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The Smiths' Meat is Murder (33 1/3 Series) (Unabridged) [Audio Download]

by Joe Pernice (Author), Neal Huff (Narrator)
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  • Listening Length: 2 hours and 35 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: Audible, Inc.
  • Audible Release Date: 18 Nov 2008
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002SQ0XYC
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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One morning as I was jogging my way past the bronze plaque commemorating the deaths of one student and one motorcyclist, Ray floored the brake pedal of his Dodge as he closed in on me. Fifty-mile-an-hour traffic came to a screeching, nearly murderous halt behind him. He leaned over and rolled down the passenger side window in one fluid motion. He dispensed with formalities while I marveled at the audacity of his driving and, tossing something at me, winked and said, "Here. I'm going to kill myself." He pegged the gas, leaving a surprisingly good patch of rubber for such a shitty car. In the gutter, sugared with sand put down during the winter's last snow, I saw written in red felt ink on masking tape stuck to a smoky-clear cassette: "Smiths: Meat."

A Catholic high school near Boston in 1985. A time of suicides, gymnasium humiliations, smoking for beginners, asthma attacks, and incendiary teenage infatuations. Infatuations with a girl (Allison), with a band (The Smiths) and with an album, Meat is Murder, that was so raw, so vivid and so melodic that you could cling to it life a lifeboat in a storm.

Joe Pernice is the singer and songwriter for The Pernice Brothers. Their most recent album is called Yours, Mine and Ours. He has published a book of poetry. This is his first work of fiction.

33 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album rather than an artist's entire output, the books dispense with the standard biographical background that fans know already, and cut to the heart of the music on each album. The authors provide fresh, original perspectives - often through their access to and relationships with the key figures involved in the recording of these albums. By turns obsessive, passionate, creative, and informed, the books in this series demonstrate many different ways of writing about music.

©2003 Joe Pernice; (P)2008 Audible, Inc.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By pez_75
Format:Paperback
...written, this is part of the thirty-three-and-a-third series by Joe Pernice. The author is a musician himself and I personally am a fan of his music (The Pernice Brothers being his most recent incarnation) and even moreso of the Smiths.

The story is a chapter in the life of a teenager, and his ongoing relationships around him, at the time when he was obsessed by this particular album. It is a well-written and perceptive book, and is well worth a read, regardless of whether you are a fan of the Smiths.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This book really is fantastic. It's part of an ongoing series of bookspublished by Continuum press, each about a specific album.
Whereas the other titles have been mostly _about_ the albums (analysis ofthe content, stores about the making of, etc.) Joe Pernice's book is anovella. In it, he recounts a semi-autobiographical tale of growing up ina working class suburb in the US, going to a Catholic School, feeling likean outsider, obsessing about girls, and falling in love with the titularSmiths record.
One reviewer here complained that the book wasn't about The Smiths at all.I think he missed the point. I'd have thought that the story recountedhere ... one of loneliness and alientation, would have been familiar to99% of Smiths fans. The book is beautifully written, witty, and capturesthe essence of everything The Smiths stood for.
(While you're at it, why not also buy "Yours, Mine & Ours" by JoePernice's band, The Pernice Brothers. It was easily the best album of 2003
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I am not a fan of Joe Pernice's music needing to like the book too. I'm not a fan of the music. The book though really is excellent. People write reviews of funny novels saying how often they laughed but I don't agree. This book though was hilarious. Don't expect a run-down of the songs as in my 2nd favourite of this series, on 'There's A Riot Goin' On'. It's not so specific. It's more a better version of the still good 33 1/3 book on 'Let It Be' (By Replacements.)
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