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Janet Jackson’s the Velvet Rope
$14.95 Add to cartThe question of control for Black women is a costly one. From 1986 onwards, the trajectory of Janet Jackson’s career can be summed up in her desire for control. Control for Janet was never simply just
- Series: 33 1/3 #148
- Author: Dozier, Ayanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1501355023
- Language: English
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Songs in the Key of Life
$14.95 Add to cartLike 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 a
- Series: 33 1/3 #42
- Author: Lundy, Zeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0826419267
- Language: English
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Dinosaur Jr.’s You’re Living All Over Me
$14.95 Read more1985. Dinosaur, still without the Jr. Not hardcore anymore, but not yet anything else either. First live shows: fearsomely loud. First record, a fearsome mess: a raw miscellany thrown together from sm
- Series: 33 1/3 #82
- Author: Attfield, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 09 2011
- ISBN10: 1441187782
- Language: English
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Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden
$14.95 Read moreCome to My Garden (1970) introduced the world to Minnie Riperton, the solo artist. Minnie captivated listeners with her earth-shattering voice’s uncanny ability to evoke melancholy and exultance. Born
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Proctor, Brittnay L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1501379151
- Language: English
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Esg’s Come Away with Esg
$14.95 Read moreESG were one of the first bands to sign to British indie label Factory Records, working with famed producer Martin Hannett on their early EPs. The band’s signature guitar sound from iconic single ‘UFO
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Percy, Cheri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1501379194
- Language: English
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Flying Burrito Brothers’ the Gilded Palace of Sin
$14.95 Read moreIn 1968, the Flying Burrito Brothers released The Gilded Palace of Sin on A&M Records, selling a disappointing 400,000 copies. Almost forty years later, front man Gram Parsons, is still spoken of with… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Proehl, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0826429033
- Language: English
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Duran Duran’s Rio
$14.95 Read moreIn the ’80s, the Birmingham, England, band Duran Duran became closely associated with new wave, an idiosyncratic genre that dominated the decade’s music and culture. No album represented this rip-it-u
- Series: 33 1/3 #156
- Author: Zaleski, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 06 2021
- ISBN10: 150135518X
- Language: English
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Spiderland
$14.95 Read moreOf all the seminal albums to come out in 1991-the year of Nevermind, Loveless, Ten, and Out of Time, among others-none were quieter, both in volume and influence, than Spiderland, and no band more mys
- Series: 33 1/3 #75
- Author: Tennent, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 11 2010
- ISBN10: 144117026X
- Language: English
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Tusk
$14.95 Add to cartAfter Rumours became the best-selling single album of all-time, Fleetwood Mac asked Warner Brothers Records to buy them a studio (the label refused, costing both Warner Brothers and the band significa
- Series: 33 1/3 #77
- Author: Trucks, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0826429025
- Language: English
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The Replacements’ Let It Be
$14.95 Read moreOne of the greatest moments of College Rock in the 1980s, Let It Be had a huge impact on the fans who fell under its spell. For Colin Meloy, growing up in Montana – a state that’s strangely missing fr… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #16
- Author: Meloy, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: August 10 2004
- ISBN10: 0826416330
- Language: English
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Kraftwerk’s Computer World
$14.95 Read moreComputer World was Kraftwerk’s most concise and focused conceptual statement, their most influential record and crowning achievement. Computer World transformed the way pop music was composed, played,
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Francis, Steve Tupai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1501378988
- Language: English
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Highway 61 Revisited
$14.95 Read moreHighway 61 Revisited resonates because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal. In
- Series: 33 1/3 #35
- Author: Polizzotti, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0826417752
- Language: English
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A Tribe Called Quest’s People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
$14.95 Add to cartOne of the finest hip-hop albums ever made, A Tribe Called Quest’s debut record (featuring stone-cold classics like “Can I Kick It?” and “Bonita Applebum”) took the idea of the boasting hip-hop male a
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Taylor, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0826419232
- Language: English
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Oasis’ Definitely Maybe
$14.95 Read moreOasis’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
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Niven, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1623564239
- Language: English
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Amazing Grace
$14.95 Read moreFor two days in January 1972, Aretha Franklin sang at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles while tape recorders and film cameras rolled. Everyone there knew the event had the potent
- Series: 33 1/3 #84
- Author: Cohen, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 06 2011
- ISBN10: 1441148884
- Language: English
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K.D. Lang’s Ingénue
$14.95 Read moreCanadian 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 freque
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Stein, Joanna McNaney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 150138919X
- Language: English
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Dusty Springfield’s Dusty in Memphis
$14.95 Read moreDusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield’s beautiful and bizarre magnum opus, remains as fine a hybrid of pop and rhythm and blues as has ever been made. In this remarkable book, Warren Zanes explores his
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Zanes, Warren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 131
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0826414923
- Language: English
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Massive Attack’s Blue Lines
$14.95 Read moreIn 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 mar
- Series: 33 1/3 #140
- Author: Bourland, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1501339699
- Language: English
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Metallica’s Metallica
$14.95 Read moreIn 1991, Metallica released their fifth studio album that would become known and beloved around the world as “The Black Album.” Since its release, it has sold 30 million copies, and become a towering
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Masciotra, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1628929308
- Language: English
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Depeche Mode’s 101
$14.95 Read moreDepeche Mode’s 101 is, at first glance, a curious thing: a live double-album by a synth band. A recording of its “Concert for the Masses,” 101 marks the moment when doomy, cultish, electronic Depeche
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Valle, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1501390325
- Language: English
