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Title: Book recommendation
Post by: TynansAnger on 31 Jul 2006, 05:40

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.

Title: Book recommendation
Post by: jcknbl on 01 Aug 2006, 01:24

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?

Title: Book recommendation
Post by: KharBevNor on 01 Aug 2006, 03:33

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

Title: Book recommendation
Post by: Filk on 01 Aug 2006, 11:32

A few days ago i was at Barnes&Noble looking for something to read and i found this book (http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0760742189&itm=3). 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

Title: Book recommendation
Post by: KharBevNor on 01 Aug 2006, 11:43

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.

Title: Book recommendation
Post by: Filk on 01 Aug 2006, 12:00

I had a feel that when writing the "Encyclopedia" they picked most of the bands based on record sales charts in US, and then threw a bunch of random bands in, regardless of their contribution to the development of the genre.

Title: Book recommendation
Post by: Kai on 01 Aug 2006, 14:30

This Band Could Be Your Life was hella awesome. Any book that gets me listening to The Minutemen is hella awesome.

Title: Book recommendation
Post by: Johnny C on 01 Aug 2006, 15:43

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Title: Book recommendation
Post by: Kai on 01 Aug 2006, 19:07

I'd read it.

Title: Book recommendation
Post by: Johnny C on 02 Aug 2006, 00:03

Damn right. I've been told that Our Band Could Be Your Life is brilliant - I'll have to keep an eye out.

Title: Book recommendation
Post by: The Hammered on 02 Aug 2006, 02:24

I've been wanting that for a long time (and, hopefully, I'll be getting it soon). I haven't gotten the chance to check out most of the bands he writes about, but I've heard some things about most of them, and it'll no doubt inspire me to pick up some of their albums.

I do wish there was a chapter on Swans, however.

Title: Book recommendation
Post by: karl gambolputty... on 02 Aug 2006, 07:22

They don't have their own chapter, but they do make a few appearances in the Sonic Youth chapter.

Title: Book recommendation
Post by: TynansAnger on 02 Aug 2006, 19:31

The Minutemen are probably my favorite band of all time, in that no one embraced DIY and free-thinking better than anyone else. I just bought the DVD of We Jam Econo, the new documentary on the Minutemen, also brilliant on it's own.

Title: Book recommendation
Post by: Rather Confused on 03 Aug 2006, 04:03

Another thumbs up for Our Band Could Be Your Life. A dude at the record store suggested it to me.

Anyone who doesn't have a copy. Get one now.

I cried when Boon died. :(