Weezer – Pinkerton

Weezer – Pinkerton

Weezer – Pinkerton

Weezer – Pinkerton

Weezer – Pinkerton

Weezer – Pinkerton

Weezer – Pinkerton

dorks

I am *very* honestly surprised that there were only two Cure submissions. (I should know, being one of them.)

(Also, if the series keeps continuing, somebody’s got to do a Fall book at some point. I’d vote Hex Enduction Hour.)

Libertines – Up the Bracket
Libertines – Up the Bracket

This is why everyone hates the English.

John Denver and the Muppets – A Christmas Together

Oh hell yes.

Kim Fowley—Outrageous

Okay, so which person in the room at EMP last year when the paper was presented pitched this one?

At least there’s only two Pet Shop Boys entries (one of which is mine).

John Mayer – Room for Squares

I have a couple of guesses as to who pitched this.

holy crap.

i didn’t have it together enough to get any proposals in this time, but two of the albums i maybe woulda tried to get are overrepresented here anyway. wow.

I was convinced there was a Pumpkins book already! Weird. Anyway, I don’t regret not pitching that one; I’d still prefer to write a warts-and-all bio.

Anyway, in reviewing it all, the John Denver/Muppets one HAS to happen. Crossed fingers it’s a good pitch.

Joanna Newsom – Ys

So soon?

Oh is the repetition “More than one person is doing this..”

I wish the authors were included on the list.

Sufjan Stevens – Illinois

Sufjan Stevens – Illinois

Sufjan Stevens – Seven Swans

:-/

MC Hammer – Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em

If they don’t publish this, I will never support them again.

is there a rule against compilation albums? No New York, Nuggets, Flex Your Head and others would make for great reads.

STAMPED IT, SEALED IT, NO RIPOFFS copywrite Fritz 2007.

no one else pitched mine.

which is good i guess.

Burzum – Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

\m/

i pretty much only want to write it so when i tell my mom i’ve quit writing i can say “I GAVE YOU A DAMN BOOK FINALLY, DIDNT I??”

Four Cheap Trick submissions, with three of ’em on At Budokan !!! (Mine was the other one.)

Bill Hicks—Rant in E Minor would be pretty interesting...

Queen – Flash Gordon

This would be good.

(Mine was the other one.)

And a better choice. (I don’t mind At Budokan at all but I don’t have the worship/identification for it so many other people do. Guess I was too young.)

no it wouldnt! jesus.

xpost

no it wouldnt! jesus.

I may be letting my memories of watching the film constantly on HBO in 1981 or so color my expectations.

Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

Is this album even out yet?!?!

La’s – The La’s

*raised eyebrow emoticon*

This would be pretty neat too: Herb Alpert – Whipped Cream and Other Delights

Lookit all those Boys for Pele submissions. Anyone here bumped into a Tori fan lately?

I so nearly pitched a Tori book in a vain attempt to claw back my one moment of internet notoriety.

Wait, ONE?

How does the Bryan Eno & David Byrne thing work? I thought Geeta already wrote an Eno book (Another Green World, no?)

aww phish

I am *very* honestly surprised that there were only two Cure submissions. (I should know, being one of them.)

which?

Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me.

William Shatner – The Transformed Man

ya ned but which album?

Darling.

Still no Roxy Music? I was nudging some friends to do Computer World though.

Based on that profile of wacky Lee Hazlewood I read in the NY Times, I bet a book on one of his albums would be a fun read. But he’s dying of cancer, so if the author wants to talk to him they’ll have to hurry.

As I expected, the fact that only 3 of the initial 60 published were rap-related has likely discouraged virtually everyone from submitting any hiphop entries. Has anyone read that new (from a different publisher) “To the Break of Dawn-A Freestyle on the Hip-Hop Aesthetic book by Spellman Assistant Professor (and onetime Washington City Paper contributor) William Jelani Cobb? Sometimes I’ve liked Cobb’s writing, other times I thought he was too fixated on the whole Native Tongues era in a stereotypical backpacker kind of way.

Fuck Modern Life, fuck Blur, someone SERIOUSLY needs to do 13.

Like, seriously people.

So what was stopping you?

oh man i’ve worked out a theory to why louis jagger ain’t been posting. it’s half term.

every single one of those albums sucks

i could so write an awesome book about pinkerton

^@^ OTM

how much do they pay?

$3000

how much time do they give you?

I’m curious about who proposed Boston.

The “Pinkerton” book should just be pictures of 50 Japanese art students in their underwear with blurbs explaining why each one would make a good wife.

rofflez

MC Hammer would be sweet. What a bizarre moment in pop history.

no Daft Punk—Discovery? Shld’ve pitched, shld’ve pitched . . .

Daft Punk—Discovery? Shld’ve pitched, shld’ve pitched . . .

having that exact same thought.

I think it’s kind of awesome to know someone pitched the same book as me!

I wonder who he or she is!

tusk, on fire +100000000000000000000

What did you pitch Chris?

It Takes A Nation Of Millions...

I almost did my last big paper in college on it (not a thesis, just a big paper) but I ended up continuing my research on Graceland (which, I see two people pitched and would make an excellent book of it’s own!)

So pitching a book really feels like I’m making good on a bet I made with myself when I was 22!

At least there’s only two Pet Shop Boys entries (one of which is mine).

The other would be me.

The other would be me.

Heh! Pistols at dawn?

if any of youse guys ever find out who pitched Cheap Trick At Budokan I’d be very interested to know. maybe we could form a little club or something.

Okay, this is the annual Albums I Didn’t Pitch Because I Didn’t Think It Would Get Selected and/or Would Sell Any Copies at All but I Would Totally Be Able to Write a Whole Kick-Ass Book About

Pizzicato Five, Happy End of the World

The Four Seasons, The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette

Erykah Badu, Mama’s Gun

dude you are crazy for not pitching that Four Seasons album, everybody* would want to read that

*=“I”

Yeah, Matt. It’s a great choice!

haha well when i get rejected again i’ll get another shot at it!

it’s been reissued by Collector’s Choice this year y’know, I’m writing about it for PopMatters soon

Next year four people should pitch each Kiss solo album in an all or nothing deal, then promote the books by touring as a working band, playing songs from the four albums, each author playing their respective Kiss member’s instrument in full make-up (which would realize many people’s fantasy of hearing a setlist of the best tracks from the four albums as if performed by Kiss). The books would be available at the merch stand, where they would undoubtedly sell like hot cakes.

fuckin’ a, I’m in

and then the same with the Melvins’ solo albums, I dibs Buzzo

HEEEEZ A LITTLE NUMBUH FROM MY MY MAN MATT CIBULA...ISS A BIG ONE I KNOOOOOW YOU ALL KNOW...I SAID I KNOO-OOO-WOOAH YOU ALL KNOW...ISS CALLED “NEW YORK GROOVE”!!!

My friend Sam was the first in our town to have all four solo albums, he displayed the covers on the wall over his bed.

Anthony is giddy tonight.

John Mayer – Room for Squares

I have a couple of guesses as to who pitched this

Fuck, who stole my idea?

I ended up not pitching anything. :-(

Heh! Pistols at dawn?

Hmm. Dueling Pet Shop Boys. If they ever split up, that can be their last album. Anyway, the albums sound so different they should let us do both.

Actually, now I want to guess which PSB album each of them picked.

CCR _Pendulum_ is a great idea.

I’ll only tell if Alfred does.

My guess: There are more registered ILX users than readers of the 33 1/3 series. Query: If I wrote one, would it help me get tenure somewhere?

remember, ILM is a Plug awards nominated site

Why am I glad I never knew that?

> The Four Seasons, The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette

I would totally read this too.

I’ll be curious to know who the other Headquarters pitcher was.

More surprising than only two submissions for The Cure—neither is Disintegration.

Also, how does a man write a KMx3 book without devoting at least a chapter to how bad “A Thousand Hours” is?

i totally agree with the Four Seasons. The story behind that weird fuckin’ record has got to be amazing. Hell, just for a warm up, you should write a feature.

yeah well NOW you fukkers tell me!

still though it would only sell about 15 copies

does valli and/or the four seasons do the oldies circuit?

hopefully the Raekwon book will be done...

not very likely though right?

remember, ILM is a Plug awards nominated site

oh dear lord

Actually, now I want to guess which PSB album each of them picked

No, not Actually – Behaviour ;)

does valli and/or the four seasons do the oldies circuit?

yeah, although I’m not sure how many original members are in the deal

remember, ILM is a Plug awards nominated site

Remember, they nominated about 285 blogs / sites for this award.

Moby was robbed, tho. u_u

haha and pitchfork one.

CANT FIGHT CITY HALL, YO.

pitchfork WON

me talk good

I love how all British dudes are commenting on the 33 1/3 blog about how a bunch of American records will not sell a single copy in the U.K. — and then suggesting Unhalfbricking or the Blue Nile!

they’re british, matt.

Yeah?

QED

I don’t “dig” your fancy new alphabet style of talking, but if you’re saying that all British people suck then I disagree. If you are saying that a few anonymous people are trying to sway a British book editor over to picking their UK-o-centric proposals over my US-o-centric one, then I say QED right back to you.

i’m saying that i hate everyone equally

on the whole I should have pitched Philadelphia

original motion picture soundtrack?

this is pretty sad but i really can’t imagine caring enough about any single album to want to write a whole book about it anymore

i guess the key would be finding a thematic hook that would absolve me from actually having to write about the music, but at that point it’s like why not just write a screenplay or something instead

reading that other thread on these books, the only thing i could think of that would be fun to write about and that would be “commercially viable” would be black sabbath. i see two people pitched black sabbath. i was kinda thinking paranoid would be the way to go. probably their most well-known. but probably any book on sabbath would be picked up by fans, so they are a good choice.

i still have never seen any of these books! but i don’t live near any stores that would carry them.

scott, is there a barnes & noble near you?

I’ve only seen maybe 4–6 at the B&N near my mom’s house in Maryland. The Nirvana one, Douglas Wolk’s one, Electric Ladyland, er....

mark when did you lose your joy for this work? THE JOY, SON

i do wanna read the wolk and matos ones still.

i don’t know where the closest barnes & nobles is. maybe new bedford has one. not that i ever go to new bedford...

you can order ’em cheap off amazon scott.

We are all dead inside. Or we pitch an Of Montreal album that hasn’t come out yet.

I’d like to see a series on labels rather than records (I would pay much money for a Suburban Base profile!)

Why didn’t anyone pitch CHINESE DEMOCRACY!~??!?!?

yeah, i should get those two at least. i never buy stuff like books on-line. just old dusty records. although i did just buy a cd from dark beloved cloud recently on-line! that is one way of showing my wolk-love.

there already is a series about labels!

There is??!

Is there a Sub Base book?

i would MAYBE write the soulseek one, that’d be fun

i think i would also write the maxtor 1 terabyte hard drive one

i think the only two theyve done so far are warp and rough trade

Oh yeah wait I remember hearing about that. How is that series?

the rough trade one was okay. sorta like tigerbeat’s guide to rough trade. and it’s pretty clear that once we hit the smiths, rob young’s interest in rough trade goes down the tubes quickly.

Next one is on 4AD. Wow these are a little price-y.

Anyone here bumped into a Tori fan lately?

Besides Dom and the Lex?

pretty clear that once we hit the smiths, rob young’s interest in rough trade goes down the tubes quickly.

no kidding. the first part of the book is actually ok. once we get to 1984, it falls off completely. and not one mention of wanna buy a bridge?, which is a pretty big omission. (granted, the us label compiled it, but still).

i will cry if someone else gets to do the colossal youth book.

Mike, what was the name of the fanzine (or fanzines) you used to do? I always liked them but am spacing on the titles.

writer’s block and c2ught 1n f1ux.

I’ll be extra upset about my This Nation’s Saving Grace pitch not being accepted if freakin’ Thursday gets through

Mike A. of WRITERS BLOCK is totally the only person who deserves to do Colossal Youth.

Big up...

Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music
Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music
Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music

I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but I can’t think of any legitimate way to do 10000 words of actually readable material on MMM. Three separate Reed pitches and they’re all for the stupidest album he’s ever made.

Lester Bangs managed it!

Yeah, but can it (should it) be done again?

That is the reason I passed on writing about Talking Heads (I almost pitched MSABaF) and a bunch of other records — what the hell else is to be said about it, after all that has already been written?

The only way to say anything interesting about MMM now would be to position it as the score for a fiction novel.

yeah, one about androids who hate each other!

I was going to pitch the blue album. But I did not.

The only way to say anything interesting about MMM now would be to position it as the score for a fiction novel.
— Johnny Fever (sidewaysou...), February 17th, 2007.

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yeah, one about androids who hate each other!
— Matt Cibula (expresso222...), February 17th, 2007.

I’m keeping this as a writing exercise for the first Creative Writing class I teach.

i have used instrumental tracks by pizzicato five, miles davis, ornette coleman, and the flaming lips in writing assignments for jr. high and elem. school kids — they LOVE p5 and ornette!

Wow, which tracks (esp. Miles and Ornette)?

Billy Joel – Songs in the Attic

what a strange choice for billy joel. so strange that i’d really like to read it. but i fear i’ve ruined billy’s chances with 33 1/3 forever with my lame pitch for glass houses last time around. good luck to whoever’s this is!

honestly, it’s not like i even pitched a colossal youth book, so if someone else gets to do it, i have no one to blame but myself. the sad fact is that between work, school and family, i have no time to do it the way i’d want to (which would entail actually going to cardiff and london, tracking down a bunch of people, visiting foel studio, etc., etc., etc.). perhaps after i pass the bar in a couple years?

I think it will be that long before they consider doing a book about a record with such a small sales history.

Certainly sounds like you have the exact right idea of how to do the book, no surprise there.

Good luck passing the bar!