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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
The Dead C's Clyma Est Mort (33 1/3) by Darren Jorgensen; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
$24.99 AUD
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
The Shangri-Las' Golden Hits of the Shangri-Las by Ada Wolin
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Of the many girl-groups that came out of the 1960s, none is more idiosyncratic and influential than the Shangri-Las. They were together only five years, but within that time they subverted pop standards and foreshadowed a generation of tough women in music. Critically, they are not lauded in the way of ...Show more
Tom Petty's Southern Accents by Michael Washburn
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
By 1985 Tom Petty had already obtained legendary status. He had fame. He had money. But he was restless, hoping to stretch his artistry beyond the confining format of songs like "The Waiting" and "Refugee." Petty's response to his restlessness was Southern Accents. Initially conceived as a concept album ...Show more
Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones 33 1/3 by David Smay
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 S.
Two entwined narratives run through the creation of "Swordfishtrombones" and form 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 in 1979 to change his life. It wasn't working. ...Show more
Tribe Called Quests Peoples Intinctive Travels And The Path A 33 1/3 by Taylor Shawn
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 S.
One of the finest hip-hop albums ever made, A Tribe Called Quest's debut record took the idea of the boasting hip-hop male and turned it on its head. This book explores the album's creation as well as the impact it had on the author at that time - a 17-year-old high-school geek who was into hip-hop, pun ...Show more
Trip-Hop (Genre - a '33 1/3' series) by R. J. Wheaton
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Category: Music | Series: Genre: a 33 1/3 Ser.
Trip-hop described some of the 1990s' best music, and it was one of the decade's most revealing bad ideas. The music itself was an intoxication of beats, bass, and voice. It emerged amid the social tensions of the late 1980s, and as part of hip-hop's rise to global dominance. It carried the innovations ...Show more