Chuck Eddy

Rock and Roll Always Forgets

A Quarter Century of Music Criticism

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Produktbeschreibung

The best, most provocative reviews, interviews, columns, and essays written by the entertaining, idiosyncratic, and influential music writer Chuck Eddy over the past twenty-five years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349969
• ISBN-10: 0822349965
• Artikelnr.: 33623059

Autorenporträt

Chuck Eddy is an independent music journalist living in Austin, Texas. Formerly the music editor at the Village Voice and a senior editor at Billboard, he is the author of The Accidental Evolution of Rock ’n’ Roll: A Misguided Tour through Popular Music and Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe. Chuck Klosterman is a freelance journalist and the author of numerous books, including Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto and Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements xv
Foreword / Chuck Klosterman xi
Introduction 1
1. Predicting the Future
Over and Out 9
Rhymed Funk Hits Area 10
Skin Yard, Skin Yard 12
Drug Crazed Teens: Flaming Lips 14
Music That Passes the Acid Test 15
New Kids in the '90s: A Decade in the Life 18
Radiohead, The Bends 19
Walking into Spiderwebs: The Ultimate Band List 20
Talking World War III Blues 23
2. Alternative to What
Bombast in the Blood: Bad Religion 29
Conscience of Some Conservatives: The Ramones 32
Punk's First Family Grow Old Together: The Ramones 35
Howls from the Heartland: The Untamed Midwest 42
An Indie Rises Above: SST Records 48
Slime is Money (Bastard) 52
Big Black Give You a Headache 56
Nirvana, "all Apologies" 62
Wrong is Right: Marilyn Manson 64
Live: Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, 18 February 1997 68
City of Dreams: Rock in Mexico 69
Chumbawamba at the Piss Factory 76
Mr. and Mrs. Used To Be: The White Stripes Find a Little Place to Fight 'em
Off 79
3. Umlauts from Heck
Five Great Beats-Per-Minute 89
Seduce, Seduce 92
Agnostic Front, Beyond Possession, Dr. Know, Helstar, Raw Power 94
Top 40 That Radio Won't Touch: Metallica 98
Welcome Home (Sanitarium): Metallica Seek Psychiatric Help 104
Mentors, Up The Dose 106
Robert Plant, Technobilly 108
Def Leppard's Magic and Loss 116
AC/DC's Aged Currencies 124
White Wizzard Escape Each Other 137
4. To the Beat Y'all
Mantronix: Strange Loops 143
Spoonie Gee: Unreformed 144
Just-Ice: Rap With Teeth 147
Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1989: N.W.A. 149
Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1992: Arrested Development 149
Sir Mix-A-Lot: Chief Boot Knocka 149
From Taco Bell to Pachalbel: Coolio 150
Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1997: Erykah Badu and B-Rock & The Bizz 152
Timbaland, Magoo, and Ma$e, As the World Turns 153
Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 2001: Jay-Z 157
Licks: Bone Crusher, Turk, Crunk & Disorderly 158
Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 2003 160
5. Race-Mixing
Emmett Miller: The Minstrel Man from Georgia 167
Mississippi Sheiks vs. Utah Saints 168
Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1984 170
Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1985 170
Boogie Down Productions: Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip-Hop 172
Yothu Yindi: Tribal Voice 175
Living Colour: Biscuits EP 175
3rd Bass: Cactus Love 176
Teena Marie in Wonderland 178
Shake Your Love: Gillette 180
The Iceman Cometh Back: Vanilla Ice 183
Motor Suburb Madhouse: Kid Rock and Eminem 184
The Daddy Shady Show: Eminem's Family Values 196
Spaghetti Eastern: The Lordz of Brooklyn 206
6. Country Discomfort
Yippie Tie One On: Rural Roots and Muddy Boots 217
John Cougar Mellencamp: Life Goes On 222
K.T. Oslin: Greatest Hits: Songs from an Aging Sex Bomb 224
The Temptations of Mindy McCready 226
CMT 228
Banda, Si, Por Qué No 229
Big & Rich Boogaloo Down Broadway 233
Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 2004: Montgomery Gentry and Chely Wright 235
Please Stop Belittling Toby Keith 236
Brad Paisley is Ready to Make Nice 240
7. Pop Muzik
Cutting It as a Bay City Roller in 1989 247
People Pleasers: The Village People 249
Arrivedérci, Bay-BEE: Nocera and Fun Fun 251
Debbie Gibson: Angel Baby 253
It Was In The Cards 255
Pet Shop Boys' Mad Behavior 256
Gimme Back My Bullets: Will to Power Shoot for Disco Valhalla 263
Michael Jackson Loves the Sound of Breaking Glass 267
If It Ain't Baroque, Don't Fix It: Michael Jackson and Faithless 273
They Know What They Really Really Want and They Know How to Get It: Spice
Girls and Gina G 277
Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1998 281
8. Singles Again and Again
Sucking in the '70s: Have A Nice Day, Volumes 1-10 287
Zager and Evans: "In The Year 2525" 289
Radio '86: Dead Air 292
Radio On reviews 298
Ten Cents a Watusi 304
Singles Again: Tangled Up in Blue 309
Singles Again: Paranoia Jumps Deep 313
Singles Jukebox reviews 316
The Year of Too Much Consensus 322
The End? 325
Index 329