From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V6 #195 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Monday, October 9 2006 Volume 06 : Number 195 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: [loud-fans] Wuxtry, wuxtry! ["Angela Bennett & Ian Runeckles" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 11:09:51 +0100 From: "Angela Bennett & Ian Runeckles" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] Wuxtry, wuxtry! Andy wrote: > > Dear Boy - Keith Moon's biography, can't remember who wrote it but > > it's fab > > This looks like MOON, by Tony Fletcher, reissued with a > different title. Tony Fletcher, that's right. Marvellous. > > And a collection of writing by Charles Shaar Murray that I > can't put > > my > hands on at the moment... > > Would that be SHOTS FROM THE HIP? DANCING IN THE STREET? IN > THEIR OWN WRITE? That's all the ideas Amazon gives me. Shots from the Hip. Charles is great value - his commentary on the Ramones End of the Century DVD sparring with fellow loudmouth Danny Baker is great fun. > > I'm reading Please Kill Me at the moment and it's terrific. > > Agreed, though I found Legs evasive about his original > interview sources. > At a local bookstore reading to promote his porno tome, he > kept his shades on throughout, smoked at least three > cigarettes inside a non-smoking facility, and went off at the > end with a lady roughly one-third his age. Sounds like a nice guy :-) Probably made most of it up... > > Lipstick Traces I thought was a terrible book. > > Once again, Gene, we disagree. Gene? > Okay, *why* did you find it a terrible book? Long time ago that I gave up on it but I just found it extremely messy and introduced a whole heap of intellectualising that punk didn't really need or deserve - but perhaps I was looking for something more straightforward and unintellectual - the best book on punk as far as I'm concerned is Jon Savage's England's Dreaming. That's a pretty crap explanation and maybe I should dig it out again - think my brother still has a copy. Cheers Ian - -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.407 / Virus Database: 268.13.1/466 - Release Date: 07/10/2006 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 11:36:51 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Wuxtry, wuxtry! Curiously, The Onion's AV Club just did its own list of "essential" rock books: . Several duplications...as well as the inclusion of a few titles we suggested here. On 10/1/06, zoom@muppetlabs.com wrote: Blender magazine graces us with the Top 40 Rock and Roll books ever. The > only source for the actual list, that I found on short notice, does not > include authors--but the cognoscenti hardly need those, eh? > > 40. Yes Yes Y'All: The Experience Music Project Oral History Of Hip-Hop's > First Decade > 39. Stairway To Hell: The 500 Best Heavy-Metal Albums In The Universe 38. > Dreaming Out Loud > 37. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History Of Punk > 36. Nowhere To Run: The Story Of Soul Music > 35. The Aesthetics Of Rock > 34. Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography Of Kurt Cobain > 33. Have Gun Will Travel: The Spectacular Rise And Violent Fall Of Death > Row Records > 32. Led Zeppelin IV > 31. The Dark Stuff: Selecting Writings On Rock Music > 30. The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, And The Culture Of The Night 29. > Great Jones Street > 28. Yes I Can > 27. Christgau's Record Guide -- The '70s, '80s And '90s > 26. Hit Men: Power Brokers And The Fast Money Inside The Music Business > 25. Psychotic Reactions And Carburetor Dung > 24. Divided Soul > 23. Rip It Up And Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 > 22. High Fidelity > 21. Sound Effects > 20. Can't Stop We Won't > 19. Revolution In The Head: The Beatles' Records And The Sixties > 18. Chronicles: Volume One > 17. The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll > 16. Fargo Rock City > 15. The Life And Times Of Little Richard > 14. Hammer Of The Gods > 13. Hellfire > 12. A Wop Bop A Loo Bop A Lop Bam Boom > 11. The Commitments > > 10. Lipstick Traces > 9. The True Adventures Of The Rolling Stones > 8. The Dirt > 7. England's Dreaming > 6. Deep Blues > 5. Starlust > 4. I'm With The Band: Confessions Of A Groupie > 3. Ego Trip"s Book Of Rap Lists > 2. Last Train To Memphis/Careless Love > 1. Dino: Living High In The Dirty Business Of Dreams > - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V6 #195 *******************************