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This is the shelf of music books Brandon wrote. Each book takes one album apart song by song and explains how the music works. The green books are finished and you can read the whole PDF. The other colors are books still being built.

BandBooks Library

Every band book and where to read it. 9 finished (green) link to the full designed PDF. Status mirrors the 10-phase finish plan. Built 2026-06-25.

Finished — read the full PDF

Full manuscript, designed PDF rendered, 0.0% unattributed claims (reality-check passed).

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Racy

Hooray for Earth · 2,558 lines · 107p
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The Slow Rush

Tame Impala · 2,091 lines · 165p
Read PDF
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In Rainbows

Radiohead · 941 lines · 56p
Read PDF
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Thirteenth Step

A Perfect Circle · 782 lines · 61p
Read PDF
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Mer de Noms

A Perfect Circle · 579 lines · 50p
Read PDF
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Siamese Dream

Smashing Pumpkins · 543 lines · 42p
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Farewell

Rush · 829 lines · 78p
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Over-Nite Sensation

Frank Zappa · 1,069 lines · 31p
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Manuscript done — needs a PDF render

Full text written. Fix unattributed claims where flagged, then render. No PDF link yet.

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Failure (modal v2)

2,595 lines · 28% unattributed — fix first
PDF not built yet
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Shiner (Ground...)

1,587 lines · 10% unattributed
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Life and Times

1,813 lines · 9% unattributed
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Has content — density gap

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Beach House — Book 2

2,710 lines · 49 pages under 2-visual bar
PDF draft only

Lyric-only stubs — need a real manuscript

Lyric folders plus thin analysis (~700 lines). Full manuscript generation from stems is the next lift.

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True Loves

Hooray for Earth · 706 lines
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RHCP

708 lines
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A Moon Shaped Pool

Radiohead · 775 lines
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Dummy

Portishead · 764 lines
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Beach House (Book 1)

698 lines
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Seventh Tree

Goldfrapp · 708 lines
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Mare Vitalis

Appleseed Cast · 707 lines
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Toe (primer)

680 lines
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Laurel Canyon Vol 1

92 lines — stub only
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