The 33 1/3 B-sides

If given another chance to write for the series, which albums would 33 1/3 authors focus on the second time around? This anthology features compact essays from past 33 1/3 authors on albums that consume them, but about which they did not write. It explores often overlooked and underrated albums that may not have inspired their 33 1/3 books, but have played a large part in their own musical cultivation.
Questions central to the essays include: How has this album influenced your worldview? How does this album intersect with your other creative and critical pursuits? How does this album index a particular moment in cultural history? In your own personal history? Why is the album perhaps under-the-radar, or a buried treasure? Why can't you stop listening to it? Bringing together 33 1/3's rich array of writers, critics, and scholars, this collection probes our taste in albums, our longing for certain tunes, and our desire to hit repeat--all while creating an expansive "must-listen" list for readers in search of unexplored musical territories.

Will Stockton is Professor of English at Clemson University, USA, and the author of several books, including Members of His Body: Shakespeare, Paul, and a Theology of Nonmonogamy (2017) and Playing Dirty: Sexuality and Waste in Early Modern Comedy (2011).
D. Gilson is Assistant Professor of English at Texas Tech University, USA. His books include Incarnate: Notes from an Evangelical Boyhood (2020) and I Will Say This Exactly One Time: Essays (2015).
Together, they wrote dc Talk's Jesus Freak (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Preface
Introduction: Superfluous, Redundant, Enduring - Prince's Emancipation (1996)
Will Stockton
Reintroduction: Trivial, Derivative, Tenacious - Christina Aguilera's Mi Reflejo (2000)
D. Gilson
Part One Juvenilia
1 Leonard Cohen's Songs of Love and Hate (1971)
Drew Daniel
2 The New York Dolls' Too Much, Too Soon (1974)
David Smay
3 The Rolling Stones' It's Only Rock 'n Roll (1974)
David Masciotra
4 The Durutti Column's The Return of the Durutti Column (1980)
Philip Shaw
5 R.E.M.'s Chronic Town (1982)
Gina Arnold
6 Rites of Spring's Rites of Spring (1985)
Will Fulton
7 Jane's Addiction's Nothing's Shocking (1988)
Rolf Potts
8 Del Amitri's Waking Hours (1989)
Alex Green
9 Sinéad O'Connor's I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (1990)
Tara Murtha
10 De La Soul's De La Soul Is Dead (1991)
Shawn Taylor
11 Digable Planets' Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) (1993)
Walter Biggins
12 Billy Idol's Cyberpunk (1993)
Sean Maloney
13 Guided by Voices' Mag Earwhig! (1997)
Matt LeMay
14 The Smashing Pumpkins' Adore (1998)
Jovana Babovic
15 The Weakerthans' Left and Leaving (2000)
Daniel Couch
Part Two Marginalia
16 Robert Johnson's King of the Delta Blues Singers (1961)
Jeffrey T. Roesgen
17 The Doors' Strange Days (1967)
Clare Nina Norelli
18 The Dells' There Is (1968)
Joe Bucciero
19 Shirley and Dolly Collins' Anthems in Eden (1969)
Sam Inglis
20 Hank Thompson's Smoky the Bar (1969)
Joe Bonomo
21 Von Freeman's Doin' It Right Now (1972)
Aaron Cohen
22 John Cale's Paris 1919 (1973)
Mark Polizzotti
23 Bert Jansch's L.A. Turnaround (1974)
John Perry
24 The Cars' Candy-O (1979)
Susan Fast
25 Ian Dury and The Blockheads' Laughter (1980)
Terry Edwards
26 Frankie Armstrong, Brian Pearson, Blowzabella, and Jon Gillaspie's Tam Lin (1984)
Allan Moore
27 Scritti Politti's Cupid & Psyche 85 (1985)
Dan LeRoy
28 Negativland's Escape From Noise (1987)
Kembrew McLeod
29 Frank Black's Frank Black (1993)
Zeth Lundy
30 Rodan's Rusty (1994)
Michael T. Fournier
31 Kenickie's At the Club (1997)
Emily Mackay
32 Guy's Guy (1988)
Patrick Rivers
33 Sleep's Dopesmoker (2003)
Erik Davis
34 The Blood Brothers' Crimes (2004)
Ethan Hayden
35 Boris's Pink (2006)
Paula Mejia
36 Stars of Lid's And Their Refinement of the Decline (2007)
Walter Holland
37 The Range Rats' The Range Rats (2010)
Michael Blair
38 Daniel Lopatin's Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 (2010)
Marvin Lin
Part Three Memorabilia
39 The Band's Rock of Ages (1972)
Steve Matteo
40 Bruce Springsteen's Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live at the Geneva Theater (1974)
Bruce Eaton
41 Talisker's Dreaming of Glenisla (1975)
John Cavanagh
42 The Village People's Can't Stop the Music: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1980)
Rebecca Wallwork
43 Haruomi Hosono's Philharmony (1982)
Bryan Waterman
44 Hirokazu Tanaka's Metroid (1986)
Andrew Schartmann
45 Various Artists' Music from the Motion Picture Pulp Fiction (1994)
Evie Nagy
46 Various Artists' Casino Soundtrack (1995)
Kevin Courrier
47 Wesley Willis's Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die (1996)
Phillip Crandall
48 Nine Inch Nails' The Fragile (1999)
Luis Sanchez
49 Bob Dylan's Love and Theft (2001)
Pete Astor
50 Silver Jews' Bright Flight (2001)
Hayden Childs
51 The Original Broadway Cast Recording Featuring Green Day's American Idiot (2010)
Cyrus R.K. Patell
52 Perfume's LEVEL3 (2013)
Jordan Ferguson
53 Dawn of Midi's Dysnomia (2015)
Charles Fairchild
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