I liked the 33.3 book on Bee Thousand by Guided By Voices. The bio by Jim Greer was an easier read - but I actually learnt more about the band / reconsidered things I thought about the band after reading the 33.3 one.
That said, I work as a popular music studies academic for a crust and thus the idea of a treatise on GBV that is slightly less journalistic really appealed to me. Maybe it was only me tho.
Haven't read the SY one and probably wont. Daydream isn't my favourite SY album and I can live without a poetic interpretation of it.
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