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'70s Teen Pop by Lucretia Tye Jasmine
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Genre: a 33 1/3 Ser.
Teen pop is a sub-genre of popular music marketed to tweens and teens. Its melodic yearning and veneer of sincerity appeal to an emerging romantic eroticism and autonomy. But tweens and teens buy music that isn't primarily marketed to them, too. Teen pop encompasses several kinds of musical styles, not ...Show more
ACDC Highway to Hell 33 1/3 by Joe Bonomo
$19.95 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
This is a brilliant study of the creation, impact, and legacy of one of rock's great albums, and a hymn to the nature of teenage fandom. Released in 1979, AC/DC's "Highway To Hell" was the infamous last album recorded with singer Bon Scott, who died of alcohol poisoning in London in February of 1980. Of ...Show more
Alastair Riddell's Space Waltz by Ian Chapman; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Ser.
Alastair Riddell's band Space Waltz was a short-lived one-album New Zealand rock act who hit gold with a #1 hit single in October 1974 with the song 'Out On The Street' but thereafter failed to achieve anything even close to that feat. While relegated to one-hit-wonder status in the eyes of many, to thi ...Show more
Angelo Badalamenti's Soundtrack from Twin Peaks 33 1/3 by Clare Nina Norelli
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
When Twin Peaks debuted on the ABC network on the night of April 8, 1990, thirty-five million viewers tuned in to some of the most unusual television of their lives. Centered on an eccentric, coffee-loving FBI agent's investigation into the murder of a small town teen queen, Twin Peaks brought the aesth ...Show more
Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works: Volume II 33 1/3 by Marc Weidenbaum
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
Extravagantly opaque, willfully vaporous - Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II, released by the estimable British label Warp Records in 1994, rejuvenated ambient music for the Internet Age that was just dawning. In the United States, it was his first full length on Sire Records (home to Madonn ...Show more
BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective (33 1/3) by William L. Weir
$19.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
In 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to make some new sounds for radio and TV. They ended up changing the course of 20th-century music. For millions of people, the work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was the first electronic music they had ever heard. Samp ...Show more
Babes in Toyland's Fontanelle 33 1/3 by Selena Chambers
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Babes in Toyland was one of the most influential and underrated bands of the 1990s. They rode the wave of the Minneapolis grunge scene crafting a unique sound composed of self-taught instrumentation and unabashed banshee raging vocals. Their stage presence was enigmatic, their lyrics vitriolic, and thei ...Show more
Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique 33 1/3 by Leroy Dan
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 S.
Derided as one-hit wonders, estranged from their original producer and record label, and in self-imposed exile in Los Angeles, the Beastie Boys were written off by most observers before even beginning to record their second album. But, "Paul's Boutique" eventually transformed the Beasties from a fratboy ...Show more
Bic Runga's Drive by Henry Johnson; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Ser.
From entering a high-school music competition to being honoured with the New Zealand Order of Merit, Bic Runga has an established place within contemporary popular music. Focusing on her iconic album, Drive, and including informative case studies of representative tracks on the album, this book provide ...Show more
Big Star's Radio City 33 1/3 by Bruce Eaton
$22.00 AUD
Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3
This book examines the key ingredients of Radio City's lasting appeal. Virtually anyone who's ever picked up a guitar - whether wood or air - has fantasized about playing onstage alongside his musical hero. Bruce Eaton actually did it. This book is based on the improbable but true story of an ardent fan ...Show more
Black Sabbath's Master of Reality John Darnielle 33 1/3 by John Darnielle
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Category: No Category | Series: 33 1/3
John Darnielle describes Master of Reality through a fictional character, a fifteen-year-old boy being held in an adolescent psychiatric centre in southern California in 1985.John Darnielle describes "Master of Reality" in the voice of a fifteen-year-old boy being held in an adolescent psychiatric centr ...Show more
Body Count's Body Count 33 1/3 by Ben Apatoff
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
On Ice-T's 1991 classic O.G. Original Gangster, he introduced his all-Black hardcore band Body Count with lead guitarist Ernie C, bringing them on the first-ever Lollapalooza tour that summer. The next year, Body Count's self-titled debut album, rounded out by rhythm guitarist D-Roc the Executioner, bas ...Show more