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Terminated for Reasons of Taste - Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music (Hardcover): Chuck Eddy Terminated for Reasons of Taste - Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music (Hardcover)
Chuck Eddy
R2,637 R2,407 Discovery Miles 24 070 Save R230 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Terminated for Reasons of Taste - Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music (Paperback): Chuck Eddy Terminated for Reasons of Taste - Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music (Paperback)
Chuck Eddy
R724 Discovery Miles 7 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

The Accidental Evolution Of Rock'n'roll - A Misguided Tour Through Popular Music (Paperback, New): Chuck Eddy The Accidental Evolution Of Rock'n'roll - A Misguided Tour Through Popular Music (Paperback, New)
Chuck Eddy
R634 Discovery Miles 6 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

History, jokebook, buying guide, book of lists, and treatise all rolled into one, The Accidental Evolution of Rock'n'Roll is most of all a joyride through the wildest music ever made. Whether discussing Def Leppard or Nirvana, Vanilla Ice or Public Enemy, Donna Summer or Bob Dylan, Chuck Eddy is an unparalleled master at deciphering unknown tongues and disentangling musical accidents. In this lavishly and hilariously illustrated book, he reveals the roots of rap, disco, power ballads, bubblegum, suburban country, and noise-rock; why selling out is good and honesty is never what it seems; the similarities between disco and garage rock and between reggae and heavy metal; whether songs can ever really "mean" anything; what math rock has in common with amputation rock and orgasm rock; and much, much more. By eventually encompassing the whole wacky world of popular music, this book is destined to change it forever.

Rock and Roll Always Forgets - A Quarter Century of Music Criticism (Paperback): Chuck Eddy Rock and Roll Always Forgets - A Quarter Century of Music Criticism (Paperback)
Chuck Eddy
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Chuck Eddy is one of the most entertaining, idiosyncratic, influential, and prolific music critics of the past three decades. His byline has appeared everywhere from the "Village Voice" and "Rolling Stone "to "Creem," "Spin," ""and "Vibe." Eddy is a consistently incisive journalist, unafraid to explore and defend genres that other critics look down on or ignore. His interviews with subjects ranging from the Beastie Boys, the Pet Shop Boys, Robert Plant, and Teena Marie to the Flaming Lips, AC/DC, and Eminem's grandmother are unforgettable. His review of a 1985 Aerosmith album reportedly inspired the producer Rick Rubin to pair the rockers with Run DMC. In the eighties, Eddy was one of the first critics to widely cover indie rock, and he has since brought his signature hyper-caffeinated, hyper-hyphenated style to bear on heavy metal, hip-hop, country--you name it. "Rock and Roll Always Forgets" features the best, most provocative reviews, interviews, columns, and essays written by this singular critic. Essential reading for music scholars and fans, it may well be the definitive time-capsule comment on pop music at the turn of the twenty-first century.

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