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ira
Curious
March 20, 2025 10:58AM
Are you guys liking/interested in/ignoring the books coming out from Trouser Press Books? Any suggestions, criticisms, etc.? As this forum is as close to a target audience as we have, I'd be most grateful for any feedback (not to mention an unexpected avalanche of sales! I wouldn't be averse to setting up a special forum friends discount...)
Thanks
Ira
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Delvin
Re: Curious
March 20, 2025 11:23AM
I've bought several of TP's books -- the two novels, all three Music in a Word volumes, and Zip It Up! I've really enjoyed all of them. This Ain't No Disco is next on my list.
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MrFab
Re: Curious
March 20, 2025 12:50PM
I am one of the few, the proud, who bought "Kick It Til It Breaks"! Which i def recommend.
It's a stellar line-up of books. Certainly haven't read them all (yet), but they all look interesting and worthwhile. So I'd say keep it up.

UPDATE: Just ordered "Music in a Word, Vol. 1 "



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Post-Punk Monk
Re: Curious
March 20, 2025 07:37PM
I have really wanted to buy the "Zip It Up!" volume [I have bought a copy to give as a gift] but I've been on a policy of not buying any more books over the last 20 years and in fact, I've been selling off the contents of the bookshelf. I have a box full of things I need to flip as I type. Plus I'm on a low budget, but one day, I'd like to buy one. The other volumes I've not really investigated because… books. At 61 having a library of books isn't a goal any longer. The same with movies. I have zero time to read in any case.
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MrFab
Re: Curious
March 26, 2025 06:23PM
Just got my copy, autographed by The Man himself. Looks yummy, can't wait to dig in.
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rhettlawrence
Re: Curious
March 27, 2025 12:30PM
I've bought a few of them and have enjoyed them all (Zip It Up most recently). I didn't realize I was part of an elite club for having read Kick It Till It Breaks! Really enjoyed that one too.
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Bip
Re: Curious
March 27, 2025 06:52PM
Not sure if it’s helpful to the cause or not, but I have petitioned to get several of the TP titles to be picked up by my local library.

As an aside, I’m reading ‘they just seem a little wierd’ by Doug Brod which I checked out of the library. I’m not far into it, but there’s been several quotes from Ira and many mentions of Binky Philips and the Planets.



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ira
Re: Curious
March 27, 2025 09:05PM
Most helpful and highly recommended. Thank you.
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zwirnm
Re: Curious
March 28, 2025 11:26AM
I have read a few of them. The London Calling New York New York one looks fascinating, but I haven't picked it up yet. I have the Mitchell Cohen book sitting on a shelf to read soon.
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HollowbodyKay
Re: Curious
April 09, 2025 02:21PM
I own all three of the old Record Guides. Am I to understand there are NEW books?

Or should I perhaps start lugging my old ones around the globe to exotic destinations and taking snapshots just like Amélie Poulain's Father's Garden Gnome?

I believe the kids call this Generating Content?
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MrFab
Re: Curious
April 09, 2025 02:55PM
Behold! Trouser Press Books is a wonderland of wonder:
[www.trouserpressbooks.com]
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Chucky
Re: Curious
April 10, 2025 07:49AM
HollowbodyKay Wrote:
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> I own all three of the old Record Guides. Am I to
> understand there are NEW books?
>
> Or should I perhaps start lugging my old ones
> around the globe to exotic destinations and taking
> snapshots just like Amélie Poulain's Father's
> Garden Gnome?
>
> I believe the kids call this Generating Content?

There are actually FIVE record guide books.
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HollowbodyKay
Re: Curious
April 15, 2025 09:20AM
Chucky Wrote:

> There are actually FIVE record guide books.

I wasn't counting the other two as "old" ... but so be it:

FIVE old record guides.
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ira
Re: Curious
April 10, 2025 02:02PM
The contents of which are on this website...
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Michael Toland
Re: Curious
April 10, 2025 02:11PM
A good thing, too - the three guides I have are all falling apart from being read so much.
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rhettlawrence
Re: Curious
April 11, 2025 11:54AM
I'm so bummed I no longer have the first volume, which got lost in the mix somehow when I was clearing out my stuff from my mom's house after she died. I still do have all the others though.

One reason I wish I still had the first one is that I'd love to revisit the review of the Dream Syndicate, which I recall as being along the lines of "this is nothing the Psychedelic Furs haven't already done better." Reading Steve Wynn's bio recently made me think about it again, and even at the time I was kinda baffled by that comparison. Can anyone verify whether I'm sorta remembering that right?
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ira
Re: Curious
April 15, 2025 02:55PM
[www.dropbox.com]

Can't say I totally stand by this, but here it is...
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rhettlawrence
Re: Curious
April 16, 2025 11:39AM
Ha - thanks, Ira! A bonus reference to the Insect Trust too, whoever that is!
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ira
Re: Curious
April 16, 2025 04:22PM
Robert Palmer [NYT writer, not the singer] was a member of the IT.
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STEVE
Re: Curious
April 15, 2025 10:24PM
I'm thoroughly enjoying listening to Trouser Press podcast #2 as I write.
So much so, that it will probably serve as a one- two punch. One, as a simple reminder about the books being out, and two, as a catalyst to finally buy them.
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Michael Toland
Re: Curious
April 16, 2025 08:49AM
A TP podcast? Did I miss something?
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ira
Re: Curious
April 16, 2025 10:06AM
TP Books, actually. We've done two of them so far.

[www.podbean.com]



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