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I hate new music : the classic rock manifesto / by Dave Thompson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Backbeat Books, 2008.Description: xvi, 225 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0879309350
  • 9780879309350
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Contents:
Foreword : Jethro Tull slept here -- Preface : welcome to the future -- Prologue : is that a bustle in your hedgerow?, or, are you just pleased to see me? -- 1. Lenny Kravitz for president, or, piss off, sonny, and take your vapid whining with you -- 2. Selling postcards of the hanging, or, this is the end, distended friend -- 3. The Titanic sails at dawn, or, more than more than a feeling -- 4. Queen for a day, or, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the fandango? -- 5. Can you hear me, Cleveland?, or, four ants cavorting on a stage seven miles away -- 6. Fat and forty-plus, or, had your Phil of Collins yet? -- 7. Basically, it's about the essential futility of life as seen through the eyes of a man who thought he had everything, or, Tommy, it'll tear your will to live apart -- 8. Clapton's still God, or, would she still look so wonderful if she'd just burned your dinner? -- 9. Weird scenes inside the tar pit, or, I've got eight tracks to hold you -- 10. Hot rocking tonight, or, I know, let's make it a double album -- 11. The curse of pepper, or, the worst record you've ever sworn was genius -- 12. Grunge is gonna change the world, and jam bands will save us from ourselves, or, Papa's got a brand new shitbag -- 13. Neil's still young, are you?, or, hang him in the hall of fame (it's okay, the feet will stop kicking in a moment) -- 14. Welcome back my friends to the show that seriously goes on forever, or, don't forget to check your sell-by date -- 15. Charity begins at someone else's home, or, one more push and I think we'll break the Ethiopian market wide open -- 16. A glimmer of hope, or, let it rut -- 17. Welcome to the machine, or, thank Christ for the bomb -- Epilogue. Lennon : the final comeback -- Appendix one. The classic rock manifesto : she gets the blokes because she smokes -- Appendix two : the top 100 classic rock songs, 1968-1976.
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(Book). Uproariously funny and relentlessly thought-provoking, I Hate New Music is one man's crusade against everything that isn't what rock ought to be. Author Dave Thompson examines the sacred cows of the past 30 years from U2 to Days of the New, from Radiohead to The White Stripes and then slaughters them for their sins against our souls in this un-put-downable compendium of outrageous opinion, hilarious anecdote, and wild accusations.

Foreword : Jethro Tull slept here -- Preface : welcome to the future -- Prologue : is that a bustle in your hedgerow?, or, are you just pleased to see me? -- 1. Lenny Kravitz for president, or, piss off, sonny, and take your vapid whining with you -- 2. Selling postcards of the hanging, or, this is the end, distended friend -- 3. The Titanic sails at dawn, or, more than more than a feeling -- 4. Queen for a day, or, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the fandango? -- 5. Can you hear me, Cleveland?, or, four ants cavorting on a stage seven miles away -- 6. Fat and forty-plus, or, had your Phil of Collins yet? -- 7. Basically, it's about the essential futility of life as seen through the eyes of a man who thought he had everything, or, Tommy, it'll tear your will to live apart -- 8. Clapton's still God, or, would she still look so wonderful if she'd just burned your dinner? -- 9. Weird scenes inside the tar pit, or, I've got eight tracks to hold you -- 10. Hot rocking tonight, or, I know, let's make it a double album -- 11. The curse of pepper, or, the worst record you've ever sworn was genius -- 12. Grunge is gonna change the world, and jam bands will save us from ourselves, or, Papa's got a brand new shitbag -- 13. Neil's still young, are you?, or, hang him in the hall of fame (it's okay, the feet will stop kicking in a moment) -- 14. Welcome back my friends to the show that seriously goes on forever, or, don't forget to check your sell-by date -- 15. Charity begins at someone else's home, or, one more push and I think we'll break the Ethiopian market wide open -- 16. A glimmer of hope, or, let it rut -- 17. Welcome to the machine, or, thank Christ for the bomb -- Epilogue. Lennon : the final comeback -- Appendix one. The classic rock manifesto : she gets the blokes because she smokes -- Appendix two : the top 100 classic rock songs, 1968-1976.

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