Terminated for Reasons of Taste: Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music
- Author: Eddy, Chuck
Prioritising enjoyment over critical dogma with a rigour that becomes almost ideological, Eddy scrapes off the barnacles of conventional wisdom to help the music he loves sail into uncharted... — More…
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$134.25Contents
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction. Sold a Decade at a Time 1
- 1. B.C.
- The Best Songs of 1930 11
- Depression Music 13
- Country Rap Prehistory 15
- Country Songs I 17
- Niela Miller: Songs of Leaving 25
- '60s Catholic Folk Mass 27
- Country Songs II 28
- CB Jeebies 39
- Can't Fool Mother Nature 40
- Prog on the Prairie: Midwestern Bands Roll Over Beethoven 41
- Past Expiry Hard Rock Dollar Bin 44
- Sonic Taxonomy: Fake New Wave 56
- Inventing Indie Rock 64
- Urinals No Age 67
- 2. 80s
- Sonic Taxonomy: Unsung '80s R&B Bands 77
- Country Rap: The 80s 85
- Sonic Taxonomy: Old Old Old School Rap Albums 87
- Public Enemy Do the Punk Rock 96
- Beastie Boys: Lay It Down, Clowns 98
- Aerosmith, Endangered No More 105
- Metallica: Kill 'Em All Turns 30 110
- Fates Warning and Possessed Open Up and Say . . . Ahh! 113
- Dead Milkmen vs. Thelonious Monster: Battle of the Lame 114
- Einsturzende Neubauten / Killdozer: The Graystone, Detroit, 11 June 1986 116
- New Wave uber Alles 118
- Frank Chickens M.I.A. 124
- Owed to the Nightingales 127
- Mekons Stumble toward Oblivion 130
- Mekons: So Good It Hurts 132
- Pet Shop Boys: 18 Shopping Days Left 133
- Billy Joel: It's Not His Fault! 135
- John Hiatt: Bring the Family 139
- John Anderson Serves the Doofus Majority 140
- Country Songs III 142
- The '80s: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back 145
- 3. 90s
- TLC and Kris Kross: Women and Children First 157
- Cause & Effect: Trip 160
- The Cure: Spectrum, Philadelphia, 16 May 1992 161
- SOS from the Metal of Nowhere 163
- Motoerhead UEberkill 164
- Pankow and Treponem Pal Ring in Desert Storm 168
- How Nirvana Didn't Kill Hair Metal 170
- Sponge: From Grunge to Glam 171
- Radio On Reviews I 172
- Travis Marries a Man! 178
- John Mellencamp: Dance Naked 179
- Sawyer Brown: Cafe on the Corner 181
- Patricia Conroy: A Bad Day for Trains 182
- Grupo Exterminador: Dedicado a Mis Novias 183
- When FSK Plays, Schnitzel Happens 184
- Radio On Reviews II 185
- Alanis Morissette: Addicted to Love 189
- 4. '00s
- Singles Again: Backstabs in the Material World 197
- Bruce Springsteen: Working on a Dream 202
- Frat Daze, Clambake, Anyways, It's Still Country Soul to Kenny Chesney 204
- Country Music Goes to Mexico 204
- September 11: Country Music's Response 204
- Battle of the Country Hunks 214
- Country Songs IV 217
- The Ladies of Triple A 222
- Anvil Won't Go Away 225
- Excellent Boring Metal from Germany 227
- The Many Ideas of Oneida 228
- Next Little Things 232
- 5. '10s
- Singles Jukebox Reviews 248
- The Dirtbombs: Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-Blooey! 252
- Redd Kross: Researching the Blues 256
- Mayer Hawthorne Robert Palmer 258
- Kanye West: VEVO Power Station, Austin, 20 March 2011 261
- Taylor Swift and Ke$ha: Not So Different 263
- Ke$ha: Warrior 267
- Strange Brew: Metal's New Blare Witch Project 269
- Metal's Severed Extremities 275
- Walking Dead: The Divided States of Metal 278
- Voivod: Target Earth 281
- Merchandise: Totale Nite 285
- Mumford and Sons: Babel 287
- The Gospel Truth 289
- Southern Soul Keeps On Keepin' On 293
- Jamey Johnson Sprawls Out 297
- Country Songs V 300
- Bro-Country Isn't as Dumb as It Looks 302
- Ashley Monroe and Kacey Musgraves Are What They Are 304
- When the Angels Stopped Watching Mindy McCready 308
- Conclusion. I Am the World's Forgettin' Boy 311
- Index 315