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Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 14 July 2013 CE
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Edited Jul 14, 2013, 20:29
Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 14 July 2013 CE
Jul 14, 2013, 08:52
A couple of books to recommend

Clampdown, pop-cultural wars on class and gender - Rhian E. Jones
Love Goes To Buildings On Fire - Will Hermes

The Will Hermes book is "Please Kill Me" meets "And Party Every Day" via "As Serious As Your Life". Traces NYC music from The Dolls to Grandmaster Flash and systems music of Glass, Riley and Reich via Fania and the Free Jazz / Loft scene. Warning though - it's an expensive purchase if like me there are a dozen jazz records you have never heard / heard of that suddenly seem essential. That's great writing for you.

"Clampdown" is a slim volume, of an at times quite brilliant essays, deconstructing British cultural life of the last 20 years or so with a sharp focus on the "indie" scene. It's righteously angry in a New Statesman kind of way but that's alright with me as this is stuff that needs saying. It's the sort of work the NME would be doing if it mattered a jot. All we need now is some music to emerge that comes close to matching it.

On Your Feet Or On Your Knees - Blue Oyster Cult
The sweet spot where the trajectory of Kiss "Alive" meets the MC5.

Damnation - Opeth
Nuestra Cosa / Our Latin Thing (dvd)
Hardcore I & 2 - Devo
05 08 77 Cornell - Grateful Dead
The Baby Huey Story, The Living Legend
Hammersmith Odeon 18 11 75 - Springsteen
The Casablanca Record Story - Various
Marquee Moon - Television
Third Reich 'n Roll / Duck Stab - The Residents
Pirates - RLJ
Lonely At The Top -Randy Newman
Fania All Stars With Willie Colon And Ruben Blades
Strikes Back - Hector Lavoe
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