They’re the kind of thing that would have been very useful pre-internet but they still have some utility. I don’t know if it was the same series but I checked out a slim book on Exile on Main Street when I was in high school. At the time I had trouble getting into the album because it was a sprawling 17 tracks one after another on one CD, many of them unpolished. The book broke the album down, side by side, with comments on the construction of each side, how the opening and closing tracks on each moved the album along and how the songs in between fit together. It was the key to a tough nut of an album to crack.

But something like Nevermind, yeah. And you can more easily find the side breakdowns on the internet now than you could in 2002, pre-Wikipedia. That’s how I got into Embryonic easily.