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TynansAnger:
For an excellent read on the roots of indie rock, check out Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azerrad. It has an in-depth analysis of the origins and life of the 80's underground through profiles of bands such as Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, Dinosaur Jr, and my personal favorite band of all time, the Minutemen. You also get ridiculous detailed description of their lives, which often featured squalidness and poverty, absurd drug binges, and uninhibited violence. If you want to know about the golden age of indie rock (and some would argue that indie rock collapsed in 1991), this is the best place to start.

jcknbl:
Instead of starting a new thread for a request I'll just bump this since its semi-applicable. I'm looking for a book recomendation. Specifically I'd like to find out more about 80's and 90's Japanese Noise scene. I'm not looking for a list of bands w/ discography- I'm looking for a cultural analysis/ an "I was there and this crazy shit went down..." type thing. My ignorance is such that I don't really know to what extent there was a noise "scene" (as opposed to a disparate set of bands). Anyone have ideas?

KharBevNor:


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It's full of complete crap, but it's written by Michael Moynihan, so who cares?

Filk:
A few days ago i was at Barnes&Noble looking for something to read and i found this book. After opening it, i felt a strong desire to burn the damn thing.

All the good metal bands are american, and those that aren't, are probably copying an existing american band, so there's no point talking about them, because we are the center of the world.

Bleh

KharBevNor:
I've got the Rough Guide to Heavy Metal. It's wierd. Got all the crap you might expect about nu-metal and hair bands and whatnot, and then it's got columns on bands like The Berzerker praising the shit out of them.

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