Your band sucks : what I saw at indie rock's failed revolution (but can no longer hear)
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Your band sucks : what I saw at indie rock's failed revolution (but can no longer hear)
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ISBN:
9780670026593
Physical Description:
xviii, 302 pages illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
Book 1. Thank you, New Jersey, good fucking night -- The importance of a tiny stage -- This is not the way to start a band -- Atlanta, ABBA, and Agnostic Front -- Life is painful, love, Bitch Magnet -- Book 2. Bandography -- What I liked -- Why we never smiled onstage -- The glory, the madness, and the van -- Doctor Rock -- Jonathan Richman has ruined rock for another generation -- Walter Mondale, George McGovern, and your shitty band that no one likes -- Book 3. What was it? -- I wouldn't be averse either -- Calgary metal -- Magnet, bitch -- I hope we don't suck -- Burutaru desu -- Many thoughts about underwear and rock-related maladies -- Goodnight to the rock and roll era -- Epilogue: staying off the bus.
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Summary:
"Jon Fine spent nearly thirty years performing and recording with bands that played various forms of aggressive and challenging underground rock music, and, as he writes in this memoir, at no point were any of those bands 'ever threatened, even distantly, by actual fame.' Yet when members of his first band, Bitch Magnet, reunited after twenty-one years to tour ... diehard longtime fans traveled from far and wide to attend those shows, despite creeping middle-age obligations of parenthood and 9-to-5 jobs, testament to the remarkable staying power of the indie culture that the bands predating the likes of Bitch Magnet--among them Black Flag, Mission of Burma, and Sonic Youth --willed into existence through sheer determination and a shared disdain for the mediocrity of contemporary popular music"--Amazon.com.
