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Our Band Could Be Your Life
Ernest:
--- Quote from: Kid van Pervert on 14 Dec 2007, 16:06 ---No offense, zerodrone, but it seems like every time you post you seem agitated and outraged about something. I don't see what the big deal is.
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This is the funniest thing I've read all year. Sigged
Seriously though, I'm somewhere between Tommy and Zero. I loved some of the chapters, thought others were okay, and others pointless and stupid.
I thought Azerrad did a really good job on Mission of Burma, the Minutemen, Minor Threat, Big Black, and Dinosaur Jr. I thought chapter about Sonic Youth went on for far too long (just like a Sonic Youth song) and covered a bunch of shit I didn't care about, and I thought the Fugazi chapter was far too short, especially since he said that next to the Minutemen (who greatly influenced Fugazi) Fugazi best embodied the title "Our Band Could Be Your Life."
Why the fuck did he write a damn thing about the Butthole Surfers? Why is that stupid, pointless band being covered? Don't give me any crap about how they were making people uncomfortable and that was important. They were stupid and pointless, at least during the time that he wrote about them. Not to mention they were fucking douchebags.
The section on Dinosaur Jr was my favorite in the entire book. I mean, here were three guys who were clearly not meant for each other and yet managed to have enough success to try to make their band work for far too long. All the fights and insults documented in that chapter make it well worth reading. It is incredibly entertaining.
Jackie Blue:
OK, I went back to the Sonic Youth chapter and yes, there are two very short and mild quotes about SST not being great to their bands.
Compare this to the dozens of times the author personally - without quoting any musician - kisses Ginn/SST's ass, and I stand by my assertion that he sugarcoated things to make Ginn/SST look better.
Yeah, the Dinosaur Jr chapter is cool, because it's almost entirely composed of quotes from the band. And it shows that Lou Barlow is pretty clearly a fuck of a lot cooler and more real than J Mascis.
And yes, the Butthole Surfers chapter is completely unneccessary (and another one that contains poor research). A chapter on the Flaming Lips would have been a much better choice for showcasing "freaky weirdo music" of the era.
Basically I also hate him for not having a chapter on Camper Van Beethoven, too.
Ballard:
--- Quote from: tommydski on 14 Dec 2007, 16:18 ---For example, I dislike the Clash and Frank Zappa. If you started a thread on either band, I'd probably drop my two cents also.
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I'm not huge on Zappa but I am very curious to hear why you don't like The Clash. Do I need to go start another thread or can we derail for a minute?
Ernest:
I kept reading the Butthole Surfers section waiting for them to do something cool or make an important album or do anything other than become more and more depraved and idiotic. They did not. Having sex on stage is not cool or provocative, it just means you're stupid and on drugs. Words cannot express how much I hated this band. What a bunch of fucking nihilists.
Zero, I don't know why you'd think Barlow was cool, because he most certainly wasn't. He was a vulnerable, whiny little bitch who was in a band with J Mascis, who was an icy asshole. They were both pretty unappealing.
Johnny C:
Whenever talk of this book comes up I mention Please Kill Me.
If you've read both that book and Our Band and you still come away feeling like they sucked, all hope may be lost for you.
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