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Title: Sorry folks, too pretentious for rock and roll
Review: This, to me, is the weakest in the great 33 1/3 series that I have read. While the author is certainly knowledgable and learned, the prose is thick and I found myself skimming through long passages. This album was a seminal one for me as well (although I was slightly older than the author at time of release) and so while my interest in the topic was very high, I didn't feel this book added anything to my appreciation of it, other than some interesting sequences regarding recording details. I believe that rock and roll can be written about from a serious and analytical point of view, but this reads like a bad thesis from a general studies major.
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