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Our Band Could Be Your Life
Jackie Blue:
Why do people like this book? It's boring. It has information that is sometimes downright wrong and sometimes annoyingly just wrong enough to be really stupid. Its historical context value is suspect given that it focuses so ass-kissingly on certain people or concepts (I mean, really, did Greg Ginn pay Azerrad for every mention of his name?) and its eye-rolling namedrop-conceits are somewhere between "Teaser trailer for Our Band Could Be Your Life 2" and "I'm sorry, I'm trying to write a book about dirty noisy rock, here". The latter is especially ridiculous given that the book is subtitled "scenes from THE American Indie underground" when it patently ignores pretty much literally 95% of said underground - and I don't mean 95% of the bands, I mean 95% of the varied underground styles and movements.
I guess it would be a little more understandable if the book were called "How Punk Turned Into Grunge: Prelude to Nirvana", because frankly, that's what it basically is.
Besides all that, it's boring, has far too much preachy rambling about a subject that, I suspect, the author doesn't honestly care or know that much about (that his journalistic background is "Rolling Stone, Revolver and SPIN" and two books about Nirvana/grunge) and ironically smacks of the corporate appropriation that the introduction posits as a negative force that these bands fought against.
Bleh.
KharBevNor:
But DUDE! It's a book! Books are intellectual! And it is about Minutemen and Mission of Burma and Black Flag, which are PUNX!
IT IS BOTH INTELLECTUAL AND PUNX.
IT SHOULD REPLACE THE BIBLE AS THE CENTRAL NARRATIVE OF WESTERN CIVILISATION OMG.
Jackie Blue:
Hahahaha. Sigged.
(My favorite part, paraphrased: "Sonic Youth (circa 1985) were even sometimes considered "industrial", before that term had much meaning." Uh, no, "industrial" was pretty well-defined in the mid to late 70s, sir, and only a toolbag from Rolling Stone could possibly consider calling them that.)
Spinless:
It's just a book that talks about some popular bands in their original context! You guys are silly.
People are going to defend it, I hope that you can defend your post without using the word 'stupid'!
MusicScribbles:
Now: Defend yourself!
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