Beschreibung:
The best, most provocative reviews, interviews, columns, and essays written by the entertaining, idiosyncratic, and influential music writer Chuck Eddy over the past twenty-five years.
Acknowledgements xvForeword / Chuck Klosterman xiIntroduction 11. Predicting the FutureOver and Out 9Rhymed Funk Hits Area 10Skin Yard, Skin Yard 12Drug Crazed Teens: Flaming Lips 14Music That Passes the Acid Test 15New Kids in the `90s: A Decade in the Life 18Radiohead, The Bends 19Walking into Spiderwebs: The Ultimate Band List 20Talking World War III Blues 232. Alternative to WhatBombast in the Blood: Bad Religion 29Conscience of Some Conservatives: The Ramones 32Punk's First Family Grow Old Together: The Ramones 35Howls from the Heartland: The Untamed Midwest 42An Indie Rises Above: SST Records 48Slime is Money (Bastard) 52Big Black Give You a Headache 56Nirvana, ¿all Apologies¿ 62Wrong is Right: Marilyn Manson 64Live: Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, 18 February 1997 68City of Dreams: Rock in Mexico 69Chumbawamba at the Piss Factory 76Mr. and Mrs. Used To Be: The White Stripes Find a Little Place to Fight `em Off 793. Umlauts from HeckFive Great Beats-Per-Minute 89Seduce, Seduce 92Agnostic Front, Beyond Possession, Dr. Know, Helstar, Raw Power 94Top 40 That Radio Won`t Touch: Metallica 98Welcome Home (Sanitarium): Metallica Seek Psychiatric Help 104Mentors, Up The Dose 106Robert Plant, Technobilly 108Def Leppard's Magic and Loss 116AC/DC`s Aged Currencies 124White Wizzard Escape Each Other 1374. To the Beat Y`allMantronix: Strange Loops 143Spoonie Gee: Unreformed 144Just-Ice: Rap With Teeth 147Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1989: N.W.A. 149Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1992: Arrested Development 149Sir Mix-A-Lot: Chief Boot Knocka 149From Taco Bell to Pachalbel: Coolio 150Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1997: Erykah Badu and B-Rock & The Bizz 152Timbaland, Magoo, and Ma$e, As the World Turns 153Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 2001: Jay-Z 157Licks: Bone Crusher, Turk, Crunk & Disorderly 158Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 2003 1605. Race-MixingEmmett Miller: The Minstrel Man from Georgia 167Mississippi Sheiks vs. Utah Saints 168Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1984 170Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1985 170Boogie Down Productions: Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip-Hop 172Yothu Yindi: Tribal Voice 175Living Colour: Biscuits EP 1753rd Bass: Cactus Love 176Teena Marie in Wonderland 178Shake Your Love: Gillette 180The Iceman Cometh Back: Vanilla Ice 183Motor Suburb Madhouse: Kid Rock and Eminem 184The Daddy Shady Show: Eminem`s Family Values 196Spaghetti Eastern: The Lordz of Brooklyn 2066. Country DiscomfortYippie Tie One On: Rural Roots and Muddy Boots 217John Cougar Mellencamp: Life Goes On 222K.T. Oslin: Greatest Hits: Songs from an Aging Sex Bomb 224The Temptations of Mindy McCready 226CMT 228Banda, Si, Por Qué No 229Big & Rich Boogaloo Down Broadway 233Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 2004: Montgomery Gentry and Chely Wright 235Please Stop Belittling Toby Keith 236Brad Paisley is Ready to Make Nice 2407. Pop MuzikCutting It as a Bay City Roller in 1989 247People Pleasers: The Village People 249Arrivedérci, Bay-BEE: Nocera and Fun Fun 251Debbie Gibson: Angel Baby 253It Was In The Cards 255Pet Shop Boys` Mad Behavior 256Gimme Back My Bullets: Will to Power Shoot for Disco Valhalla 263Michael Jackson Loves the Sound of Breaking Glass 267If It Ain`t Baroque, Don`t Fix It: Michael Jackson and Faithless 273They Know What They Really Really Want and They Know How to Get It: Spice Girls and Gina G 277Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1998 2818. Singles Again and AgainSucking in the `70s: Have A Nice Day, Volumes 1¿10 287Zager and Evans: ¿In The Year 2525¿ 289Radio `86: Dead Air 292Radio On reviews 298Ten Cents a Watusi 304Singles Again: Tangled Up in Blue 309Singles Again: Paranoia Jumps Deep 313Singles Jukebox reviews 316The Year of Too Much Consensus 322The End? 325Index 329