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24-Carat Black's Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth 33 1/3 by Zach Schonfeld
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
In 1973, the musical collective 24-Carat Black released an unheralded masterpiece on Stax Records-and then disappeared. Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth, a soul-funk concept album primarily written by the ex-Motown arranger Dale Warren, was too bleak, ambitious, or just outright bizarre to reach mainstream a ...Show more
BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective (33 1/3) by William L. Weir
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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
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
Cat Power's Moon Pix 33 1/3 by Donna Kozloskie
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Category: 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
Chain's Toward the Blues 33 1/3 by Peter Beilharz; Jon Stratton (Series edited by); Jon Dale (Series edited by)
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Oceania Ser.
Melbourne, 1971: radical counterculture, hippies, opposition to the Vietnam War and consumerism. The birth of Oz blues rock. Influenced by American blues after Robert Johnson, parallel to developments with Paul Butterfield, the Bluesbreakers and Canned Heat, Chain's music also developed in distinct ways ...Show more
D'Angelo's Voodoo 33 1/3 by Faith A. Pennick
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Voodoo, D'Angelo's much-anticipated 2000 release, set the standard for the musical cycle ordained as "neo-soul," a label the singer and songwriter would reject more than a decade later. The album is a product of heightened emotions and fused sensibilities; an amalgam of soul, rock, jazz, gospel, hip-hop ...Show more
David Bowie's Diamond Dogs 33 1/3 by Glenn Hendler
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Category: 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
Depeche Mode's 101 33 1/3 by Mary Valle
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Depeche 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 Mode, despite low American album sales and a lack of critical acclaim, declared they had arrived and asc ...Show more
Donna Summer's Once Upon a Time 33 1/3 by Alex Jeffery
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Contradicting assumptions that disco albums are shallow and packed with filler, Donna Summer's double album Once Upon A Time stands out as a piece that delivers on its promise of an immaculately crafted journey from start to finish. A new interpretation of the Cinderella story, it is set in the then con ...Show more
Duran Duran's Rio 33 1/3 by Annie Zaleski
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
In 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-up-and-start-again movement better than the act's breakthrough 1982 LP, Rio. A cohesive album with a retr ...Show more
ESG's Come Away with ESG 33 1/3 by Cheri Percy
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Category: Music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
ESG 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' has been sampled in hundreds of hip hop records, and everyone from Karen O to Kathleen Hanna lists the ...Show more