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Daydream Nation is the kind of gorgeous monstrosity born of extremes rife with difficulties and mythic in proportion that can crush the will of the most resilient well intentioned listener if the necessary preparations haven t been made Matthew Stearns explores the album from a range of angles including a...
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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 a sequence of thematic entries on...
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Aja was the album that made Steely Dan a commercial force on the order of contemporaries like Fleetwood Mac the Eagles and Chicago A double platinum Grammy winning bestseller it lingered on the Billboard charts for more than a year and spawned three hit singles Odd then that its creators...
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In 1978 Siouxsie and the Banshees declared We don t see ourselves in the same context as other rock n roll bands A decade later and in the stark aftermath of a devastating storm the band retreated to a 17th century mansion house in the deracinated Sussex countryside to write...
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It s hard to think of a solo female recording artist who has been as revered or as reviled over the course of her career as Tori Amos Amy Gentry argues that these violent aesthetic responses to Amos s performance both positive and negative are organized around disgust the disgust...
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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 bedroom drama Catholic guilt reprehensible deception and uncleansable...
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Pet Sounds is rightly one of the most celebrated pop albums ever released It has also been written about pored over and analyzed more than most other albums put together In this disarming book Jim Fusilli focuses primarily on the emotional core of the album on Brian Wilson s pitch...
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Issued on America s premier rap label at the peak of the thrash metal movement Slayer s controversial Reign in Blood remains the gold standard for extreme heavy metal a seamless 29 minute procession of ten blindingly fast apocalyptic songs The first English book about Slayer explores the creation of...
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Words like inspiring expansive and moving are regularly used to describe Sigur Rós s and yet the only words heard on the record itself are a handful of meaningless nonsense syllables The album has no title or rather its title is no title just an empty pair of parentheses The...
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The Velvet Underground and Nico has influenced the sound of more bands than any other album And remarkably it still sounds as fresh and challenging today as it did upon its release in 1967 In this book Joe Harvard covers everything from Lou Reed s lyrical genius to John Cale...
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The Stone Roses shows a band sizzling with skill consumed with drive and aspiration and possessing an almost preternatural mastery of the pop paradigm This book explores the political and cultural zeitgeist of England in 1989 and attempts to apprehend the magic ingredients that made The Stone Roses such a...
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It s the summer of 1979 A 15 year old boy listens to WNEW on the radio in his bedroom in Brooklyn A monotone voice it s the singer s announces into dead air in between songs The Talking Heads have a new album it s called Fear of Music...
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So much popular and scholarly has been written about the synthesizer Bob Moog and his brand name instrument and even Wendy Carlos the musician who made this instrument famous No one however has examined the importance of spy technology the Cold War and Carlos s gender to this critically important...
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Tracing the creation of Exile on Main Street from the original songwriting done while touring America through the final editing in Los Angeles Bill Janovitz explains how an album recorded by a British band in a villa on the French Riviera is pure American rock amp roll Looking at each...
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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 being interested in their...
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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 ways with...
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One of the greatest double albums of the vinyl era Sign O the Times shows Prince at his peak Here Michaelangelo Matos tells the story of how it emerged from an extraordinary period of creativity to become one of the...
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Like all double albums Songs in the Key of Life is imperfect but audacious If its titular concern life doesn t exactly allow for rigid focus it s still a fiercely inspired collection of songs and one of the definitive soul records of the 1970s Stevie Wonder was unable to...
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The story behind the making of the album that signaled the descent of Sylvester Sly Stone Stewart into a haze of drug addiction and delirium is captivating enough for the cinema In the spacious attic of a Beverly Hills mansion belonging to John and Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and...
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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...
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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...
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It s October 1977 and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio They re under siege Keith Richards s legal troubles after his arrest for heroin possession threaten the band s future and the broad consensus among rock aficionados is that the band will never again reach the...
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Oasis s incendiary 1994 debut album Definitely Maybe managed to summarize almost the entire history of post fifties guitar music from Chuck Berry to My Bloody Valentine in a way that seemed effortless But this remarkable album was also a social document that came closer to narrating the collective hopes...
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