I Hate Old Music, Too

Dave Thompson

doi:10.5771/9781493073528

Zusammenfassung

Edgy, witty, and opinionated critical analysis of “classic rock” in the 21st century, discussing everything from modern remixes of classic albums (why?) to concert ticket prices, Record Store Day, the vinyl revival, milking deceased artists, reunions, tribute acts, and more.

When Dave Thompson’s I Hate New Music: The Classic Rock Manifesto in 2008, the book did not so much divide the world of rock reading as leave it in an uproar. It started arguments, it ended debates, and for the author of over 150 music books, it not only received the strongest reader response of any book he’d written, it also still crops up in author interviews today.

Almost fifteen years later, however, much has changed, and the classics have lost some of their bite as well. In I Hate Old Music, Too, Thompson recasts the story of “classic rock” in the 21st century.

Among the targets of his ire are lavish box sets that mostly just duplicate the albums you already own; comebacks and reunions featuring half or even fewer of the band members; the dark side of the “vinyl revival;” the continued cult of The Beatles; and much more.

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Copyrightjahr: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4930-7351-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4930-7352-8
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 256
Produkttyp: Monographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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1. CONTENTS Kein Zugriff
2. FOREWORD Kein Zugriff
3. ABOUT THIS BOOK Kein Zugriff
4. A FEW WORDS ON TERMINOLOGY Kein Zugriff
INTRODUCTION Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 9
Chapter One We Built This City on Landfill, Mud, and Shifting Sands. Rock’n’Roll Had Nothing to Do with It—or, If You Can’t Spell It, Don’t Sell It Kein Zugriff Seiten 10 - 16
Chapter Two My Parents Went to Woodstock and All I Inherited Was Their Lousy Record Collection—or, Fear and Loathing in the Rock Hall of Fame Kein Zugriff Seiten 17 - 27
Chapter Three First World Problems—or, So You Think You Hate Old Music? Kein Zugriff Seiten 28 - 33
Chapter Four The Top Ten Rock’n’Roll Anatidaephobiacs—or, When Will the Cloud Start Shouting Back? Kein Zugriff Seiten 34 - 42
Chapter Five How to Dismantle an Atomic Eff-Bomb—or, The Rudest Words Are Rock’n’Roll Kein Zugriff Seiten 43 - 51
Chapter Six Sdrawkcab Siht Etirw em Edam Lived Eht—or, Satanic Messages in Reverse Kein Zugriff Seiten 52 - 61
Chapter Seven Ten Things You Didn’t Know abou tElvis Presley’s Bottom—or, The Greatest Albums Ever Listed Kein Zugriff Seiten 62 - 70
Chapter Eight The Five Funniest Jokes Jim Morrison Ever Told—or, Quality versus Quantity Kein Zugriff Seiten 71 - 77
Chapter Nine We’re Just Not That Into You, Boomer—or, What Does This Button Do? Kein Zugriff Seiten 78 - 86
Chapter Ten The Undelete-Able File—or, “Wow, I’ve Got Some Real Lame Shit on My iPod.” “Oh, You, Too?” Kein Zugriff Seiten 87 - 91
Chapter Eleven Butternut Canker Killed the Video Star—or, Promoting the Pants off Garbage Kein Zugriff Seiten 92 - 99
Chapter Twelve The Fifteen Filthiest Progressive Rock Beards—or, Are Sales Really the Only Barometer You Respect? Kein Zugriff Seiten 100 - 110
Chapter Thirteen What Tomorrow’s Pop Stars Looked Like Last Week (You’ll Never Recognize Number Three)—or, A Plague of Oldies Kein Zugriff Seiten 111 - 117
Chapter Fourteen Super-Harry-Outsells-Beatles, Though-He’s-Quite-Atrocious—or, Editorial Bias Not Included Kein Zugriff Seiten 118 - 124
Chapter Fifteen Meanwhile, on the Forums Kein Zugriff Seiten 125 - 129
Chapter Sixteen Lip-Synching, Libido-Quenching ,Foul-Tasting, Debilitating, Buzz-Killing, Shit-Talking, Tired of-Living, Sick-of-Giving, Fool-Appealing—or, That Sinking Feeling Kein Zugriff Seiten 130 - 138
Chapter Seventeen Parturient Montes, Nascetur Ridiculus Mus—or, A Sickness of Supergroups Kein Zugriff Seiten 139 - 143
Chapter Eighteen One More Time for the Fans—or, Don’t They Look Young for Their Age? Kein Zugriff Seiten 144 - 151
Chapter Nineteen Named and Shamed—Ten Artists Who Claim They Do Remember the 1960s—or, Oops, There Goes Another Vertebrae Kein Zugriff Seiten 152 - 156
Chapter Twenty The Secret Life of Pants—or, Reviving Vinyl for Fun Profit and Profit Kein Zugriff Seiten 157 - 170
Chapter Twenty-One We’ll Fix It in the Mix—or, Fifty Years Later Kein Zugriff Seiten 171 - 177
Chapter Twenty-Two Twenty Totally Tubular Hits of the 1980s—or, The Wrong Box Kein Zugriff Seiten 178 - 183
Chapter Twenty-Three First Time Ever in Limited Edition “Distressed” (Scratchy Warped) Dirty Off-Black Vinyl—or, In Praise of Rip-Off Store Day Kein Zugriff Seiten 184 - 188
Chapter Twenty-Four The Sound of Tomorrow’s Yesterdays Today—or, The Wonder of Eurovision Kein Zugriff Seiten 189 - 200
Chapter Twenty-Five In Which We Thank the Stars of the Past for Their Service . . .and Tell Them It’s Time to Let Go Kein Zugriff Seiten 201 - 206
EPILOGUE Kein Zugriff Seiten 207 - 212
APPENDIX A Kein Zugriff Seiten 213 - 234
APPENDIX B Kein Zugriff Seiten 235 - 248
BIBLIOGRAPHY Kein Zugriff Seiten 249 - 252
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Kein Zugriff Seiten 253 - 254
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kein Zugriff Seiten 255 - 256

I Hate Old Music, Too

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