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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.
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.
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.
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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