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Terminated for Reasons of Taste (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Terminated for Reasons of Taste, veteran rock critic Chuck Eddy writes that "e;rock'n'roll history is written by the winners. Which stinks, because the losers have always played a big role in keeping rock interesting."e; Rock's losers share top billing with its winners in this new collection of Eddy's writing. In pieces culled from outlets as varied as the Village Voice, Creem magazine, the streaming site Rhapsody, music message boards, and his high school newspaper, Eddy covers everything from the Beastie Boys to 1920s country music, Taylor Swift to German new wave, Bruce Springsteen to occult metal. With an encyclopedic knowledge, unabashed irreverence, and a captivating style, Eddy rips up popular music histories and stitches them back together using his appreciation of the lost, ignored, and maligned. In so doing, he shows how pop music is bigger, and more multidimensional and compelling than most people can imagine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822373896
• Artikelnr.: 54782365

Autorenporträt

Chuck Eddy

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  xi Introduction. Sold a Decade at a Time  1 1. B.C. The Best Songs of 1930  11 Depression Music  13 Country Rap Prehistory  15 Country Songs I  17 Niela Miller: Songs of Leaving  25 '60s Catholic Folk Mass  27 Country Songs II  28 CB Jeebies  39 Can't Fool Mother Nature  40 Prog on the Prairie: Midwestern Bands Roll Over Beethoven  41 Past Expiry Hard Rock Dollar Bin  44 Sonic Taxonomy: Fake New Wave  56 Inventing Indie Rock  64 Urinals
No Age 67 2. 80s Sonic Taxonomy: Unsung '80s R&B Bands  77 Country Rap: The 80s  85 Sonic Taxonomy: Old Old Old School Rap Albums  87 Public Enemy Do the Punk Rock  96 Beastie Boys: Lay It Down, Clowns  98 Aerosmith, Endangered No More  105 Metallica: Kill 'Em All Turns 30  110 Fates Warning and Possessed Open Up and Say . . .  Ahh!  113 Dead Milkmen vs. Thelonious Monster: Battle of the Lame  114 Einstürzende Neubauten / Killdozer: The Graystone, Detroit, 11 June 1986  116 New Wave über Alles 118 Frank Chickens
M.I.A.  124 Owed to the Nightingales  127 Mekons Stumble toward Oblivion  130 Mekons: So Good It Hurts  132 Pet Shop Boys: 18 Shopping Days Left  133 Billy Joel: It's Not His Fault!  135 John Hiatt: Bring the Family  139 John Anderson Serves the Doofus Majority  140 Country Songs III 142 The '80s: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back  145 3. 90s TLC and Kris Kross: Women and Children First  157 Cause & Effect: Trip 160 The Cure: Spectrum, Philadelphia, 16 May 1992  161 SOS from the Metal of Nowhere  163 Motörhead Überkill  164 Pankow and Treponem Pal Ring in Desert Storm  168 How Nirvana Didn't Kill Hair Metal  170 Sponge: From Grunge to Glam  171 Radio On Reviews I 172 Travis Marries a Man!  178 John Mellencamp: Dance Naked  179 Sawyer Brown: Café on the Corner  181 Patricia Conroy: A Bad Day for Trains  182 Grupo Exterminador: Dedicado a Mis Novias  183 When FSK Plays, Schnitzel Happens  184 Radio On Reviews II 185 Alanis Morissette: Addicted to Love  189 4. '00s Singles Again: Backstabs in the Material World  197 Bruce Springsteen: Working on a Dream  202 Frat Daze, Clambake, Anyways, It's Still Country Soul to Kenny Chesney  204 Country Music Goes to Mexico  204 September 11: Country Music's Response  204 Battle of the Country Hunks  214 Country Songs IV  217 The Ladies of Triple A  222 Anvil Won't Go Away  225 Excellent Boring Metal from Germany  227 The Many Ideas of Oneida  228 Next Little Things  232 5. '10s Singles Jukebox Reviews  248 The Dirtbombs: Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-Blooey!  252 Redd Kross: Researching the Blues  256 Mayer Hawthorne
Robert Palmer 258 Kanye West: VEVO Power Station, Austin, 20 March 2011  261 Taylor Swift and Ke$ha: Not So Different 263 Ke$ha: Warrior  267 Strange Brew: Metal's New Blare Witch Project   269 Metal's Severed Extremities  275 Walking Dead: The Divided States of Metal  278 Voivod: Target Earth  281 Merchandise: Totale Nite  285 Mumford and Sons: Babel  287 The Gospel Truth  289 Southern Soul Keeps On Keepin' On  293 Jamey Johnson Sprawls Out  297 Country Songs V  300 Bro-Country Isn't as Dumb as It Looks  302 Ashley Monroe and Kacey Musgraves Are What They Are  304 When the Angels Stopped Watching Mindy McCready  308 Conclusion. I Am the World's Forgettin' Boy  311 Index  315