My new book, 33 1/3 Revolutions Per Minute: A Critical Trip Through the Rock LP Era (1955 - 1999), is now available to pre-order.
33 1/3 Revolutions Per Minute contains a good deal of former-Psychobabble content, specifically the posts that made up my old "Great Albums" and "Turn Left at Greenland: The Beatles in America" series, as well as a slew of old reviews. I have completely revised and expanded that old content. There is also a great deal of all-new content. I've newly written an additional 60 or so entries on albums by artists such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Question Mark and the Mysterians, P.P. Arnold, The Four Tops, The Bangles, Van Halen, Arrested Development, The Beach Boys, Os Mutantes, The Cure, The Monkees, Aretha Franklin, The Doors, Wilson Pickett, Curtis Mayfield, The Buzzcocks, Elton John, Heart, Public Enemy, and many more!
33 1/3 Revolutions Per Minute: A Critical Trip Through the Rock LP Era (1955 - 1999) is due to be published by Backbeat Books, which published my first book The Who FAQ, on April 15, 2022.
Here's the official description:
33 1/3 Revolutions per Minute: A Critical Trip Though the Rock LP Era, 1955–1999 is a history of the rock LP era told though critiques of a very personal selection of nearly 700 albums. It follows rock and roll from its earliest days in the 1950s to the explosion of the British Invasion, soul, folk rock, and psychedelia in the 1960s, on through the classic rock and punk albums of the 1970s, new wave classics of the 1980s, and alternative rock discs of the 1990s. Through reviews of albums universally regarded as classics (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Purple Rain, Nevermind, and many of the other usual suspects) and far more obscure discs (albums by Johnny "Guitar" Watson, P. P. Arnold, the Dentists, Holly Golightly, etc.), Mike Segretto shows how the rock and roll album went from a vehicle for singles and filler aimed at kids with an excess of pocket money in the 1950s to a legitimate, self-contained art form by 1967, to the only rock and roll medium that mattered in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s.
33 1/3 Revolutions per Minute: A Critical Trip Though the Rock LP Era (1955-1999) is a history you can read from cover to cover. It is a compendium of album reviews you can dip in and out of. Above all, it is a fun, informative, and opinionated read.
