| Description |
xiv, 370 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: Bruce Springsteen The highway is alive tonight -- Paul McCartney It came in a vision -- Henry Rollins The world according to Hank -- Regurgitator I like your old stuff better than your new stuff -- U2 Making music to blow their minds -- Oasis Champagne Super-poseurs? -- Custard Check the bottom line -- SixFtHick Don't mess with the 'Hick -- The Living End The End is just beginning -- Billy Bragg A mirror image in song -- Spiderbait Eclecticism crash -- Red Hot Chili Peppers Rolling out of the garage -- Joe Strummer You with Joe Strummer? Well are you? -- Pink Floyd Rebuilding The Wall -- Queens of the Stone Age Solid gold hell -- Coldplay Making grown men cry -- PJ Harvey The ̀dark woman of rock' syndrome -- Augie March There is no such band: Augie take stock -- Kiss Tales of the bizarre! -- The John Butler Trio Three's the magic number -- Radio Birdman You're gonna miss me -- David Bowie Living in the moment -- Paul Weller All hail the Modfather -- |
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Contents note continued: Eels Accentuate the positive (and avoid the whorehouse) -- Metallica Back to basics -- Marilyn Manson Step right up to the Marilyn Manson circus -- Jet Fasten your seatbelts -- The White Stripes It's been a bad year for the White Stripes' bones -- Public Enemy Still fighting the power -- Missy Higgins Girl wonder -- Arctic Monkeys The first pinups of the iPod era -- The Grates A lack of Patience/Patience is a virtue -- The Vines This year's vintage -- The Saints Halo again -- Hilltop Hoods More strings to their bow -- Yves Klein Blue Seeking your attention |
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Contents note continued: The Lemonheads Have a good time and don't talk about it too much -- INXS Live and Kick-ing -- Radiohead So fucking special -- Smashing Pumpkins Shining bright -- Guns N' Roses Not an exercise in hero worship -- Magic Dirt Believe the hype -- Pearl Jam Vedder on Vitalogy and immortality -- REM Michael Stipe goes for the jugular -- TISM Oh Christ, a TISM interview -- The Flaming Lips Beverly Hills 90210 might use jelly -- Dinosaur Jr No role model -- Lou Reed ̀Pablo Picasso was never called ...' -- Nine Inch Nails Trent Reznor gets theatrical -- Bjork ̀Euergheerghurg!' -- You Am I Pilgrim's supreme rock and roll progress -- Dirty Three On the road with the Dirty Three -- Meat Loaf I just had a Diet Coke after that soapbox speech there -- Beck The dark album -- Beastie Boys Bring on the dancing bears -- Jeff Buckley Spot the New Yorker -- Sex Pistols How great they art -- Silverchair No complaints from the 'Chair -- |
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Contents note continued: The Stone Roses Rebel without a vocabulary -- The Church Kilbey knows a good deal when he sees one -- The Celibate Rifles Real bullets shocker -- Bob Geldof Knighted and saintly, but no diplomat -- The Cure Robert Smith and the cure for all ills -- Iggy Pop Iggy builds a less dogmatic sound, brick by brick -- Chris Isaak Save some waves -- Jane's Addiction Set to split ... maybe -- AC/DC If you can listen to it at breakfast, it's no fucking good -- The La's Liverpool lads on the track of the Fab Four -- Massive Attack Australia gets the Mushroom treatment -- Violent Femmes Fine Femmes return to form -- The Cult On the wagon, but still volatile -- Nirvana The dangers of drum diving -- Bob Dylan He's a weird cat, Bob is -- Keith Richards A bit of Peter Pan, a bit of Captain Hook -- Tori Amos Not the girl next door -- Nick Cave The literary world of Nick Cave -- Powderfinger Operation Powderfinger -- |
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Machine generated contents note: Hunters & Collectors Sour record deals, the courtship of America and Australian ugliness -- The Triffids Feted and nauseous -- Stevie Wright Moving back into easy street -- The Residents The responsibility to be one step ahead, if not more -- Painters & Dockers Painters play their own brand of dock rock -- Warumpi Band Why the bush band did a bunk -- Weddings Parties Anything The wedding of country and rock -- Midnight Oil Oils search for the perpetual sound of true Australia -- Do Re Mi Avoiding the pitfalls of pinball and Twisties -- Crowded House The curse of the second album -- Paul Kelly Bicentennial blues -- Hoodoo Gurus Faulkner looks to music's bargain basement -- The Go-Betweens Waiting for the train that never comes -- Sonic Youth Preparing for future mania -- Jello Biafra Biafra versus the taste police -- Malcolm McLaren Punk, rock, Warhol and good manners -- The Ramones Influential down to their jeans -- |
| Summary |
"'Your name is on the door!' These sacred words have given generations of music writers a key to the city - and a direct line to the musicians they love. Independent music street magazines have always been fiercely committed to delivering the inside story on their readers' favourite bands. This collection showcases the international and home-grown acts that have entertained music lovers in the last 25 years."--Back cover |
| Notes |
Library's N copy signed by Simon Groth, December 2014. ANL |
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Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at the publisher's home page: http://www.uqp.com.au |
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Bands (Music)
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Bands (Music) -- Australia -- History -- Periodicals.
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Logan author
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Rock groups -- Australia -- History.
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Rock groups.
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Rock music -- Miscellanea.
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Rock music -- History and criticism.
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Bands (Music) -- Australia -- Periodicals -- History
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Rock music -- Australia -- Periodicals -- History
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Rock musicians -- Interviews.
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| Genre/Form |
Periodicals.
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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Interviews.
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| Author |
Groth, Simon.
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Sennett, Sean.
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| ISBN |
0702238635 (paperback) |
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9780702238635 (paperback) |
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