Still, I'd sift through another 100 pages of this just for a few more nuggets about those historic four days in a jingle-recording studio in Chicago. That said, I always hate the track-by-track thematic analyses that the writers of this series feel they have to indulge in, and there's way too much back-story about high school projects and the inferior first record ( Tweez, about which the author seems to know more than Spiderland). At least the author knows music theory enough to be able to discuss chord sequences and time-signatures (rare among rock writers), and a few basic facts help put the album in context: that Slint rehearsed their arrangements meticulously/obsessively for four months prior to recording that the vocals had never been put to the music before that the album was recorded and mixed in four days, in few takes, with virtually no overdubs (in other words, while most bands were using multitracking, metronomes and digital editing to produce a simulacrum of rock music, Slint used the tools of rock - four guys in a room with bass, drums and two guitars - to produce something revolutionary). Still, when there's so little information around you're happy for all you can get. youtube, youtube to mp3, download youtube, mymp3song, hindi music lyrics ,download punjabi music, free punjabi music, hindi songs mp3 ,punjabi wap ,punjabi. Very dry, not very detailed book about one of the most seminal, mysterious albums since punk.
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