[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by hipster_bebop_junkie

Thanks for the recommendation, The Soup Nazi. That book is certainly in my to-do list, i already have it and look forward to reading it. I'm currently reading "John Lennon: The Life", by Philip Norman and it will take me a while to finish it. It's pretty long and interesting.

Lately I've been into Bill Janovitz's Exile On Main Street (an excellent mix of personal experience, contextual description and general exegesis - Bill and I LOVE that fuckin' album!) and Richie Unterberger's truly phenomenal White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day By Day.

Originally Posted by hipster_bebop_junkie

When i'm done i'll dive in "From The Velvets To The Voidoids" with high expectations, i read somewhere that it's at least as good as "Please Kill Me: The Oral History Of Punk Rock", by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain.

Whoever wrote that comment you read is WRONG: From the Velvets to the Voidoids is most certainly BETTER than Please Kill Me, which by now has been elevated to goddamnn Punk Bible status. As Clinton Heylin himself says, quoting from Television, FTVTTV is a "Prove it - just the FACTS!" book; not at all a mere list of cold hard data, mind you, but a perfect blend of oral history AND factual contrast plus of course Mr. Heylin's own appraisal of the musicians' artistic values (an appraisal with which you'll both agree to the point of shouting AMEN and disagree to the point of shouting THIS GUY IS NUTS, and if that isn't an endorsement... ).[/quote]

Originally Posted by hipster_bebop_junkie

I might order "Our Band Could Be Your Life" pretty soon after all, i just read my e-mail and unfortunately i've been informed that amazon won't be able to fulfill my order of the book "Raymond Pettibon: Front Row Center", by Raymond Pettibon and Thurston Moore, which i had pre-ordered since last year; so it seems i'll have some spare money. I'm really pissed off, first i lost the chance of buying one of those Kim Gordon & Bill Nace cassettes and now this. It's been a shitty day.

Well that's some shit right there. I plan on getting T & Byron Coley's No Wave soonisherly... Personally, I gotta say I've had a "balanced" week of sorts: first I scored a mint copy of The Soft Boys' Side Three for 18 bucks (check out how much they currently ask for it) and then I shelled out a small fortune for Phil Spector's Back To Mono. Yes, it woulda been better to have had an imbalanced week packed with bargains only and not having to worry about how in the FUCK I'm gonna pay for all of this, but what was I supposed to do? Just sit here like a mook? Aw HELLS NO y'alls!

Originally Posted by hipster_bebop_junkie

At least i haven't been flooded with spam (yet).

Yeah, I don't know what is up with this shit; maybe it IS a coincidence. Everywhere they ask you to log in for this and that and

 

 

 

and so I guess spammers have a lot of places to get your address from. Degenerates...

OK, so anyway, back to this thread's subject, St. Vincent doing Big Black sounds WILD!