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Rock and Roll Always Forgets (eBook, PDF)

A Quarter Century of Music Criticism

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Produktbeschreibung

Chuck Eddy is one of the most entertaining, idiosyncratic, influential, and prolific music critics of the past three decades. His byline has appeared everywhere from the Village Voice and Rolling Stone to Creem, Spin, and Vibe. Eddy is a consistently incisive journalist, unafraid to explore and defend genres that other critics look down on or ignore. His interviews with subjects ranging from the Beastie Boys, the Pet Shop Boys, Robert Plant, and Teena Marie to the Flaming Lips, AC/DC, and Eminem's grandmother are unforgettable. His review of a 1985 Aerosmith album reportedly inspired the producer Rick Rubin to pair the rockers with Run DMC. In the eighties, Eddy was one of the first critics to widely cover indie rock, and he has since brought his signature hyper-caffeinated, hyper-hyphenated style to bear on heavy metal, hip-hop, country-you name it. Rock and Roll Always Forgets features the best, most provocative reviews, interviews, columns, and essays written by this singular critic. Essential reading for music scholars and fans, it may well be the definitive time-capsule comment on pop music at the turn of the twenty-first century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822394174
• Artikelnr.: 54817080

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