Terminated for Reasons of Taste

Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music

Chuck Eddy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

344 Seiten

2016
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6225-8 (ISBN)

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In Terminated for Reasons of Taste, veteran rock critic Chuck Eddy brings lost, ignored, and maligned pop music to the fore, considering marginalized styles and artists right alongside pop music's heavyweights like Bruce Springsteen, the Beastie Boys, and Taylor Swift.

In Terminated for Reasons of Taste, veteran rock critic Chuck Eddy writes that "rock'n'roll history is written by the winners. Which stinks, because the losers have always played a big role in keeping rock interesting." Rock's losers share top billing with its winners in this new collection of Eddy's writing. In pieces culled from outlets as varied as the Village Voice, Creem magazine, the streaming site Rhapsody, music message boards, and his high school newspaper, Eddy covers everything from the Beastie Boys to 1920s country music, Taylor Swift to German new wave, Bruce Springsteen to occult metal. With an encyclopedic knowledge, unabashed irreverence, and a captivating style, Eddy rips up popular music histories and stitches them back together using his appreciation of the lost, ignored, and maligned. In so doing, he shows how pop music is bigger, and more multidimensional and compelling than most people can imagine.

Chuck Eddy is an independent music journalist living in Austin, Texas. Formerly the music editor at the Village Voice and a senior editor at Billboard, he is author of Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism, also published by Duke University Press; The Accidental Evolution of Rock 'n' Roll: A Misguided Tour Through Popular Music; and Stairway to Hell: The 500 Best Heavy Metal Albums in the Universe.

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
Einstürzende Neubauten / Killdozer: The Graystone, Detroit, 11 June 1986 116
New Wave über 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
Motörhead Überkill 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: Café 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

Erscheinungsdatum	29.07.2016
Zusatzinfo	32 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-10	0-8223-6225-2 / 0822362252
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-6225-8 / 9780822362258
Zustand	Neuware