Andrew WK: I Get Wet, by Phillip Crandall
I can see this covering the album's media push, AWK's irony-free funtime persona, the subsequent flop and his ability to remain in the public eye.
Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works Vol II, by Marc Weidenbaum
This is a classic but it was made by 1 guy in his bedroom and he rarely gives interviews and absolutely refuses to discuss his working methods. Perhaps it investigates how a double album of untitled ambient techno pieces has remained relevant after almost 20 years. Anything would be better than a first person narrative of the author's relationship to the album.
Edit: Luckily, I discovered that one of my favorite electronic music bloggers,
Beach Boys: Smile, by Luis Sanchez
This one's pretty obvious, but I can't help but feel like it'll just be a condensed version of any of the hundreds of Beach Boys biographies already available.
Bjork: Biophilia, by Nicola Dibben
This came out in 2011, c'mon now.
Bobbie Gentry: Ode to Billie Joe, by Tara Murtha
There's always an outlier in the usual indie-centric (or at least indie-precursor) albums the series covers (see Facing Future), but the mystery surrounding the title track, and it's author's subsequent success and retirement, could make for an interesting book.
Danger Mouse: The Grey Album, by Charles Fairchild
This one will probably need to be subtitled titled Birth of the Mash-Up, even though it's really not.
Dead Kennedys: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, by Mike Foley
Like Slint, the lack of many Dead Kennedys biographies will probably result in this being a mini-overview of the band, Alternative Tentacles, and California punk in general.
Devo: Freedom of Choice, by Evie Nagy
There's a lot to mine in a song-by-song breakdown of this album, so hopefully it's just not a glorified biography.
Gang of Four: Entertainment! by Kevin Dettmar
This is the post-punk album that more people know of than have actually heard, but focusing on the band's politics and how it influenced their music (and vice versa) could make for an interesting look into working class 80s Britain.
Hole: Live Through This, by Anwyn Crawford
I can't see this being anything other than voyeuristic considering the mess that is Courtney Love, but the mainstream explosion of female-fronted punk bands (and Hole's early noise releases) is fertile ground.
J Dilla: Donuts, by Jordan Ferguson
I kind of wish Weingarten had written this after his pretty much perfect volume on ...It takes a Nation.
Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, by Kirk Walker Graves
While the album is an undeniable classic, it's hard to put Kanye into perspective without the benefit of hindsight.
Michael Jackson: Dangerous, by Susan Fast
Or, 1991: The Year Pop was Broken. Topics it could touch on: The rumor that kids returned Dangerous to buy Nevermind, Jackson's problems with fame, and the Emperor's New Clothes style of a record company just saying that an album is good and assuming everyone is going to buy it.
Oasis: Definitely Maybe, by Alex Niven
The mainstreaming of Brit pop (aka it finally hit in the states), the band embracing rock n roll excess in the face of grunge's misery, the Blur thing.
Richard Hell and the Voidoids: Blank Generation, by Pete Astor
Expect cameos by most of NY punk's Class of 77.
Serge Gainsbourg: Histoire de Melody Nelson, by Darran Anderson
Hopefully it won't just focus on Gainsbourg's lecherous persona, but that would be better than a first person account of the author's sex life in relation to the album.
Sigur Ros: ( ), by Ethan Hayden
Jeez is this album already a decade old? A post rock album sung in a made up language by a bunch of polite Icelanders sounds like the recipe for a book where the author tells you about how the album changed his life (aka Boring)
They Might Be Giants: Flood, by Alex Reed and Philip Sandifer
FINALLY.
