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Alastair Riddell's Space Waltz by Ian Chapman; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & 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
BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective (33 1/3) by William L. Weir
$22.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & 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
$22.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & 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
Bic Runga's Drive by Henry Johnson; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
$28.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & 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
Carole King's Tapestry 33 1/3 by Loren Glass
$22.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Carole King's Tapestry is both an anthemic embodiment of second-wave feminism and an apotheosis of the Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter sound and scene. And these two elements of the album's historic significance are closely related insofar as the professional autonomy of the singer-songwriter is an expr ...Show more
Cat Power's Moon Pix 33 1/3 by Donna Kozloskie
$22.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Moon Pix was conceived during a hallucinatory waking nightmare in the South Carolina home of Chan Marshall one fateful day in 1997. Spirits violently swam up around her house, looming at the windows, beckoning her to join them. Her and her acoustic guitar warded them off song after song, nearly the enti ...Show more
David Bowie's Diamond Dogs 33 1/3 by Glenn Hendler
$22.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
After his breakthrough with Ziggy Stardust and before his U.S. pop hits "Fame" and "Golden Years" David Bowie produced a dark and difficult concept album set in a post-apocalytic "Hunger City" populated by post-human "mutants." Diamond Dogs includes the great glam anthem "Rebel Rebel" as well a variety ...Show more
Death Metal (Genre - a '33 1/3' series) by T Coles
$33.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: Grenre: a 33 1/3 ser.
Steeped in foreboding mythology, the dark underbelly of heavy metal ignites debate to this day. Guitars playing abrasive, discordant riffs, the thunderous double-kick of the drums acting like an accelerated heartbeat, and porcine, guttural vocals pummeling twisted lyrics. Courting controversy from ince ...Show more
George Michael's Faith by Matthew Horton
$22.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
On Saturday, June 28, 1986, George Michael picked up his tasseled leather jacket, walked out of London's Wembley Stadium and cheerfully tore up five years of glittering pop history. He'd just disposed of Wham!, the band he'd formed with school friend Andrew Ridgeley when they were teenagers, and now, at ...Show more
I'm Your Fan: the Songs of Leonard Cohen (33 1/3) by Ray Padgett
$22.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
When I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen hit stores in 1991, Leonard Cohen's career had plummeted from its revered 1960s high. Cohen's record label had refused to release his 1984 album Various Positions--including the song Hallelujah--in the United States. Luckily, Velvet Underground founder John ...Show more
Janelle Monáe's the Archandroid by Alyssa Favreau
$22.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
In Janelle Monáe's full-length debut, the science fiction concept album The ArchAndroid, the android Cindi Mayweather is on the run from the authorities for the crime of loving a human. Living in 28th century Metropolis, Cindi fights for survival, soon realizing that she is in fact the prophesied ArchAn ...Show more
K. D. Lang's Ingénue 33 1/3 by Joanna McNaney Stein
$25.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Canadian 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 frequent North American TV spots, mainstream country radio excluded lang from airplay due to her unconventiona ...Show more