990, was recorded in the aftermath of the spectacular critical and commercial success of their debut record Vivid. Time's Up is a musical and lyrical triumph, incorporating distinct forms and styles of music and featuring inspired collab ...Show more
Madonna's Erotica 33 1/3 by Michael Dango
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Everyone wanted Madonna's 1992 album Erotica to be a scandal. In the midst of a culture war, conservatives wanted it to be proof of the decline of family values. The target of conservative loathing, gay men reeling from the AIDS epidemic wanted it to be a celebration of a sexual culture that had rapid ...Show more
Madvillain's Madvillainy 33 1/3 by Will Hagle
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
This book celebrates Madvillainy as a representation of two genius musical minds melding to form one revered supervillain. A product of circumstance, the album came together soon after MF DOOM's resurgence and Madlib's reluctant return from avant-garde jazz to hip-hop. Written from the alternating pers ...Show more
Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible by Evans David
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
In August 1994, Manic Street Preachers released The Holy Bible, a dark, fiercely intelligent album that explored such themes as mental illness, murder and war. Richey Edwards, the band's lyricist and motive force, vanished five months later; he was never found. In his absence The Holy Bible entered the ...Show more
Maria Callas's Lyric and Coloratura Arias 33 1/3 by Ginger Dellenbaugh
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
More than 40 years after her death, the legend of Maria Callas, "La Divina Assoluta," remains unsurpassed. Much has been written about her sensational opera career and fraught private life, from her definitive mastery of iconic opera roles to her love affairs and tantrums. The prototype for the 20th cen ...Show more
Massive Attack's Blue Lines 33 1/3 by Ian Bourland
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
In 1991, a loose-knit collective released a record called Blue Lines under the name Massive Attack, splicing together American hip-hop and soul with the sounds of the British underground. With its marauding bass lines, angular guitars, and psychedelic effects, Blue Lines built on the Caribbean soundsyst ...Show more