Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism
- Author: Eddy, Chuck
Few longtime pop music critics have been as fearlessly unhip in both their likes and dislikes, have been so willing to accept oft-ignored music on its own terms and have been as rock 'n' roll... — More…
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Contents
- Acknowledgements xv
- Foreword / Chuck Klosterman xi
- Introduction 1
- 1. Predicting the Future
- Over and Out 9
- Rhymed Funk Hits Area 10
- Skin Yard, Skin Yard 12
- Drug Crazed Teens: Flaming Lips 14
- Music That Passes the Acid Test 15
- New Kids in the '90s: A Decade in the Life 18
- Radiohead, The Bends 19
- Walking into Spiderwebs: The Ultimate Band List 20
- Talking World War III Blues 23
- 2. Alternative to What
- Bombast in the Blood: Bad Religion 29
- Conscience of Some Conservatives: The Ramones 32
- Punk's First Family Grow Old Together: The Ramones 35
- Howls from the Heartland: The Untamed Midwest 42
- An Indie Rises Above: SST Records 48
- Slime is Money (Bastard) 52
- Big Black Give You a Headache 56
- Nirvana, "all Apologies" 62
- Wrong is Right: Marilyn Manson 64
- Live: Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, 18 February 1997 68
- City of Dreams: Rock in Mexico 69
- Chumbawamba at the Piss Factory 76
- Mr. and Mrs. Used To Be: The White Stripes Find a Little Place to Fight 'em Off 79
- 3. Umlauts from Heck
- Five Great Beats-Per-Minute 89
- Seduce, Seduce 92
- Agnostic Front, Beyond Possession, Dr. Know, Helstar, Raw Power 94
- Top 40 That Radio Won't Touch: Metallica 98
- Welcome Home (Sanitarium): Metallica Seek Psychiatric Help 104
- Mentors, Up The Dose 106
- Robert Plant, Technobilly 108
- Def Leppard's Magic and Loss 116
- AC/DC's Aged Currencies 124
- White Wizzard Escape Each Other 137
- 4. To the Beat Y'all
- Mantronix: Strange Loops 143
- Spoonie Gee: Unreformed 144
- Just-Ice: Rap With Teeth 147
- Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1989: N.W.A. 149
- Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1992: Arrested Development 149
- Sir Mix-A-Lot: Chief Boot Knocka 149
- From Taco Bell to Pachalbel: Coolio 150
- Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1997: Erykah Badu and B-Rock & The Bizz 152
- Timbaland, Magoo, and Ma$e, As the World Turns 153
- Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 2001: Jay-Z 157
- Licks: Bone Crusher, Turk, Crunk & Disorderly 158
- Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 2003 160
- 5. Race-Mixing
- Emmett Miller: The Minstrel Man from Georgia 167
- Mississippi Sheiks vs. Utah Saints 168
- Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1984 170
- Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1985 170
- Boogie Down Productions: Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip-Hop 172
- Yothu Yindi: Tribal Voice 175
- Living Colour: Biscuits EP 175
- 3rd Bass: Cactus Love 176
- Teena Marie in Wonderland 178
- Shake Your Love: Gillette 180
- The Iceman Cometh Back: Vanilla Ice 183
- Motor Suburb Madhouse: Kid Rock and Eminem 184
- The Daddy Shady Show: Eminem's Family Values 196
- Spaghetti Eastern: The Lordz of Brooklyn 206
- 6. Country Discomfort
- Yippie Tie One On: Rural Roots and Muddy Boots 217
- John Cougar Mellencamp: Life Goes On 222
- K.T. Oslin: Greatest Hits: Songs from an Aging Sex Bomb 224
- The Temptations of Mindy McCready 226
- CMT 228
- Banda, Si, Por Que No 229
- Big & Rich Boogaloo Down Broadway 233
- Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 2004: Montgomery Gentry and Chely Wright 235
- Please Stop Belittling Toby Keith 236
- Brad Paisley is Ready to Make Nice 240
- 7. Pop Muzik
- Cutting It as a Bay City Roller in 1989 247
- People Pleasers: The Village People 249
- Arrivederci, Bay-BEE: Nocera and Fun Fun 251
- Debbie Gibson: Angel Baby 253
- It Was In The Cards 255
- Pet Shop Boys' Mad Behavior 256
- Gimme Back My Bullets: Will to Power Shoot for Disco Valhalla 263
- Michael Jackson Loves the Sound of Breaking Glass 267
- If It Ain't Baroque, Don't Fix It: Michael Jackson and Faithless 273
- They Know What They Really Really Want and They Know How to Get It: Spice Girls and Gina G 277
- Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1998 281
- 8. Singles Again and Again
- Sucking in the '70s: Have A Nice Day, Volumes 1-10 287
- Zager and Evans: "In The Year 2525" 289
- Radio '86: Dead Air 292
- Radio On reviews 298
- Ten Cents a Watusi 304
- Singles Again: Tangled Up in Blue 309
- Singles Again: Paranoia Jumps Deep 313
- Singles Jukebox reviews 316
- The Year of Too Much Consensus 322
- The End? 325
- Index 329